Ideanote Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

20 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Ideanote are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Business Problems Solved

Ideanote has become an indispensable tool for many businesses, offering a range of use cases to attract new clients and improve collaboration and innovation. The software's ease of use and straightforward user experience have proven effective in attracting new customers. Users have utilized Ideanote to brainstorm ideas among staff members and collaborate with customers for valuable feedback on launched products.

Additionally, Ideanote serves as a hub accessible to staff, partners, and customers, enabling seamless collection of ideas from various sources. This functionality has been particularly valuable for Agile coaches looking to improve collaboration, innovation, and business agility within organizations. By structuring the creative process and providing transparency through analytics and participation incentives, Ideanote effectively addresses the business problems associated with innovation management.

Users have praised the incredible user interface of Ideanote, finding it easy to onboard new team members quickly. With its ability to track, rank, and prioritize the best ideas for developing new products or improving current offerings, Ideanote allows businesses to define products that directly address customer pain points.

Moreover, the idea sharing functionality of Ideanote has enhanced cross-functional skills and facilitated the resolution of challenging questions. It covers all aspects of the innovation lifecycle in one place, allowing for efficient completion and tracking.

While most frequently used internally across departments within a company, Ideanote has also proven beneficial for educational purposes such as facilitating conversations and notifications for exam assignments. Users have expressed interest in future feature additions such as node-graphs for mission ideas and a mobile app to further enhance their experience with the platform.

Ideanote Reviews

12 Reviews

Need Ideas from staff or from clients? Then try IdeaNote!

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 6, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use idea notes to brainstorm ideas between staff members, collaborate also between customers for feedback on products that we launch whether it is in the SaaS space or eCommerce space. A beautiful platform to seamlessly collect ideas from staff, partners, and customers all gelled into one hub accessible by all. Very easy (and fun) to use.

Pros

Idea Brainstorming
Feedback from customers
Feedback from staff

Cons

The ability to have multiple CNAME's
Actually I am sure it can do this, it just cost extra
Perhaps a few more native integrations, although Zapier does the trick
Guys, please consider connecting with PABBLY connect also

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited to SME's who are looking to collect or brainstorm ideas in a team environment. Best suited for companies who like to white label apps as well. The name functionality is great! Also great to give access to customers who wish to give input onto a roadmap or a product that is already in BETA or already launched.

David Samuel 🚀

Founder in Sales at Platinum Web Media (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Ideanote is great to stay focused for the things that matter and it moves us forward

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We almost start very small in using it, because we ourself did not know what way we will have to go. But now as we reach a point where the market fit is in sight we focus on only a few number of things. We use it to define our product first without official access. We have to address the product clear, and ideanote is good to keep in the "zone". The main problem is to make pain easy, packed as solution in a product, and not talk about any features. This is the focus we have right now with this very clear application.

Pros

It is not overloaded. Clear to finish the things in mind.
It is flexible to the Team and the upcoming crowd
The design is very impressive and we love it
So we can link simple to it from our page
In my opinion it is an alternative to this normal roadmap

Cons

Every app needs its time to work with
I would recommend a dark mode also
And there should be a direct access to demo templates
So we can fill faster the board, or we did not get it right from our side

Likelihood to Recommend

Well done in the flexible structure, the clear design and the VIP looking design makes for us a roadmap not so interesting. Also we would like to have live interaction and realtime feedback and not a closed system.

Sometimes it is a bit confusing with the User and Admin rules, but I think in the time we used it we did not much focus on this.

Maybe some more options to share generated topics could have more social connections, but not overdo

because it is right 98% as we like it.

Verified User

Strategist in Sales (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Leveraging Exponential Possibilities

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ideanote is being used as a core part of our business model to attract new clients. The ease of use and straightforward UX helps us to attract new customers, where we then upsell design sprints and venture development services.

Pros

Visualizes good ideas in the open. Doesn't compartmentalize them.
Demystifies the 'Innovation" process for everyone across the organization.
Focuses the team around a single mission, rather than just dumping ideas into a bucket.

