Achievers vs Firstup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Achievers
This app empowers users to recognize colleagues for their achievements. It facilitates easy engagement and alignment through a simple interface, allowing for recognition anytime, anywhere.
- Employee recognition
- Colleague engagement
- Workplace alignment
- Anytime, anywhere recognition
- Touchscreen interface
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The Achievers app puts the power of recognition in your hands. Achieving great things is a challenge—recognizing someone for it is easy. Engage, align, and recognize with colleagues with the touch of a screen, anytime, anywhere.
Firstup
This app connects employees with essential company information, fostering engagement and improving communication. It provides a centralized hub for news, updates, and resources, ensuring everyone stays informed and connected.
- Official source for workforce communications
- Push notifications for news and tasks
- Upload and share videos, photos, documents
- Personalized user experience
- Save and find important information
- Comment and share content
- Connect company employees
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Firstup is a workforce communications app that helps companies reach employees with relevant, personalized information they need to do their best work. Firstup solves the problem of poor employee engagement by keeping all workers informed and connected. Employees have one place to find out what’s happening at work—no more searching through emails and intranets to get information. Companies have an easier, faster way to publish content and news and can measure how many employees engaged with their content. Why you’ll love Firstup: * An official source for all workforce communications—reach every worker with the information they need to know to do their best work. * Push notifications and reminders for breaking news or time-sensitive tasks * Ability to upload and share videos, photos, documents, or articles * Personalized user experience with profiles and the ability to choose channels to follow * A simple way to save and find important information with bookmarking and powerful search * The ability for users to comment and share * A powerful way to connect everyone at your company and create a better digital employee experience for all
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Achievers at 4.5 against Firstup's 3.7. Achievers also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 133). 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.
Achievers holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Achievers has 2.3K ratings behind it against 133, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 26% and 27% positive.
Achievers ships an update every 2 weeks, Firstup monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Achievers | Firstup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.3K ratings) — better | 3.7 (133 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.4% of reviews | 26.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 133 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Achievers Inc. | Firstup, Inc. |
Customer experience
Achievers
Firstup
Bugs and requests
Achievers
Reported bugs
4 issues- Session expiring immediately on startup
- Inability to log in or access core app features
- Catalog and shopping cart functionality not working
- Inconsistent behavior after updates
Requested features
4 requests- Face ID/Biometric login support
- Improved filtering and sorting options for rewards
- Ability to edit profile information
- Reliable sync across devices
Firstup
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Achievers
No in-app purchases
Firstup
No in-app purchases









