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Award Force vs Zealous Comparison (2026)

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Overview

Award Force is award-winning cloud software for association awards managers and judges to manage nomination, entry and judging, online. Designed for performance and function, it’s fast, secure and a great experience for nominators, entrants, judges and program managers of association awards.

🏆 Zealous is an online contest management system built to save everyone time and grow your contests. Securely collect, store and analyse entries. Automate e-mails to all stakeholders, sign up for a flexible monthly package, and cancel at any time. Perfect for awards, contests & competitions.

  • 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

Pricing

Starting from

2625

Per year

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

Starting from

26

Per month

  • 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

4.7

60

5

4

3

2

1

44

15

1

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
87%
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

“I would have liked the option to divide the text into chapters or boxes rather than reading as one long section of text over several pages.”
JD

Juliet D.

Director

“It created a professional look and a relatively easy system to work with once teething problems were resolved.”
CR

Claire R.

CEO

“We've used them for 3 years now and have always had ease of use with our judges (over 160 applications per year now) and entrant communications.”
TR

Tamara R.

CEO

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.”
Verified reviewer profile picture

Alexandros N.

Strategic Programmes Builder

Cons

“Also with the jury allocation we were having some problems because of the fact that not all jury members entered the platform at the same time.”
FP

Florina P.

Program Manager

“I don't know if these are things we would have been able to do or if we'd need new functionality:A couple of our questions couldn't be formatted by the person entering the category, so they just appeared as one text block, rather than separated with line breaks. As this was a multi-stage entry process, the entrants didn't get an email notification when completing their finalist submissions.”
LH

Lisa H.

Marketing Co-ordinator

“we are nature conservation organisation and we couldn't fill out some of the information as we would wish to. ”
NP

Neza P.

Dam Removal Europe Network manager

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review8 months ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last reviewa month ago

Key features

  • Total features96
  • API
  • Access Control
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Admissions Management
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Applicant Tracking
  • Approval Process Control
  • Assessment Management
  • Awards Management
  • Blind Judging
  • CRM
  • Categorization/Grouping
  • Certification & Licensing
  • Chapter Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Contact Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Questions
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Management
  • Document Review
  • Document Storage
  • Donor Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Payments
  • Electronic Signature
  • Electronic Submission
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Entrant Management
  • Entry Fee Processing
  • Entry Management
  • Event Management
  • Feedback Management
  • For Marketers
  • For Nonprofits
  • Forms Creation & Design
  • Forms Management
  • Fraud Detection
  • Grant Management
  • Individualized Assessments
  • Judging Management
  • Landing Pages/Web Forms
  • Lead Generation
  • Learning Management
  • Live Results Sharing
  • Member Directory
  • Membership Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-User Collaboration
  • Payment Processing
  • Performance Metrics
  • Polls/Voting
  • Pre-Employment Testing
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Promotions Management
  • Ratings/Reviews
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Recruitment Management
  • Registration Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • 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
  • Workflow Automation
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features46
  • API
  • Access Control
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Admissions Management
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Applicant Tracking
  • Approval Process Control
  • Assessment Management
  • Awards Management
  • Blind Judging
  • CRM
  • Categorization/Grouping
  • Certification & Licensing
  • Chapter Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Contact Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Questions
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Management
  • Document Review
  • Document Storage
  • Donor Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Payments
  • Electronic Signature
  • Electronic Submission
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Entrant Management
  • Entry Fee Processing
  • Entry Management
  • Event Management
  • Feedback Management
  • For Marketers
  • For Nonprofits
  • Forms Creation & Design
  • Forms Management
  • Fraud Detection
  • Grant Management
  • Individualized Assessments
  • Judging Management
  • Landing Pages/Web Forms
  • Lead Generation
  • Learning Management
  • Live Results Sharing
  • Member Directory
  • Membership Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-User Collaboration
  • Payment Processing
  • Performance Metrics
  • Polls/Voting
  • Pre-Employment Testing
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Promotions Management
  • Ratings/Reviews
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Recruitment Management
  • Registration Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • 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
  • Workflow Automation
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations25
  • AI Image Detector
  • DeepL Pro
  • Docusign
  • Docusign CLM
  • Eventbrite
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Forms
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Translate
  • HubSpot CRM
  • HubSpot CRM Integration for Jira
  • Make
  • Meta for Business
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PayPal
  • Salesforce Platform
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Slack
  • Stripe
  • Twitter/X
  • WordPress
  • Worldpay for Enterprise
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • authorize.net
  • Total integrations1
  • AI Image Detector
  • DeepL Pro
  • Docusign
  • Docusign CLM
  • Eventbrite
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Forms
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Translate
  • HubSpot CRM
  • HubSpot CRM Integration for Jira
  • Make
  • Meta for Business
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PayPal
  • Salesforce Platform
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Slack
  • Stripe
  • Twitter/X
  • WordPress
  • Worldpay for Enterprise
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • authorize.net