Aha! Ideas vs Ideanote

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.

Ideanote is an innovation workspace for collecting, developing, managing and acting on ideas. Teams can launch goal-driven collections, create forms with conditional fields and collect submissions through embeddable widgets. Its AI features generate, analyze, enrich, route, link, merge, score, tag and translate ideas. Workflow automation and reporting support measurement of innovation impact. Listed connections include Zapier, Microsoft Teams, Power Automate, Power BI, webhooks, custom code, a public API, an email idea inbox and Splunk. Ideanote runs on web, Android and iOS, and offers self-managed on-premise installations. The company says it is SOC 2 Type II certified and encrypts data at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher. It says customer content is not used to train AI models, prompts and completions are not retained, and AI features can be limited or disabled. The Free plan is billed forever but limits users, ideas, collections, teams, automation runs and AI credits, and excludes some security features. Paid plans start at $6 a year, billed per user monthly on an annual basis.