Cons

Just dumping a user onto a page can be a bit jarring for some people. So more visual cues around what to do next would be great.
Having missions open and accessible to the public would be great - rather than being constrained by the number of "seats" an account has.
Individual comapny/department reporting/insights would be helpful, rather just a report on the Mission page.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited: In focused, facilitator driven idea noting or discussion session.
Less suited: There is no force factor to get users to come back to the mission or page once the session is over. There is no what happens next driver for Missions.

Nick Benson 🇿🇦

Founder in Corporate at Rising Tribe (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

1 year of experience

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Easy, smart idea management with Ideanote

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 20, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Ideanote for our internal and external projects. With Ideanote we can create campaigns that our stakeholders and colleagues love. Ideanote is used for idea generation and innovation challenges, and it's a vital part of the internal tools we use to validate and track our progress in all sorts of areas (product development, customer happiness, etc.).

Pros

Easy-to-use dashboard that helps you navigate and launch campaigns with ease
Idea management with awesome features that look great
You can get useful insights that are easy to understand

Cons

Rating and voting without registration

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to have a fast and easy-to-use tool for your internal and external projects, and you want to manage your idea and innovation initiatives, then this is the right choice. We used it to get ideas for our upcoming features and also for external stakeholder projects.

Verified User

Vice-President in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Tracking Student's Progress (A Different Approach)

Rating: 9 out of 10

February 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I had the idea of using it for students that preparing for exams. That way we can have conversation below attachments that correspond to Exam Assignments and that will be only viewable by appropriate students. Notification on status will also being recorded for each assignment.
I would also love to see node-graphs for ideas of a mission as future feature additions and also a mobile app as well.

Pros

UI/UX
Inviting members
Unique SaaS that deepens on commenting Ideas

Cons

Mobile Apps
Browser Apps
Notifications

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

General Manager in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Simple and easy to use innovation program

Rating: 10 out of 10

February 5, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The idea sharing functionality gives us the ability to strengthen our cross-functional skills and it has been a wonderful experience using Ideanote's innovation challenge program. We leverage the functionality to be able to solve challenging questions and simplify and be more efficient at what we do. It also covers all aspects of the innovation lifecycle, allowing everything to be completed and tracked in one place.

Pros

Extremely easy for users to understand and use
Many pre-made templates
Great customer service

Cons

Cannot force rank chosen ideas or feature them
No progress indication or "decision" status for a mission
Takes a bit of time to bring everyone onboard

Likelihood to Recommend

Ideanote is a great tool for capturing feedback, ideas, and questions from your clients, customers, or audience. The question prompts below the user submissions also help initiate and guide conversations. I also like that it has kanban style pipeline in which you can push ideas through stages and ultimately into action. The embedding features are really helpful as well. This allows you to initiate responses via your website or blog.

Verified User

Account Manager in Customer Service (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Ideanote is seamless to use and implement

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've just recently started to use Ideanote to coordinate and marketing team. The user interface is incredible, easy to use and onboarding other team members has been seamless. We plan to roll-out to strategy and product development teams as well.

Pros

Easy onboarding of new users.
Simple to use.
Cloud based.

Cons

Pricing could be high if you have lots of users.
Awareness in the marketplace is low, we came across by accident.
More case studies or use cases could help users onboard quicker.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable for organisations of all sizes that need to generate and manage ideas/innovations.

Suhail Ahmad

Founder and CEO in Corporate at Altdaq.com (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Simple but powerful

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 18, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ideas are what feed innovations, and we’re glad to have found a tool that allow us to track, rank, and prioritize the best of all ideas. Ideanote is a very simple tool with all the features you will ever need. We mainly use it internally at the moment and we plan to use it to develop new products or to improve our current offering by collecting user feedback in the future.

