QuickslothQ&A apps for Confluence Cloud compared
Last updated: 13 October 2026
Four apps that add questions and answers to Confluence Cloud, side by side: price, installs, ratings, whether they run on Connect or Forge, what they do, what their reviews say, and what each one does not do.
We make one of these apps: Quicksloth Q&A for Confluence, which is not on the Atlassian Marketplace yet. Everything on this page about the other three apps comes from their public Marketplace listings, pricing and reviews, read on 13 October 2026, and each one is linked. If something is wrong or out of date, write to support@quicksloth.dev and we will fix it.
The short version
- Questions for Confluence (Atlassian) is the most installed and is made by Atlassian itself. It is also the most expensive of the four, and most of its written reviews since 2022 are about search, missing features or the app not working for the reviewer.
- Questions & Answers (EliteSoft) is the cheapest from 50 users up and has Slack, Google Chat and Microsoft Teams notifications. Its cloud version runs on Connect, and its latest cloud release is from December 2024: see the Connect date.
- Smart Questions and Answers (Purde Software) has the best average rating, is free for up to 10 users, and does the most: questions are normal Confluence pages, so macros, images and templates work, and it sends notifications. It is the one to beat.
- Quicksloth Q&A for Confluence (us) is free for up to 10 users, searches the text of answers as well as questions, keeps all data inside Atlassian, and is new: no reviews, no notifications and no images in posts yet.
Price, installs, ratings and platform
Prices are for a new annual cloud license in US dollars, as the Marketplace lists them. Installs are the number shown on each Marketplace listing.
| Questions for Confluence | Questions & Answers | Smart Questions and Answers | Quicksloth Q&A for Confluence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Made by | Atlassian | EliteSoft | Purde Software | Quicksloth (us) |
| Cloud platform | Forge (not Connect) | Connect | Forge (not Connect) | Forge |
| Latest cloud version | 6.1.0, 3 August 2026 | 1.28.9-AC, 10 December 2024 | 3.8.0, 30 September 2026 | Not on the Marketplace yet |
| Installs | 3,579 | 650 | 258 | None yet |
| Average rating | 3.0 (77 reviews) | 3.9 (26 reviews) | 4.4 (13 reviews) | No reviews yet |
| Up to 10 users | $100 per year | $30 per year | Free | Free |
| 50 users | $1,250 per year | $200 per year | $220 per year | $300 per year |
| 100 users | $2,500 per year | $400 per year | $440 per year | $600 per year |
| 500 users | $6,500 per year | $1,350 per year | $1,440 per year | $2,200 per year |
| Marketplace listing | Questions for Confluence | Questions & Answers | Smart Questions and Answers | Our app page |
Average ratings are out of 5, as the Marketplace shows them. Reviews written before 25 May 2026 (today, all the reviews of these three apps) were rated out of 4 stars, and the Marketplace converts them into the average out of 5. Our prices are the ones we plan to list; the Marketplace listing will be the reference once it is live.
What each app says it does
For the other three apps, each cell repeats what the app's own Marketplace listing says, in short. "Not in the listing" means the listing does not mention it: the app may still do it, so check with its maker. For our app, it is what we have built and tested.
| Questions for Confluence | Questions & Answers | Smart Questions and Answers | Quicksloth Q&A for Confluence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where questions live | Asked in a space, to direct them to a team or restrict who sees them | Asked in spaces; only users who can see a space see its questions | Each question is a normal Confluence page under a topic page; answers are in an answer section of that page | Asked in a space; saved as Confluence content and seen only by people who can see that space |
| Topics or tags | Topics | Tags | Topic pages, also as a tree | Topics, saved as Confluence labels |
| Voting | Votes on answers | Votes on questions and answers | Votes on answers | Up and down votes on questions and answers |
| Accepted answer | Not in the listing | Not in the listing | The person who asked, plus "content managers" you choose | The person who asked, or anyone who can edit the question |
| Search | "Find questions and answers in Confluence Search" | Search, filter and sort by title, content, tag and space; searchable with the Confluence search | Search, filter and sort on the topic page; "findable with the search" | Search in question titles, question text and answers on the app's pages; not in Confluence's own search bar (CONFCLOUD-84122) |
| Notifications | Not in the listing | Slack, Google Chat and Microsoft Teams | Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Chat | None at launch |
| Rich content in posts | Confluence editor for questions, answers and comments | Not in the listing | Macros, templates, links, attachments and images | Formatted text and code blocks; no images |
| Who can answer | Not in the listing | Not in the listing | Groups allowed to answer, set per topic | Anyone Confluence lets create content in the space; no separate settings |
| Extras | Find subject matter experts | @mentions; a question list macro (version 1.28.9); says it has more than 700 customers | Statistics and user ranking; OpenAI support for answers | Filters for unanswered questions and by topic; sort by newest, activity or votes; a page for the whole site |
| Import and export | Not in the listing | Not in the listing | Not in the listing | Not at launch; planned, with no date |
What the reviews say
Written reviews from the last few years, with their date and the hosting the reviewer used. Short paraphrases; follow the links for the full text.
