Alternatives
An open-source alternative to Appy
Appealy is an open-source Discord bot for staff applications, ban appeals and tickets, and it is a direct alternative to Appy. It is licensed AGPL-3.0, free to self-host with no licence key and no feature gate, and its paid tiers raise throughput caps only — every feature is on the free tier. If you already run Appy, your submission history can come with you.
The difference in one line: Appy sells features, Appealy sells throughput. Regex validation, cooldowns, submission history and in-Discord verification are Appy Premium features; on Appealy they are on the free tier, and what you pay for is how much you can run through them.
Side by side
Appy's figures are taken from appy.bot/premium, checked
on 2 September 2026. They may have changed since; check the source before
relying on them. Appealy's come from
pricing.ts,
which is the file the billing calculator itself reads.
| Appy free | Appealy free | Appy Premium | Appealy Tier 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £0 | $0 | £4.99/mo per server | $60/yr per server |
| Application forms | 2 | 5 | 200 | 20 |
| Questions per form | 10 | 15 | 100 | 50 |
| Application panels | 1 | 5 | 50 | 20 |
| Regex question validation | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Application cooldowns | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Submission history | — | 30 days | Yes | 180 days |
| In-Discord verification | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ban appeals | — | Yes | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | AGPL-3.0 | — | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-host free | — | Yes | — | Yes |
| Export responses | CSV | Yes | CSV | Yes |
| Export the whole server config | — | Yes | — | Yes |
On export, both do it — the difference is scope. Appy exports
responses as CSV, which is exactly why Appealy can import your history at all. What it
does not export is the server's configuration: the forms, questions, panels, ticket
types and role automation. Appealy's /export writes all of that in one
file, which is what makes leaving for a self-hosted instance a single command rather
than a rebuild.
Where Appy is ahead, plainly: its Premium tier allows far more forms and panels than Appealy Tier 1 — 200 against 20, and 50 against 20. If what you need is a very large number of separate forms, Appy Premium gives you more of them for roughly the same money. Appealy's paid tiers are shaped around how much a server runs rather than how many things it configures, and a table that hid that would not be worth reading.
Moving your applications across
It is two steps, and the first one is manual on purpose.
- Build the form in Appealy first. Appy's export contains no question metadata — no types, no required flags, no validation — only the question text as it appeared when somebody answered it. So there is nothing to rebuild a form from, and guessing at it would produce a form that looked right and behaved differently.
- Import the history into that form. Each historical question is matched to a real question on your form by exact text. Anything that does not match is reported rather than attached to whichever question looked closest — a wrong match silently files somebody's answer under a question they never answered.
Re-running an import is safe. Every imported row stores Appy's own submission id, so a second run recognises what it already brought in and skips it. If an import fails half way, re-uploading the same file finishes the job instead of duplicating it.
What does not carry across
- Who reviewed each application, and why. Appy's export has no reviewer or reason data. Those fields are left empty rather than invented.
- Question settings. Types, required flags and validation are not in the export, which is why you build the form first.
- Anything from a free Appy plan. Submission history is a Premium feature there, so a free Appy server has no history to export in the first place.
Questions
Is Appealy free?
Yes. Self-hosting is free with no licence key and no feature gate. On the hosted service the free tier has every feature; paid tiers raise nine throughput caps and nothing else. The pricing page lists all nine with their exact numbers.
Does it handle ban appeals?
Yes, and it is the reason the project exists. A banned member can be DMed an appeal form the moment they are banned, and accepting the appeal can unban them automatically. Appeal forms are forced to DM delivery, because a banned member cannot see a channel to click a button in.
Can I leave again later?
Yes, and this matters more than any feature in the table above. /export writes one
JSON file with every form, question, panel, submission, ticket, giveaway, config and
delegation for your server. Import it into a self-hosted instance and leave. Being able to
leave is not a promise here, it is a command you can run today.
Is Appealy the same as Appeal.gg?
No — they are separate projects by different people, and they do different things.
Appeal.gg standardises Discord punishment appeals through a
web portal: you swap discord.gg for appeal.gg in an invite, and a
banned member appeals there. It covers bans, mutes and warns, and is free with a paid tier for
customising the form.
Appealy is a Discord bot for staff applications and tickets that also runs ban appeals, and it is open source under the AGPL-3.0 so you can host it yourself. If all you need is a standard appeal portal, Appeal.gg is built specifically for that and does it well. If you are running applications and tickets and want appeals in the same place, that is what this is.
How do I know the caps are what you say they are?
Read them. shared/schema/pricing.ts
is the same file the billing calculator uses, and the code that enforces every cap is in the
same repository. That is the practical difference open source makes here — not a
philosophy, just that the number you are charged against is one you can check.
Appealy is not affiliated with Appy. Appy is a separate product by its own authors, and its figures here are quoted from its public pricing page on the date shown.