# Bonfyre Reviews **Vendor:** BonfyreApp **Category:** [Employee Engagement Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/employee-engagement) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About Bonfyre Bonfyre is the only "closed loop" employee engagement platform, helping customers like Duke Energy, Medtronic, and Adtalem drive engagement at enterprise scale and save 5-7 figures annually with lower software and rewards costs. Our platform brings together multiple engagement tools - Team Activities, Broadcasts, Surveys, Challenges, Recognition, Nominations, Rewards, and more - into the channels employees are already using everyday (Microsoft Teams, email, SMS, QR codes and our native Bonfyre App for Android/iOS). And with Culture Coach AI, we translate engagement survey data into directly measurable, suggested actions Managers can take in 2-3 clicks. Our award-winning Recognition solution is disrupting the industry. Our customers have seen a 2x increase in recognition activity and net cost savings of $35 pp/yr. Bonfyre's 800+ digital gift cards across 80 countries mean team members get immediate, full purchasing power without having to save up points. This also saves customers money on shipping costs and other fees (typically 15% of rewards spend). ## Bonfyre Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **excellent customer support** from Bonfyre, enhancing implementation and user experience during rollouts. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of employee engagement** Bonfyre fosters, enhancing connection and collaboration across teams. (3 reviews) - Users value the **easy remote collaboration** Bonfyre offers, enhancing connections and company culture effortlessly. (3 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** of Bonfyre, seamlessly integrating with Teams for better engagement and collaboration. (2 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive design** of Bonfyre, enhancing collaboration and engagement effortlessly within MS Teams. (2 reviews) - Access Convenience (1 reviews) - Appreciation Culture (1 reviews) - Collaboration (1 reviews) - Communication (1 reviews) - Convenience (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users wish for more formatting options, expressing a need for **enhanced post formatting** in Bonfyre. (1 reviews) - Users desire improved **formatting options** for posts, including features like bullet points and text styling. (1 reviews) - Users desire a **greater variety of emojis** for reactions, enhancing communication and user engagement on Bonfyre. (1 reviews) ## Bonfyre Reviews ### 1. Revived our Employee Engagement! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryana J. | Digital Content Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2025 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** I love the fact that Bonfyre is at our fingertips in Microsoft Teams, an app we use daily! **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** I dislike that we haven't had this sooner! **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since my company has gone almost completely virtual, our employees do not get to connect and network each day. Bonfyre engages them with each other daily. For us to have less of a turn-over of employees, they need to like where they work and like the people. Our employees feel more recognized and more part of a group. I believe this definitely helps us keep our employees. ### 2. Highly recommend Bonfyre to easily connect with employees! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Susie G. | Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2025 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** Bonfyre provides another avenue for our remote and local employees to connect, collaborate and recognize each other, which is key to maintaining our culture. And it's so easy to use - especially now that it is embedded in Teams for easy access. They also provide great ongoing customer support, which is unusual. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** I wish there were more ways to format posts such as bullets, bolding letters, etc. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bonfyre supports employee engagement with a remote and hybrid workforce. It is an easy way to us to share announcements, welcome new employees and recognize our team members when people are not in the office every day. ### 3. Engagement and gamification in training **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** César P. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** That works like any other mainstream social media platform that we're use to, but for your company, coworkers and proyects. Sol flexible that we're using it for learning and training purposes. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** I'd like it to have more emojis to react with. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** At GWP, we've been using it for around 5 years now to gammify our learning experiences (trainings and workshops) while delivering great engagement results to the HR departments. ### 4. Great engagement app ran by a capable and innovate team! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2025 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** The ease of use, it merged into our MS Teams flawlessly and provided new engagement opportunities for our company. The team we worked with listened to our needs and our wants and worked to make it happen! I am so excited to have worked with them during the roll out phase of Bonfyre, they made it fun and exciting. They have a continuous innovation mindset, always looking for ways to improve. The support from there team is exemplary. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** There were no downsides to Bonfyre based on my personal use and data needs. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall engagement and communication ### 5. Bonfyre Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** I absolutely love Bonfyre. My work uses this application as a way of communication with one another and it works great! It reminds me of Facebook in some ways as it has a wall, personal page, chat options, etc. