TrgR.dev vs Canny
Canny is a great visual feedback board for teams that want public voting and roadmaps. TrgR.dev is built for a different use case: letting AI agents collect and retrieve structured feedback via API, with zero UI.
Feature Comparison
Detailed Comparison
Architecture: Headless vs Widget-Based
Canny works through an embeddable widget or a hosted feedback portal. Users visit a board, submit ideas, and vote on existing ones. This is excellent for consumer-facing products where community engagement matters.
TrgR.dev takes the opposite approach — there is no UI at all. Everything happens through a REST API. Your AI agent sends a POST request to submit feedback and a GET request to retrieve it. No iframe, no widget, no portal. This makes it ideal for automated pipelines where a human never needs to interact with the feedback system directly.
AI Agent Integration
Canny was designed before the AI agent era. While it offers an API, the product is centered around human users browsing, voting, and commenting. Integrating an AI agent into Canny means working around a system that expects human interaction patterns.
TrgR.dev was built from the ground up for AI agents. The API accepts structured feedback with type classification (bug, feature, improvement), impact scoring (low to critical), and status tracking. Agents can both write and read feedback in a format they natively understand — JSON over REST.
Pricing
Canny offers a free plan for small teams, but paid plans start at $360/month billed annually. This can be steep for startups or indie developers who just need a simple feedback pipeline.
TrgR.dev has a free tier and scales with simple, transparent pricing. You pay for what you use, not for seats or boards.
Choose TrgR.dev if you...
- ✓ Build AI agents that need to collect user feedback
- ✓ Want a pure API with no UI dependencies
- ✓ Need structured, machine-readable feedback data
- ✓ Want to be up and running in under a minute
- ✓ Prefer simple, usage-based pricing
Choose Canny if you...
- ✓ Want a public feedback board with voting
- ✓ Need a visual changelog and roadmap
- ✓ Have human users submitting feedback directly
- ✓ Want community engagement features
- ✓ Need SSO and advanced user management
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