Kudoboard Reviews

Summary: I think the product is a good quick fix. If there is a competing product I may explore that option due to pricing.

Positive: I find this service
- Easy to collaborate and instruct others to use
- User friendly
- customizable

Negative: Pricing tier is a bit high for the product when you have a small steam of 6

Summary: Wonderful platform - easy to use and functional. I do wish the platform had more fun, creative backgrounds

Positive: The ability to send digital gift cards to colleagues and friends with contributors. The platform is simple and easy to use.

Negative: The limited options in backgrounds for all boards, especially birthdays

Summary: Overall this is a fun product that our team enjoys using. Recommend as a fun thing to keep the team together.

Positive: It's so easy to use and fun! Keeps our team enaged and gives a platform for everyone to celebrate our colleagues accomplishments. Works well for a team that works all over the globe.

Negative: Wish there were even more board options. And that it would auto save/remind me of people's birthdays for next year. Maybe auto create a board?

Summary: Great tool to send messages of support, care, and celebration while not having to physically pass a card around multiple floors or locations.

Positive: Scheduled delivery is nice to accommodate the time zone of the recipient. The choice of backgrounds and Gifs is also good; You don't see too many repeat messages on larger boards. It is very easy to create and share around with teammates for input.

Negative: The pricing model is tricky. I understand the need to make a profit but the tiers between the bottom 2 force the user into a higher price model. 20 users is easy to hit depending on the team size but 100 may not be necessary either. There used to be a model for 50 that was a great fit.

Summary: my overall experience is great so far but the design is a it minimum as you can't change the color of the top bar.

Positive: it's easy to use and great to have teams contribute to the celebration together. Love to see there is another option for adding $$ as needed.

Negative: I would love to see more themes available, the birthday themes aren't that many to choose from.

Summary: I enjoy it very much and so does the staff.

Positive: It's easy to use.

Negative: At first the delivery part was confusing but I understand it now.

Summary: This is an awesome solution and way to recognize our employees and their accomplishments! This really brightens our employees experience!

Positive: I love that this allows me to schedule e cards to be delivered to my employees. It is way easier to use than trying to send around a physical card for signatures, especially given our workforce is often out of the office and at multiple sites.

Negative: The only improvement I can think of is to expand the library of images even more. It's already great, but I'd love to see it constantly updated!

Summary: Overall, I'm really happy with Kudoboard. Our team carved out budget for it because free solutions just don't measure up in terms of ease of use and the positive impact Kudoboards have on our team culture. With a few tweaks (as described in this review), Kudoboard would be a 5-star solution.

Positive: I love how easy it is to contribute to a kudoboard, as well as being able to include gifs and other fun ways to make it visually appealing. Our team tried to move away from Kudoboard to free solutions and decided to come back because it's so easy to get big groups together to contribute to a board, the delivery is seamless, and other functionality is just a lot easier to use than others.

Negative: I find the "account" functionality to be confusing. I can contribute to kudoboards without logging in, but it does prompt me to log in each time, and when I do, my dashboard shows some of the previous boards I've created and contributed to, but not all of them. It's confusing.

In addition, the handling of email addresses for inviting people to contribute is bizarre. It offers me a list of "recently invited" email addresses but they're mostly masked/hidden. For example, I'll see a list that looks like:
an*********@gmail.com
an********d@gmail.com
bo********@gmail.com
As you can imagine, when I'm inviting a bunch of people from the same domain, there are too many emails that look the same and I can't differentiate between them, so it's basically useless to me. I end up having to generate a list of emails outside of kudoboard every time.

Summary: Good and efficient and quite personal. I have not used the support function, so have no idea if it is good or bad. Therefore I rated it"Just OK". There should be a field for "not used". As for the design, it would be nice with a few more choices, or for example a choice of colouring. The farewell options were rather "sombre".
Frequency of use: 2-3 times per year in the past but it will be monthly going forward.
And well - I find 9 USD rather expensive.

Positive: A Kudoboard is an efficient way to provide personalised messages from people who cannot come to the same address and sign a physical card.

Negative: Printing was a bit troublesome, but after a few attempts I got it right. It would be great if 2 pages was possible, as the text becomes very small if there are many messages.

Summary: Useful, quick and easy to use. I use this on most occasions for the office. As mentioned it is a great tool for sending quick messages and to add more features if required making it a go to product.

Positive: Kudoboard is a very easy software tool to use and quickly set up. It's great for those that either just want to leave a message or send something extra in the way of a GIF or photo.

Negative: Basically all good though maybe a tad costly. Perhaps there could be a new charge feature for 20 posts.

Summary: Positive until recent changes to pay structure where miniboards are now a few. Much less likely to use Kudoboard since pay structure change.

Positive: Easy to use and a good variety of card designs. Like the ability to schedule cards in advance and to be alerted when recipients open them.

Negative: Started charging for mini boards. I have instances where there are less than 10 people signing and not happy that I now have to pay for a mini board.

Summary: Overall, I appreciate the ease this tool has allowed me to celebrate my team, collecting many participants quickly and easily through the sharable links. I appreciate the option for GIF's within the comments to add extra flare to the receiver's experience!

Positive: I love how simple and easy it is to create a new board, to add to a board and to schedule a board to be sent to the recipient. I am able to stay organized with the boards I have created and appreciate the ability to customize each one!

Negative: I do wish there was a more cost effective option for an in-between pricing structure, rather than paying by the 1 or the business plan. I also wish there were some additional themes/backgrounds that were not tied to a specific type of celebration.

Summary: Very good, I use them all the time as it makes my life easier when there are special occasions to mark.

Positive: Kudoboards can be set up in a few minutes and are easy to send to colleagues to add their messages to.

Negative: I would like some extra pictures or Gifs to chose from as when there are lots of contributors it can be hard not to duplicate posts.

Summary: Overall it's a great experience! It's an easy yet impactful way of recognizing employees in a personalized fashion.

Positive: The accessibility of the product; the way you can add pictures and gifs is super engaging; really easy to celebrate your workforce!

Negative: I don't love that you can't buy a smaller package of boards - I would be looking for 15-20 in a package deal personally!

Summary: Good overall, straightforward and easy to use. Would be great to also provide some sample messages for special occasions.

Positive: - GIF integration
- customizable options for background
- collaboration options - sharing, reminding, sending emails or slack messages
- scheduling send

Negative: - defaults to email/user handle as first name + last name, and having to manually update first name
- not enough gif choices