Openchangelog
A focused tool that turns a project's GitHub, GitLab, or Forgejo release history into a clean, publishable changelog page with an automatic RSS feed.
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Description
Every product team eventually needs a changelog — a page where users can see what shipped and when — but building one from scratch usually means either paying for a heavyweight tool or bolting together a blog just for release notes. Openchangelog is a small, focused tool that does exactly this one job: it turns your GitHub, GitLab, or Forgejo release history (or a local Markdown file) into a clean, publishable changelog page in minutes.
It reads the standard "Keep a Changelog" format or Conventional Commits, and renders them with light/dark/system themes, an automatic RSS feed, and full-text search (Pro). Teams can use a subdomain for free or attach a custom domain with SSL on the Pro plan (€14/month), which also adds password protection, analytics, whitelabeling, and unlimited team seats. It's open-source (AGPL-3.0, Go backend, Next.js frontend), so anyone uncomfortable depending on the hosted version can self-host it via Docker instead.
💬 Our review
The short version: if your changelog is currently a neglected section of your blog or a wall of raw GitHub release notes, Openchangelog is a cheap, fast fix — free for a single maintainer, and genuinely self-hostable if you want zero recurring cost.
Compared to full-featured product update tools like Canny or Beamer, which bundle changelogs with feedback boards and roadmaps (and charge accordingly), Openchangelog does one thing and stays out of the way — you keep writing release notes in Git, and it just renders them. That focus is also its ceiling: there's no built-in feedback collection or roadmap voting, and the free tier caps you at one team seat, with search and analytics locked behind the €14/month Pro plan. For a solo developer or small open-source project that already tracks releases in Git, it's hard to beat for the price; teams that want changelogs bundled with a feedback/roadmap suite should look at Canny or Beamer instead.
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Gratuit : sous-domaine, changelogs illimités, flux RSS, intégration GitHub, 1 siège. Pro 14€/mois : domaine personnalisé + SSL, whitelabel, protection par mot de passe, sièges illimités, recherche full-text, analytics. Auto-hébergement gratuit possible (Docker, licence AGPL-3.0).
Pros
Fait une seule chose et la fait bien : transformer un historique Git en changelog publiable
Gratuit avec changelogs illimités et flux RSS automatique
Auto-hébergement possible (open-source, AGPL-3.0, Docker)
Supporte GitHub, GitLab et Forgejo comme source
Cons
Un seul siège d'équipe sur le plan gratuit
Recherche full-text et analytics réservées au plan Pro (14€/mois)
Aucune fonctionnalité de collecte de feedback ou de vote sur roadmap
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