Zest 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Zest

4.5

(57)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Zest

💚 All-in-one platform for boosting Performance and Employee Engagement: Develop, attract and engage your talents.
We help managers and Human Ressources reach Collective Success by boosting employees engagement.

👉 Key features : Pulse surveys, HR surveys, 1:1, Okr methodology, management of objectives and skills, regular check-ins, templates for performance reviews, continuous feedback, sharing ideas...

Main objectives:
✅ Enhance employee experience
✅ Ongoing performance management
✅ Strategic Alignment in real time
✅ Fostering a feedback culture

Our main assets
💫 An user-friendly & customizable platform to meet your specific needs
💫 Mobile Access (accessible from anywhere including for teams in the field)
💫 Quick implementation, supported by our ready-to-use templates and dedicated support team of experts
💫 Data hosted in France and GDPR compliant
💫 + 300 customers, including Celio, Abeille Assurances, Courir, BnpParibas, Babolat...

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Zest Pricing and Plans

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Zest Features

Popular features found in Performance Management System
360 Degree Feedback
Compensation Management
Customizable Templates
Employee Database
Individual Development Plans
Ongoing Performance Tracking
Performance Appraisal
Review Cycle Tracking
Self Service Portal
Skills Assessment
Surveys & Feedback
More features of Zest
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
AI/Machine Learning
Alerts/Notifications
Anonymous Feedback
API
Benchmarking
Chat/Messaging
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Communication Management
Competency Management
Continuous Feedback
Customizable Dashboard
Customizable Forms
Customizable Questions
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Data Analysis Tools
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Drag & Drop
Email Reminders
Employee Engagement
Employee Management
Employee Onboarding
Employee Portal
Employee Profiles
Employee Recognition
Engagement Tracking
Feedback Management
Goal Management
Goal Setting/Tracking
HR Management
KPI Monitoring
Manager-to-Employee Recognition
Mobile Access
Mobile App
Mobile Survey
Multi-Language
Negative Feedback Management
Organizational Charting
Peer Appraisals
Peer-to-Peer Recognition
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Performance Review Management
Progress Tracking
Pulse Surveys
Question Library
Rater Selection
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Recognition Tracking
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Self Assessment
Single Sign On
Social Recognition
Strategic Planning
Survey Builder
Survey/Poll Management
Talent Management
Template Management
Third-Party Integrations
Trend Analysis
Visual Analytics

Zest Integrations

Okta

Slack

SAP Business One

Microsoft 365

SAP SuccessFactors HCM

Personio

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Zest User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

60%

35%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.2

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

Damien N.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Services

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

An efficient solution to measure the employee experience

I’m definitely convinced that customer experience and employee experience are linked. Bloomin is a powerful software solution to deliver a measure of employee experience. Answer rate to the surveys is >90% and the interface (conversationnal chatbot) is clearly a success key factor

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very easy to use and set up : UI ++ Survey is a conversationnal bot Using of GIF (option) to answer Banks of HR topics

Cons:

Some improvements (in progess) to achieve for exporting results

Reasons for choosing Zest

Start up sourced by our internal incubator, skills of Bloomin’s team, price and free trial

Laetitia D.

Verified reviewer

Textiles

1001-5000 employees

Used other for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Feedback on Zest tool by Chantelle Lingerie

Zest help us to measure the engagement and motivation of our employees, and empower the managers and the teams on those subjects (it's not only an HR subject). They are very attentive on our feedbacks to improve the tool and develop or optimise the features.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We use the features "LISTEN" that includes the Engagement meter, Key drivers, and Polls. Those features are very easy to set and use. The major point is that the manager, the HR team and the Admin have an customized access to the results depending on their perimeter. The poll feature is very easy to set. The user don't need a lot of training to use this tool because it's very intuitive.

