BugHerd - the annotation tool that makes it easy for your clients to leave website feedback

In-context website feedback - every time!

Clients simply point, click and comment - BugHerd grabs a screenshot, saves technical details and creates a task for your team to track.

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With BugHerd, annotations are effortless, clients are happier, and you'll run better website projects.

BugHerd is the world's leading website feedback tool that makes it easy for clients to leave feedback on websites. Unlike most other feedback tools, it's a complete, all-in-one website feedback solution, perfect for web development teams.

By replacing outdated methods like emails and spreadsheets, BugHerd provides a visual, intuitive platform where users can pin feedback directly onto a webpage.

Trusted by over 10,000 companies and 350,000 users across 172 countries, BugHerd helps teams collect, manage, and act on website feedback faster — streamlining collaboration between clients, designers, developers, and all other stakeholders.

In-context feedback on web pages, PDF documents, images, and more

With BugHerd, your clients and your team can simply click and comment directly on a web page or other files, as they review them, ensuring precise feedback on design, functionality, and content.

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Essential technical data is captured automatically

BugHerd captures a screenshot or video with each pin left on the website, and also logs the user's technical info such as browser, URL, operating system, screen resolution, and more.

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Simple task tracking

All annotations are automatically routed as annotation tasks to BugHerd's in-built Kanban task board for easy tracking and management. Assign tasks to your team, prioritize issues, and track them to completion.

Join 10,000+ companies, 350,000+ users across 172 countries.

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How to annotate web pages, images, designs and PDFs

BugHerd helps you annotate images, websites, designs and PDFs easily with one of the simplest annotation tools. Need to review creative work? Set up a BugHerd project and share access with anyone you need to collaborate with.

Reviewers can simply point and click on the shared assets to start annotating right on the website, image, design or PDF. BugHerd pins their annotations to the website or asset, along with any browser and operating systems details and even takes screenshots or videos. Annotations can be further clarified by using BugHerd's markup tool to annotate the screenshot to show exactly what needs to change. Perfect for design feedback, copy changes and a wide array of other feedback.

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Simple to set up using a javascript snippet or through a browser extension

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Collaborate and manage your annotation process in one place with BugHerd’s Task Board

Why you should use the BugHerd annotation tool

When it comes to annotation software, BugHerd leads the way.  It can't be compared to a free annotation tool as it provides users with much more functionality and flexibility.

Clients love using BugHerd!

BugHerd's user friendly interface speeds up the annotation process

BugHerd is the only annotation tool that enables users to pin their feedback directly onto the specific section of a page. By pinning comments and reporting on issues right where they occur on the page, there’s no confusion or ambiguity and it’s quick for clients and your development team members to communicate.  BugHerd includes video recording functionality which helps provide more comprehensive and accurate feedback.

Say goodbye to complicated email threads, spreadsheets and even Word documents.  BugHerd greatly simplifies the review process.

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Technical data is captured automatically, saving you hours of time

Automatically attached to every user annotation is technical data like browser info, operating system, exact website URL, screen resolution, and even the element where the problem occurs.  

This technical information is automatically captured by BugHerd and will eliminate any tedious back and forth for the person annotating, as well as the team collecting feedback.

Everything you need to manage feedback and bug reports will be available so that they can be resolved quickly and you can keep projects moving.

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Manage all annotations from a single location

All annotations automatically feed into a user-friendly Kanban-style task board for easy management and tracking.  Your annotation projects will run smoothly as all tasks are centralized onto one board, so that you don’t miss a thing.

Managing your projects is easy as you're able to prioritize feedback, as well as label and assign tasks to team members, to easily manage the workflow and project timeline.  View your own list of annotations, or see the entire team's.  BugHerd’s advanced editing features will help you manage your project efficiently and deliver customer value. 

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Integrate with popular project management tools to streamline your workflow

The BugHerd annotation tool also connects seamlessly with a range of popular project management, web development, customer support and CRM tools such as ClickUp, Monday.com, Trello, Asana, Jira, Git Hub, Slack, and many more.  It also integrates with Zapier so you can create custom integrations. Connecting to your existing tools will create workflows that are streamlined, and ensure smooth communication and collaboration across platforms.

Send as much or as little information as you desire between BugHerd and your existing project management tools to keep your annotation projects moving.

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Receive ongoing feedback to make sure your website is always up-to-date

Once a website goes live, you can continue to receive feedback and bug reports via BugHerd's Public Feedback Widget which lets you quickly and easily collect user feedback from general website visitors.

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Pricing and value for money

BugHerd provides affordable pricing, starting at $41 per month for unlimited projects and unlimited guests, offering great value for money. Every plan comes with key features, essential integrations, and powerful tools, making BugHerd a budget-friendly choice for teams seeking a complete solution for their website feedback process.