Pros

Collect ideas
Rank ideas
Implement your ideas

Cons

It can be challenging to get external users to visit a single-use platform and provide feedback, but I cannot say that this is specific to Ideanote.
Pricing might be a little steep for small organization or for personal use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Brainstorm, brainstorm, brainstorm! There is room for all ideas. Good ones, bad ones; it doesn’t matter. The best of all will find their way to the top and the bad ones might trigger better ones. This tool allows you to brings creativity and opinions together. Sure, there might be times where it’s overkill, but it’s a great tool to have when you need it.

Jack Chevalier

Owner at Jack Chevalier Innovation Lab (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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A well thought solution for idea collection, engagement, and measurement

Rating: 10 out of 10

January 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Ideanote across the whole company to collect, prioritize, and measure ideas. There are two primary ways Ideanote can be used: to collect opinions internally across team members or to collect suggestions publicly from clients or suppliers. Our most frequent use case is internal.

The problem Ideanote solves for us is that our previous brainstorming exercises often yielded few results because

Ideas are not tracked and frequently scattered throughout various places, both online (e.g., Google Docs, Slack, Notion) and offline (e.g., Post-it notes)
Ideas are not recorded promptly and adequately, so we can't take immediate actions on them.
Since contributing ideas doesn't result in action, many of our team members feel discouraged to contribute improvement ideas and refrain from getting creative or thinking outside the box about business challenges.

Ideanote solves this problem by having a centralized, well-designed workspace to collect ideas and engage our team members, enabling us to take actions on their contributions and measure their impact.

Pros

Excellent design, well thought-out UI/UX
Fully white-labelled experience (e.g. custom CNAME)
Great integration with other apps (e.g. with Zapier)
Advanced analytics

Cons

Lack of the ability to "make featured" or "force rank" the chosen ideas
No progress indication for each idea collection ("mission")
Lack of granular notification options

Likelihood to Recommend

While the specific usage varies by each company and team size, in our opinion, Ideanote is well suited for idea collection and tracking for remote teams (which was the case for us) that can't do brainstorming all in person in the same room.

Example of our internal use of Ideanote:

Strategic planning and strategic brainstorming
Collecting ideas on how to improve existing processes (e.g., employee onboarding)
Founder town hall: cross-organization ask-me-anything FAQs

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Structure idea generation, engage your community, and gain insights on contributors & idea analytics with Ideanote

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The intended use for Ideanote is to organize the idea collection process from a variety of sources, both across the whole organization and the general public, and allow the very process of idea collection to generate community engagement, self-awareness, and reveal key players in the creative ecosystem, both within and without our organization, among those interested in our mission. The business problems that it addresses obviously revolve around innovation management and having a platform that not only structures the creative process and collects it in one place, but provides transparency to management and the team through the analytics it generates but also incentives for participation via the potential for recognition through intelligent features like the "Hall of Fame" of idea contributors.

Pros

Excellent UI - clean and uncluttered. It paves your way rather than gets in your way.
Solid UX - each feature seem to guide but not push towards the desired outcome.
Versatility - the tool can be used for an endless variety of purposes.
Analytics - Ideanote not only helps you gather and rate ideas but it provides insight about who contribute the most in your company's creative process.
Ready made templates for common use cases help structure & direct the goals of your workspace quickly.

Cons

More videos in terms of tutorials and use cases.
Success stories of how companies used Ideanote to supercharge their innovation.
The new Zapier integration is a good step but I would like to see more native integrations with popular SaaS products.
Expensive - if not for finding it in an AppSumo deal it would have been hard to afford.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ideanote is well-suited for managing innovation across your organization and collecting ideas in one place while revealing who are the key players in the creative process. When you want more than just a digital version of a suggestion box, with the necessary functionality so that ideas are not just pieces of text but go through a maturation process in which they acquire feedback, ratings, made actionable and their completion tracked.

I'd say the scenarios where it would be less appropriate is if you want a simple and inexpensive tool to gather ideas. Ideanote forces you to add more structure than you may really need, so if you're looking for something really simple and affordable, Ideanote might be overkill.

Alexandros Pagidas

Founder in Research & Development at Seanius (1-10 employees)

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