Cons:

The access to the results in back office for the HR and admin is easy but they could improve the ways the data are available in the tool, because if you wan to go further on the reporting the possibility to extract the data in excel could be improved. The key board could be improved too for managers, HR and admin The access of the historic, for the key drivers for exemple is not that intuitive More link between the features to help the manager having an overview of his/her team or for one employee on the results

Reasons for choosing Zest

Because Zest offer the option to have NON ANONYMOUS polls and it's very important to us as one of our value is the transparency.

Richard G.

Verified reviewer

Accounting

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

Bloomin review its cool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There are many possibilities provided by the program, including: * a database of pre-configured surveys; * a database of KPI; * the usage of GIF is a major plus; * the ability to planify surveys and simply build different lists of people.

Cons:

The back office's interface is not particularly "happy to use" or user-friendly, making it difficult to create, plan, or alter campaigns, for instance. I had a lot of clicks and needed the support staff's assistance. meticulously modifying every survey for weekly

Reasons for switching to Zest

I just was trying something new and new opportunities.

Marion B.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Great product for management & HR but also employees

Since we have zest we have improve all the Employee Experience : on boarding, offboarding, engagement surveys... It helped us a lot with the crisis as we have great templates and we checked up every month the mindset of employees... It helped a lot also managers to see the mood of their team with the "mood check" that is sent once a week. Managers also have templates to do their one on one with automatical reminder... It's a tool to give the voice of our employee, check the engagement for HR & managers and facilitate management life

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love the fact that the product is easy to use, user friendly for everyone : managers, HR & employees. It is really easy to setup but also fun to answer... The customer service is also amazing, they answer really quickly to your request and listen to their customers for new features & improvement

Cons:

Some features are quite young so need a little improvement but that's normal I am not worried because everything is setup everytime in the next release...

Reasons for switching to Zest

Culture amp are located in US feedbacks were long, customer service not here... They always sent me to a tuto...

Irénée W.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2020

Let's go

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of survey launch: the software is very user friendly, and very intuitive. Zest team is very responsive and present.

Cons:

Whereas the soft is very ease to use for connected people, it is not designed for disconnected people like operators in plants. Hoping that the work in progress will overcome this difficulty.

Reasons for choosing Zest

Maturity, ease of use, integration in systems

Linda K.

Verified reviewer

Chemicals

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

My experience using Zest

We use Zest for running the annual pulse check survey and I am positively surprised by the developments the team implement from one year to another in a co-creative manner with their clients. Happy to partner with Zest!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a dynamic platform, interactive, quite intuitive. The team support is highly appreciated, addressing all the requests and thinking in options.

Cons:

I find the semantic analysis still work in progress, especially in foreign languages than French.

Dirk L.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

Outstandig Design, making HR transformation simple

In the beginning our team was not convinced to change the classical HR processes to a new era. But in the end the success happend. So today we are facing a complete new culture with thanks to Zest.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We changed our org structure from classical hierarchical pyramid to democratic and people centrics. No longer yearly appraisals or top-down-goals. Everything is now basis von employee engagement and continuous listenings. Zest made this transformation happen! Zest can integrate to Slack! Very nice!

Cons:

After updating the App is loosing credentials, so I have to login manually after certain times (several weeks, not daily). But integration with SSO would help in future.

Reasons for choosing Zest

UI and UX are very clear and user-friendly. Also very good role-based structure and intelligent functions like smart-org and smart-groups. NPS to compare different companies, branch-based.

Guillaume B.

Verified reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

Great tool for measuring Employee Experience

We use Bloomin to create a dashboard to follow the efficiency of our on site training

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very nice user experience, easy to set up and to train someone to use this tool. Teams really like the tool, uses cases can be very various and Bloomin will answer to most of your needs to measure your employee experience. Customer Service is a big plus

Cons:

Like every start up, it's not always easy to implement such a tool in a big bank, you will probably face several challenges (IT, compliance, legal) to solve.

Reasons for choosing Zest

Great customer support