Beamer is an announcement and changelog widget with segmentation, priced by monthly active users. Someone on your team still writes each post. Ellie Docs drafts every entry from what you merged and links it to your help docs. Here's an honest look at both.
Beamer distributes the posts you write. Ellie Docs writes the changelog entries from your merged PRs and links them to your docs.
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nobody has time to write release notes, you want each entry linked to the help article it changes, or you'd rather not see the price climb with your monthly active users.
you target announcements at user segments, you want NPS surveys or feedback collection in the same widget (each a $99 a month add-on), or many of your announcements aren't product changes at all, like events, offers or webinars, so they wouldn't come from a pull request.
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Beamer gives you an editor, a standalone page and an in-app widget, and your team writes every post. Ellie Docs reads each merged PR, groups related commits into one entry, filters out internal noise, and drafts the customer-facing note for you to review and publish. Anything that isn't released yet is held back.
Because Ellie Docs also writes your help centre from the same repo, each changelog entry links to the help article it affects, and the article itself is flagged for an update when the PR merges. Beamer is a standalone announcement tool, so linking posts to docs is up to you.
Beamer has tools for reaching the right users: segmentation on Pro and advanced segmentation on Scale, boosted announcements, comments and reactions, and NPS and feedback add-ons. Ellie Docs doesn't target announcements at segments or run surveys. If that's central to how you announce, Beamer does more.
Beamer's plans are sized by monthly active users: 5,000 on Starter, 10,000 on Pro, 50,000 on Scale, then $50 for each extra 5,000. A custom domain arrives on Scale at $249 a month billed annually. Ellie Docs plans are priced by projects and AI answers, and Starter includes your own domain and the changelog widget for $39.
Like for like: an in-app changelog widget plus a standalone page, no watermark. Billed annually.
Entries drafted from merged PRs, public page, RSS/JSON and in-app widget on your own domain, plus a help centre drafted from your code with 500 AI answers a month.
Up to 5,000 monthly active users, unlimited teammates, in-app and standalone changelog, boosted announcements. You write the posts. Custom domain needs Scale ($249).
Beamer's free plan covers 1,000 MAU with a watermark. Ellie Docs Free includes a changelog page; the in-app widget starts on Starter.
Connect your repo and Ellie Docs starts drafting an entry for each PR you merge. Keep Beamer running while you review the first drafts, then swap the widget in your app when you're happy.
No. Ellie Docs doesn't target announcements at user segments. If you need different announcements for different groups of users, Beamer's Pro and Scale plans do that.
No. Entries for unreleased work are held back, and nothing is published until you approve it.
No. Ellie Docs plans are priced by projects and AI answers. Beamer's plans step up at 5,000, 10,000 and 50,000 monthly active users.
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