MarkLayer and Feedbucket solve website feedback from opposite ends of who installs what. Feedbucket is a script you add once to a site you own, and from then on a feedback button lives there permanently: any visitor or client can trigger it, capture an annotated screenshot or video, and have it routed straight into one of 16-plus trackers. MarkLayer has no script and nothing to add to a site, because the page being annotated doesn't have to belong to you at all.
That one constraint, the script must be installed on the site, is the real dividing line, not price. It's a non-issue for a team reviewing its own product, where Feedbucket's standing widget and deep tracker routing genuinely earn the $49-89/month. It becomes a hard wall the moment the page in question is a client's production site you don't control, a competitor's checkout flow, or any third-party tool you need to annotate without asking someone else to add a script tag for you. MarkLayer's Chrome extension sidesteps the whole question: it overlays whatever the browser can already render, permission or not.
So the honest framing isn't "MarkLayer is the free Feedbucket," it's that they're built for opposite relationships to the site being reviewed. Own the site and want permanent visitor-facing intake: Feedbucket. Need to annotate a page you don't control, or don't want a script living there at all: MarkLayer, for free.
Choose MarkLayer to annotate any page, including sites you don't control, for free with no script install. Choose Feedbucket if you want a permanent feedback widget living on your own site with screenshot/video capture and native routing into 16+ trackers.
| Feature | MarkLayer | Feedbucket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no tiers | Pro $49/month (2 members, 5 projects); Business $89/month; 14-day trial, no free plan |
| Setup | Install the extension once; works on every page | Add a JavaScript snippet to each site you review |
| Works on sites you don't control | Yes | No. The script must be installed on the site |
| Reviewer accounts | None, either side | Unlimited client reporters without accounts |
| Capture | Annotations on the live page | Annotated screenshots and video recordings |
| Console logs | No | Yes, on Business and up |
| Real-time live cursors | Yes | No |
| Integrations | None. Paste the share link | Jira, Linear, GitHub, GitLab, Asana, ClickUp, Trello, Basecamp, Monday, Notion, Slack, Zapier, webhooks |
| AI coding agent access (MCP) | Yes. Live watch, acknowledge, resolve, reply | No |
| Open source | Yes (Apache-2.0) | No |
| Best for | Ad-hoc feedback on any URL | Standing feedback intake on sites you run |
Feedbucket is a paid feedback widget you install on your own site with one line of JavaScript, capturing annotated screenshots and video from reviewers.
MarkLayer is a free, open-source web app for annotating any live webpage. Paste a URL atmarklayer.app and draw, comment, arrow, or highlight directly on the page in your browser — no install, no account, no sign-up. Share a single link and anyone can open the annotations in any browser. A free Chrome extension is available for the sites the web app cannot embed, such as pages behind a login, but it is optional and never required to view a share link. There is no paywall and no trial period.
Feedbucket's one-line install is honest positioning: it lives on sites you own. That's exactly the boundary MarkLayer doesn't have. A client's production site, a competitor's checkout, a page you'll never get a script tag onto: point the extension at it and annotate.
Paste any URL at marklayer.app and annotate the live page in your browser. No install, no account, no sign-up. Recipients of your share links don't need to install anything either.
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