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** I wish the app was a little easier to navigate. Sometimes the organization of the app doesn't make much sense, but other than that - it truly is a great application! **Recommendations to others considering Bonfyre:** This application can make communicating with others so easy! **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** As previously mentioned, I think the only problem I am solving would be the organization of the app. Benefits however are definitely how easy it is for me to now communicate with my coworkers from other locations so easily. ### 6. Meet employees where they are at to create conversation and connectivity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Becki F. | System Leader - Employee and Candidate Experience, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** I love that the app is mobile first and super easy for busy employees to participate and consume content. Everything about the platform (the layout, colors, buttons, and even the content that the client success team helps shape) is fun and doesn't "feel" like work. I also like that most of the configuration is in the hands of the admin and can be done from a mobile device. My favorite features would probably have to be the recognition badges and surveys. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** Just waiting for another form of authentication besides email since many of our employees don't access their email or don't have email...it's in development! **Recommendations to others considering Bonfyre:** It's all about engaging employees with content! If its not meaningful, then employees will not adopt or come back. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bonfyre is helping us move from communication to conversation in times of change, to create more transparency and improve relationships between senior leadership and employees, between departments, and even within departments. We are also solving the problem of communication not reaching all employees due to ineffective methods (email, huddles). Bonfyre allows us to reach all employees regardless of shift, location, schedule, etc. Employees can choose to actively participate or just be a fly on the wall consuming the content which has even led to these introverted employees joining the conversation eventually. ### 7. Just what we needed!! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** "Bonfyre” is a great social networking app that allows you to share your photos and videos, as well as group chat with what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with. It’s simply picture messaging that ties in with how you live your life: one moment at a time. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** My only gripe is with some of the aesthetics. I feel the news feed is hard to read and decipher who made each post and what text pertains to each post/photo. Its also not easy to go to the profile of the person who post a photo. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** The app works really well, and is great for sharing and planning events with my friends and family. I also love the ability to have private group conversations, and not have to worry about privacy and permissions with Facebook. Kudos to the app developers, this is a great addition to my iPhone! ### 8. Great event or social app **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessica Y. | Supervisor, Medical Devices, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** The Bonfyre app is great and the customer service is even better. We use the app for events and are able to display agendas, speaker information, surveys, notifications, etc. to the users **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** Not much. All feedback is taken pretty seriously at Bonfyre and they are already implementing some suggestions given. The one thing we are still looking for is the ability to pre-schedule push notifications. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increasing communication with our customers ### 9. Bonfyre Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jillian W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** Customer service is excellent - Justin Padinske is a HUGE help. Easy to use, looks updated. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** Adding agenda items one by one and the clock and calendar feature of the agenda **Recommendations to others considering Bonfyre:** Would 100% use. Their customer service is incredible and they work super fast. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** User friendly ### 10. Work safe and appropriate social media platform. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** a safe friendly way to engagement co-workers, without dealing with the toxicity that can come with facebook or twitter. the Bonyre team is amazing to work, results turned around within a day, constant follow-up, they really ensure our happiness and want this to work for us! **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** Not much. I wish I could post gifs or things along those lines. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee engagement is extremely high for us now. With typical endeavors, our engagement is 30-40% with Bonfyre we have engagement above 70%! ### 11. Easy to Use - Effective for Employee Engagement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** The app is easy to use and has so many useful functions. I keep stumbling across new tools I can use. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** Sometimes the app doesn't always show notifications, so if I don't actively check each of my groups, I might miss something. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee engagement and communication. We have several employees that do not have work email. This is a fast way to communicate information to them without individually calling all of our employees or relying on posters or word of mouth. We also use the app to recognize employees and share information about ourselves to make each other more approachable. ### 12. Fun and creative way to interact and communicate with your teams! