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Award Force vs OpenWater Comparison (2026)

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Overview

Award Force is award-winning cloud software for assessing portfolios, online. Designed for performance and function, its fast, secure and a great experience for students, assessors and course managers.

OpenWater streamlines program management with its end-to-end solution for accepting and reviewing applications, awards, grants, scholarships, proposals, and abstracts.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

2625

Per year

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

5100

Per year

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.8

193

5

4

3

2

1

157

34

2

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
96%
would recommend this app

4.6

73

5

4

3

2

1

47

24

1

0

1

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
86%
would recommend this app

Pros

“Overall, AwardForce has made the awards process smoother, more efficient, and professional, enabling us to focus on celebrating our participants.”
PJ

Paul J.

Ambassador

“The fields make for easy sorting and filing. And repeating yearly nominations is so easy.”
HR

Haley R.

Member Engagement Specialist

“The platform is user-friendly, streamlining the entire awards process from submission to judging.”
PJ

Paul J.

Ambassador

Pros

“What I like most about OpenWater is the strong customer support and the flexibility to customize the system to fit our specific conference needs.”
JK

Jenna K.

Education Systems Manager

“Judges are now able to enter all of their scores and we can use OpenWater to calculate and weight things as needed versus having to do all of this manually before!”
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Danielle A.

AVP

“This level of support and flexibility has been especially valuable in adapting the platform to our conference workflows and requirements.”
JK

Jenna K.

Education Systems Manager

Cons

“I have not experienced a time when I have been disappointed or unable to get the answers I need.”
SR

Suzanne R.

Membership and Program Manager

“There seem to be multiple places to edit the same content which is just weird.”
RW

Rachael W.

Partner

“It takes a lot of effort to set up properly the forms and the blocks.”
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Alexandros N.

Strategic Programmes Builder

Cons

“As a result, we rely on a separate system to manage these connected data points, which creates a duplicative and time-consuming workflow.”
JK

Jenna K.

Education Systems Manager

“There have been several times where my team has needed to set something up and it isn't in a place that we would think it would be in. ”
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Danielle A.

AVP

“It lacks the ability to have more customizable features. ”
BT

Brandi T.

Undergraduate Research and Training Programs Manager

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review9 months ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review5 months ago

Key features

  • Total features96
  • API
  • Access Control
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Administrative Reporting
  • Admissions Management
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Applicant Portal
  • Applicant Tracking
  • Application Management
  • Approval Process Control
  • Assessment Management
  • Awards Management
  • Blind Judging
  • Budget Control
  • CRM
  • Categorization/Grouping
  • Certification & Licensing
  • Chapter Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Compliance Management
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Contact Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Questions
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Deadline Management
  • Document Management
  • Document Review
  • Document Storage
  • Donor Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Due Date Tracking
  • Electronic Payments
  • Electronic Signature
  • Electronic Submission
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Email Templates
  • Entrant Management
  • Entry Fee Processing
  • Entry Management
  • Event Management
  • Feedback Management
  • Financial Reporting
  • For Grantmakers
  • For Marketers
  • For Nonprofits
  • Forms Creation & Design
  • Forms Management
  • Fraud Detection
  • Grant Application Management
  • Grant Award Tracking
  • Grant Management
  • Impact Measurement
  • Individualized Assessments
  • Interview Management
  • Judging Management
  • Labeling
  • Landing Pages/Web Forms
  • Lead Generation
  • Learning Management
  • Live Results Sharing
  • Member Directory
  • Membership Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-User Collaboration
  • Payment Processing
  • Payment Tracking
  • Performance Metrics
  • Polls/Voting
  • Pre-Employment Testing
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Promotions Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Recommendations
  • Recruitment Management
  • Registration Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reviewer Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Scoring
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Single Sign On
  • Skill Testing
  • Skills Assessment
  • Skills Contests (Photo, Essay, Design, etc)
  • Social Media Integration
  • Social Promotion
  • Status Tracking
  • Student Information/Records
  • Student Management
  • Summary Reports
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Task Management
  • Test/Quiz Creation
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Volunteer Management
  • Web Forms
  • Website Integration
  • White Label
  • Workflow Automation
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features71
  • API
  • Access Control
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Administrative Reporting
  • Admissions Management
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Applicant Portal
  • Applicant Tracking
  • Application Management
  • Approval Process Control
  • Assessment Management
  • Awards Management
  • Blind Judging
  • Budget Control
  • CRM
  • Categorization/Grouping
  • Certification & Licensing
  • Chapter Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Compliance Management
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Contact Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Questions
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Deadline Management
  • Document Management
  • Document Review
  • Document Storage
  • Donor Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Due Date Tracking
  • Electronic Payments
  • Electronic Signature
  • Electronic Submission
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Email Templates
  • Entrant Management
  • Entry Fee Processing
  • Entry Management
  • Event Management
  • Feedback Management
  • Financial Reporting
  • For Grantmakers
  • For Marketers
  • For Nonprofits
  • Forms Creation & Design
  • Forms Management
  • Fraud Detection
  • Grant Application Management
  • Grant Award Tracking
  • Grant Management
  • Impact Measurement
  • Individualized Assessments
  • Interview Management
  • Judging Management
  • Labeling
  • Landing Pages/Web Forms
  • Lead Generation
  • Learning Management
  • Live Results Sharing
  • Member Directory
  • Membership Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-User Collaboration
  • Payment Processing
  • Payment Tracking
  • Performance Metrics
  • Polls/Voting
  • Pre-Employment Testing
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Promotions Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Recommendations
  • Recruitment Management
  • Registration Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reviewer Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Scoring
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Single Sign On
  • Skill Testing
  • Skills Assessment
  • Skills Contests (Photo, Essay, Design, etc)
  • Social Media Integration
  • Social Promotion
  • Status Tracking
  • Student Information/Records
  • Student Management
  • Summary Reports
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Task Management
  • Test/Quiz Creation
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Volunteer Management
  • Web Forms
  • Website Integration
  • White Label
  • Workflow Automation
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations25
  • AI Image Detector
  • Airtable
  • Association Anywhere
  • Auth0
  • ClearVantage
  • DeepL Pro
  • Docusign
  • Docusign CLM
  • Eventbrite
  • Fonteva Events
  • Fonteva for Associations
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Forms
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Translate
  • GrowthZone
  • HubSpot CRM
  • HubSpot CRM Integration for Jira
  • Make
  • MemberClicks
  • Meta for Business
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PayPal Payments
  • Salesforce Platform
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Slack
  • Stripe Payments
  • TBD
  • Twitter/X
  • WildApricot
  • WordPress
  • Worldpay for Enterprise
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • authorize.net
  • iMIS
  • Total integrations19
  • AI Image Detector
  • Airtable
  • Association Anywhere
  • Auth0
  • ClearVantage
  • DeepL Pro
  • Docusign
  • Docusign CLM
  • Eventbrite
  • Fonteva Events
  • Fonteva for Associations
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Forms
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Translate
  • GrowthZone
  • HubSpot CRM
  • HubSpot CRM Integration for Jira
  • Make
  • MemberClicks
  • Meta for Business
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PayPal Payments
  • Salesforce Platform
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Slack
  • Stripe Payments
  • TBD
  • Twitter/X
  • WildApricot
  • WordPress
  • Worldpay for Enterprise
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • authorize.net
  • iMIS