Comparison
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.
Of 10 rows, Simpplr wins 3 and we win 4.
Who Simpplr are
Simpplr is an American company making a modern intranet, with company-wide search, recommendations and artificial intelligence assistants. It's aimed at large desk-based workforces, with corporate email and a computer each.
It's a powerful product at what it does. Our case is the exact opposite: the plant, the shop and the warehouse, where most people have neither a computer nor a work email address.
Row by row
The table, with who wins each row
Published price
BlastackBlastack
€1.00 per person per month for the base plan, plus ten modules costing between one and ten cents each: with all of them switched on, €1.28. There's a calculator on the site.
Simpplr
No price published: a bespoke quote.
Who it's built for
BlastackBlastack
For a deskless workforce: you get in with a code and your own phone, with no company account.
Simpplr
For an office workforce with corporate email. It's an intranet, and a very good one, but it's an intranet.
Search and artificial intelligence
SimpplrBlastack
Search inside Blastack and not much more. There are no assistants and no automatic summaries.
Simpplr
Search that cuts across the company's tools, plus recommendations and assistants. It's among the best things they have.
Integrations with the rest of your systems
SimpplrBlastack
HR system, yes, over SCIM 2.0: joiners, changes and leavers, automatically. For everything else there is the API: an OpenAPI spec and signed outgoing events, which is what you would hang an ERP, a ticketing tool or a document manager off if somebody built it. Ready-made there is not one.
Simpplr
Many, and it's part of the pitch.
Single sign-on and provisioning
DrawBlastack
Single sign-on with the company account over OpenID Connect — Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and Okta — plus SCIM 2.0 provisioning, so joiners and leavers arrive from your HR system on their own. It's the corporate identity module at two cents per person per month, not a reason to move you up a plan. There is no SAML, and that is a decision rather than a gap: SAML is signed XML, verifying it properly means XML canonicalisation, and that is where most of the authentication bypasses of the last decade have come from. If your tender requires SAML 2.0, we lose this row. Worth keeping the scope in mind either way: most of your workforce has no account in the corporate directory at all, so single sign-on covers the office and the joining codes cover the shop floor.
Simpplr
They have it, as you'd expect in their segment.
Languages
DrawBlastack
Interface in twelve languages — English, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and Czech — and posts in those same twelve: each person sees the whole app in theirs. There is no machine translation: whoever publishes writes every version.
Simpplr
Multilingual.
Stability of the platform
BlastackBlastack
One product, with no old platform to switch off.
Simpplr
They have two products running side by side: the old one, built on Salesforce, and the current one. Their own support centre warns that support for the old one ends on 31 October 2026 and that migrations after that are at the customer's expense. If you're on the old one, you have to move regardless.
Getting your data out the day you leave
DrawBlastack
Export of the content and the workforce, with the deletion deadlines in writing.
Simpplr
Well handled, and that needs saying: their terms give you 30 days from termination to request a copy, and the addendum they include commits in writing to delivering it in CSV. They're one of the few who fix the format in the contract.
Where the data sits
BlastackBlastack
Our own servers in the European Union, no transfers outside the EEA, with the GDPR Article 28 data processing agreement.
Simpplr
An American supplier, with a European region available. Ask them in writing which region you'd land in and which sub-processors are involved.
Certifications
SimpplrBlastack
None. We don't have ISO 27001 and we don't have SOC 2.
Simpplr
A much larger company; ask what they hold today.
