Guusto vs Recognize

Guusto provides employee recognition and rewards software intended for both frontline and office workers. Programs can cover milestones, anniversaries, birthdays, peer recognition, manager awards, nominations, performance awards, safety incentives, and learning incentives. Rewards can be sent by email or SMS, printed, displayed as QR codes, or routed to a manager for in-person delivery. Recipients can redeem Guusto cards for gift cards, company swag, charity donations, or custom rewards. Program managers get workspaces with separate budgets and admins, approval workflows, cost-center pools, real-time reporting, and taxable-benefit reporting. Integrations include HRIS, single sign-on, and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and UKG Pro; the API supports recognition and reporting connections. The service is available on Android, iOS, web, and API. A free plan is listed, and the pricing note includes a 30-day trial. Essential costs $4 a month per sender seat and $0.70 a month per recipient seat, with a $200 monthly minimum and annual billing. Premium costs $5 a month per sender seat and $1 a month per recipient seat, with a $500 monthly minimum and annual billing.

Recognize is an employee recognition and rewards platform for office, remote and frontline teams. It supports peer recognition, manager awards, nominations, anniversaries, incentives, surveys and approval workflows, with custom award types and budget controls. Recognition can be delivered through web, mobile and chat channels, with notifications by email, SMS, desktop push or mobile push; notifications can also be disabled. Its rewards catalog includes gift cards, Amazon products, experiences, live events, swag, travel and company-funded rewards. Employee apps for Android and iOS provide recognition feeds, recognition sending and reward redemption. Integrations include Office 365, SharePoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Zapier, Slack, Yammer and Workplace by Facebook. Employee additions and removals can sync using Azure AD, Workday or sFTP data. The OAuth-secured REST API reads and writes recognitions, users, nominations and redemptions, while webhooks provide real-time events. Pricing is available on request; subscriptions are annual and based on organization or active-user count. A free trial is available, but there is no free plan.