--- title: Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews meta\_title: 'Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 214 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Brightidea Innovation Management works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 214 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Brightidea Innovation Management but has limited features. Are you part of the Brightidea Innovation Management team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/brightidea-innovation-management/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! With over 2 million users world wide and $15+ billion in recorded business impact, Brightidea is ranked as the #1 Idea Management Platform globally and is the market leader in innovation management and Hackathon software and services. Here at Brightidea, we believe that innovation is too important to be left to chance, and that every individual deserves an opportunity to have their voice heard. Our focus is not only giving organizations the ability to readily crowdsource ideas and build on strategic plans, but also back every idea with complex data points to help you track, manage, and prioritize ideas to ensure the best ideas always win. We are designed to fit any size, scale, or level of maturity when it comes to idea or innovation management. Brightidea helps you harness the power of ideas to help you foster a culture of innovation within the company. Most recently, we've added the Whiteboard. Brightidea Whiteboard gives your team a place to brainstorm in your own infinite space via a browser. Create stickies for new ideas, upload images, draw with dynamic pen and marker tools, emote with rich reactions, leverage smart tools like timers to keep your meetings on track, and utilize all of your favorite idea and innovation management templates. Wherever you're at in your innovation journey, our platform & people will help you get to the next level. * * * Seller [Brightidea](https://www.g2.com/sellers/brightidea) Discussions [Brightidea Innovation Management Community](https://www.g2.com/products/brightidea-innovation-management/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Omari Starks Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 24 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/brightidea-innovation-management/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Ideanote](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ideanote") Ideanote 4.7/5(286) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ideanote/reviews) [ ![Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software") Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software 4.5/5(43) ](https://www.g2.com/products/qmarkets-impact-driven-innovation-software/reviews) [ ![Aha!](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aha!") 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Their hackathon template / product seems to be well thought out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Brightidea's use beyond simple idea submission and very simple judging and tracking is quite limited. Bringing in a casual user to the platform as a reviewer or one off initiative pipeline manager is extremely difficult because of how unintuitive the system is. It appears from the outside that the system has quite a lot of technical debt from development over the years. Built in system metrics are quite limited, not very customizable, and often the selectors act up. If you would like to export data from the platform to build your own dashboard, you will have the joy of contenting with 3-4 different excel exports to get your data and then piece it back together into one cohesive story. For a non experienced user - it is very hard to get familiar with the platform quickly and spun up on tasks. Completing action items often leads you through 4-5 different screens and the process ends up being rather disorienting. This often lead to my initiative sponsors trying to use the brightidea platform, but ultimately asking for their submissions in an export to review and act on outside the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? They make it relatively easy to set up pipelines for idea submissions, which is handy. If we just made an internal form, it wouldn't guide us through the process of idea selection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/24/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Abhishek .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhishek .") A Abhishek . Senior Lead - Innovation Strategy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/30/2025 "One tool for idea management" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Easy to learn, implement and mange. Some features like the Business impact tab, merge ideas, link ideas really add value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The UI/UX is something that is not at par with the modern day applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Idea collation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Edward C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Edward C.") EC Edward C. UX Design Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/16/2025 "Robust innovation/idea management tool with outstanding customer support" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? The ease of low/no-code creation of new initiatives on the platform with very robust automation capabilities as well as great customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Cost per license limits our team's ability to scale as effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? A user-friendly platform for idea/innovation submission and lifecycle tracking. Brightidea is far superior to the other tools that would otherwise be used in our legacy system catalog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Semiconductors](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Semiconductors") AS Verified User in Semiconductors Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/10/2025 "BirghtIdea helped me in handling project requests from other teams" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? The best thing about BrightIdea is the ease of integration with other tools that we are using. It is easy to use and implement it in our processes. The app provides us with a good interface for customer support. Even if the requests come in at a small rate, the longevity of the execution means that ideas remain in the pipeline for long periods of time and we end up using the app often, to provide updates to the requester. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Jira Server integration was not available a while ago, but I understand this feature is in the works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? BirghtIdea helps us intake project requests from people outside of our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Abhimanyu S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhimanyu S.") AS Abhimanyu S. Vice President - Innovation Office Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/11/2024 "Look no further in your search for an Innovation Platform" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Brightidea is very easy to use. The user interface is free of clutter, predictive and visually appealing. The tool offers a number fo great features that other software we were trying to retrofit cannot compete with. Yoou can ealisy build landing pages for initiatives, create multiple workflow, assign scorecards to evaluate and judge ideas and set custom notifications and alerts. The support team has been awesome and they helped us through every step of the implementation cycle, understanding oour requirements, configuring each module, creating training documentation and being on top of our wish list. We've seen impressive adoption all thanks to how easy it is to manage ideas on Brightidea. