Best Alternatives to Inflight in 2025
Inflight carved out a useful niche: a feedback layer that sits on top of live prototypes and pipes reviewer comments into coding agents over MCP. But teams pick alternatives for different reasons—tighter Figma integration, broader design-review workflows, simpler async video, or all-in-one product feedback. Here are seven strong alternatives to Inflight, with the specific reason each one might fit better.
Marker.io
Best if your prototypes live in staging or production rather than a shared HTML link. Marker.io overlays a bug-and-feedback widget on any live site and syncs issues straight to Jira, Linear, Trello, or GitHub, so feedback becomes tracked work instead of a separate review thread.
Pastel
A close match for pinning comments to real UI elements, but Pastel is built for reviewing live websites and web apps with clients. It adds approval workflows and a shareable review link, making it a better fit for agencies and client-facing sign-off than for agent-driven dev loops.
Userback
Choose Userback when you want feedback plus session replay, screenshots, and console logs in one widget. It captures the context engineers need to reproduce a bug and integrates with the usual issue trackers, which suits teams doing QA-style review on prototypes and staging builds.
BugHerd
BugHerd is the veteran of visual, pin-on-the-page feedback and adds a kanban board, task assignment, and client reporting. If your reviewers are non-technical stakeholders who need a simple point-and-click way to log issues, BugHerd's workflow is more polished than a raw comment layer.
Loom
Easily record and share videos
If video replies are the part of Inflight your team actually uses, Loom is the lighter, more familiar option. Reviewers record their screen and voice in one click, and the link drops into Slack or a ticket. You lose element-pinned comments and MCP handoff, but you gain near-zero friction for stakeholders.
Figma comments and Dev Mode
For teams already designing in Figma, native comments plus Dev Mode annotations cover a lot of prototype feedback without another tool. It keeps design and review in one place and hands specs to developers, though it won't capture feedback on a running coded prototype the way Inflight does.
Canny
Canny solves a different half of the problem: collecting and prioritizing product feedback from users rather than reviewing a prototype. If Inflight's value to you is turning scattered input into a ranked roadmap, Canny's voting, status updates, and changelogs are the more complete system.
Inflight is strongest when you need element-level comments on a running prototype and a clean MCP path into Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex. If your feedback lives on staging sites, Marker.io or Userback will fit better; for client sign-off, Pastel or BugHerd; for low-friction video, Loom; for design-native review, Figma comments; and for user-facing feedback prioritization, Canny. Pick based on where the prototype lives and who is doing the reviewing.