Ybug vs Ruttl: Feedback your developers can act on
Ruttl is a design-review canvas: comments pinned to the live page, CSS tweaks, video notes. Ybug turns the same client click into a developer-ready bug report, with console logs and environment info attached, at a flat price from €13.
These two solve different halves of website feedback. Choose Ybug if feedback should end up as bug reports your developers can reproduce: annotated screenshots with console logs, browser, OS, and viewport attached, sent to the tools they already use. Choose Ruttl if you mainly review designs and want to comment on live pages, tweak CSS in place, or mark up PDFs and images.
How Ybug compares to Ruttl
Ruttl and Ybug both put a feedback layer on your website, and clients can use either without creating an account. The difference is what arrives on the other end: a design comment on the page, or a bug report with the technical trail attached.
Feature
Ybug
Ruttl
Best for
Visual feedback & bug reports on websites (agencies, SaaS, QA)
Ruttl’s Pro plan runs $18 per user per month. That sounds small until you invite the team: 5 people is $90/month, and every new teammate raises the bill. The free plan is a demo more than a plan: 1 project and 10 comments total.
Ybug charges for the plan, not per head. BASIC covers 3 team members for €13/month, STARTUP covers 7 for €29/month, reporters are always unlimited and free, and the Free Forever plan keeps small projects running without a card on file.
Ruttl’s comments capture what the reviewer saw: a note pinned to the live page. Useful for design review, but when something is actually broken, your developer still has to ask which browser, which screen size, and what the console said.
Ybug answers those questions up front. Every report arrives with an annotated screenshot plus JS console logs, browser, OS, viewport, and the exact URL, automatically.
Pricing that ignores headcount
Ruttl Pro is $18 per user per month, so the cost scales with every designer, developer, and PM you add. A team of five pays $90 a month before anyone files a single bug.
Ybug plans are flat. BASIC covers 3 members for €13/month, STARTUP covers 7 for €29/month, and clients who report issues never count as seats.
A free plan that stays useful
Ruttl’s free tier covers 1 project and 10 comments. That’s enough to try the tool, not enough to run a side project or keep a low-traffic client site covered.
Ybug’s Free Forever plan takes unlimited feedback from unlimited reporters. Small projects can stay on it for good, and the 10-day trial lets you test the paid features first.
More places to send feedback
Ruttl connects to 6 tools: Jira, Trello, Slack, Asana, ClickUp, and Zapier. Solid basics, but if your stack includes GitHub, Basecamp, Zendesk, or anything less mainstream, you’re routing through Zapier.
Ybug ships 25+ native integrations, plus webhooks, Zapier, and a REST API. And since Ybug is EU-based with data encrypted and hosted in the EU, the GDPR conversation with your clients is a short one.
Ybug vs Ruttl: the trade-offs at a glance
Developer context built in
Ybug attaches console logs, browser, OS, and viewport to every report; Ruttl comments carry the reviewer’s note.
Flat vs. per-user pricing
Ybug covers 7 members for €29/month flat; Ruttl Pro charges $18 per user, every month.
A real free plan
Ybug’s Free Forever plan takes unlimited reports; Ruttl’s free tier caps at 1 project and 10 comments.
Integration breadth
Ybug connects natively to 25+ tools, plus webhooks and a REST API; Ruttl lists 6.
Why teams choose Ybug
Developer-ready bug reports, flat pricing, and a free plan that stays free.
Effortless visual feedback
Users draw, highlight, and comment directly on the live website using annotated screenshots.
Full technical context
Every report includes browser details, screen size, URL, and JavaScript console logs, so developers can reproduce issues without back-and-forth.
Seamless integrations
Send feedback directly to Jira, Slack, ClickUp, GitHub, and other tools your team already uses.
Screen recording
Record user interactions with one click to capture complex bugs in motion.
Plug-and-play setup
Add Ybug to your site in under 5 minutes using a snippet, browser extension, or CMS plugin.
Predictable pricing that scales
Affordable plans built for freelancers, agencies, and growing product teams.
Switching from Ruttl to Ybug
Making the switch is easier than you think. Ybug integrates with your existing tools, so you don't migrate data—you just change your feedback source.
