ProdPad vs Roadmunk

FAQs

• What roadmap formats are available in ProdPad and Roadmunk?

  Roadmunk offers timeline-based and swimlane roadmap views, which can be useful for scheduling projects by date or by category. However, ProdPad’s Now-Next-Later roadmap approach offers simplicity and flexibility, focusing on a strategic, outcome-oriented view rather than strict timelines. This structure empowers teams to prioritize effectively without being locked into rigid dates, fostering a more agile and responsive planning process that keeps everyone aligned on high-level priorities and long-term goals. This makes ProdPad an excellent choice for teams aiming for a clear, adaptable product vision that can evolve with customer needs.

• Who can submit Ideas in ProdPad and Roadmunk?

  Roadmunk only allow Product Managers to create Ideas, making it hard to encourage contribution and engagement from the wider organization. ProdPad believe in fostering collaboration around the product strategy, and, as such, anyone in your organization can submit Ideas to the backlog.
  With ProdPad you get free and unlimited Reviewer accounts, meaning you can invite anyone to your ProdPad account without fear of cost. Reviewers can add and edit their own Ideas and Feedback, and view and comment on those added by others.

• What integrations do these two tools have?

  Roadmunk offers a Jira integration and an Azure DevOps integration. ProdPad, on the other hand, has an extensive list of available, native integrations. Alongside Jira and ADO you can take advantage of a range of other development tool integrations, so no matter where you Development Team work, you can connect your product backlog and your delivery planning with ease.

  ProdPad also has a host of integrations designed to foster easy collaboration with different teams across your organization. From CRM tools, Support systems and your company-wide communication tools, you can set up connections and automatically route in Feedback, capture and sync discussions, share updates, and keep your customer data effortlessly up to date.

• What feedback capture capabilities do Roadmunk and ProdPad have?

  With Roadmunk there are two ways feedback can be added – either through a feedback portal, or directly into the tool by a internal team member (with a paid Roadmunk user account). With ProdPad, feedback can be submitted in a host of different ways, all designed to make it super easy for your stakeholders and customers to share their insights. Those ways include a browser extension, email, Slack and MS Teams integrations, customer feedback portals and embeddable widgets, CRM integrations, Support system integrations and more. Learn more about ProdPad’s robust feedback gathering capabilities here.

• Does Roadmunk offer any AI assistance in the same way that ProdPad does?

  Short answer: no. Roadmunk has no AI assistance, meaning Product Managers using Roadmunk will be forced to use external generative AI tools to help them write documentation, develop their thinking and speed up their work.

  ProdPad, on the other hand, has the most robust AI capabilities of any other Product Management tool, empowering it’s users to get Product Management primed AI assistance at every turn. Whether it’s automatically triaging your idea backlog, generating documentation, helping with your ideation or even offering constructive feedback on your work, Product Managers who use ProdPad are able to move faster and deliver more.