A snapshot of the top Aha! features launched in Q1 2025
Top 20 Aha! software features launched in Q1 2025
"The top challenge in product development today is not how fast you can build. It is knowing what is worth building in the first place."
Many of you agreed when we shared this insight alongside the launch of Aha! Discovery: a new tool for managing customer interviews and linking insights to the roadmap. Alongside it, we delivered enhancements across the suite to support the entire product development cycle.
From discovery to delivery, we delivered enhancements to help you ask better questions, find real insights, and build with intention.
Let's start with Aha! Discovery. Our newest product empowers you to define research studies, schedule interviews, and analyze key findings. Better still, it integrates seamlessly with Aha! Roadmaps so you can tie customer insights directly to your strategic plans.
Over the past few months, we spoke with more than 50 customers. It is clear that many organizations have a real need to streamline product discovery. If you missed last week's live product event, watch the playback to hear Aha! co-founder and CEO Brian de Haaff explain why this work is so important — and how Aha! Discovery can help. And if you are ready to get started now, sign up for a free trial or schedule a demo. (Current customers can email support@aha.io to enable Aha! Discovery in an existing Aha! account.)
We also introduced a number of meaningful updates across the Aha! suite to support your product development work, from identifying customer feedback themes to aligning on product plans and improving knowledge sharing. Keep on reading for all the Q1 highlights, or use the following links to skip ahead:
New in Aha! Roadmaps
This quarter, we focused on helping you accelerate. Updates included ways to find product information faster and collaborate more effectively across teams.
Search with AI: Use the new AI-powered search (top-right magnifying glass icon) to get immediate answers to common questions like, "What features did we ship this week?" or, "Which ideas from this month still need review?"
Send plans to teams using Smartsheet: Build your plans in Aha! Roadmaps and send records directly to Smartsheet. Stay aligned with bi-directional updates.
Stay informed in Slack: Subscribe to specific work items and get notified about status changes, comments, and more — right from Slack.
Make shared plans interactive: Charts on shared webpages are now clickable. Stakeholders can drill in to explore the data on their own.
Each panel automatically updates as the underlying data changes, ensuring drill-ins always reflect the latest updates.
New in Aha! Ideas
Keep track of the most important trends in customer feedback. And make more strategic roadmap decisions with new capabilities to help you prioritize high-impact opportunities.
Group ideas into themes: Organize related ideas into broader concepts to spot patterns and know what to prioritize.
Keep customers in the loop automatically: Weekly highlight emails now include status changes, admin replies, and new comments — building trust and encouraging more engagement in your portal.
Analyze trends with new reports: Start with 20+ sample reports to analyze your idea management data. Customize them to fit your needs and create dashboards to share multiple reports in one view.
Want more details and best practices for building reports? Sign up for our next live tutorial, coming in May.
New in Aha! Whiteboards
Over in Aha! Whiteboards, we introduced exciting new features to support planning and creative thinking.
Organize whiteboards automatically: The new auto layout functionality organizes shapes in a frame as you go. Similarly, the ability to embed the same whiteboard in multiple records ensures diagrams stay in sync everywhere they appear.
Embed roadmaps on whiteboards: Pull in your product roadmap or Gantt chart to guide collaborative planning — without committing to changes until you are ready.
Estimate effort with planning poker: Choose from Fibonacci numbers, t-shirt sizes, or custom values to match your team's approach.
Turn off auto layout whenever you need to manually adjust objects in your frame.
New in Aha! Knowledge
We shipped important updates to make your knowledge base easier to manage and fun to use — so you can share valuable resources with colleagues and customers.
Centralize product resources in one place: Use the new Chrome extension to quickly import existing documentation from other web-based tools.
Customize the look and feel: Use new themes, fonts, and homepage layouts in your knowledge base to reflect your brand.
Offer multiple authentication options: Let different groups access the same knowledge base via single sign-on, password, or both.
Manage articles more efficiently: See new drafts, track changes, and bulk publish updates — all from one view. We also expanded who can create and manage knowledge bases.
Find the new homepage in the Knowledge section of your workspace.
New in Aha! Develop
Development teams need instant visibility into their work — and a seamless way to manage testing. We delivered enhancements to make achieving both easier.
Visually distinguish feature types: Apply custom icons and colors to different types of work (like features, bugs, and technical improvements).
Connect testing workflows with TestRail: Link test cases directly to features and sprints for seamless QA tracking.
Existing workflows need a manual update, but new workflows come with pre-set icons and colors by default.
We hope these updates make it easier to uncover what customers need and deliver that with purpose and urgency.
Aha! software is built for product teams that care deeply about getting things right for their customers. We are always listening to your feedback and learning from how you work. Keep sharing what you need — we will keep building functionality that helps you make thoughtful decisions and deliver real value.
Start a free trial today
These new features are now available to Aha! customers. Our suite of tools includes Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Discovery, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Whiteboards, Aha! Knowledge, and Aha! Develop. Use each product individually or combined to help teams deliver even greater value. Sign up for a free 30-day trial or join a live demo to see why more than 1 million product builders trust our software to build lovable products and be happy doing it.