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Lack of a good mobile app. Some pages and templates could be more customizable since each company looks at Innovation from a different lense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Brightidea is our centralized Innovation platform. It has allowed us to track innovation ideas across the firm all in one place. We can identify duplicate ideas, run reports on areas with the highest interest and benefits. Host multiple hackathon like events on Brightidea. Create complex workflows to manage ideas and run them through a framework to becoming commercial opportunities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic JB Juan B. Innovation advisor Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/6/2025 "Kal Tire Experience Brightidea" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Brightidea has been the solution for the management of innovation ideas within our organization. It is a very intuitive and easy to use software, and the support provided by the company is fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The instructions with rules are sometimes a bit confusing, and therefore sometimes fail. The output reports could be more customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? In the old days, ideas and all their information were managed with an excel spreadsheet and in windows folders. Today it is all in one place and easily accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") AH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/15/2025 "Top Notch Customer Service" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? I have to say the support staff at Bright Idea are incredible. Both in terms of their knowledge and willingness to take the time out of their day to help problem solve and trouble shoot. If you are new to innovation they are great for helping you get started and build up your program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Workload to set up is pretty intensive but that would be the case for any platform like this and again, the customer support in getting it built is exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? WE have used bright idea to help farm innovative ideas. We have a handful of projects that we have implemented coming out of bright idea. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Lee C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lee C.") LC Lee C. Innovation Leader - East Coast Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/19/2024 "Great Software for Organizing All your Ideas" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? I like the use of webstorms and the abilty to link ideas from one webstorm to the next. I also really liek the parent/child relationship you can create between ideas. Often times we end up with similar ideas and the ability to link them together eliminates the muddiness of the infomation being scatterede between many similar ideas. The setup and manipulation fo the worflows is easy and has an easy learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The biggest fault with Bright Idea is the lack of a mobile application that is functional and easy to use. They have an app for at least iOS, but it is buggy and zero improvements hve been made on it in the last 3 years. It has objectivly gotten worse, not better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? We review and house many many solutions that vendors bring to us. Without this software we would have an impossible task in front of us. We are saving innumerable hours by having a repository of solutions at our finger tips that we can organize, sort and prioritize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Construction](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Construction") AC Verified User in Construction Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/29/2019 "Brightidea Platform - Our one-stop shop for sharing ideas" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? The ability to customize the different interfaces for our different focus areas has been incredibly helpful in organizing ideas across the company. As we pivoted in our management strategy of ideas (targeting challenges, solutions, and pilots), BrightIdea allowed us to get creative and develop environments for these three areas separately. While the information is kept separate in these individual environments, it's easy to link ideas together to show the progression of an idea from stage to stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? We are still working through how to work with our craft users who don't have emails and can register/log-in. In order for this to truly be a one-stop-shop for all ideas at DPR, we'd like for our craft and trade partners to be able to submit, access, and comment on ideas ... while still having the ability to limit what they can and cannot access when in the site. This has proven more difficult than we realized, however we have worked through a process to allow this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Creating a single source of truth for all of the ideas in the company. Sharing of lessons learned/pilot history/etc. is crucial in a company as large (or larger) as ours - Brightidea has helped with idea awareness by providing a single spot where everyone can go to see the latest information on solutions we've tried or are currently testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/7/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller LL Lucas L. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/2/2024 "An exceptional tool that effectively facilitates the management of a culture of innovation" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Brightidea boasts several key functionalities that help automate innovation workflows. Its user-focused design and extreme flexibility make it an ideal choice for organizations looking to foster creativity and progress. Despite the ability to build complex processes within the tool, it remains relatively easy to use and understand from an administrative perspective, making it a powerful and accessible solution for innovation management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? I wish there was a simpler way to import and manage roles within the tool. Additionally, stronger integration with Teams would be a welcome improvement, as it could significantly boost the effectiveness of campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps us facilitate, track, and manage a variety of innovation use cases, including crowdsourced campaigns focused on problem-solving and business improvements, and ongoing idea submissions that can be organized departmentally or by business units. Brightidea helps us better manage and prioritize ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about Brightidea Innovation Management? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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