A WordPress-native Pastel alternative

Pastel is a simple, well-loved website feedback tool – clients leave sticky-note comments on live sites, PDFs, images and videos with no login. It’s a subscription SaaS run from its own cloud, and the free plan is limited to one user and a single canvas. If you build in WordPress, Reviso gives you the same click-to-comment simplicity, but native to WordPress: feedback on your own server, resolved in the builder, with approvals and white-label when you need them.

Choose Reviso if

you build in WordPress and want simple client feedback on your own server, resolved in the builder, with sign-off.

Choose Pastel if

you want one dead-simple tool to collect sticky-note feedback across websites, PDFs, images and videos, hosted for you.

Reviso vs Pastel at a glance

Feature Reviso Pastel
Built for WordPress — Bricks, Elementor & Gutenberg Websites, PDFs, images, video (SaaS)
AI that applies the change for you ✓ Yes — in Bricks (Beta) —
Where feedback is stored Your own WordPress database Pastel cloud
WordPress-native – resolve in the builder ✓ Yes —
Client needs an account No No
Pin / sticky-note on the live page ✓ Yes ✓ Yes
Auto screenshot + browser/OS context ✓ Yes ✓ Yes
Multi-format (PDF / image / video) — ✓ Yes
Time-limited free commenting No limit 1 canvas (free), 3 on Pro
Approvals / sign-off Yes – sign-off free; PDF certificate (Pro) —
White-label Yes (Pro, from $9/mo) Higher tiers

Where Reviso wins

  • Your data on your server. Comments live in your WordPress database, not Pastel’s cloud.
  • WordPress-native. Feedback becomes pins you resolve inside the builder, with statuses and filtering – not just sticky notes.
  • No canvas cap. Pastel’s free plan is one user and one canvas, and Pro is three; Reviso does not meter how many pages or reviews you run.
  • Approvals and sign-off. A timestamped client approval per page (free) and a PDF certificate on Pro.
  • Flat pricing + pay-once option. $9/mo Pro, $29/mo Agency for unlimited sites, $449 lifetime Founder – versus Pastel’s per-seat subscription.

Where Pastel is the better pick (honest)

  • You want to annotate PDFs, images and videos as well as live websites in one tool.
  • You’re not on WordPress, so a WordPress-native plugin isn’t relevant.
  • You want the vendor to host everything with the simplest possible setup.
Plan Reviso Pastel
Free tier Yes, forever (no time limit) Yes (1 user, 1 canvas)
Entry paid $9/mo (Pro) $35/mo (Pro, 2 users, 3 canvases)
Mid $29/mo (Agency, unlimited sites) $119/mo (Team, from 5 users) + $24/user
White-label from $9/mo (Pro) Higher tiers
Lifetime $449 once (Founder) —
Pastel pricing verified August 2026 (usepastel.com/plans). Reviewers are unlimited on every plan; the meter is canvases and team seats.

Yes – both let clients click a live page and leave feedback with no login. Reviso adds WordPress-native resolution inside the builder, stores data on your own server, drops the canvas and seat limits, and includes approvals and white-label.

In your own WordPress database, not Pastel’s cloud.

No. Reviso does not expire commenting, and unlike Pastel it does not cap how many pages or reviews you can run on a plan.

No – Reviso shares a no-login review link.

Switching from Pastel: what maps to what

Pastel is a focused website annotation tool with a real strength Reviso shares: reviewers never need an account, and they are never billed as seats. Where the two differ is what the plan actually meters. Pastel counts canvases and users; Reviso counts sites. If you build WordPress sites for clients, here is how the concepts map.

In Pastel In Reviso
A canvas, capped at 1 on Free and 3 on Pro A review – single-page, multi-page or whole-site, with no cap on either
A comment on the page loaded into Pastel A pin anchored to the builder element on your own live page
Unlimited reviewers, no account needed The same – reviewers are never seats
Versions, to compare rounds of change Review rounds, each closed with an explicit approval
Approvals Approvals with a timestamped record (free) and a PDF sign-off certificate (Pro)
Team seats from 5 users, plus $24 per extra user Flat plans; Agency covers unlimited sites at $29/mo

Three honest differences before you switch. Pastel has a responsive tester for switching between mobile, tablet and desktop views inside the tool, and video storage on paid plans – Reviso has neither. Pastel works on any URL, where Reviso runs inside WordPress sites you control. And Pastel’s Team plan carries Trello, Asana, Jira, ClickUp, Monday and Zapier integrations; Reviso’s Agency plan forwards comments to Slack, Discord or a webhook, which is lighter. There is no importer for historical Pastel comments either.

What you get that Pastel does not do

Suggest mode. Instead of a comment that says “change this heading”, your client proposes the new wording directly on the live page, like a tracked change in a document. You see exactly what they want it to say and accept or reject it in one click – accepting can apply the edit straight to the page in Bricks (Pro). Comments tell you something is wrong; a suggestion hands you the fix.

Beyond that: feedback resolved natively inside Bricks, Elementor or Gutenberg rather than in a separate workspace; pins that anchor to the builder element and survive later edits; and every pin, thread and approval stored in your own WordPress database rather than a vendor cloud. On cost the difference shows up as you grow: Pastel’s Team plan starts at $119/mo for five users with $24 per additional user, where Reviso Agency is $29/mo for unlimited sites.

Pastel pricing verified August 2026 at usepastel.com/plans: Free with 1 user and 1 canvas, Pro $35/mo for 2 users and 3 canvases, Team $119/mo from 5 users with unlimited canvases and $24 per additional user, and Enterprise $450/mo billed yearly.