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Patchlog is a drop-in changelog for web apps. You embed one script tag, with no SDK and no npm install, and get an in-app "what's new" widget plus a hosted changelog page and an RSS feed.
The widget renders inside a Shadow DOM, so it never inherits or leaks the host page's CSS, and it behaves the same in React, Vue, Rails or plain HTML.
Other features: scheduled publishing so you can write updates ahead of time and have them post themselves, per-update view and click analytics, light/dark/auto theming with a custom accent colour on Pro, and 2FA on accounts.
Pricing is flat rather than metered on your traffic: free for 1 project and 25 updates, which shows a small "Powered by Patchlog" badge, or $7/month ($60/year) for unlimited projects and updates, badge removal and advanced analytics. Most tools in this category bill per monthly active user, so the bill grows with your app even though writing release notes does not get harder.
What Patchlog does not do: no user segmentation or targeting, no NPS surveys, no roadmaps or feature voting boards, no email digests, and no public API. If you need those, Beamer or Canny is the better fit.
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Patchlog's answer:
A real free plan with no trial expiry, and a widget that embeds in any web app with two lines of JavaScript. No bloated feature set, no enterprise pricing for a tool that should be simple.
Patchlog's answer:
Most changelog tools charge $29-$60/month for features most small teams never use. Patchlog gives you a working in-app widget, a public SEO-friendly changelog page, full Markdown support, and RSS on the free plan. The Pro plan is $5/month. It covers everything 90% of SaaS products actually need.
Patchlog's answer:
Indie founders, solo developers, and small SaaS teams who want to keep users informed about product updates without paying enterprise prices for it.
Patchlog's answer:
Built out of frustration with the existing options. Every changelog tool was either too expensive, too complex, or offered a "free trial" that expired before you could evaluate it properly. Patchlog started as the tool we wished existed: simple to embed, honest free tier, no fluff.
Patchlog's answer:
Laravel, Vue 3, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS, MySQL.
Patchlog's answer:
Patchlog is early-stage and does not publicly disclose customer names at this time.
Based on our record, Fathom Analytics seems to be a lot more popular than Patchlog. While we know about 66 links to Fathom Analytics, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Patchlog. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
So this post is about something I've been chewing on for months but finally moved on: ripping Google Analytics out of three side projects and picking a privacy-focused alternative. Specifically, I'll compare Umami, Plausible, and Fathom โ the three I actually evaluated โ and walk through the migration steps that worked for me. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
Fathom is the most "premium" option. No self-hosted version โ it's a paid product, and they lean into that. The upside is it just works, with excellent uptime and performance. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
Fathom takes a different approach โ it's a proprietary, hosted-only product. No self-hosting option. They've bet everything on being the simplest, most privacy-respecting paid analytics tool. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
I've been using Umami for this โ it's a self-hosted, privacy-focused analytics tool that doesn't require cookie banners and is fully GDPR-compliant out of the box. Compared to alternatives like Plausible (also excellent, but their hosted plan costs more) or Fathom (hosted-only, pricier), Umami hits a sweet spot of simplicity and zero cost if you self-host. You get clean dashboards showing endpoint usage, response... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
Fathom is the premium option. It's not open source and not self-hostable, but it's rock solid and has excellent uptime. Starts at $15/month. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
This is exactly how I built the changelog widget for Patchlog. It is a drop-in "what's new" widget for SaaS products: one script tag, rendered inside a Shadow DOM so it never collides with the host site's CSS, with light, dark, and auto theming that reads the host's CSS variables when you want it to. There is a free tier if you want to see the technique in a shipped product rather than a blog snippet. - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago
I build Patchlog, so the snippet above is my own tool. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. It's early: the free tier is one project and 25 updates, which is genuinely what I run on my own projects. I'm sharing the approach because it's helped me, and if it saves you the afternoon it cost me to think through, great. - Source: dev.to / 23 days ago
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