Qaid is precision user feedback and micro-surveys, built for developers — an 11.5 KB thumbs embed and a 16.8 KB questionnaire embed (gzipped, what each needs before it shows) that capture real technical context, route it into your workflow, and even open the pull request that fixes it. Here's how it stacks up against the visual-feedback and research tools teams usually shortlist it against.
From feedback to a fix
Qaid is the only tool here that turns a bug report into a Claude-authored pull request — automatically. The others stop at the ticket, or only hand context to an external coding agent.
Heavyweight context, featherweight embed
Screenshot, screen video, console errors, network calls and a stable element selector — captured by a zero-dependency, ~16 KB gzip embed, sealed in Shadow DOM.
Own your data
Open-source and self-hostable. Point the embed at your own endpoint. None of the six alternatives here let you leave the cloud.
Two embeds, one theme
A thumbs feedback embed and a step-by-step quests embed that share the same theme tokens and accessibility — WCAG 2.2 AA, axe-tested.
| Feature | Qaid You are here | Marker.io Bug reports | Userback Visual feedback | BugHerd Visual QA | Usersnap PM feedback | Hotjar Behavior analytics | Sprig UX research |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feedback capture | |||||||
| Dedicated thumbs / sentiment embed | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ |
| Click-to-target element Generates a durable CSS selector for the exact element the user points at. BugHerd also pins feedback to the element. | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | – |
| Screenshot capture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | – |
| Screenshot annotation / markup Draw, arrow, highlight and blur / redact on the screenshot — qaid ships the full toolset. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | – |
| Screen / video recording | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Passive session replay Silently records the DOM to replay what led to the bug, with no re-recording from the user. Qaid captures user-initiated video and screenshots instead. | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Console error capture Hotjar: top-tier plan only. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ◐ | – |
| Network request capture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Data masking / PII redaction Redact sensitive fields from the screenshot before it is submitted — qaid’s editor includes a blur / redact tool. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Surveys & questionnaires | |||||||
| In-app multi-step surveys | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rich question types Qaid adds currency, range-slider, date & image-choice inputs on top of text and multiple-choice. | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Conditional / branching logic Qaid’s quests branch on any answer via visibleIf. | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Triage & workflow | |||||||
| Team inbox: assign, notes, archive | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | – |
| Bulk actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | – | – |
| Escalation / routing rules | ✓ | – | ◐ | – | ◐ | – | – |
| Feature-request board & voting Not qaid’s focus today — Userback and Usersnap run public voting boards. | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Developer & AI | |||||||
| Create GitHub issue from feedback | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – |
| 2-way issue-tracker sync Qaid mirrors status, assignee, priority and comments both ways with GitHub, Linear and Jira, links many reports to one issue, and can tell the reporter when it ships. Marker.io, Userback, BugHerd & Usersnap also sync Jira / Linear both ways. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | – |
| AI turns feedback into a pull request ★ Native to qaid. Marker.io, Userback & BugHerd only via your own external coding agent (MCP) — no one else opens the PR for you. | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | – | – | – |
| AI analysis, theming & summaries Qaid themes all feedback and quest answers, tracks each theme’s trend, sends a weekly summary and spike alerts, and shows whether a fix made a theme shrink. | ✓ | – | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embed & platform | |||||||
| Zero-dependency embeds, ~14–16 KB gzip | ✓ | ◐ | – | – | ◐ | – | – |
| Shadow-DOM CSS isolation Page styles can’t leak into the embed. Others isolate via iframe or not at all. | ✓ | ◐ | – | – | ◐ | – | ◐ |
| Accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA, axe-tested | ✓ | – | – | – | – | ◐ | – |
| Open-source / self-hostable ★ Point the embed at your own endpoint and own your data — unique to qaid here. | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Theming & branding removal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Mobile SDK (iOS / Android / RN) Qaid ships native SwiftUI and Compose SDKs for thumbs and quests (no web view). No React Native package yet. Userback and Sprig also ship native SDKs. | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | ◐ | – | ✓ |
| Pricing & access | |||||||
| Free tier | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Starting paid price 1 | $9 / seat / mo | $39 / mo | $29 / mo | $50 / mo | ≈ $49 / mo | ≈ $32–49 / mo | ≈ $175+ / mo |
| Pricing model | Per seat | Seat (reporters free) | Flat, seat-tiered | Tiered + seats | Seat + volume | Session / response | Per MAU |
1 Competitor prices are approximate entry points from public pricing pages and third-party trackers as of July 2026, converted to a comparable monthly figure. Usage-based plans (Hotjar's per-session, Sprig's per-MAU, Userback's higher tiers for AI & session replay) commonly run well above the starting figure at scale — verify current pricing with each vendor.
Comparison compiled July 2026. Qaid rows reflect its shipping, code-backed capabilities. Competitor rows are drawn from each vendor's public documentation; “partial” denotes a limited, plan-gated, or indirect (integration / add-on) capability. Feature sets change — corrections welcome at team@qaid.dev.