Comparisons
Who we get compared with, and who wins each row
Nobody believes a comparison where whoever wrote it wins all ten rows, and it drags the rest of the site down with it in exactly the meeting where the decision gets made. These carry the column for who wins, and in several of them it isn't us.
The comparisons at a glance
Each row counts how many criteria each side wins out of the total compared, and where the other tool is better. The figures for each competitor come from what they publish on their own website, and each one is dated inside its own page.
| Tool | Where from | Blastack wins | They win | Where they are better |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steeple | French internal communication company with years behind it and customers across Europe | 4 | 4 | The screen in the changing room |
| Beekeeper | Swiss platform built from the start for the deskless workforce | 5 | 5 | Everything that plugs in |
| Speakap | European internal communication platform built from the start for the deskless workforce | 5 | 5 | The app that makes a noise |
| Staffbase | German internal communication company | 4 | 4 | The app in the store |
| Workvivo | Workvivo started in Ireland and has belonged to Zoom since 2023 | 4 | 5 | The atmosphere |
| Connecteam | Israeli company making an all-in-one platform for the deskless workforce: shift rotas | 4 | 4 | One invoice for four problems |
| Blink | British company focused on the frontline workforce: nursing | 5 | 2 | The app |
| Sociabble | French company whose product started with employee advocacy: getting staff to share what the company publishes on LinkedIn and their own networks | 3 | 5 | The advocacy, if you genuinely need it |
| Simpplr | American company making a modern intranet | 4 | 3 | What the artificial intelligence does |
Of 97 criteria compared in all, Blastack wins 38 and loses 37. The rest are draws.
Blastack or Steeple
We both solve the same thing: reaching the people who never open their email. Steeple does it with screens on the shop floor, hands-on support and a quote made to measure; we do it with the phone people already carry and the price published on the website. Here it is row by row, including the ones we lose.
11 rows · 4 to Steeple · 4 to Blastack
Blastack or Beekeeper, which is now LumApps
Beekeeper is no longer sold on its own: since July 2025 it has been part of LumApps, and beekeeper.io now returns a permanent redirect to lumapps.com, its pricing page included. Existing customers keep their contract, price, login and support while the two products are brought together “in phases” over twelve to eighteen months, according to LumApps' own page. This comparison sets Blastack against what exists today, not against a two-year-old brochure.
11 rows · 5 to Beekeeper · 5 to Blastack
Blastack or Speakap
Speakap has spent years doing what we do — internal communication for a deskless workforce — and does several things better: an own-brand app, alerts on the phone, and machine translation. What we do is publish the price and not tie anyone in for a year. Here it is row by row.
12 rows · 5 to Speakap · 5 to Blastack
Blastack or Staffbase
Staffbase is one of the big ones in Europe: an own-brand app in the stores, email newsletters wired into Outlook, and customers of tens of thousands of people. We lose more rows than we win in this table, and the ones we win are the ones that matter if you're three hundred people in one country.
11 rows · 4 to Staffbase · 4 to Blastack
Blastack or Workvivo
Workvivo is the one that feels most like a social network inside: a feed, recognition, podcasts. It's Irish and it has belonged to Zoom since 2023. It was also Meta's migration partner when Workplace closed, so they know how to do this. Here's the table, including the rows we lose.
12 rows · 5 to Workvivo · 4 to Blastack
Blastack or Connecteam
Connecteam is a Swiss army knife: rotas, clocking in, training, tasks and communication in the same app. We do one thing. This comparison is about exactly that, and also about an uncomfortable detail almost nobody looks at until they want to leave.
11 rows · 4 to Connecteam · 4 to Blastack
Blastack or Blink
Blink is British, very much a mobile app for the frontline workforce, with a long track record in healthcare and transport. They publish their price, which is to their credit, and that means you can actually compare. Here it is row by row.
10 rows · 2 to Blink · 5 to Blastack
Blastack or Sociabble
Sociabble is French and their speciality isn't quite ours: theirs is getting the workforce to share what the company publishes on their own social media. If that's what you're after, we're not competitors. If what you're after is the night shift finding out what's going on, here's the table.
9 rows · 5 to Sociabble · 3 to Blastack
Blastack or Simpplr
Simpplr is a modern American intranet with a lot of artificial intelligence on top, aimed at large desk-based companies. And right now it has a dated issue worth knowing about before you sign anything: it's switching off its old platform.
10 rows · 3 to Simpplr · 4 to Blastack
Alternative to Meta's Workplace
Meta shut Workplace down. What you lose by leaving, what Blastack does, what it doesn't, and how the move works in practice, with no magic importer.
Comparing us with somebody else?
Tell us which one and we'll send you the table in writing, rows we lose included. If that comparison says the other tool is the right one, we'll tell you that too.