--- title: Submittable Reviews meta_title: 'Submittable Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 168 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Submittable works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 168 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Vertical Industry url: https://www.g2.com/categories/vertical-industry --- # Submittable Reviews **Vendor:** Submittable **Category:** [Grant Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/grant-management) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 168 ## About Submittable Submittable powers you with tools to launch, manage, measure and grow your grant, giving and volunteering programs, locally and globally. From grants and CSR to awards and scholarship programs, we partner with you so you can start making a difference, fast. The start-to-finish platform makes your workflow smarter and more efficient, leading to better decisions and bigger impact. Easily report on success, distribute funds, prevent fraud and learn for the future—Submittable is flexible and powerful enough to grow alongside your programs. Submittable is used by more than 11 thousand organizations, from major foundations and corporations to governments, higher education, and more, and has accepted over 25 million applications to date, and distributed billions in funding on behalf of customers. ## Submittable Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** of Submittable, enjoying a clear and intuitive submission process for all parties. (9 reviews) - Users appreciate the **user-friendly experience** of Submittable, benefiting from its intuitive design and seamless project management. (5 reviews) - Users commend the **excellent reporting tools** in Submittable, enhancing decision-making and project tracking efficiency. (4 reviews) - Users commend the **responsive and supportive customer support** of Submittable, enhancing their overall experience and efficiency. (3 reviews) - Users love the **customization features** of Submittable, enhancing user experience for applicants, reviewers, and administrators. (3 reviews) - Users love the **ease of setup** with Submittable, finding it simple and intuitive for integration and use. (3 reviews) - Flexibility (2 reviews) - Organization (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of team collaboration** with Submittable, simplifying workflow management and enhancing training efficiency. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive user interface** of Submittable, making submission management simple and efficient for everyone. (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **limited functionality** with Submittable, seeking better notifications and enhanced reporting tools for efficiency. (5 reviews) - Users find the **pricing steep** for Submittable, making it challenging for small nonprofits to afford. (2 reviews) - Users desire more **integrations with other platforms** to enhance functionality while using affordable older plans. (1 reviews) ## Submittable Reviews ### 1. Wizehire application manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Submittable?** The fact that they offer a customized application online and I can build my own application forms and follow up. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** They have to improve on their features such as the calender and cascading form and also logining for applicant every year **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to manage my scholarship and grant application and create reports ### 2. The best way to keep a finger on the pulse for your writing submissions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kendra S. | Assoc. Director and Writer - Communications/Marketing, Primary/Secondary Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Submittable?** I am more likely to submit to a publication if it uses submittable. It streamlines the submission process and shows the status of one's submission. It is also a great recordkeeper of past submissions and to gauge trends in where one's work is likely to be accepted. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** Aesthetically, it's nothing special. I also wish that publications were required to provide a response when they pass on work, versus just pushing the work to "complete." **Recommendations to others considering Submittable:** If you are a publication, this will certainly attract a more diverse pool of writers to submit for your publications. As a freelance writer, you cannot afford not to be using submittable to track your publication submissions. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a freelancer, it cuts my recordkeeping in half. I don't need to maintain clumsy spreadsheets with the names of the editor and the date of submission. Submittable keeps it all for me. I've also been introduced to new publications via Submittable and I'm very grateful for that. ### 3. Well organized simple platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel G. | Project Manager, Media Production, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** We switched to using Submittable from a simple Dropbox link sent to our contributors and now there's no more follow up emails of "you forgot to include...". We simply set it up so everything we request is answered in their submission. It is a great platform that anyone (even those who aren't tech-savvy) can figure out, administrators and users alike. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** I only with there were a way to "rank" submissions, not just with tags (we predominantly use those for stages of edits and review). If we could perhaps star or heart each submission it would allow us to communicate as an administrative team which submissions or writers we are most impressed with, or are most likely to use in future. **Recommendations to others considering Submittable:** Submittable's ease of use and simplicity make it a great platform for any organization or company receiving submissions from contributors or business partners. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** All of our submissions from contributors across the world all come to one place. Its more streamlined and easy for them to jump in, versus the dozens of emails were we having to send to get contributors set up and followed through after submission on a different platform. ### 4. Streamlines our Grant Management Process **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura A. | Assessment Lead, Physician Performance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** WizeHive is responsive to our requests and has built an online portal that meets our needs for calls for proposals. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** It did take a significant amount of time to get set up and running. We moved from a manual, paper- and email-based process so staff, reviewers and applicants also needed time to get used to the new system. **Recommendations to others considering Submittable:** We found the WizeHive team to be responsive. We're happy with the portals they've developed for our small (but mighty) organization. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our call for proposal process is more efficient and works better for our reviewers and staff. Now that we have an online system, grant recipients will not have to fill out the same sections on more than one form. We will save a lot of time and effort in our reporting period! ### 5. Excellent Mulit-Use Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Submittable?** The ability to utilize multiple workspaces for different uses (grant processing, event registration, CRM, etc.) **What do you dislike about Submittable?** I would like the mobile integration to be a bit smoother. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** We’ve been able to organize, track, review and present findings on our grants in a much more efficient manner. It has also been much easier for the grant committee to review these as well. ### 6. Great for literary magazines **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kendall D. | Professor of English, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** Managing multiple genres is intuitive and easy. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** The only thing that I've seen to improve would be reporting of items sold on a form. It's great to be able to add extra items, but complicated forms can be hard to read. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Submissions of several genres for a literary magazine with a small staff. Submittable helps us read and track submissions across genres and issues. It also makes the submission process easy for our writers. Submittable has helped our new magazine get noticed, especially on social media and through the Submishmash newsletter. We also use Submittable for subscriptions and single-copy sales. Charging a small fee for submissions allows us unlimited submissions and helps generate some income to publish the journal, while not charging writers more than postage. ### 7. Terrific tool at an affordable price! