Happy Mood Score vs Pulse HR

Happy Mood Score is a web-based pulse survey and employee engagement platform for growing teams, including teams spread across offices or working remotely. It emails one question at a time, and employees can answer without logging in or installing an app. Questions can use standard or eNPS formats with custom answer options, and surveys can be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly for a selected time zone and dispatch day. Dashboards display engagement scores, trends, team heatmaps, response-rate breakdowns, and score distributions. Managers can organize employees into teams and view team scores, response rates, and rankings. Employees can also give public kudos linked to company values. The site lists English, Spanish, French, and German, with each person seeing their own language, and says confidentiality thresholds protect small teams from responses being traced to individuals. The Free plan is free for up to 20 employees with all features; Growth is $19 a month for 21 or more employees, at a flat rate rather than per seat.

Pulse HR is an open-source workspace for individual contributors, focused on status, growth, recognition, and wellbeing. Its listed surfaces include Status Log, Growth, Kudos, Moments, Workload check-in, Leave journal, Pulse, and People Insights. Status Log supports written async standups in a three-line-per-person team feed with a manager-safe sentiment recap. Growth brings achievements, challenges, skill paths, and kudos together; Kudos supports peer recognition with reasons, teammate coins, and leaderboards that reset weekly, monthly, and yearly. Workload check-ins show managers an eight-week trend rather than individual responses, and the anonymous weekly Pulse mood heatmap appears only when at least three people respond. The product is intended to run alongside an HRIS, not replace it: it does not cover payroll, time tracking, recruiting, project allocation, or document e-signature. It can be self-hosted with Docker or Kubernetes, with Helm and Terraform support. The site describes a REST API, webhooks, and TypeScript, Python, and Go SDKs. The PWA works on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, with some recent views and drafts available offline. The public demo is frontend-only and its records stay in the browser.