In September 2025, Cycle announced that after six years of building their product feedback platform, they have been acquired by Atlassian. As part of the acquisition, the standalone Cycle product will sunset on October 31, 2025.

For product managers, founders, and teams who relied on Cycle to capture feedback, close the loop with customers, and bring user insights into the product discovery process, this news marks the end of an era. Many of you are now facing the same question: What’s next for our product feedback workflows? This is where FeatureOS comes in.

At FeatureOS, we’ve built a modern, all-in-one product ecosystem designed to replace not only Cycle, but also the extra tools you had to stitch together alongside it. From feedback collection to roadmaps, changelog, forms & surveys, and knowledge sharing, FeatureOS is where the full product loop lives. And if you’re currently a Cycle customer, here’s why migrating to FeatureOS isn’t just a backup plan, it’s your upgrade path.

Why Cycle’s Sunset Leaves a Gap

Cycle was built with a simple but powerful mission which was to help product teams collect and turn user feedbacks into the right product decisions. For many companies, it worked well as it was lightweight, easy to adopt, and tailored for discovery-driven teams. But with Atlassian acquiring Cycle, the standalone product is shutting down. While the Cycle team is joining Atlassian to work on product discovery within Jira, the reality for current users is:

• Cycle will no longer exist as you know it.
• Data portability will become your responsibility.
• You may be funnelled into Atlassian’s ecosystem, which means Jira + Confluence + extra plug-ins.

And for growing product team or anyone who’s just starting, the last point becomes quite important. Atlassian is a powerhouse, but for fast-moving teams, the simplicity of Cycle was its biggest strength, one focused tool for discovery and feedback. Atlassian, on the other hand, operates on a modular product model: Jira for project tracking, Confluence for documentation, Jira Product Discovery for research, Statuspage for announcements, Trello for lightweight workflows, and more. For startups and lean teams, this creates three major challenges:

1. Complexity: Jira and Confluence are powerful but notorious for steep learning curves. Instead of onboarding your team in minutes, you’ll spend weeks configuring projects, spaces, and integrations.
2. Fragmented workflows: Feedback may live in Jira Product Discovery, while your release notes sit in Statuspage, and your documentation is in Confluence. The context that once flowed naturally in Cycle now requires constant syncing across tools.
3. Ballooning costs: Atlassian products charge per seat. As your team scales from 5 to 50 members, your software costs scale just as quickly, often without adding real value to the end-user experience.

For many teams, this feels like moving backward: from a lightweight, feedback-first tool into a sprawling toolchain that needs stitching together.

What You Get With FeatureOS: A Complete Product Ecosystem

Unlike Cycle, which focused mainly on discovery, FeatureOS offers a connected suite of modules that cover the entire product lifecycle. Each module is built to work seamlessly with the others, so you don’t waste time stitching tools together.

Feedback Boards

Feedback Boards are the backbone of FeatureOS. They allow you to collect, structure, and act on insights from customers or teammates without losing context. Unlike static lists, boards in FeatureOS are dynamic, customizable, and designed to scale as your product and community grow.

Key capabilities include:

• Public or private boards: Run customer-facing boards to crowdsource input or internal-only boards for team use.
• AI-powered clustering: Group similar ideas automatically to avoid duplicates and spot themes faster.
• Merge duplicates: Keep boards clean and consolidate related feedback without losing original context.
• Custom fields: Add tags, effort scores, or customer segments to feedback posts for smarter prioritization.
• Saved filters & views: Slice data by theme, priority, or audience to focus on what matters most.
• Guest submissions: Allow non-registered users to contribute feedback easily.
• Voting & prioritization tools: Let customers vote on ideas and help you understand demand signals.
• Moderation controls: Approve, reject, or edit submissions before they go live in your feedback board, helps you avoid spam or duplicates.
• Integrations: Capture feedback from Slack, Discord, or forms and push them directly into boards.
• Notifications & status updates: Keep contributors in the loop when feedback moves from “Planned” to “Shipped.”

👉 Explore Feedback Boards →

Forms & Surveys

Sometimes you need structured answers rather than open-ended ideas. Forms & Surveys in FeatureOS let you design tailored questionnaires for onboarding, feature validation, or NPS checks. The experience is flexible enough for quick polls yet powerful enough for detailed research.

Highlights include:

• Drag-and-drop builder: Create professional surveys without writing a single line of code.
• List and Wizard formats: Choose a quick one-page form or a guided step-by-step experience.
• Navigation rules: Build adaptive surveys with navigation rules where questions change based on user responses.
• Conditional formatting: Automatically highlight or flag responses that meet certain criteria.
• Direct conversion to feedback posts: Turn responses into actionable feedback on your boards.
• Multiple sharing options: Share forms via link, embed them on your website, add them as in-app widgets, or send by email.
• Security controls: Add passcodes, captchas, expiry dates, and limit to one response per user.

👉 Get started with Forms & Surveys →

Related : Customer Survey vs Feedback Board: What They Are and When to Use Them

Product Roadmaps

FeatureOS Roadmaps turn customer voices into clear, strategic plans. Instead of leaving feedback in isolation, you can link it directly to initiatives and share progress transparently. Whether you want to show the big picture publicly or keep an internal-only view, roadmaps adapt to your needs.

