A Headway Alternative for Changelogs
[Last Updated: 16 April 2024]
Side by side feature comparison. Various in-app notification widgets, pricing, email notifications, and more. See where Headway fails and AnnounceKit beats.
Changelog tools are highly beneficial for SaaS companies, but with so many companies providing this service, it’s difficult to know which one to choose.
In the past, many have chosen Headway. But does it truly offer everything your company needs? And when it comes to price, how does it compare to other communication apps that offer changelog tools?
Learn how using AnnounceKit as an alternative to Headway may be the better choice in regards to pricing, email notifications, in-app widgets, and more.
Table of Contents
- A Headway Alternative: AnnounceKit vs. Headway
- A Closer Look at AnnounceKit’s Changelog Features
- AnnounceKit: A Headway Alternative Providing a Variety of Changelog Features To Support Your Company
A Headway Alternative: AnnounceKit vs. Headway
It can be both difficult and time-consuming to scour the changelog service market searching for the perfect one to use. If you’re already using Headway and looking for an alternative, the hours spent researching the market and testing each possible service take both time and effort.
Allow us to do the work for you. We’ve prepared a side-by-side feature comparison that helps you easily see the differences between Headway and AnnounceKit so you can decide for yourself which changelog software option is best.
By easily creating interactive changelogs for your products and software, you can quickly and efficiently deliver product updates and spend your newly available time growing your business.
| Features | Headway | AnnounceKit |
|---|---|---|
| Widgets In-app notification widgets | 1 Type | 7 Types |
| Sidebar Widget Sidebar notification widget | ❌ | ✅ |
| Modal Widget Modal notification widget | ❌ | ✅ |
| Announcement Bar Widget Top bar in-app notification widget | ❌ | ✅ |
| Line Widget In-app notification widgets | ❌ | ✅ |
| Embed Widget Embeddable in-app notification widget | ❌ | ✅ |
| Customizable Widget Customizable JS in-app notification widget | ❌ | ✅ |
| React JS Easily integrate widgets into your ReactJS app | ❌ | ✅ |
| Vue JS Easily integrate widgets into your VueJS app | ❌ | ✅ |
| WordPress Plugin Easily integrate widgets into your WordPress | ❌ | ✅ |
| Email Notifications Send your announcements as an email | ❌ | ✅ Essentials $79 |
| Pinned Posts Pin your important posts to the top of the feed | ❌ | ✅ Essentials $79 |
| Expiring Posts Automatically unpublish temporary announcements | ❌ | ✅ Essentials $79 |
| Feedback & Reactions Get user responses directly on posts | ❌ | ✅ Essentials $79 |
| Multiple Language Support Create posts in multiple languages | ❌ | ✅ Scale $339 |
| Multiple Labels Assess multiple labels on one post | ❌ | ✅ Essentials $79 |
| Advanced Segmentation Send your posts to only the relevant users based on their segments | ❌ | ✅ Growth $129 |
| User tracking Track your users feed activities | ❌ | ✅ Growth $129 |
| Inject JS/CSS Insert custom JS/CSS code into the feed | ❌ | ✅ Growth $129 |
Closer Look at AnnounceKit’s Changelog Features
Being able to say you have all of these features is one thing, but being able to provide the tools you need to interact with and gain feedback from customers is another. Let’s take a closer look at what sets AnnounceKit apart from Headway.
Various Widget Types
AnnounceKit offers a variety of different widget types, compared to Headway’s one. With AnnounceKit, these various in-app notification widgets can be applied for almost any need. Some of these various widgets include:
- Announcement Bar – This widget is used to announce important company news. Almost all SaaS companies utilize a similar widget, along with the Modal widget. It seamlessly integrates into your website’s brand and design and easily catches the attention of customers.
- Line Widget – This will retrieve the latest post’s title with a label and display it on your webpage.
- Embed Widget – This widget is unique to AnnounceKit and easily inserts your newsfeed or changelog onto your webpage.
There’s more where these came from. You can explore all of AnnounceKit’s widget types and what’s still to come here. If you don’t see anything that you can use or that you like, you can create your own using our Custom JS Widget to fit your needs.
No matter what you’re planning to use AnnounceKit for — release notes, changelog, newsfeed updates — your goal should be to seamlessly transmit your messages, announcements, or news to your users. Using these various widgets, you can do just that.
Pricing
Headway might seem like the cheaper option when compared to AnnounceKit. However, you’re not getting access to nearly as many features as you are with AnnounceKit, and that comes with a slight cost.
Overall, AnnounceKit has more to offer, although at a slightly higher price point. If you’re feeling unsure, we offer a 15-day free trial so you can check out all of these features for yourself to ensure you love them as much as the rest of our customers before you make a commitment.
Email Notifications
Although customers must pay for the $79 Essentials package to receive the email notifications feature, this is a feature that isn’t even offered with Headway.
You might be thinking that email marketing is dead, but you’re wrong.
With access to a communication medium that helps you inform users about announcements, product updates, release notes, and more, AnnounceKit proves to be superior over Headway.
JavaScript Framework Support
AnnounceKit works to follow new web technologies that are constantly emerging and implement them into our brand.
We’ve released modular JavaScript components for our most popular frameworks, ReactJS and VueJS. These components allow you to easily integrate AnnounceKit’s in-app notification widgets into your web app.
Immediate Customer Support
Enhancing customer support is a large part of working to make our company and products better — we want to hear what you have to say. If you’re having issues, we want to know. If there is something that you particularly love, we want to hear that, too. When you take the time to reach out, we’ll provide the immediate support and attention necessary for the matter.
You can also utilize the AnnounceKit Help Center where we share valuable articles on a variety of topics related to our app.
AnnounceKit Is a Beamer Alternative That Provides Varied and Valuable Changelog Features at the Right Price
After taking the time to review the countless features that AnnounceKit offers compared to what you’ll get with Headway, we hope you agree that AnnounceKit is a better choice for your SaaS communication needs.
We offer great pricing, a quick setup, an easy-to-use interface, and many integrations. Try AnnounceKit for free and see how we stack up to the competition.
Quick Setup, Easy to Use, and Many Integrations
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