Great Work™ vs Sutter Focused Recognition
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Great Work™
This app facilitates on-the-go employee recognition by syncing with your organization's performance program. Users can send eCards, submit and approve nominations, and order awards, making workplace appreciation quick and accessible.
- Send eCards
- Submit nominations
- Approve/decline nominations
- Complete presentations
- Order awards
- Sync with performance program
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The Great Work app from O.C. Tanner makes recognition easy when you are on-the-go. Simply sync the app to your organization's performance program to get started. The app will allow users to give eCards, submit nominations, approve or decline nominations, complete presentations, and order an award among other things. And don’t worry, once the app is synced, all of your unique program configurations are applied ensuring that recognizing from the app is just as seamless and easy as it is online. The secure Great work app makes recognition quick, fun, and best of all, accessible from anywhere. Please note, to use the Great Work app, you must be a participant in your company’s recognition program.
Sutter Focused Recognition
Recognize Sutter Health team members for embodying cultural beliefs and achieving key results. This app allows employees and physician partners to send virtual recognition to coworkers, reinforcing the organization's mission and vision.
- Virtual recognition cards
- Recognize cultural beliefs
- Reinforce mission and vision
- Employee and physician partner use
- Sutter Health email required
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Virtual Focused Recognition Cards are used to recognize Sutter Health team members who model our Cultural Beliefs, live our values and help achieve our Key Results. Through this mobile app, employees and physician partners can recognize co-workers virtually to help reinforce the mission and vision of Sutter Health. Any Sutter Health employee or Physician that has an associated Sutter Health email address can use this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Great Work™ at 4.6 against Sutter Focused Recognition's 3.5. Great Work™ also leads on ratings volume (3K vs 8) and review sentiment (17% vs 0%). Sutter Focused Recognition's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Great Work™ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Great Work™ has 3K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Great Work™'s written reviews are positive against 0% of Sutter Focused Recognition's.
Great Work™ ships an update every 5 weeks, Sutter Focused Recognition every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Great Work™ | Sutter Focused Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3K ratings) — better | 3.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | O.C. Tanner Company | Sutter Health |
Customer experience
Great Work™
Sutter Focused Recognition
Bugs and requests
Great Work™
Reported bugs
4 issues- Constant need to update app
- Inability to change shipping address
- Notifications not clearing
- Inconsistent app behavior across devices
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to adjust point levels for approvals
- Option to filter by bookmarked items
- Multilingual support
- Integration with other recognition programs
- Order tracking and history
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- Advanced search and filtering
Sutter Focused Recognition
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Great Work™
No in-app purchases
Sutter Focused Recognition
No in-app purchases
Questions
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