Kudoboard Reviews

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

Summary: I can't think of a better way to spread good cheer and recognition among our staff. Everyone gets to be creative, yet it doesn't take a long time to create a post. Therefore, our participation rate is very high.

Positive: I like that everyone is able to contribute to good wishes for co-workers. And that the access and navigations are super easy to use.

Negative: I don't love the cost -- wish there was a way for our office to purchase access, maybe annually, for multiple initiators to access. Currently, each manager on our team has to buy their own access, separately. Also, I wish we could do more with the fonts -- like adding color.

Summary: I truly like this tool, is a easy way to celebrate milestones, it’s simple to use and makes a difference to the people that receives one.

Positive: I love that you don't need to be worried about sending the kudo on time, you just program the date and time and That’s it.

Negative: In free version you can only add 10 comments. It’ll be great if you can create a full list with all the celebrations during the year.

Summary: Good. It's a great product to use in the workplace in place of the super large cards that had to be physically circulated around the office and excluded employees at other sites.

Positive: I like that it's super easy to set up, our workforce can access it from all sites and locations and we can customise our additions with gifs, images and memes.

Negative: I'd like to be able to customise the board more. Change the header colour as well as the background to suit the recipient. I'd also like more diverse backgrounds to suit different hemispheres and cultures, not just US.

Summary: It is easy to add messages and send the platform to others to have them add their own messages. I like that everything is combined on one webpage and you just have to scroll to see all your messages.

Positive: Kudoboard is a great platform to provide delightful messages quickly and seamlessly to team members. I like the ability to add GIFs.

Negative: I would like additional GIFs as well as the option to customize the design of the board more (more colors/options)!