Idea Drop 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
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User Reviews

Overview

Idea Drop

4.6

(29)

Pricing

Starting at £1.00 per month

About Idea Drop

Idea Drop is a cloud-based idea management solution designed for the midsize businesses. It offers an idea submission portal, collaboration tools, campaign management, idea curation and analytics.

Idea Drop features idea submission, which allows users to capture ideas from multiple teams with the help of customizable forms. Users can also tag other users, include hashtags, links and attachments. The software also features idea cloaking, which allows users to submit ideas anonymously.

Users can launch idea campaigns based on business challenges and share them with specific groups, such as teams or departments. Users can also gamify the process using reward points and prizes.Users can track ideas based on different metrics such as scores, topics and status. It also allows users to filter ideas based on idea type, group, category, individual and hashtag.

Support is provided through an online FAQ page. Monthly and annual subscriptions are available.

Idea Drop Screenshots

Idea Drop Pricing and Plans

Starting price: £1.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

£1.00

per month

No plan information available

Idea Drop Features

Popular features found in Idea Management
Approval Workflow
Brainstorming
Commenting/Notes
Idea Ranking
Ideation
Mind Maps
Prioritization
Status Tracking
Task Management
Workflow Management
More features of Idea Drop
Activity Dashboard
Activity/News Feed
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Archiving & Retention
Collaboration Tools
Data Import/Export
Data Security
Data Visualization
Discussions/Forums
Drag & Drop
Engagement Tracking
Evaluation Management
Feedback Management
Gamification
Innovation Management
Mobile Access
Progress Tracking
Project Tracking
Ratings/Reviews
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Updates
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Search/Filter
Single Sign On
SSL Security
Tagging
Third-Party Integrations
Trend Analysis

Idea Drop Integrations

Microsoft Viva Engage

Microsoft Teams

Slack

Idea Drop User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

66%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.4

Have you used Idea Drop and would like to share your experience with others?

Bob M.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

A great platform with all of the basic functionality that a new ideation strategy needs.

Excellent engagement with employees, participation by team members and superb quality of discussions and ideas created as a result of implementation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great customer support and communication from the IdeaDrop team. Software is simple and easy to use.

Cons:

Some of the filtering tools are a bit clumsy, but the team there is working diligently to upgrade them and I forsee some great changes in that department in the near future (bumping up my easy of use and functionality ratings in doing so!)

Simon E.

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2016

Idea Drop has transformed the way we collect and action ideas across our business

We quickly saw the benefits of Idea Drop as teams throughout the business began collaborating, communicating and sharing ideas in ways we hadn't seen before with our existing tech stack. Idea Drop's fresh interface and intuitive social features made it quick to onboard our teams and we now rely on it to capture, enrich and action new ideas across the business on an ongoing basis.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Fast to onboard team members; very low training costs; highly intuitive design and user experience. The mobile apps are a big plus for us too as a number of our team members are rarely at their desk. Particularly like the status tool, which enables us to align our workflow with ideas and keep everyone in tune with what we're doing with the ideas they share. Cloaking is popular too enabling staff to hide their identities when sharing ideas.

Cons:

Would love to see wider integrations with other elements of our tech stack such as Slack and Office 365.

Roxanne B.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Microgaming

Positive experience and the staff are really helpful even after post launch. Turnaround on issues is resolved in good time

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and fit for purpose. Optimized for mobile. The score system is great

Cons:

There are a few restrictions on reports, manually having to request monthly innovation score reports. Branding is restricted. Doesn't allow you to upload videos. You don't get notified every time a new idea comes through unless you follow that person, difficult with on a huge scale.

Vendor Response

Dear Roxanne, Thank you so much for taking the time to submit a review. We are very glad to hear you enjoy using Idea Drop and that you find it well optimised for purpose which is to effectively drive innovation in Microgaming. Just wanted to clarify that even though we don't support native videos yet, it is possible to add Youtube and Vimeo videos to enrich your ideas and challenges. Thank you once again for your feedback. We are constantly improving our platform as well as adding new features. An improved reporting possibilities and notification system is already in our roadmap and will be available for you to use very soon. Best wishes, Idea Drop team

Replied July 2019

John B.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Mechanism

Amazed

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Design and customer service representative

Cons:

Takes far to long to get things accompanied

Verified

Reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Great team and product. Worked hard to engage with us and win our trust.

Ability to gather ideas and opinions from a wide range of our user communities. Being able to 'cloak' ideas means that some of our more reluctant users can contribute without feeling too exposed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The solution is intuitive, well presented and can be picked up easily by users. We are currently in the pilot phase and found that all of our team could very quickly familiarise themselves with IdeaDrop. They were able to contribute ideas and discussion points very quickly.

Cons:

Cost of additional Consulting services could be more competitive. We would be keen to engage if the price was lower.

Verified

Reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

My experience has been good with Idea Drop

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is easy to use as an end user and is similar to twitter. You can post ideas in short words and you don't have to fill a lot of info to submit idea, which is a plus for the user as it will not turn them away from dropping new ideas to the portal.

Cons:

Limited reporting features but this being a niche company, I'm sure they will add more reporting capabilities.

Melissa A.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Idea Drop- great system for innovation, collaboration and fun!

Fantastic experience. Idea Drop is vested in our success!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Idea Drop is very intuitive and easy to use. The features and functionality are robust and allow one to post ideas, challenges, share results and access the best ideas via dashboards and reports. There is a lot of collaboration and application for Idea Drop in our healthcare organization. The Idea Drop team is phenomenal and has helped us every step of the way. Idea Drop provides great planning and training tools/resources and is customizable.

Cons:

We love Idea Drop and the Idea Drop team. We would like if Idea Drop had more robust capabilities to link multiple departments and employees together (for posting challenges/ideas). Other than this, everything is great!

Trina V.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Effective journey of ideas in the organization

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The success in implement innovation for any organization is the effective communication and discussion of ideas at all levels. I consider this tool one of the best in market for that purpose.

Cons:

I do not find deficiencies in the software, it has everything necessary to implement innovation in any company.

Verified

Reviewer

Used other for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

I reached out to Idea Drop for a Customer Demo and they really went all out!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Idea Drop was really easy to use. One of the key benefits is also that it is so easy to configure, and is very well presented.

Cons:

The price, when converted with a South African exchange rate is not ideal. That being said, the comparison between Idea Drop and other Innovation Platform Providers and their pricing is very similar.