Pastel is the approval tool for creative work; Ybug is the bug widget on the smaller bill. Pastel comments over a live site through its proxy, or over PDFs and emails, and captures no console, network or replay. Ybug prices in euros from 10 a month, with console recording and network requests on paid tiers.
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.
A visual bug reporting widget sold by project and by team member, priced in euros, with unlimited reporters on every plan including the free one.
Pastel is built for creative and marketing teams collecting approvals rather than bug reports. Nothing is installed on the site being reviewed; a canvas holds the page or the file, guest reviewers are unlimited on every plan, and the free plan keeps one canvas active. Trackers arrive on Team at $119 a month, and its MCP server is described as making the change and resolving the comment itself.
Ybug is a visual bug reporting widget sold by project and by team member, in euros, with unlimited reporters on every plan including the free one. Its free plan is one project, one team member and 50 screenshots a month. Console recording is absent there, limited on Basic and complete from Startup, where network request logging also begins. It publishes no MCP server at all.
Pastel YbugEvery claim about Pastel and Ybug comes from each vendor's own public materials, read on 13 September 2026. Products change; check each vendor's site before deciding.
The third option
Notarus is the option for a team that wants what Ybug sells on Startup and Pastel does not sell at all, without a paid tier. Session replay, console logs, network requests and the environment arrive with every report on the free plan, alongside unlimited seats and 5 projects, and the reporter follows their own ticket from a link without an account.
It is a live-web-page tool and nothing else: no canvas for a PDF, an email or an image, no proxy that reaches a site without the widget, no mobile SDK, and no Intercom or Zendesk integration. It prices in US dollars, so a European team reading Ybug's euro figures gets no equivalent here.
Every plan, including the one with SAML, has its price on the pricing page.
Yes, and both are ongoing plans rather than trial windows. Pastel's Free Forever is one user and one active canvas with unlimited guest reviewers and 2 GB of video storage. Ybug's is one project, one team member and 50 screenshots a month with unlimited reporters, and it leaves out console recording, browser extensions and integrations.
Only Ybug, and only on its paid plans. Its comparison table marks console and error recording as absent on Free, Limited on Basic and Included from Startup, at 29 euros a month or 23 billed annually, where network request logging also begins. Pastel states that it captures no console logs, no network requests and no session replay.
They are in different currencies, which is the first thing to notice. Ybug's Basic is 13 euros a month or 10 billed annually for three projects and three team members, and it publishes no dollar figure. Pastel's Pro is $35 a month or $29 billed annually for two users and three active canvases. Ybug's entry figure is the smaller number, though no conversion between the two currencies is published, and Pastel is the one whose count, canvases, stops mattering only on Team.
No. No MCP server or AI connector appears on Ybug's site or in its documentation. Pastel's is described in some detail: the agent reads a new comment, makes the change in the codebase, replies with what it did and resolves the comment.
Only Ybug. It lists more than twenty five integrations, Jira, Trello, GitHub, GitLab, ClickUp, Linear and Asana among them, reachable from its Basic plan at 13 euros a month, with one integration per project there and none on the free plan. Pastel's trackers are Trello, Asana, Jira, ClickUp and Monday, held to its Team plan at $119 a month or $99 billed annually, and neither GitHub nor Linear appears on its plans page.
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