SavvyIdeas and DirectSuggest compared

SavvyIdeas and DirectSuggest are both solutions that will help you collect and manage anonymous employee feedback. There’s plenty of overlap in terms of features, and where the two tools deliver value, but there are also some big differences.

DirectSuggest has been around for a while, and it shows. The interface is cluttered, unintuitive, and missing basic functionality that becomes critical once you have more than a handful of suggestions.

With SavvyIdeas, we've focused on building a fast, modern, beautiful solution that works exactly how you'd expect.

DirectSuggest charges for each employee who has access, and since an employee needs access to submit feedback, that means you have to pay for every employee in your company, which can get expensive fast.

With SavvyIdeas, we give you all the features you need, on every plan. Our basic plan starts at $79 a year for unlimited users and you'll only need to upgrade if you want to add more suggestion boxes or admin users.

Responding to feedback is critical to build trust with your employees. DirectSuggest offers a way to collect feedback, but doesn't help you manage or respond to it. The best you can do is forward it (by email!) to someone else in your company. After that, DirectSuggest can't help you.

Managing and responding to feedback is at the heart of SavvyIdeas. You can respond directly to the person submitting the feedback (even when it was submitted anonymously!), and optionally make the feedback and your response to it public.

SavvyIdeas also has built in workflow to manage feedback from start to finish, so nothing gets missed or forgotten.

Need more information about feedback you've received? Want to ask a follow-up question? You can't do that with DirectSuggest.

SavvyIdeas enables you to carry on the conversation, anonymously and securely. Even if the person providing the feedback didn't provide their contact information.