Aha! Ideas vs IdeaGist

Aha! Ideas helps product teams gather feedback from customers and communities, then assess ideas by revenue potential. Teams can create custom-branded portals where unlimited portal users submit feedback and vote. Other inputs include polls, in-app idea submission, and automatic product-idea detection. Requests can be reviewed in a single view, evaluated with scorecards, and ranked by priority. Its AI assistant, Elle, can find themes in feedback, surface use cases across related ideas, and identify similar ideas for possible merging. The Advanced plan adds dynamic forms, proxy voting, CRM integrations, polls, advanced reporting, automation rules, and portal translation; CRM connections such as Salesforce and Zendesk require that plan. Essentials costs $49 a month, billed Monthly, starting at $49 per user/month with a minimum of three paid users. Advanced costs $74 a month, billed Monthly, with the same starting per-user price structure and minimum. A 30-day trial includes Advanced functionality, permits colleague invitations, and requires no credit card. Every plan includes HTTPS communications and encryption at rest. Users can export data as CSV or use the Aha! API. The product is available on web, macOS, Windows, as an extension, and through an API.

IdeaGist is a collaboration platform for people developing ideas and people interested in new ideas. Its virtual incubator offers an incubation process, tools, templates, learning resources and expert help for early-stage ideas. Users can form a team or work in stealth mode. Community features include idea management, profiles, social connections, friend invitations, global community membership and incubation applications. The On-Demand business offering provides a private community with company branding, team management and access to the global community. Its unlimited-user offer applies to companies with 1,000 employees or fewer and their full-time or contract employees. IdeaGist lists access through Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web and Windows, along with mobile and desktop apps. The free Basic Plan includes 100 Gist Points per month; premium profiles and custom profile URLs are unavailable, though other paid features can be bought with points. Smart costs $9.99 per month and includes 10 Gist Points, three out-of-network messages and unlimited ideas, social connections, friend invites and opportunity responses. On-Demand costs $1,999.00 once for 12 months and includes five incubation packages; additional packages cost $499 each.