Install the widget, browser extension, or CMS plugin in minutes.
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Connect your existing tools
Send feedback directly to Jira, ClickUp, Slack, or your current workflow.
No long migrations. No client retraining. Just clearer, more actionable feedback from day one.
Here’s what our users say
Simple, effective tool perfectly integrated into our workflow
Ybug makes collecting feedback and bugs extremely smooth, even for non-technical users. Annotated screenshots, automatic environment information (browser, console, URL, screen size), and integrations with our project management tools save considerable time during testing and support phases. Installation is quick, the interface is clear, and the team behind the product is responsive and attentive.
Gianito R.
Consultant et développeur web
Ybug user experience after more than 3 years
I like the simplicity of the parametrization, yet the sophisticated functionality in the background. It is a perfect tool for implementation projects, with no time you will have a prepared solution fur bug tracking and ticket collections. Have been using this tool with e-mail + redmine integration and it was just really good. From user perspective it is absolutely simple, project is defined by the web url where they are standing at and they focus only on the problem reporting. All technicall info is sent automatically.
Luboš Š.
Senior Professional ERP Consultant
Excellence Website Widget
Ybug is intuitive and easy to use for someone who by nature is not technical. It is quite flexible - where some tools are limited to bug reporting, we use Ybug not only to report bugs, but to also solicit feedback on specific pages and products. Ybug also provides an invaluable screenshot that enables a customer to show us the exact issue. On top of this, service is excellent.
EscolaSoft use ybug on daily basis and find it very useful.
Easy to install process, Jira and Github integration. We found a bug with taking screenshots in an iframe, which was submitted and fixed by the really responsive team.
Mateusz W.
CTO at EscolaSoft
Great software for visual bug reporting!
We use it daily to help client capture feedback and send this feedback directly to our project management tool basecamp.
Noah M.
CEO at Webwirkung
Easy to use and integrates nicely with our PM tools
There are 3 main features that I like the most: 1. Unlike other feedback software that we used before, Ybug is easier to launch for each project. It typically takes 2-3 minutes to add a project to Ybug and start sending feedback. 2. It has a nice Chrome extension, which allows to capture screenshots on any website and tag to any project that we are currently working on. 3. Ybug integrates nicely with Teamwork (our PM tool), so each feedback that is submitted on the development websites - is automatically created as a task for our development team.
Artur P.
Project manager
Easy to setup, easy to use
One central tool to get bug reports from non tech users, with a lot of information that help the dev team to understand the problem (url, screenshot, etc)
The Chrome widget is very powerful. Internal users just have to install it, and they can immediately report bug or else.
For teams, usually yes. Ruttl’s Pro plan is $18 per user per month, so a team of five pays $90/month. Ybug’s plans are flat: BASIC covers 3 team members for €13/month, STARTUP covers 7 for €29/month, and reporters never count as seats. There’s also a Free Forever plan.
How is Ybug different from Ruttl?
Ruttl is built around design review: comments pinned to the live page, CSS edits in place, PDF and image markup. Ybug is built around bug reporting: reporters annotate a screenshot of the page, and Ybug attaches JS console logs, browser, OS, viewport, and the URL automatically, then sends it all to Jira, Slack, GitHub, or 25+ other tools.
Does Ybug pin comments to page elements like Ruttl?
No, and that’s deliberate. Ybug captures a screenshot of the page and lets reporters draw, highlight, and comment right on it, so the feedback shows exactly what they saw even after the page changes. Each report also carries the console logs and environment info a developer needs to reproduce the issue.
Is Ybug hard to install?
Not at all. It's just a simple JavaScript snippet. If you use WordPress, we even have a plugin. You can be up and running in under 5 minutes.
Can clients submit feedback without logging in?
Yes. With Ybug, clients can submit annotated feedback directly from your site without logging in or creating guest accounts. It removes the friction that often stops clients from reporting issues.
Does Ybug really integrate with Jira/ClickUp as well as Ruttl?
We sure do. Ybug works seamlessly with Jira, ClickUp, and plenty of other tools. You can find the full list on our integrations page.
Ready for feedback your developers can fix?
Annotated screenshots, console logs, and flat pricing. Try Ybug free for 10 days.