Frill alternative
The Frill alternative that’s free right now
Openbook replaces Frill with a full agent-first workspace — boards, docs, chat and 18 room types, with AI agents that write stories, build changes and open pull requests. Every feature is free right now: no seat limits, no trial clock, no credit card.
The alternative
What you get instead of Frill
Not a clone — a whole workspace. Here's where Openbook goes beyond Frill.
The request and the work live together
Frill is a separate product, so an accepted request becomes a ticket somewhere else and the two records drift. In Openbook the roadmap column is a board your team plans in, so there is nothing to copy across.
Boards you can shape, not one fixed board
An Openbook feedback room holds as many typed boards as you want — feedback, roadmap with columns you name and reorder, changelog — so a board for a specific launch or a "what people hate" board is a ten-second decision.
Revenue-weighted prioritisation built in
Openbook tracks companies and users with MRR and ARR, so a request shows the revenue behind it and the list can be sorted by it, with custom weighted scoring factors and saved segments. Frill's prioritisation is lighter.
Everything else your team needs is already there
Frill does feedback; you still pay separately for project management, docs, whiteboards and chat. Openbook's feedback room sits alongside 18 room types in one workspace and one bill.
Honest advice
Who should switch — and who should stay
Switch to Openbook if…
- Teams who want the feedback board beside the Kanban board rather than in another tab.
- Companies who would rather not add a third or fourth subscription to collect requests.
- Product teams who want revenue-weighted prioritisation without paying enterprise prices for it.
Stay on Frill if…
- Companies who only need a public roadmap and changelog and already like their other tools.
- Teams who want the most polished embeddable widget for the lowest monthly cost.
- Anyone who wants a single-purpose tool and considers a broader workspace a downside.
Want the feature-by-feature table? Read the full Openbook vs Frill comparison →
Switching
Moving off is a day, not a quarter
Create a workspace, pick a space template, and the rooms are ready — boards seeded, check-ins scheduled, feed live. Most teams rebuild their active boards in an afternoon and let the old tool expire at renewal rather than migrating years of archive.
You don’t have to move everything at once: rooms are independent, so many teams start with the one room that replaces Frill and add the rest as other renewals come up.
FAQ
Frill alternative questions
What is the best free alternative to Frill?+
Openbook — it covers what Frill does inside a full workspace (boards, docs, chat, whiteboards and 18 room types, plus AI agents that do real work), and every feature is free right now with no seat limits and no trial clock.
Is Openbook more expensive than Frill?+
Compared feature for feature on feedback alone, Frill is cheaper. The comparison that usually matters is total cost: Frill plus a project tool plus docs plus chat, against one Openbook subscription that includes all of them. If you are only ever going to buy a feedback tool, Frill is the cheaper line item.
Can Openbook replace Frill?+
Yes. The public portal, voting, duplicate merging, roadmap and changelog are all there, and Openbook adds revenue-weighted prioritisation and custom roadmap columns that Frill does not have. The one place Frill is ahead is the in-product announcements widget.
Do customers need an account to post?+
No. The portal has its own link and works signed out. A visitor is remembered by their browser, so their votes and posts are recognised when they return, and if they leave an email they are told when their request ships.
Can we run the portal on our own domain?+
Yes. The portal has its own link and can carry your branding, so it reads as part of your product rather than a third-party page.
What if we outgrow the simple version?+
That is the usual reason teams leave a lightweight tool: they start needing segments, weighted scoring and revenue on each request. Those are already in Openbook, so growing into them does not mean another migration.
Also replacing something else?
Leave Frill without writing a check
Openbook is completely free right now — every room, every feature, the agents included.