BugHerd is for the build and the bug list; Pastel is for the approval round on creative work. BugHerd gives unlimited client users and projects from $50 a month, over live sites, Figma designs and PDFs. Pastel layers comments over live sites through its proxy, emails and video, from a free plan with one active canvas.
A pin-on-the-page feedback tool for agencies and studios, sold by team members with clients thrown in free.
A review and approval tool for creative work, layering comments over a live site through its own proxy as well as over PDFs, emails and uploaded images.
BugHerd is a pin-on-the-page feedback tool for agencies and studios, sold by team member with clients thrown in free. Every plan carries unlimited client users and unlimited projects, and feedback pins to the element on a live website, a Figma design, a PDF or an image, captured with a screenshot, the browser, the operating system and the URL. Trello, Slack and GitHub connect from Standard; Jira, Asana, Linear, ClickUp and Monday from Premium. Console logs, network requests and session replay are not offered on any plan.
Pastel is a review and approval tool for creative work. It layers comments over a live website through its own proxy, with no code snippet and no extension to install, and over PDFs, emails, uploaded images and uploaded video. A canvas is the thing being reviewed, and the free plan keeps one active at a time; Pro carries three, and canvases stop being counted on Team. Guest reviewers are unlimited on every plan. It captures no console logs, network requests or session replay, and its MCP server is described as making the change and resolving the comment itself.
BugHerd PastelEvery claim about BugHerd and Pastel comes from each vendor's own public materials, read on 13 September 2026. Products change; check each vendor's site before deciding. Pending cells are unresearched, not zero.
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Notarus is the tool for when the review round has turned into a bug queue on a live web page. Each report arrives with session replay, console logs, network requests and the environment, none of which either of these captures, on a free plan with unlimited seats and 5 projects, and every panel action is an MCP tool. A client follows the project through a named access that is not a member.
It reviews no files. A Figma design, a PDF, an email, an image or a video has nowhere to go, and there is no proxy: the widget has to be on the page. There is no mobile SDK and no Intercom or Zendesk integration. For an approval round on creative work, Pastel is the right tool and BugHerd the right one for design files.
The pricing page lists every plan's amount, SAML on the top one.
No. Pastel is a review and approval tool for creative work, and a comment on it says where, not why: it captures no console logs, no network requests and no session replay. BugHerd is a feedback and bug tool with a task behind each pin, though it captures no console either, only a screenshot with the browser, the operating system and the URL.
Pastel. Free Forever carries one user, one active canvas and 2 GB of video storage, with unlimited guest reviewers; the single active canvas means a second review waits for the first to be retired. BugHerd offers a trial whose length its pricing page does not state and starts at $50 a month.
On BugHerd, yes: the widget goes on the site being reviewed. On Pastel, no: it states that comments are layered over a live website through its own proxy, with no code snippets or Chrome extensions, so a client's staging site can be reviewed without a deploy.
Pastel, at Team for $119 a month or $99 billed annually, against BugHerd's Premium at $150 a month or $125 billed annually. BugHerd connects Trello, Slack and GitHub from its entry tier, though, and Pastel does not list GitHub or Linear on any plan.
Yes, both publish one, and they describe different jobs. Pastel's MCP server is described as reading the comment, making the change in the codebase, replying with what it did and resolving the comment itself, and its page names Cursor, Claude and ChatGPT as the agents it serves. BugHerd's MCP is listed on every plan and marked as beta. For a studio that wants the agent to close the review loop, Pastel's description is the more complete of the two.
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