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SmarterSelect vs Submittable Comparison (2026)

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SmarterSelect

Submittable

Overview

Make better decisions faster. Streamline how you choose the best candidates for your scholarship, grant, and award programs. Sized perfectly for one program – or one thousand! Designed for non-technical users, no coding required. Set up your programs yourself, often in less than one day.

Submittable is the modern grant management platform empowering organizations with powerful, user-friendly tools for seamless program administration. Purpose-built for organizations of all types—from corporations and foundations to nonprofits and government agencies.

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

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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

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

2000

Per year

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.4

227

117

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

79%

would recommend this app

4.8

399

319

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

90%

would recommend this app

Pros

“SmarterSelect allows us to manage and process over 800 applications annually. When we made the decision to migrate over to Smarter Select, we found that we spend muck less time in the management process, which allowed us to spend more time fundraising and working with recipients and donors.”

Chris S.

Executive Director

“It has allowed us to streamline our processes and move from paper applications to one simple common online application for scholarships.”

Jaime T.

Executive Director

“We found some things like we need to have a person view each application since the applicant could download anything and shows it is complete when they are missing information still.”

Jenny S.

Auxiliary National Secretary

Pros

“The platform makes it significantly easier and faster for our team to create new projects, track submissions, and manage workflows.”

Margo S.

Director of Creative Strategies and Arts-Based Initiatives

“Submittable representatives were extremely thorough and helpful in guiding us in how to create an application (in our case, for a Fellowship program) in Submittable and use different kinds of forms within the platform.”

Leila M.

Senior Program Manager

“Submittable also provides improved data access and reporting tools that help us evaluate impact and make stronger decisions.”

Margo S.

Director of Creative Strategies and Arts-Based Initiatives

Cons

“The fact that the body of an email (personal message box) will not let you put in an email address different to what is outside of the letter, and if you put one in and press send it then makes the email disappear and then you have to re write it.”

Maggie R.

Educational Grant Officer

“Also, the very tiny save button at the bottom of the grant applications and final reports gets missed and the information is not saved which is frustrating for the grantees because they have to start over.”

Kim K.

Office Manager/Program Assistant

“I don't like the tiers you need to buy just to add the Spanish language. When everything in our education system is setup to support Spanish speakers it seems lame a program that cost so much cannot support Spanish speakers unless we upgrade.”

travis c.

Counselor

Cons

“The messaging component can glitch, as I've sent messages to people who did not get them sent to their inbox, and vice versa. Since I communicate with applicants primarily through messages, it can be frustrating to find that messages were not delivered.”

Maggie M.

Program Manager

“It is difficult to identify a time and this causes missing submissions sometimes.”

Akif K.

Electrical-Electronics Engineer

“We've found the email's generated by Submittable have formatting issues and are often blocked by anti-spam software, so there have been some deliverability issues and some problems with reading the system-generated emails.”

Barby B.

Communications