Viima alternatives, now that Viima answers to HYPE Boards

If you searched for Viima and landed on something called HYPE Boards, that is the same product under a new name. The domain is still viima.com and the pricing page is still there.

Two things about that price list matter more than the rename. It is quoted in euros, excluding VAT, and only the first plan has a published price. Everything below was read on their own pricing page on 2 October 2026.

Every live Viima alternative, with its price

Their figure is the only one in the table in euros, because it is the currency they publish in and converting it would be inventing a number.

What does Viima cost?

One published plan and two quoted ones.

Every plan on that page, what steps between them and what the trial asks for, is worked through on the HYPE Boards pricing page.

Their page states that prices exclude VAT, that the Basic price shown is monthly but billed annually, and that Basic is also sold on a monthly contract, starting at €89 a month, at a slightly higher rate per user.

The trial is fourteen days of the Pro plan and asks for no card. Their own questions page says that once the trial ends, access is revoked until you buy Basic with a card or contact sales for Pro or Advanced. There is no free plan to fall back to.

What happens once Basic's caps run out?

Basic's ten included users cost nothing extra; past that, each one is €7 a month, with no published ceiling on how many you can add.

The number that actually stops a Basic team is boards, not people: two, whatever the headcount. A programme that wants a third board, more than a hundred people, or anything Pro adds, custom fields, workflow automation, Jira or Microsoft Teams, a dedicated success manager on Advanced, has no published rate to plan against. Both higher plans are quoted individually.

Why do people look for a Viima alternative?

The user is metered and the user is a participant. In an innovation platform the people submitting ideas are inside the workspace, so the meter counts exactly the people you were trying to encourage.

Two boards on the entry plan. One board per department or per challenge is the normal pattern, and two runs out in the first quarter.

It is not a customer facing product. Innovation challenges, gamification and idea evaluations are built for employees. A public page where customers post feature requests is a different product with a different audience.

The rename. A product answering to a new name always sends some people looking at what else exists, whatever else is true about it.

Is there a free Viima alternative?

Not this one. The trial is fourteen days of Pro with no card, and once it ends there is no free tier to drop to, only Basic with a card or a call to sales.

UserJot is free forever with two boards and unlimited users. Quackback's free plan carries one board and fifty posts. Ideanote's free plan takes ten users and two hundred and fifty ideas with no card. Fider is free and open source when you run it yourself.

There is no free plan on VoteFirst. The trial is fourteen days, it asks for a card at signup, and the bill after it is nine dollars a month for one project or thirty nine for unlimited ones, with nobody metered on either.

What does each one do with an idea once it has votes?

Viima evaluates. Their plans list unlimited idea evaluations on every tier, workflow automations on the paid ones, and custom fields for scoring, so a committee can score ideas against criteria you define and move them through a process.

VoteFirst weighs instead of scores. Each customer tier carries a multiplier, the weight is stamped onto the vote at the moment it is cast rather than recalculated later, and the plain vote count stays beside the weighted total so the ordering can be checked. The revenue comes from Stripe, Paddle or a CSV.

Scoring is right when the people with the information are inside your company. Weighing is right when they are outside it and paying you.

Which should you choose?

Viima, now HYPE Boards, if the ideas come from your own staff and a process has to run on them. The evaluation and workflow layer is the reason to buy it, and the fourteen day trial of Pro, no card, is the way to see it before anything is decided.

Viima Pro or Advanced, once the team needs a third board or crosses a hundred people. Below that, Basic plus extra users is the only priced route; above it, you are talking to sales.

VoteFirst, if the ideas come from customers. Nine dollars a month, unlimited people on the public board, and the revenue behind each vote already on it.