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Allison J. | Director of Product Marketing, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** I appreciate that Submittable was easy to learn and set up was a breeze. I could easily share access with others in my organization, enhancing collaboration. Using this tool saved us a ton of time compared the old way - collecting content via email. Customer support was personal and effective too. Totally worth it! **What do you dislike about Submittable?** I liked everything about our Submittable experience. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problem we were solving was user-generated content management for internal marketing campaigns. We collected hundreds of assets over a short period of time AND needed a team to review and rank the assets. Submittable worked beautifully for this. ### 8. Indispensable application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** I never forget to respond to a submission, and they're all in one place. There are also many ways to structure the decision-making process. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** I wish it was easier to explain the process to my editors and judges, and I wish we could have a larger team--when we hold contests I need to remove my regular editors to get the judges in, and it's almost more trouble than its worth. **Recommendations to others considering Submittable:** It is a really helpful program, and worth the additional expense. If you're trying to simplify the editorial process, certainly consider this program--though it's easier with a stable editorial team. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** I never forget to respond to a submission, and they're all in one place. There are also many ways to structure the decision-making process, which allows us a ton of options. ### 9. Easy to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin S. | Editor in Chief / Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** We use Submittable for all of our submissions from contributors all around the world and it organizes them nicely for us to review. It also allows our editors to access submissions from any place they have an internet connection. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** The only problem I have with Submittable is that I am unable to review submissions from the app for the phone. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been using Submittable for almost a year now and it has allowed us to grow our audience as well keep track of submissions for the literary journal. ### 10. Great for Submission! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nghi N. | Web and Multimedia Instructional Specialist, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** Very easy to use. You don't have to be a professional to create forms with Submittable. If you know how to crate form through drag and drop then submittable is perfect. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** Downloading application process is a bit tedious. Only the file uploads can be downloaded. The application itself needs to be able to be saved as DOCX or PDF. At the moment, I have to manually copy and paste the application into Word. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can easily create forms and have people submit and upload files into submittable. ### 11. helps me keep organized with incoming pitches **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy L. | Associate Editor, Publishing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** the ease of use in managing pitches and sharing feedback with the rest of my team **What do you dislike about Submittable?** the UI for the rest of the functions gets buried and confusing. it took me a while to figure out how to find the right page to edit our site's overall guidelines/profile. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** its a central place for team members to view pitches on a web-based platform. ### 12. Software developer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Submittable?** The user interface and the usability of interface **What do you dislike about Submittable?** Pricing and the learning curve for new users **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** To develop products ### 13. Business Pitch Competitions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** Simple, easy to manage for applications and reviewers. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** for additional options (such as branching) was not clear and I had to call tech support. Cloning questions would be a nice feature for items that have branching, etc. **Recommendations to others considering Submittable:** The price is great and you can downgrade and upgrade per month, based off of users. So months that you know won't have much activity, you pay nothing but the site is still open to use. Other systems were on an annual basis and you had to pay a base rate. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** We hold competitions where we need applications and reviewing capabilities. I have used many other systems and Submittable is the easiest to navigate. ### 14. Submittable, great submission platform. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Museums and Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** Submittable has a great customizable form so you can tailor it to your organization's needs. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** So far submittable has met all of our needs to accept exhibition proposals. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can easily take in large numbers of submissions and assign them to different users to evaluate. ### 15. Submittable is easy and convenient to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lizzy L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** The ability for our trainers to apply online **What do you dislike about Submittable?** The reference email requests doesn't always work, that is what our trainers have the hardest time with **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick application submissions from our trainers, vs. them mailing them in ### 16. Easy to use and able to use across a lot of organizations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** I liked that it was flexible in allowing to answer the questions. **What do you dislike about Submittable?** The fact that more than one person could not work on the grant at the same time. **Recommendations to others considering Submittable:** It levels the playing field to allow all potential grantees ability to display their grants in a uniform fashion. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to reach a lot of different organizations to utilize for the grant process. Makes all proposals the same so that scoring is more objective. ### 17. Submittable review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2017 **What do you like best about Submittable?** The user interface (for submitters); the ability to sort and respond to submissions in bulk **What do you dislike about Submittable?** I wish that accepting/declining individual submissions and switching between them was a little bit quicker. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of submissions to sort through, a minority of which are up to our (stated) standards for proposals. But Submittable has yielded some quality and helpful submissions, which has made the experience worthwhile. ### 18. Multiple dashboards make things go **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gunner S. | Director of Programs, Philanthropy, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Submittable?** We use wizehive for our very complicated scholarship program, over 50 different criterias and wizehive has made out process much more efficient with automatic sorting, multiple review options, and easy to use interface that we can update text when we need to. Support staff are the best! **What do you dislike about Submittable?** There are few clunky things about it, but WizeHive staff are open to looking for solutions, short term and long term **Recommendations to others considering Submittable:** Talk with other customers that use it for similar programs. **What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been able to reduce our turnaround time on reviewing grants and other applications and can easily manage up to 200 users reviewing applications. 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