Kudos® vs 15Five
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kudos®
This platform facilitates employee recognition and strengthens corporate culture through peer-to-peer acknowledgments and flexible rewards. It aims to boost morale, engagement, and teamwork with features for giving recognition, sending feedback, and sharing updates.
- Peer-to-peer recognition
- Private feedback
- Flexible rewards
- Company values alignment
- Point redemption for rewards
- Share announcements and photos
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Recognition matters! And now it’s easier than ever to say “thank you.” Kudos® is an employee recognition and culture platform that engages employees and aligns teams for a strong connection to your corporate culture. With peer-to-peer recognition, flexible rewards and tons of great features, Kudos is the fun and effective solution for boosting morale, employee engagement, teamwork and ROI! The iOS app allows you to: - Give meaningful recognition on the go - Send and receive private feedback - Communicate with your peers - View your KQ and company values - Redeem points for rewards - Share announcements, updates, photos and more! *A Kudos account is required to use this app. Thank Different®.
15Five
This platform facilitates weekly employee check-ins, enabling managers to gain insights into team progress and for employees to receive constructive feedback. It fosters meaningful conversations about role improvement and innovation, accessible from anywhere via its iOS app.
- Weekly employee check-ins
- Goal setting and accomplishment tracking
- Manager feedback and comments
- Team member @mentions
- Flagging responses for follow-up
- Top-down visibility of progress
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Want to improve employee engagement and performance? Looking for a way to inform meetings and employee evaluations? 15Five is the leading employee communication platform for managers to gain insights into employee progress, and for employees to receive the feedback they need to succeed. This brief, automated weekly process leads to meaningful conversations about everything from how to improve an employee’s role, to the creation of brilliant product innovations. With our new iOS app, have the most important conversations with your team or manager from anywhere! Here’s how it works: Once a week, employees answer several questions about their accomplishments from the previous week and provide other details about their progress. Managers can even pass-up answers to directors and executives, providing top to bottom visibility around triumphs, challenges, and great ideas. Our new iOS app allows you to enjoy the same great features as the web version: Goals & Accomplishments - Employees enter their goals for the upcoming week. Next week they check off the goals that they accomplished, while the ones that they missed are automatically marked with an x. Employees can add additional accomplishments at the bottom that were not contemplated the week before. Managers get a sense of progress at a glance. Comments - Employee feedback is a two-way process. Managers can comment on answers directly in the app, spawning important conversations about everything from increasing revenue to improving company wide processes. @mentions - Responses to questions often involve more than one team member. Just @mention orther stake-holders to loop them in to the conversation and make decisions that much faster. Flag for follow-up - Don’t let important responses fall through the cracks. With this handy feature, you can come back later to provide an employee with support, realign someone around their goals, or talk through an innovative idea. The 15Five app is perfect for remote teams to check-in every week, and for on-the-go managers and executives to know the pulse of their company from anywhere at any time. To use the app, you must already be a customer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 15Five at 4.7 against Kudos®'s 3.2. 15Five also leads on ratings volume (6.6K vs 11). Kudos®'s advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
15Five holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 15Five has 6.6K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Kudos®'s written reviews are positive against 57% of 15Five's.
Kudos® ships an update every 3 weeks, 15Five every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kudos® | 15Five |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (11 ratings) | 4.7 (6.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 56.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 6.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kudos | 15Five Inc |
Customer experience
Kudos®
15Five
Bugs and requests
Kudos®
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
15Five
Reported bugs
5 issues- Keyboard issues and text input problems
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Lost data and progress when switching between screens
- Inconsistent behavior when submitting reports late
- Login issues and SSO problems
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to edit and delete high fives
- Better integration between 1:1s and check-ins
- Improved notification controls
- Support for iPad and landscape mode
- Seamless offline functionality
In-app purchases
Kudos®
No in-app purchases
15Five
No in-app purchases









