# Motivosity review (2026): is it worth it? > Employee recognition and rewards platform with a social feed Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Motivosity is an employee recognition platform built around a social feed, peer-to-peer thanks, milestone celebrations, nominations and spot bonuses. Employees redeem recognition for items from a global rewards marketplace. It also has pulse surveys, reporting, and iOS and Android apps. Pricing is quoted per company. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Motivosity - **Website:** https://www.motivosity.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a published price, since the page says pricing is 100% custom. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Motivosity's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Social recognition feed:** Peer-to-peer and manager-to-employee thanks appear in a company feed with profiles, an org chart and announcements. - **Milestone celebrations:** Service anniversaries, birthdays and onboarding moments are triggered automatically from HRIS data. - **Spot bonuses and nominations:** Managers can fund spot bonus pools with approvals, and companies can run nomination-based awards. - **Rewards marketplace:** Employees redeem recognition for gift cards and Amazon items, with a ThanksMatters Visa card and swag store as options. - **Pulse surveys and reporting:** eNPS-style pulse surveys and dashboards covering retention, adoption and spend. - **Chat and HRIS integrations:** Recognition can be given in Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Chat; HRIS data and single sign-on are synced. ## Good for - Companies with 75 or more employees that want a recognition budget tied to rewards - Distributed teams that give thanks inside Slack, Teams or Google Chat - HR teams that want service awards and birthdays automated ## Worth knowing - No prices are published: the pricing page says pricing is 100% custom and sends buyers to a quote form. - The vendor shows a $3,000 minimum spend on its small-business bundle (companies under 250 employees). - The pricing page shows three bundles (Celebrating People, Building Culture, Scaling Globally) with no figures. - The ThanksMatters Visa card and no service fees on gifts are listed from the Building Culture bundle up. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Motivosity is a recognition and rewards platform with a social feed, web plus iPhone and Android apps. Its pricing page says pricing is fully custom and sends you to a quote form, and small companies are shown a $3,000 minimum. Some perks, like the ThanksMatters Visa card, start only on the higher bundles. - **Value for money: C.** The pricing page shows three bundles and no figures, and a $3,000 minimum for companies under 250 people. That's a floor of roughly $12 a head at 250 staff, but the real price is a quote, so C. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial is listed. You start with a demo request. - **Features: B.** Recognition, rewards, a social feed and bundles up to a global program. The listing names no gap in the core job. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you'd set it up with your own people data first, so it's an ordinary C. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with six listed integrations. No desktop app, so no A. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Motivosity's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Motivosity's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 56 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 15. - It stands best on features (B, above 73 of 101) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Motivosity you could make: surveys and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 6 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. - You could make: Surveys and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Chat among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.8 out of 5 from 6,580 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id958642059 ## Works with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Okta, ADFS, Google Workspace **Tags:** Surveys, Reports, Dashboards, AI features ## Alternatives - [Bonusly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bonusly): Peer-to-peer employee recognition and rewards. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bonusly-vs-motivosity) - [Workhuman](https://toolgpa.com/tools/workhuman): Social recognition and rewards platform for large employers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/motivosity-vs-workhuman) - [Awardco](https://toolgpa.com/tools/awardco): Employee recognition, rewards and survey platform sold by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/awardco-vs-motivosity) - [Vantage Circle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vantage-circle): Employee recognition, rewards, wellness and survey platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/motivosity-vs-vantage-circle) - [Kudos](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kudos): Employee recognition and rewards platform from Calgary. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kudos-vs-motivosity) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://motivosity.com/pricing - https://motivosity.com/integrations - https://motivosity.com/mobile-app Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/motivosity Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).