Confluence read and acknowledge app alternatives: Attestation Flow compared with 6 others
Attestation Flow for Confluence next to 6 alternatives for Confluence: installs, prices and features. We make Attestation Flow for Confluence, so treat this page as a vendor's comparison and check the sources: every value for another app links to the page we read. "Unknown" means we did not find the answer in the pages we read, not that the feature is missing.
Data collected: Marketplace figures, prices, and the Runs on Atlassian and Cloud Fortified rows checked on 18 October 2026; other feature values read on 12 October 2026. Features and prices change. If you find an error, write to support@stankiguild.com and we will correct it.
Our column was checked against the code of the production version, Attestation Flow 3.1.0. Attestation Flow for Confluence is on the Atlassian Marketplace. What each feature does is in the documentation.
The apps
#Marketplace figures and monthly list prices in USD, from the Atlassian Marketplace on 18 October 2026. For Atlassian's own features the price is an estimate, not a list price: the difference between the Standard and Premium per-user prices on Atlassian's pricing page, as the note under that row says. "10 users" is the price of the 10-user tier; 50 and 250 users use the graduated per-user rates. Installs may include Server and Data Center.
| App | Vendor | Installs | Rating (reviews) | Last release | Free tier | Per user, 1-100 | 10 users | 50 users | 250 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attestation Flow for Confluence (ours) List prices; installs and ratings are on the Marketplace listing | Stanki Guild | See listing | See listing | See listing | yes, 10-user tier $0.00 | $0.75 | $0.00 | $37.50 | $157.50 |
| QC Read and Understood | QC Analytics LP | 337 | 4.75 (17) | 2026-10-15 | no (10-user tier $1.00/month) | $0.33 | $1.00 | $16.50 | $82.50 |
| Comala Read Confirmations | Appfire | 268 | 3.12 (2) | 2026-07-27 | yes, 10-user tier $0 | $0.94 | $0.00 | $47.00 | $194.50 |
| Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | Rethought | 4 | None yet | 2026-09-02 | yes, 10-user tier $0 | $0.67 | $0.00 | $33.50 | $143.50 |
| Read & Confirm (MiddleCore) | MiddleCore | 27 | None yet | 2026-10-07 | yes, 10-user tier $0 | $0.67 | $0.00 | $33.50 | $143.50 |
| eSign Signatures for Confluence | Digital Rose | 524 | 4.67 (4) | 2026-10-02 | yes, 10-user tier $0 | $1.15 | $0.00 | $57.50 | $272.50 |
| Confluence Premium approvals (native) Estimate, not a price list: the difference between the Standard ($5.78) and Premium ($11.16) per-user monthly prices on https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing on 2026-10-18, times users. Atlassian's rates vary by user tier, and the upgrade buys much more than approvals. Native Approvals are page approvals by editors (max 5 required), not read confirmations (https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/request-and-manage-approvals-in-confluence/). | Atlassian | native (part of the Atlassian plan) | - | - | no (Premium and Enterprise plans only) | $5.38 | $53.80 | $269.00 | $1,345.00 |
Cost calculator
#Monthly list price for your team size, from the same prices as the table above: the 10-user tier price up to 10 users, then the graduated per-user rates. The range stops at 250 users because that is as far as the collected prices go.
| App | Per month | Per user |
|---|---|---|
| Attestation Flow for Confluence (ours) | $37.50 | $0.75 |
| QC Read and Understood | $16.50 | $0.33 |
| Comala Read Confirmations | $47.00 | $0.94 |
| Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | $33.50 | $0.67 |
| Read & Confirm (MiddleCore) | $33.50 | $0.67 |
| eSign Signatures for Confluence | $57.50 | $1.15 |
| Confluence Premium approvals (native) (estimate) | $269.00 | $5.38 |
Where another option is ahead
#Taken from the feature table below: rows where a listed alternative has a better value than ours. Yes and Paid count as equal, except that Yes in an alternative that costs nothing at any team size is ahead of our Paid, and our Yes (available without a licence) is ahead of Paid. Partial is behind both, No is behind Partial. Unknown values are not counted.
- Lowest per-user price among the paid apps: QC Read and Understood, $0.33 per user per month for users 1 to 100; ours: $0.75.
- 21 CFR Part 11 claim: eSign Signatures for Confluence (Yes); ours: No.
- Published, with installs and reviews: QC Read and Understood (Yes), Comala Read Confirmations (Yes), Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) (Partial), eSign Signatures for Confluence (Yes), Confluence Premium approvals (native) (Yes); ours: No.
- Cloud Fortified (Marketplace security program): Comala Read Confirmations (Yes), eSign Signatures for Confluence (Yes); ours: No.
Where we are ahead
#Rows where our value is better than every alternative with a known value. Here our Yes counts only as equal to Paid, so doubtful cases go in the alternatives' favour.
