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Finch vs BugHerd.

How Finch compares with BugHerd, the website feedback and bug tracking tool: what reviewers can do, what happens to their feedback, and which to choose.

The short answer

BugHerd collects pinned comments on a website and turns them into tasks on a board for your team to work through. Finch lets reviewers change the page itself, and once you approve, Claude Code makes those changes in your code and deploys them.

Side by side

Finch and BugHerd, compared.

FeatureFinchBugHerd
What reviewers doMake real edits on the live page (text, colours, spacing, size, layout, order) or leave a notePin a comment to an element, with a screenshot and browser details. Text can be marked up with a suggested replacement, saved as a task
What happens nextYou approve on the page; Claude Code makes the changes on a git branch, one commit each, then merges and deploysFeedback becomes a task on a Kanban board; it can be sent to tools like GitHub, Trello and Slack (Jira, Linear and others on Premium)
Changes your codeYes, in your own repository, after you approveNo. Your team makes the change (an AI connection in beta can help triage tasks)
Reviewers needGoogle sign-in, one click. Nothing to installGuests comment from a link, no account
Works onYour own code: HTML, React + Vite, Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, AmpleAny website, live or staging
PriceFree in early access (applying uses your own Claude plan)From $42 a month billed yearly ($50 monthly), 5 members; free trial

Checked November 2026 from BugHerd’s own pages. Prices in US dollars. Spotted something out of date? Email hello@finchnotes.co.

Which one

Choose the one that fits.

Choose BugHerd if

  • You need a bug tracker with a task board, and feedback is mostly bug reports
  • You want screenshots and browser details captured with every report
  • Your team already works out of Jira, Linear or Trello

Choose Finch if

  • Most feedback is visual: copy, colours, spacing, layout
  • You build with Claude Code and want approved changes made for you
  • You want each change as its own git commit you can undo

Sources

Get started

Ready to ship your next change?

Add the plugin to Claude Code and run /finch-install in your project. It takes about two minutes, and Finch is free while it’s in early access.

Read the install guide

Claude Code
# needs a paid Claude plan (Pro or higher)> Add the Claude Code plugin finch@finch from the GitHub marketplace usefinch/notes (put it in my Claude Code settings if /plugin isn’t available here), then tell me how to load it and run /finch-install on this site.# or, in the terminal: /plugin marketplace add usefinch/notes
#   then /plugin install finch@finch
# open a new session in your site’s folder
> /finch-install
# sign in with Google, choose who sees Finch
✓ Finch is set up with editing on.
# deploy your site the way you usually do
# open it and click Edit, change anything, click Apply changes
# then, in a new session:
> /finch-apply
✓ Your changes are live.