Whether you’re a small team just getting started or a larger organization managing complex web apps and live websites, BugHerd’s flexible pricing plans ensure you get the functionality you need without overpaying.

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BugHerd vs other platforms

Visual website feedback collection
Annotate websites, PDFs & images
Feedback pinned on a web page, directly where issue occurs
Automatic screenshots captured
Automatic capture of user technical details
Capture feedback via video (included)
In-built task management board
Integrates with your favorite tools
Ongoing public feedback collection on websites
No login or account set up for clients
Unlimited projects on lower-tier plans
Unlimited clients users on lower-tier plans
Complete, all-in-one solution for capturing and managing feedback

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Visual website feedback collection

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Annotate websites, PDFs & images

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Feedback pinned on a web page, directly where issue occurs

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Automatic screenshots captured

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Automatic capture of user technical details

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More great BugHerd benefits

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Minimal set up for a fast start

Get BugHerd's browser extension and start marking up web pages and documents, and providing feedback faster.

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Real-time notifications

BugHerd ensures that the right people are notified at the right time with real-time notifications whenever a text annotation or any other type of annotation occurs. This way they'll never miss comments and keep communication flowing.

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User access

Choose who has access to what in BugHerd. Just want clients to leave feedback without seeing the task board? Can do. Need to have comments only between the team working on a task?  BugHerd allows you to adjust the visibility settings, enabling each team to concentrate on their specific project tasks.

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Security and privacy

At BugHerd we take the privacy and security of our clients' data very seriously. We are committed to providing a secure environment and apply best practices to minimize risk. The platform is designed to protect your data from threats by applying security principles at every layer, while maintaining high performance.

Read more about BugHerd's security.

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Customize to suit

Save time and create custom workflows to help streamline the way you and your team work; improving efficiency across the entire process, enabling users to easily leave detailed feedback, and ensuring that tasks are completed in a structured and organized way.

BugHerd’s custom workflows allow you to set up each project the way you want, adding the relevant team members and tailoring the sequences of tasks to suit your team’s preference.  You can even make BugHerd your own by adding your logo.  

See how simple it is to annotate using the BugHerd annotation tool

Simply click on the green dots to see how it works.

Watch BugHerd in action

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From the sidebar, select if you want to annotate an element of the page, the whole page, or use the video annotation tool to record your feedback.

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Pin feedback to an element on the page by clicking on it. BugHerd captures a screenshot, which you can annotate.

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A pin appears on the page. Click it to view the details of your annotation, including the browser and operating system info BugHerd captured for you.

BugHerd is for web developments teams that want to run successful web projects

Whether you're working on a single project, part of a small team or a larger group, annotating with BugHerd is easy as users are able to markup website feedback and comment without needing to learn a complicated system.   
For designers who need design feedback, and project managers who manage the feedback process, it's a collaborative annotation tool that makes collecting and managing feedback on designs and websites simple, saving hours of wasted time in follow ups, and allowing your team to resolve issues faster.

BugHerd is an all-in-one annotation tool and bug tracker, designed for:
Clients love using BugHerd for bug tracking because it's easy

For your clients

It's a fool-proof way to leave valuable feedback and point out website issues without having to deal with complicated defect tracking tools. The user interface is intuitive and leaving feedback is quick and easy.

BugHerd makes it easy for project managers to manage website development projects

For project managers

It's an end-to-end website project management software that makes collecting and managing feedback on designs and websites simple, saving hours of wasted time in follow ups.

BugHerd makes it easy for web dev teams to keep track of all the bug reports and action them quickly.

For web and software development teams

It's an efficient bug tracking tool that makes it easy to collect and resolve bug reports, because user feedback is contextual and all the technical data is captured automatically.

Using BugHerd for Website Annotation is easy.

Here's what some of our customers have to say.

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Sam Duncan 📱📏 🌱

@SamWPaquet

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"@bugherd where have you been all my life??

We just migrated our bug tracking over from Asana and have at least halved our software testing time🪳👏📈. "

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Ashley Groenveld

Project Manager

“I use BugHerd all day every day. It has sped up our implementation tenfold.”

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Sasha Shevelev

Webcoda Co-founder

"Before Bugherd, clients would try to send screenshots with scribbles we couldn't decipher or dozens of emails with issues we were often unable to recreate."

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Mark B

Developer

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“A no-brainer purchase for any agency or development team.”

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Kate L

Director of Operations

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"Vital tool for our digital marketing agency.”

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Paul Tegall

Delivery Manager

"Loving BugHerd! It's making collecting feedback from non-tech users so much easier."

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Daniel Billingham

Senior Product Designer

“The ideal feedback and collaboration tool that supports the needs of clients, designers, project managers, and developers.”

