Best Innovation Software

Compare the Top Innovation Software as of June 2025

What is Innovation Software?

Innovation software is a type of technology which helps companies create and manage innovative projects. It facilitates the development of new ideas, enables collaboration between employees, and simplifies the process of launching new products or services into the market. Innovation software provides users with tools such as goal setting capabilities, automated workflows, project monitoring functionality, and analytics dashboards to help track progress. It can be used by small businesses or large corporations to drive their innovation strategies forward and keep up with customer demand. Compare and read user reviews of the best Innovation software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    HYPE Boards

    HYPE Boards

    HYPE Innovation

    HYPE Boards is an agile innovation tool designed to decentralize and accelerate innovation across your organization. Built for agility and intuitive use, HYPE Boards empowers teams to innovate at the speed of change. Our platform streamlines idea collection, automates workflows, and supports the validation of hypotheses, all within one user-friendly interface. Whether you're hosting brainstorming sessions, running workshops, working on incremental improvements or want to iterate on your next big idea by testing assumptions, HYPE Boards equips your team to drive innovation faster and more effectively. HYPE Boards shines in its ability to support bottom-up innovation, making it perfect for organizations eager to speed up their innovation processes. HYPE Boards breaks down silos and creates a dynamic, transparent environment where every team member can contribute to meaningful innovation, no matter their role or location, shaping a true culture of innovation.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Aha!

    Aha!

    Aha! Labs

    Aha! is the world's #1 product development software. We help more than 1 million product builders go from discovery to delivery and bring their strategy to life. Our suite of tools includes Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Discovery, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Whiteboards, Aha! Knowledge, Aha! Teamwork, and Aha! Develop. Aha! Roadmaps Set plans based on strategy, resources, and what customers value most. Aha! Discovery Jump-start customer interviews and discover key product insights. Aha! Ideas Engage with customers more deeply to better understand what they will pay for. Aha! Whiteboards Product teams deserve a whiteboarding tool that is tailored to their needs. Aha! Knowledge Centralize product information so that internal teams and customers can easily access the resources they need. Aha! Teamwork Manage projects your way while staying aligned with key objectives. Aha! Develop Connect to the roadmap, optimize your workload, and streamline development workflows.
    Starting Price: $59 per user per month
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    Ideanote

    Ideanote

    Ideanote

    #1 Idea- and Innovation Management Platform. Collect, develop, and implement the greatest ideas from workers and customers. Ideanote leads to more successful innovation, business success, engaged workers, and happy customers. Instantly create idea collections, manage ideas better, and track innovation impact. Businesses of all sizes - from Roche to Pleo - trust Ideanote to accelerate their innovation. COLLECT IDEAS. Launch goal-driven idea collections where you solve challenges together. ENGAGE PEOPLE. With Ideanote, you can be where your people are and make innovation simple and engaging or everyone. MANAGE IDEAS. Prioritize incoming ideas and take the best to action faster with a fully stacked end-to-end idea management suite. top innovators, track your impact, and easily communicate your innovation success with a platform that tracks your performance from day one. AUTOMATE INNOVATION. Seamlessly automate your innovation with 100+ integrations and custom workflows.
    Starting Price: Free Plan Available
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    DirectSuggest

    DirectSuggest

    DirectSuggest

    DirectSuggest's award-winning employee suggestion box app streamlines the employee feedback process so employees can be easily heard and their company can effectively leverage their collective knowledge. We make it simple for employees to make suggestions on any device surrounding company created categories with the assurance they automatically arrive to the proper decision-maker. Every employee can also collaborate on suggestions via voting and commenting to enhance the quality of ideas. DirectSuggest only costs $0.50 per employee per month, and we have incredibly high ROI/Savings potential with an average 33X return on investment. The implementation process is also quite easy, and normally upon being committed and properly prepared to do so, setting up DirectSuggest from start to finish can be completed in as quickly as a week or less.
    Starting Price: $0.50 per employee per month
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    Sideways 6

    Sideways 6

    Sideways 6

    Drive business success through employee ideas with Sideways 6, the revolutionary idea management software native to Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, Interact and Workplace by Meta. Running ideas programs at scale can be difficult to execute with impact. Our solution makes it easy for companies to gather and organize employee ideas ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. Our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (£12m saved and 101k hours saved by Balfour Beatty in 2022 alone), productivity (Nestle ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase in employee engagement at DXC). Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, British Airways, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach.
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    ITONICS

    ITONICS

    ITONICS

    ITONICS is the leading operating system to drive innovation from strategy to execution and generate predictable results at scale. Unlike traditional innovation management software, the ITONICS Innovation OS connects foresight and ideation activities to your strategic goals and portfolio execution in an all-in-one solution. Trusted by more than 500 companies worldwide, ITONICS is the only innovation management software in the world to be recognized by Gartner in 4 different innovation categories in their 2024 Hype Cycle for Innovation Practices. With more than 150 employees worldwide, we support innovation leaders such as adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, Mondelez, Siemens and KPMG.
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    Planbox

    Planbox

    Planbox

    Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. Planbox is recognized by Forrester as the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, having received the highest score in strategy and current offering in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1, 2020. As the most robust and scalable platform on the market, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate and capitalize on the best strategically aligned concepts with their ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, startups, academia, government and the general public to pursue breakthrough innovations, create a sustainable continuous improvement program, build a framework for corporate venturing and action on consumer insights.
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    KICKBOX

    KICKBOX

    rready

    The KICKBOX Intrapreneurship Program is an employee-driven innovation program based on a methodology used by over 1'000 successful companies, including Adobe and 3M. The program works bottom-up by tapping into the collective knowledge of your employees and supports them to transform raw ideas into actionable solutions. Get started with a combination of a scalable online platform, a proven methodology, and access to professional services and strategic support. This will make innovation within your company measurable and transparent while engaging with your employees and educating them using gamified elements.
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