Ideanote vs Viima

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.

Viima is idea management software for collecting submissions, refining them, prioritizing them and moving selected ideas toward implementation. Ideas can come from employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders, and teams can organize them in bubble, list or Kanban views. Boards support configurable innovation processes and evaluation metrics defined by the team. The service is available in web browsers and native iOS and Android apps; boards can also be embedded in intranets or other websites. A free plan costs nothing and includes up to 10 users and one board. Basic costs $79 a month and includes 10 users and two boards. Pro costs $499 a month, with 100 users, up to 15 boards and 10 workflow automations per board. Advanced has no listed price and includes unlimited boards and automations, REST API access and a dedicated Customer Success Manager. Sign-ups begin with a 14-day Pro trial without a credit card, then downgrade to Free. Stated prices exclude VAT; annual plan prices are monthly amounts billed annually, while Basic is also available monthly.