Last updated 2026-09-03 · Beamer figures read from their own pricing page that day.
Beamer is a changelog and in-app newsfeed tool: you write the update, it surfaces it to users inside your product. FoxPlug starts after that: you paste your product's web address, and about thirty seconds later there is a narrated launch video, a looping GIF, a sticker, a branded image card, and the words to post with them.
These two are genuinely close neighbours — closer than the demo-recording tools FoxPlug is often lined up against — so the difference is worth stating precisely rather than blurring. Beamer's strengths are real and get stated first, in its own terms.
An em dash means that capability simply isn't part of the product, not that the product is bad at it.
| FoxPlug | Beamer | |
|---|---|---|
| How you make it | Paste a URL | You write the note |
| Time to first asset | ~30 sec | — |
| What comes out | Video, GIF, sticker, image + posts | Changelog feed + in-app notifications |
| Hosted changelog feed / widget | — | Yes |
| Collects user feedback | — | See Beamer's site |
| Video, GIF, sticker, image card | Yes | — |
| Posts written for social | Yes | — |
| Pricing | See our pricing | Free $0; Starter $49/mo yearly ($59 monthly); Pro $99/$119; Scale $249/$299 |
If what you need is a place for the release note to live — a feed your users can read, a widget inside the product, a permanent record of what shipped and when — that is Beamer's job and FoxPlug does not do it. FoxPlug has no hosted changelog, no in-app announcement widget and no feedback board. A team whose gap is “our users do not know what changed” should look at Beamer and not at FoxPlug.
FoxPlug, if the problem is that shipping never turns into anything anyone outside your product sees. A changelog reaches the people already using you. It does nothing for everyone else, and it asks you to write the note before it does even that. FoxPlug takes the release you already shipped and returns the video, the GIF, the sticker, the image card and the posts — with nothing to record and nothing to edit.
The exception is worth naming plainly: if you need the changelog itself hosted, or a feedback board attached to it, Beamer is built for that and FoxPlug is not pretending otherwise. Everyone else gets more from FoxPlug, because a release note nobody outside your product reads is not distribution.
Yes, and that is the honest split. Beamer hosts the changelog: the feed, the widget in your product, the permanent record of what shipped. FoxPlug does not host a changelog. It takes a release and makes the things you post about it — a narrated video, a looping GIF, a sticker, a branded image card and the words to go with them.
That is the common setup, and the order matters. Beamer is where the note lives for your existing users. FoxPlug is how anyone who is not already reading your changelog finds out you shipped. A changelog feed reaches people who already use the product; a post reaches people who don't.
As published on Beamer's own pricing page, read 2026-09-03: Free $0; Starter $49/mo yearly ($59 monthly); Pro $99/$119; Scale $249/$299. Check their site for current figures — pricing moves.
No. FoxPlug shows you a preview and posts only when you click. Nothing goes out behind your back.
No recording, no editing. The fastest way to settle a comparison is to run it.
Last updated 2026-09-03. Every Beamer figure on this page was read from https://www.getbeamer.com/pricing on that date:
Pricing moves and these figures will age — check Beamer's own page before deciding. Names are trademarks of their owners. FoxPlug's own plans are linked, not reprinted, so a stale number here cannot mislead about our side either.