Headway is a simple changelog page and widget with a generous free plan and one paid plan. It leaves the writing to you. Ellie Docs drafts each entry from your merged PRs, links it to your help centre, and holds back anything unreleased. Here's when each makes sense.
Headway is a simple changelog you write yourself. Ellie Docs drafts each entry from your merged PRs and links it to your docs.
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release notes keep slipping because writing them is the hard part, you want a help centre kept up to date from the same pull requests, or you want entries linked to the articles they change.
you only need a changelog and you're happy to write it, you want a widget for free (Headway's free plan includes one), or you want scheduled publishing, a private changelog and posting to Slack and Twitter for $29 a month.
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Headway gives you a clean public page, a widget, categories and the Eyecatcher, and it's free for most of that. What it leaves to you is the writing, which is usually why release notes fall behind. Ellie Docs turns what you merged into a plain-language draft: a week of small commits to one feature becomes a single entry, internal-only changes stay out, and you only have to read it and press publish.
A Headway post stands on its own: if the feature it announces needs explaining, someone writes that help article separately. With Ellie Docs, the pull request that produces the entry is the same one that's checked against your help centre. Readers who open "What's new" can follow the entry straight to an article that already describes the change, because its update was drafted in the same review.
If all you want is a changelog page and widget, Headway's free plan covers it, and Pro at $29 a month adds a custom domain, white-label, scheduled publishing, a private changelog and team management. Ellie Docs puts the widget on Starter at $39 a month billed annually, alongside the help centre. For a changelog alone, Headway costs less.
Like for like: changelog page and widget on your own domain, no vendor branding. Headway shows no annual price, so both are shown monthly.
$39 a month if billed annually. Entries drafted from merged PRs, page, RSS/JSON and widget, plus a help centre drafted from your code with 500 AI answers a month.
White-label, custom domain, Slack and Twitter integrations, team management, private changelog and scheduled publishing. You write every entry.
Once your repo is connected, every PR you merge gets a drafted entry. Keep Headway live while you get used to reviewing them, then swap the widget in your app.
For a changelog on its own, yes. Headway is free, or $29 a month for Pro. Ellie Docs Starter is $39 a month billed annually, and includes a help centre drafted from your code as well as changelog entries written for you.
Yes. Ellie drafts entries from merged PRs, and you can edit any draft before publishing. Nothing goes live without your approval.
Yes, the entries are drafted from your merged pull requests. You can sign up with Google, Microsoft, GitHub or email, and connect the repo when you're ready.
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