Happy Mood Score vs StaffCircle

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.

StaffCircle brings performance management, employee development, engagement and culture, workforce analytics, and frontline communication into one platform. Its Performance Management module includes check-ins, reviews, SMART objectives, 360 appraisals, real-time feedback, competency alignment, and reports. Employee Development covers development plans, skills assessments, succession planning, career pathways, training logs, and skills-gap analysis. The optional Employee Engagement add-on includes surveys, recognition, a newsfeed, social intranet, people insights, and employee communications. StaffCircle describes its audience as HR, L&D, and people leaders in mid-sized and multi-site organisations, typically with 50–1,000 employees. The service runs as a web app that can be added to iOS and Android home screens, but is not distributed through app stores. Listed integrations include Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, Power BI, Zapier, Power Automate, HRIS connectors, an API, and webhooks. StaffCircle lists paid plans, but no starting price; one displayed plan is £3.85 a year, billed annually, with a one-off £2,600 setup fee for that estimate.