- What changed since your last acknowledgement (diff): ours: Paid; Confluence Premium approvals (native) (Partial).
- Tamper-evident record with independent verification: ours: Yes; Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) (Partial), eSign Signatures for Confluence (Partial).
Features
#Yes: included. Paid: only with a paid licence or plan. Partial: some of it. No: not offered. Unknown: not found in the pages we read. Values for other apps link to their source.
Free tier
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usable at $0 | Yes Free for up to 10 users with every feature. Above 10 users without a licence: requirements on up to 3,000 pages per site, as with a licence; groups, re-acknowledgement, reports and reminders need a licence. | No 10 users $1 | Yes 10-user tier $0 | Yes 10-user tier $0 | Yes 10-user tier $0 | No Approvals: Premium and Enterprise only |
Core
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named readers confirm a page (read receipts) | Yes Macro and byline button; write-once receipt. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial signatures rather than read receipts | Unknown approvals need edit permission and cap at 5 required approvers; no reader confirmation found on any plan (E14, E15), absence not confirmed |
| Receipt bound to page version, re-confirm after edit | Yes Version is part of the receipt key; old receipts stay as history. A minor edit can carry receipts over (marked by the owner, or trusted from Confluence's minor-edit flag), recorded in the log, but never an approval of a version (paid). | Yes auditor review: "clearly states the accepted version" | Yes "Page updates automatically request existing readers to re-confirm" | Yes no verbatim quote recorded for this cell | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
| What changed since your last acknowledgement (diff) | Paid Reader sees a section-by-section diff between the version they last acknowledged and the current one, both read as the reader. Version endpoint verified live 2026-10-12; the button end to end not verified live. | Unknown closest found: "3 different version strategies" for re-confirmation; not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown closest found: "If the content of the page changes, send out a new request for confirmation"; not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown the vendor says "the app never reads your page content"; not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Partial Confluence page history lets a viewer select two versions and Compare (all plans), not tied to an acknowledgement |
Assignment
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groups as required readers | Paid Up to 10 groups, membership expanded live at read time. | Yes group sync every 24 h, per research B4 | Partial group members added once as individual readers | Yes daily sync, per research B4 | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
| Periodic re-attestation | Paid Every 30 to 730 days. | Yes "Daily Weekly ... Yearly" | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Yes "quarterly, semi-annual, or annual cycles" | Unknown the QMS sibling app (edoc) has it; not checked for csign | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
| Bulk assignment (labels or page tree) | Paid Space default policy applied to every page with a label, preview first; 200 per run, 500 scanned. Plus a label rule and a page tree rule (a parent page and everything under it): an hourly check finds new labelled or child pages and, with the rule's switch on, gives them the space default as the default's owner, only pages Confluence confirms they can view; otherwise they wait for Apply now (paid). | Yes "Based on Ancestor", "As individual pages", "Based on labels" | Unknown a 2024 1-star review complains of per-page setup; current state not checked | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
| Policy packs (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HR...) | Paid 16 packs (15+): starter text with placeholders, attestation note, due date, re-acknowledgement window, reading time and quiz; not legal advice (disclaimer in the picker and every starter). Picker seen live 2026-10-12; inserting a starter not verified live. | Unknown the vendor sells separate "Templates for Confluence" (store.qc-analytics.com), not checked; not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown positioned "Built for ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 9001" but no policy templates found; roadmap lists "PDF evidence packs" (exports, not policy packs) | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
Notifications
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reminder delivery (email or comment) | Paid Page comment mentioning outstanding readers, at most once per interval (default 7 days), opt-in; Confluence sends the e-mail. Not yet verified end to end. | Yes email, per research B4 | Partial email on assignment, per research B4 | No "Not in v1 - by design. Sending email would require data egress" | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
Reporting
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance report and dashboard | Paid Report per space or across spaces, per-person record, report macro; personal outstanding list free. Compliance glance on Confluence Home, the dashboard and the report macro; training matrix per person and policy (paid). A page moved to another space shows in the new space's report, glance, matrix, exports and outstanding list. | Yes no verbatim quote recorded for this cell | Yes no verbatim quote recorded for this cell | Yes no verbatim quote recorded for this cell | Partial no verbatim quote recorded for this cell | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
Export
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audit export (CSV) | Yes Evidence CSV/JSON from the macro (policy creator or Confluence admin) in all tiers; CSV audit report paid. | Yes "CSV Main Table or Excel Main Table" | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Yes CSV, per research B4 | Yes PDF, per research B4 | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