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** It’s intuative, easy to administer and has great analytics to track usage, adoption and engagement. The team supporting the app is responsive, creative, agile, and willing to try new solutions to meet your needs. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** The notification/news feed seems backwards from other social platforms. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building internal networks and increasing communication with and among our team members, in a less formal way. ### 13. Experience with Bonfyre and its privileges **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** It's a great employee communication tool which leads to better engaging of the employees at work **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** Not for every form of industries, more associating to large companies/industries **Recommendations to others considering Bonfyre:** May be have a different working platform for small scale industries, somehow making them more engaging **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bonfyre is more of an employee communication, engagement and healthier work culture tool. it helps built better inter personal relationships. ### 14. AWESOME! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** support from the Bonfyre team is great - accurate and fast. They handle our last minute questions and asks without hesitation. they listen to the features we are interested in and work to incorporate them **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** would be great if there was an easier way to input agenda and the date/time **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** communication with meeting attendees ### 15. Great tool to help create a culture of community and connectiveness at work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** Bonfyre is very easy to use, has a great user experience, and excellent support staff **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** Some minor format updates to photos, etc would be nice to have **Recommendations to others considering Bonfyre:** Partner with their internal team to ideas to increase adoption **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating community and connectiveness for a remote and multi-located workforce ### 16. Easy & fun to gather a bunch of people **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristina B. | Human Resources Business Partner, Human Resources, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Bonfyre?** I like that you can post videos/pictures in there for everyone to see. You can use this for work purposes or for personal ones. It's a nice way to group together activities. **What do you dislike about Bonfyre?** Not much that I can think of. The interface could be better, its a little bland. **What problems is Bonfyre solving and how is that benefiting you?** Whenever we have team building outings/activities, its a way to sync everything and notify everyone involved of what we're doing, pictures, directions etc. ## Bonfyre Discussions - [What is Bonfyre used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bonfyre-used-for) - [View Bonfyre pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/bonfyre/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+15%3A07%3A03+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=491d0967-e257-4965-a7e8-29b333bcf303&secure%5Btoken%5D=54ab50275f5fa6abdc94f5bac01493fe4ad63b6f1d7ff947c21000ccc9493f9e&format=llm_user) ## Bonfyre Features **Information Distribution** - News Feed - Newsletter - Notifications - Email - Multi-Channel Sharing **Platform Basics** - Reporting - Dashboard - Performance **Survey Management** - Survey Builder - Question Types - Templates - Survey Distribution **Rewards & Incentives** - Reward Catalog - Customization - Bulk Ordering - Budget Management - Dashboard - Analytics & Reporting - User, Role, and Access Management - Integrations - Reward API **Core Features** - Reports - Gamification - Connection - Creative **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Rewards and Incentives** - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Platform Basics** - Performance Benchmarking - Reporting & Dashboards - Interoperability **Employee Engagement** - Employee Generated Content - Confirmation - Comments - Inline Translation - Administrative Access - Content Interaction - Surveys (global & local) - Chat **Platform Content** - Automation - File Sharing - Content Library **Survey Customization** - Branching/Skip Logic - Branding - Multimedia Support - Multilingual Surveys **Additional Features-** - Analytics - Virtual Office - Educational **Platform Content** - Employee Pulse Surveys - Survey Customization - Goal and Challenge Creation - Science-based templates **Platform Additional Functionality** - Integrations - Mobility - Corporate Discounts - Employee Engagement - Rewards **Survey Insights** - Reporting & Analytics - BI Tools Integration - Data Exporting - Permissions **Interoperability** - Images or Gifs - Integration - Recognition & Rewards **User Experience & Accessibility - Employee Communications** - Native Mobile Application - Branded Experience - Personalized Ux Experience - Audience Management & Creation **Platform Additional Functionality** - Employee Segmenting - Goal and Challenge Creation - Peer Recognition - Social Feedback Portal **Content Distribution - Employee Communications** - Newsfeed - Newsletter Engine - Multi-Channel Sharing **Agentic AI - Survey** - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Performance - Mobility - Reporting - Dashboards **Additional Features - Employee Communications** - Emergency Notifications - Analytics - Integrations **Agentic AI - Employee Communications** - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction ## Top Bonfyre Alternatives - [Kudos](https://www.g2.com/products/kudos/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (2,775 reviews) - [Reward Gateway Employee Experience Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/reward-gateway-employee-experience-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (2,759 reviews) - [Achievers](https://www.g2.com/products/achievers/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (9,009 reviews)