Key features include:

• Public and private views: Share a roadmap with your users for transparency, or keep it internal for team alignment.
• Feedback-to-roadmap linking: Tie ideas directly to roadmap items so customers see how their input shapes priorities.
• Prioritization frameworks: Use built-in models like RICE or Value vs. Effort to evaluate initiatives objectively.
• Custom statuses: Go beyond “Planned” and “Shipped”, define stages that reflect your unique process.
• Embeddable roadmaps: Embed interactive roadmaps on your website or in your product for easy access.
• Saved views: Filter by category, team, or timeframe to focus on what matters most.
• Customer communication: Automatically update followers when roadmap items move into “In Progress” or “Shipped.”

👉 Learn more about Roadmaps →

Changelog

Announcing what’s new is just as important as building it. The FeatureOS Changelog makes release communication seamless, from bug fixes to major launches. Updates can be scheduled, tagged, and shared across multiple channels to ensure your users never miss what’s changed.

Standout options include:

• Scheduled releases: Plan announcements in advance and publish them at the right time.
• Contributor credits: Recognize the teammates who made each release possible.
• Embeddable widgets: Showcase updates directly inside your product or website.
• RSS feed support: Let users subscribe and stay automatically updated.
• AI-assisted drafting: Generate release notes faster with AI suggestions.
• One-click conversion: Turn changelog entries into Knowledge Base articles instantly.
• Customer loop closure: Notify users who requested a feature when it goes live.

👉 Check out the Changelog →

Knowledge Base

The Knowledge Base helps your users help themselves. It’s designed to reduce support load while empowering customers with a searchable library of product documentation. Because it’s connected to your changelog and feedback, your KB stays up to date without extra effort.

Core benefits include:

• Structured collections: Organize articles into categories for intuitive navigation.
• AI-powered search: Deliver instant, relevant answers without digging through content.
• Flexible visibility: Publish articles publicly, keep them private for internal teams, or share via unlisted links.
• Changelog-to-KB sync: Convert changelog into documentation with a single click.
• Rich editor: Add images, videos, and formatting for easy-to-follow content.
• Multi-language support: Serve diverse audiences with documentation in multiple languages.
• Collaboration tools: Draft, review, and manage articles with your team.
• Analytics insights: Track search queries and article performance to identify knowledge gaps.

👉 Build your Knowledge Base →

Migration Made Simple with FeatureOS

Switching platforms can feel overwhelming especially when you’ve built habits, workflows, and history around a tool like Cycle. We understand that, which is why we’ve created dedicated migration support to make the transition to FeatureOS smooth, fast, and worry-free.

Here’s how it works:

1. Export from Cycle: Before Cycle sunsets on October 31, you’ll want to safeguard all your existing data. Cycle allows you to export feedback boards and customer data, which serve as the foundation for your migration. Our guides walk you through this step, so nothing slips through the cracks.

2. Import into FeatureOS: Once your export is ready, you can create dedicated feedback boards and import features from the Boards Settings, using your exported CSV file. You can find the full guidance for the same using our Help Article.

   

   If you need further help, we are happy to help with migration support for which you can reach out at [email protected].

3. Set Up Feedback Channels: With your historical data secured, it’s time to reopen your feedback loop. In FeatureOS, you can quickly replace your Cycle forms with our various modules like forms, feedback boards, public or private roadmaps, changelog and knowledge base. You can also explore integrations that FeatureOS provides to ensure your customers always have a clear, connected channel to share their input.

4. Onboarding & Support: Every team’s needs are different. Smaller startups can use our ready-made templates to get up and running in minutes, while larger teams often prefer hands-on help. Our customer success team is available for 1:1 onboarding sessions, ensuring your data lands in the right place, your workflows are aligned, and your team feels confident in the new setup.

The end goal is to not lose history, and the momentum you built all along. Instead, it should be to gain a modern, unified platform that makes your feedback loop stronger than it was before.

Why Not Just Wait for Atlassian?

Some Cycle users might wonder: “Why not just move into whatever Atlassian builds with the Cycle team?”

Here’s the catch:

• Integration overhead: Atlassian’s strength is Jira, not lightweight discovery. What made Cycle simple may disappear into Jira’s complexity.
• Higher costs: Atlassian products almost always operate on per-seat licensing. Expect to pay more as your team scales.
• Fragmentation: Atlassian has separate products for feedback (Jira Product Discovery), documentation (Confluence), project tracking (Jira Software), and changelogs (Statuspage). What was one workflow in Cycle could split into four.

FeatureOS, on the other hand, was built to be one ecosystem. Feedback, roadmap, changelog, forms, and knowledge base where all the modules are inter-connected, to make your product building journey smoother.

What’s Next for You

The sunsetting of Cycle doesn’t mean the end of your product discovery process. In fact, it’s an opportunity to upgrade. By migrating to FeatureOS, you’ll not only keep the workflows you loved in Cycle, you’ll gain a connected, scalable, and cost-efficient platform that grows with you. You can reach out us at [email protected] to get help from our support team or simply sign up for a trial to explore if FeatureOS is the perfect fit for you.

👉 Migrate from Cycle to FeatureOS Today