Qaid is precision user feedback and micro-surveys, built for developers — a ~16 KB thumbs embed and a ~14 KB questionnaire embed (gzipped) 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, statuses | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | – |
| 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 syncs GitHub (closing the issue auto-archives the feedback); Marker.io, Userback, BugHerd & Usersnap 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’s AI is code-fix focused; Sprig, Usersnap, Hotjar & Userback lead on insight analytics — an area qaid is deepening. | ◐ | – | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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) Userback and Sprig ship native mobile SDKs; qaid is script-tag only today. | – | – | ✓ | – | ◐ | – | ✓ |
| 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.