| Criterion | Blastack | Simpplr | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published price | €1.00 per person per month for the base plan, plus ten modules costing between one and ten cents each: with all of them switched on, €1.28. There's a calculator on the site. | No price published: a bespoke quote. | Blastack |
| Who it's built for | For a deskless workforce: you get in with a code and your own phone, with no company account. | For an office workforce with corporate email. It's an intranet, and a very good one, but it's an intranet. | Blastack |
| Search and artificial intelligence | Search inside Blastack and not much more. There are no assistants and no automatic summaries. | Search that cuts across the company's tools, plus recommendations and assistants. It's among the best things they have. | Simpplr |
| Integrations with the rest of your systems | HR system, yes, over SCIM 2.0: joiners, changes and leavers, automatically. For everything else there is the API: an OpenAPI spec and signed outgoing events, which is what you would hang an ERP, a ticketing tool or a document manager off if somebody built it. Ready-made there is not one. | Many, and it's part of the pitch. | Simpplr |
| Single sign-on and provisioning | Single sign-on with the company account over OpenID Connect — Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and Okta — plus SCIM 2.0 provisioning, so joiners and leavers arrive from your HR system on their own. It's the corporate identity module at two cents per person per month, not a reason to move you up a plan. There is no SAML, and that is a decision rather than a gap: SAML is signed XML, verifying it properly means XML canonicalisation, and that is where most of the authentication bypasses of the last decade have come from. If your tender requires SAML 2.0, we lose this row. Worth keeping the scope in mind either way: most of your workforce has no account in the corporate directory at all, so single sign-on covers the office and the joining codes cover the shop floor. | They have it, as you'd expect in their segment. | Draw |
| Languages | Interface in twelve languages — English, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and Czech — and posts in those same twelve: each person sees the whole app in theirs. There is no machine translation: whoever publishes writes every version. | Multilingual. | Draw |
| Stability of the platform | One product, with no old platform to switch off. | They have two products running side by side: the old one, built on Salesforce, and the current one. Their own support centre warns that support for the old one ends on 31 October 2026 and that migrations after that are at the customer's expense. If you're on the old one, you have to move regardless. | Blastack |
| Getting your data out the day you leave | Export of the content and the workforce, with the deletion deadlines in writing. | Well handled, and that needs saying: their terms give you 30 days from termination to request a copy, and the addendum they include commits in writing to delivering it in CSV. They're one of the few who fix the format in the contract. | Draw |
| Where the data sits | Our own servers in the European Union, no transfers outside the EEA, with the GDPR Article 28 data processing agreement. | An American supplier, with a European region available. Ask them in writing which region you'd land in and which sub-processors are involved. | Blastack |
| Certifications | None. We don't have ISO 27001 and we don't have SOC 2. | A much larger company; ask what they hold today. | Simpplr |
The Simpplr figures are the ones they publish on their website, in their support centre and in their terms of service, checked in August 2026. They change, and we are not a neutral source: check them with Simpplr before you decide anything.
No spin
Where Simpplr are better
If any of these three is what you need, go with them. We would rather lose here than six months in.
What the artificial intelligence does
Searching for one thing and having it turn up wherever it lives — in the intranet, in the document management system, in the ticketing tool — is a real problem for large companies, and Simpplr goes at it seriously. We do nothing of the sort.
Fitting a large company
Integrations with the rest of your stack, and certifications. Single sign-on and provisioning we do have now, over OpenID Connect and SCIM; the connector catalogue and the ISO 27001 stamp we don't. If your workforce is desk-based and several thousand strong, Simpplr is built for that and we are not.
The exit clause, with the format written in
Committing in writing to return the data in CSV is more than most of this sector does. Credit where it's due.
Our side
Where we win
Reaching people who don't have a computer
An excellent intranet is no use at all if half the workforce has nowhere to open it and no account to open it with. That's where we start: a code, their own phone, a browser, nothing to install.
Not inheriting somebody else's migration
If you're on their old platform, you're facing a migration anyway and it has a date on it. Worth using that move to decide calmly where you're going, rather than accepting the path you're handed.
A price you can take to the board
Published, with a calculator, and without having spoken to anyone. Against a bespoke quote from an American company, that difference shows up in the first meeting.
The summary
Which of the two, depending on your case
Choose Simpplr if
- Your workforce is desk-based and everyone has a corporate email address
- You want an intranet with company-wide search and artificial intelligence
- You need integrations with your systems, or SAML 2.0 rather than OpenID Connect
- You're several thousand people across several countries
Choose us if
- Most of your workforce has no computer and no work email address
- You want the price published before you sit through a sales meeting
- Your legal team wants the supplier and the servers inside the European Union
- You're on their old platform and you're going to have to move anyway
- You don't need posts translated for you: each person picks their language and you write the versions yourselves