Questions for Confluence
- Search finds titles only, not the text of the question; you can't separate who may ask from who may answer; expensive for what it does (cloud, 4 December 2025, 1 star out of 4).
- Hard to find where to ask, and asked questions were not visible (cloud, 18 March 2026, 1 star).
- No import or export, and no REST API in the cloud (cloud, 24 January 2025, 1 star). "The search is awful" (cloud, 8 November 2022, 2 stars).
- 23 of its 77 reviews give the top score (4 of 4 stars); the recent ones with a top score have no written text.
All reviews: Questions for Confluence reviews.
Questions & Answers (EliteSoft)
- The app is "valuable", but a support ticket went unanswered for months (Data Center, 27 November 2025, 1 star).
- No email notifications for questions or answers (cloud, 20 December 2023, 2 stars).
- Tags can't be edited and are duplicated between spaces; no audit trail (cloud, 5 May 2022, 2 stars).
- The macro shows questions but not their answers; creating and grouping questions is easy (cloud, 22 March 2021, 2 stars).
- "All the features are great and easy to use" (cloud, 5 August 2020, 4 stars); a Data Center reviewer thanks EliteSoft for its support (24 August 2019, 4 stars).
- 15 of its 26 reviews give the top score (4 of 4 stars).
All reviews: Questions & Answers reviews.
Smart Questions and Answers
- Good in Confluence Cloud; would like an organization admin to be able to accept an answer, because people leave the company; sometimes slow or down (once or twice a month); support is good and fast (cloud, 22 April 2025, 3 stars).
- Hoped for a richer editor with links and images (cloud, 12 October 2022, 2 stars).
- "Everything you need for a forum" (cloud, 15 December 2021, 4 stars). Older reviews praise quick, responsive support and flexible settings.
- 10 of its 13 reviews give the top score (4 of 4 stars).
All reviews: Smart Questions and Answers reviews.
The 31 January 2027 Connect date
Atlassian ends support for its Connect platform on 31 January 2027 (Atlassian blog, 3 August 2026). After that date Atlassian "will only address critical security patches", and expects breakages that can make apps stop working without notice; it does not say every Connect app stops on that day.
Of the four apps, only Questions & Answers by EliteSoft runs on Connect in the cloud, according to the Marketplace data for its latest cloud version. We do not know EliteSoft's plans: if they move the app to Forge, its users may not need to move. If you use it, our page Moving from Questions & Answers (EliteSoft) explains your options, including staying.
What Quicksloth Q&A does not do
Read this before you choose us:
- No notifications to email, Slack, Google Chat or Teams at launch.
- No images in questions or answers.
- Not in Confluence's search bar, because of a known Confluence issue with content created by Forge apps (CONFCLOUD-84122). The app's own search covers questions and answers.
- No import or export at launch, so you can't bring questions over from another app automatically.
- No macros to list questions on a normal page, no expert finder, no statistics.
- English only, and new: no installs or reviews yet.
If those matter to you, Smart Questions and Answers is probably the better fit today. If you want a simple Q&A that searches the answers too, keeps your data inside Atlassian, costs less than Atlassian's own app and is free for small teams, read what our app does and its documentation.
Sources
For the other three apps: the public Atlassian Marketplace data for each listing (overview, latest cloud version, cloud pricing and reviews), read on 13 October 2026. Listings: Questions for Confluence, Questions & Answers, Smart Questions and Answers. Prices, installs and versions change: check the listing before you buy.
Questions for Confluence is a product of Atlassian, Questions & Answers a product of EliteSoft, Smart Questions and Answers a product of Purde Software. Quicksloth is an independent developer and is not affiliated with any of them. Atlassian and Confluence are trademarks of Atlassian.