| Excel or PDF export | Paid XLSX and PDF next to CSV and JSON; verified live 2026-10-12. Training matrix as Excel or PDF, and an acknowledgement certificate PDF per page (paid). | Yes Excel | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Yes PDF, per research B4 | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
History and audit
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamper-evident record with independent verification | Yes Hash-chained commitments (no accountIds in blocks), cross-check detects deleted or swapped receipts and policy changes, anchor; still erasure-compatible. Someone with storage access could append fake blocks after the anchor. Each new receipt carries a SHA-256 of the acknowledged version's stored content, with a content check. | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Partial "The full acknowledgement history is immutable" (no verification described) | Partial immutability claimed, per research B4 | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
Understanding check
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quiz before confirming | Paid Up to 10 questions, 2 to 6 options; correct answers never sent to the reader. | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
| Minimum read time before confirming | Paid 0 to 1800 s, measured by server clock. | Yes button disabled "until the estimated read time has elapsed" | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
| Rovo AI assistant (who has not acknowledged, draft quiz questions) | Yes Rovo agent with 4 read-only actions: who is outstanding on a page, my outstanding pages, page text for drafting quiz questions, page changes for an owner-approved summary of changes (also used for minor-edit advice). A skill and Ask the assistant buttons; a summary or quiz drafted with Rovo is marked as such in the log and the evidence pack, one written by the owner is marked manual. Never acknowledges for anyone. Optional: everything else works without Rovo. No egress, no LLM cost to us. Verified live on our test site on 2026-10-15: the assistant answered who has not acknowledged a page. | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
E-signature
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Second factor at confirmation (PIN or OTP) | Paid Per-policy signature PIN, scrypt, lockout after 5 failures (15 minutes, then 1 hour, then 24 hours after repeated locks), or a 6-digit authenticator app code instead; no Part 11 claim. Signature meaning per requirement and the name at signing on each receipt; approvers of a page version can be asked for the PIN too. | Yes "Use OTP (one-time-password)" | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Yes "Enter the Users Signature Pin" | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
| 21 CFR Part 11 claim | No Deliberately not claimed. | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Yes "Supports FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and eIDAS 910/2014." | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed |
Data and privacy
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GDPR: erase one person on request | Yes Erase a person tab, ERASE confirmation, erasure log records who ran it; all tiers; not seen live. | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Yes native data; no source link recorded in our data |
| GDPR: closed-account erasure via personal data reporting | Yes Daily trigger, batches of 90, 7-day cycle, Retry-After; unverified live. | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Unknown not mentioned in the vendor pages read on 2026-10-12; absence not confirmed | Yes native data; no source link recorded in our data |
| Runs on Atlassian (no data egress) | Yes storage:app, report:personal-data and Confluence scopes (read, plus write for comments, a status property and the starter text); page bodies read only as the signed-in user (content checksum, What changed, section approval, starter text, quiz drafts) and never stored; badge only after publishing. | No Marketplace listing data "isForgeROACompliant": false (checked 2026-10-18) | No Marketplace listing data "isForgeROACompliant": false (checked 2026-10-18) | Yes Marketplace listing data "isForgeROACompliant": true (checked 2026-10-18) | No Marketplace listing data "isForgeROACompliant": false (checked 2026-10-18) | Yes native data; no source link recorded in our data |
Track record
| Feature | Attestation Flow (ours) | QC Read and Understood | Comala Read Confirmations | Policy Acknowledgement (Rethought) | eSign Signatures for Confluence | Confluence Premium approvals (native) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published, with installs and reviews | No Listed on the Atlassian Marketplace; no install or review history is claimed here. Tested on our own Atlassian test site. | Yes | Yes 268 installs, 2 reviews (checked 2026-10-18) | Partial 4 installs, 0 reviews (checked 2026-10-18) | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Fortified (Marketplace security program) | No Not yet: this program has not been applied for. | No Marketplace REST "programs.cloudFortified": not listed (checked 2026-10-18) | Yes Marketplace REST "programs.cloudFortified": approved (checked 2026-10-18) | No Marketplace REST "programs.cloudFortified": not listed (checked 2026-10-18) | Yes Marketplace REST "programs.cloudFortified": approved (checked 2026-10-18) | Unknown Atlassian's own feature, not a Marketplace app |
Common questions
#Is this comparison independent?
No. We make Attestation Flow for Confluence, so this is a vendor's comparison. Every value for another app links to the page it comes from, and we correct errors reported to support@stankiguild.com.
How current are the prices and install counts?
Installs, ratings, latest releases and prices were fetched from the Atlassian Marketplace on 18 October 2026. Feature values were read from each vendor's pages on 12 October 2026. Our own prices are our list prices: the listing is on the Atlassian Marketplace.
Which listed app costs least at 50 users?
Among the paid apps, QC Read and Understood is the lowest at 50 users: $16.50 per month. Ours: $37.50 per month at 50 users (list price).
What does Unknown mean in the feature tables?
That we did not find the answer in the pages we read. It does not mean the feature is missing.
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