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Chris S

CEO & Creative Director

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“Our clients LOVE it”

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Emily VonSydow

Web Development Director

“BugHerd probably saves us
at least 3-4hrs per week.”

Your questions answered about the BugHerd annotation tool and the annotation process.

What is a website annotation tool?
There are a number of different types of annotation tools available.  Some annotation tools, such as BugHerd, are designed to enable a user to provide feedback on a website or online document.  They offer a simple way to give and collect feedback during a design or web development project.

With other types of annotation tools users can label or tag data, making it usable for various applications, particularly in machine learning. These tools enable users to add metadata to raw data, such as marking objects in images, transcribing speech in audio files, or tagging parts of text.  

Below is an overview of the different types of annotation tools available. Which online annotation tool you use depends on your objective and the type of file formats you require annotated.

  • Website Feedback Tools
  • Bug Tracking and Reporting Tools
  • Image Annotation Tools
  • Text Annotation Tools
  • Audio Annotation Tools
  • Video Annotation Tools
  • Cross-Modal Annotation Tools
  • Data annotation tools
  • Computer science annotation tools
"Website annotations provide a clear and concise way to communicate instructions, feedback, and ideas among team members, clients, and website visitors."
— Webvizio
What key features does BugHerd include?
BugHerd's key features include:

Pinpoint Feedback: Users can directly pinpoint issues on a webpage by highlighting specific elements. Users add sticky notes digitally to a web page and this contextual feedback ensures that every comment is clear, actionable, and easy for the development team to understand.

Contextual Information: Every piece of user feedback automatically captures essential user metadata like the URL, browser, operating system, and screen resolution. This rich context helps teams diagnose problems faster and improves the feedback loop.

Collaboration Tools: BugHerd facilitates seamless team collaboration with built-in task management features. Feedback items turn into trackable tasks on a Kanban-style board, making it easy to assign issues, prioritize bug reports, and manage feature requests all in one place.

Visual Feedback Tools: As a leader in visual feedback tools, BugHerd makes it simple to collect feedback through screenshots and annotations directly on the page — no need for complicated feedback forms or disconnected emails.

Integration with Project Management and Collaboration Tools: BugHerd integrates with popular project management tools like Trello, Jira, Asana, and ClickUp, ensuring feedback seamlessly fits into your existing workflows.
How does BugHerd help with the review loop?
BugHerd is a specialized annotation website designed to record and track feedback from websites, PDFs, images, Figma files, designs, and other documents.

BugHerd can be used during website and software development projects and well as design and content creation projects, to help you, your team and your clients share feedback.  It can also be used for quality control and user acceptance testing stages of a website development project, and it's great for collecting feedback on an ongoing basis post-launch.

"BugHerd makes it easy to input a large volume of website edits, and as a project manager, it bridges the gap between client requests and development speak."
— Cole N., Digital Accounts Onboarding Specialist, G2 Review
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What makes BugHerd different from other annotation software ?
  • The BugHerd annotation website tool stands out with its unique point, click and pin visual feedback system.  It provides simple and intuitive annotation features and an easy way for users to highlight and report issues directly on a page; speeding up the annotation process and reducing communication gaps between teams and stakeholders.
  • BugHerd is simpler to use than most other website markup platforms. Users can get up and running quickly and start annotating on a live website or document using virtual sticky notes which they pin directly on the element that needs to change.  No other website annotation tools offer that function.
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    • BugHerd's in-built Kanban task board is a great differentiator as you're able to manage all your annotations from the one location, using the one tool.
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    Can website annotations be considered part of a data labeling process?
    Yes! When clients or team members leave visual feedback using BugHerd, they’re essentially tagging or labeling parts of your website with context. This labeled input helps development teams prioritize, categorize, and resolve issues—just like a data labeling pipeline prepares training data for machine learning models.
    Can I use BugHerd to annotate PDFs or other file types?
    BugHerd is built to collect visual feedback directly on live websites and HTML files, rather than static documents like those in PDF format. To annotate a PDF you simply embed the document in a webpage—turning it into part of your site—so you can leave contextual feedback just like you would on any web element. For teams working with text data or content previews, this approach makes it easy to gather clear input and streamline collaboration.
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    What level of support does BugHerd provide?
    BugHerd offers various support options, including email support, in-product help documentation, and video guides. Deluxe and Enterprise plans also include priority support for quicker issue resolution.
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    Is BugHerd free?
    You can try the BugHerd annotation website tool for free on a 7-day trial.
    Start your free trial now.
    What is the pricing structure for BugHerd?
    BugHerd offers different pricing plans to accommodate various team sizes and needs. You can find detailed information on the pricing page of the BugHerd website. There are no limits on the number of projects or users that can be managed with BugHerd, ensuring scalability and adaptability.
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