Fizzy
by Fizzy · Free kanban for tracking bugs, ideas and small projects
BenchRank score
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Overview
Fizzy is a kanban tool from 37signals for tracking bugs, issues, ideas and small projects on cards and columns. It is free to use and includes auto close for old cards, webhooks that publish to Slack or Campfire, a stacking notification tray, public boards and stamps recording who filed what and when. The source can also be downloaded and self-hosted.
- Best for
- Teams that want a free kanban board for tracking bugs, ideas and small projects
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; the pages state Fizzy is 100% free, and the source can be downloaded and run yourself.
- Runs on
- Web
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free to use, with no paid tiers or per-seat charges
- Open source: can be downloaded and run on your own servers
- Webhooks publish to Slack or Campfire; boards can be made public
- Auto close prunes old cards without manual tidying
Trade-offs
- Licence only described as allowing 'flexible use with few restrictions'
- Positioned for bugs, ideas and small projects, not large programmes
- Integrations described are webhooks to Slack or Campfire
- Help is a self-serve help site; no paid support plan is shown
How Fizzy markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Fizzy’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Kanban as it should be.”
- Angle: Contrarian / anti-incumbent
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Fizzy’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Fizzy pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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