Beamer
$49/mo starter, but:
- With 10K MAU → ~$99/mo
- With 50K MAU → $249–$399/mo
- With 100K MAU → pricing by quote
Beamer Alternative
A changelog tool. Not a marketing platform that charges by the user.
Beamer is a powerful no-code engagement suite. But if you just want to keep your users informed about what you shipped — without paying per monthly active user — Herald does exactly that. Built for developer teams. Flat pricing. GitHub-native.
Free 14-day trial · No credit card · Pricing that doesn't scale with your user count
Beamer's pricing problem: you pay more when you succeed
Beamer prices by monthly active users (MAU). That means as your product grows, your Beamer bill grows too — even if you're not using any new features. Got 50,000 users? Budget accordingly.
Herald
$79/mo Team plan.
- 10K MAU → $79/mo
- 50K MAU → $79/mo
- 100K MAU → $79/mo
Herald's price doesn't change as your product scales.
Why developer teams choose Herald over Beamer
Built for developers, not marketers
Beamer is a no-code platform for marketing and product teams. Herald is built specifically for developer teams — it connects to GitHub, reads your merged PRs, and turns your engineering work into polished changelog entries automatically. No marketing team required.
GitHub does the heavy lifting
Beamer has no GitHub integration. Herald connects natively — every merged PR becomes a changelog draft. Your team's natural workflow becomes your changelog. No extra step, no context switching, no forgetting.
You don't need 80% of Beamer
Beamer includes notification centers, NPS surveys, product tours, targeted announcements, and more. Most developer teams just want to publish changelog updates that their users will see. Herald does that excellently and nothing else.
Herald vs Beamer — side by side
| Feature | Herald | Beamer |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $19/mo | $49/mo |
| Pricing model | Flat | Per MAU (scales) |
| Native GitHub integration | — | |
| Private repos | Team+ | — |
| AI changelog drafts | — | |
| Embeddable widget | ||
| Email subscribers | ||
| User segmentation | Team+ | |
| Analytics dashboard | Team+ | |
| Custom domain | Team+ | |
| Full white-label | Studio | |
| Self-hostable / open source | — | |
| NPS surveys | — | |
| Product tours | — | |
| Notification center |
Built for teams that ship on GitHub
GitHub-native PR reading
Every merged PR surfaces in your Herald dashboard. No manual entry. No copy-paste. No forgetting.
AI-powered drafts
AI reads your PR data and writes a clean, human-readable changelog entry. Review and publish — or just publish.
Flat pricing, always
Your changelog shouldn't cost more as your product succeeds. Herald's Team plan is $79/month. 100K users or 100 — same price.
Open source
MIT-licensed and self-hostable. Run Herald on your own infra. The cloud version saves you the ops.
When Beamer is the right call
Beamer is genuinely excellent if you need a full user engagement suite. If your team wants NPS surveys, guided product tours, targeted in-app announcements, and a changelog — all in one platform — Beamer delivers. It's a mature product with a large team behind it. Herald doesn't try to replace that. Herald is for teams who specifically want the changelog part done well, without paying for everything else.
- You need NPS surveys or user feedback collection
- You need guided product tours in your app
- You need targeted in-app marketing announcements (not just changelogs)
- You're okay with MAU pricing and have the budget for it
Skip the migration. Start fresh — automatically.
No markdown exports. No CSV imports. No migration tool. Herald connects to your repo and uses AI to generate a full release history from your merged PRs. You get a populated changelog with real context — not an empty page waiting to be backfilled.
- Paste your public GitHub repo path (or upgrade to Team+ for private).
- Herald reads your merged PR history and drafts entries with AI.
- Review, edit, and publish — or just publish.
- Your subscribers get your first release email.
Starting from the repo beats copy-pasting. Your new changelog has real context instead of rewritten summaries.
Changelog built for developers.
Priced to stay flat.
If you're paying Beamer's MAU rates and not using 80% of the product, Herald was built for you. Free 14-day trial.
Self-hosting is always free. MIT licensed.