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Leading Idea and Innovation Management Software

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IdeaScale - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: December 2025

IdeaScale overview

What is IdeaScale?

With over 4.5M participants and 3.6M active campaigns, IdeaScale is the leading idea and innovation management software. We empower organizations to crowdsource ideas from their complete business ecosystem, aided by advanced analytics, powerful integrations, and AI-assistance. Users can evaluate, develop, prioritize, experiment, and ultimately implement the best ideas in a transparent and streamlined environment across the entire organization globally.

IdeaScale is trusted leading federal and government agencies, prestigious academic institutions, and cutting-edge private enterprises, including some trailblazing names in the innovation scene such as The White House, NASA, McKinsey & Co, IKEA, Ford, Target, and Pfizer.

Key benefits of using IdeaScale

Idea Submission and Development: Transparently collect ideas that are matched and merged to reduce redundancies. Community members can add comments, build out proposals, vote on ideas, and more.

Idea Evaluation and Selection: Decision makers can evaluate ideas against pre-set criteria and slate the most promising ideas for projects and development.

Innovation Pipeline Reporting: Report on community engagement, as well as potential impact in the form of revenue generated or potential savings and a company's implementation rate (to help identify and close the gap between selected ideas to delivered ideas).

Industry-Leading Security: IdeaScale is the only innovation management platform with a government level cloud security requirements from FedRAMP.

Idea Routing and Automation: IdeaScale's customizable interface allows you to route appropriate ideas to subject matter experts or company leaders based on who the idea author is or the content of the idea and allows multiple custom workflows within the same community that can align to the methodology used by any line of business.

Starting price

4999per feature /
per year

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Ease of use rating:

IdeaScale reviews

Overall rating

4.6

/5

28

Positive reviews

93

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.08/10
Rating distribution

5

4

3

2

1

19

7

2

0

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Pros
“I love that Ideascale is so passionate about helping companies reach their innovation potential. Understanding that even small ideas can have a big impact.”
LD

Leslie D.

Voice Manager

“IdeaScale meets all my agency needs in fostering a culture of innovation. We enjoy the ease of use, features, and the wonderful customer service.”
BJ

Barb J.

CTO

“This tool is fantastic for fostering internal and external innovation. I think that the top down innovation model is outmoded and Ideascale is the best way to shatter it.”
RG

Ritvij G.

Cons
“Another platform is hard to get users to embrace... the government buys a lot of them. They die ignoble deaths.”
RV

Russell V.

Risk Management Innovation Planner

“No channel to submit/capture unsolicited ideas.”
nC

natalia C.

Project manager

Understanding that some are hesitant to try “new things,” my team had to be diligent in our quest to use this platform for ideation.
JP

James P.

IT Specialist

Who uses IdeaScale?

Based on 28 verified user reviews.

Company size

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Small Businesses

Top industries

Government Administration
Computer & Network Security
Banking
Consumer Goods
Others

Use cases

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IdeaScale's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from IdeaScale users:

Workflow management
Idea ranking
Status tracking
Ideation
Activity/News feed
Gamification

All IdeaScale features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Activity dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Approval workflow
Brainstorming
Change management
Change planning
Chat/Messaging
Collaboration tools
Commenting/Notes
Configurable workflow
Crowdsourcing
Customizable reports
Data import/export
Data security
Discussions/Forums
Engagement tracking
Evaluation management
Feedback management
Innovation management
Member directory
Mind maps
Moderation
Polls/Voting
Prioritization
Project tracking
Projections
Ratings/Reviews
Real-Time notifications
Reporting & statistics
Self service portal
Single sign on
Social media integration
Strategic planning
Third-Party integrations
Trend analysis
User management
Whiteboard

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IdeaScale pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

4999

Per year

Per Feature

Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about IdeaScale price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of IdeaScale's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“I love that Ideascale is so passionate about helping companies reach their innovation potential. Understanding that even small ideas can have a big impact.”
LD

Leslie D.

Voice Manager

“IdeaScale meets all my agency needs in fostering a culture of innovation. We enjoy the ease of use, features, and the wonderful customer service.”
BJ

Barb J.

CTO

IdeaScale support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

FAQs/Forum
Phone Support
Email/Help Desk
24/7 (Live rep)
Knowledge Base
Chat

Training options

Webinars
In Person
Live Online
Videos
Documentation

IdeaScale FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of IdeaScale?

IdeaScale has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does IdeaScale support?

IdeaScale supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian


Q. Does IdeaScale support mobile devices?

IdeaScale supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does IdeaScale offer an API?

Yes, IdeaScale has an API available for use.


Q. What level of support does IdeaScale offer?

IdeaScale offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, Email/Help Desk, 24/7 (Live rep), Knowledge Base, Chat

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