Overview

Teamphoria is an employee engagement platform that brings recognition, surveys, performance reviews, communication, and analytics together. It suits HR teams that want those functions in one service, particularly when employee recognition and feedback need to work alongside goal setting and reviews.

Its strongest case is breadth at a low monthly per-employee price; its main trade-off is that integrations, rewards, and priority support sit in Full Suite rather than the lower tiers. It runs on the web, Android, and iOS, and the company says it was founded in 2013 and is based in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.

Compare it in Employee Engagement Software, Employee Survey Software, and Performance Management Software.

Key features

Recognition and rewards

Employees can recognize individuals or groups with peer-to-peer awards, and a real-time feed gives that activity organization-wide visibility. Manager recognition and four award tiers are included in Engage. This makes the entry paid tier more useful for structured recognition than the free plan, which is limited to peer recognition. Digital gift card rewards are reserved for Full Suite, so organizations that want recognition points to lead directly to gifts must budget for the top tier.

Surveys and team mood

Teamphoria combines ready-made engagement survey templates with custom surveys and unlimited custom pulse surveys in Engage. Team Pulse lets teams record mood in real time, while the Culture Engagement Score offers a further engagement measure. Anonymous surveys and feedback workflows are supported. The combination fits teams that want recurring sentiment checks as well as broader engagement surveys, though analytics are described as basic rather than advanced.

Performance and AI

Perform adds flexible 360° reviews with peer, manager, and external feedback, review templates, goal setting, accountability partners, performance analytics, and a review history archive. That is a meaningful step up from Engage for teams formalizing performance cycles, but it is not a reason to choose Teamphoria if the organization needs capabilities beyond those described.

Linda, Teamphoria’s 24/7 AI voice agent, routes calls back into the platform as insights about attendance, sentiment, and follow-ups. Teamphoria says it does not sell or share personal information or use Customer Data to train general-purpose AI models. Its privacy policy frames AI output as decision support under human oversight and says it does not make solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

Integrations and administration

Full Suite adds Slack integration, SSO options including SAML 2.0, Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, plus directory sync with Google Workspace, LDAP, and Zenefits. Brand theming, TV Mode, and priority support are also included. These are practical reasons to move beyond the $3 tiers for organizations that need connected identity and directory administration; smaller teams may not need to pay for them.

Pricing

Teamphoria has a free tier and paid plans billed monthly per employee, with no long-term contract requirement.

Free — $0.00 USD per free: Up to 5 users, peer-to-peer recognition, a real-time activity feed, basic web and email support, and help articles and onboarding documents. The five-user cap makes this a small-team starting point, not a broad free deployment.
Engage — $3.00 USD per month billed per employee / month: Peer and manager recognition, four award tiers, engagement surveys, unlimited custom pulse surveys, Team Pulse, Culture Engagement Score, a team directory, and iOS and Android apps. This is the fit for teams focused on recognition and employee sentiment without formal performance reviews.
Perform — $3.00 USD per month billed per employee / month: Everything in Engage, plus 360° reviews, flexible review templates, goal setting, accountability partners, performance analytics, and review history. At the same stated price as Engage, it is the broader choice for teams that need both engagement and review workflows.
Full Suite — $5.00 USD per month billed per employee / month: Everything in Engage and Perform, plus SSO, directory sync, brand theming, Slack integration, digital gift card rewards, TV Mode, and priority support. The extra $2 per employee per month over the $3 tiers is justified chiefly for organizations needing those administrative, integration, reward, or support features.

Engage and Perform are inexpensive entry points, but neither includes the Full Suite integration, SSO, directory sync, gift-card rewards, or priority support. Free is more restricted still: it is capped at five users and does not include manager recognition, surveys, or performance tools among its listed features.

Platforms

Teamphoria is available on web, Android, and iOS. The Engage and Perform descriptions specifically include iOS and Android apps; Full Suite includes those plans’ features.

Who it's for

Teamphoria is best suited to HR teams looking to combine recognition, employee listening, and performance processes rather than assemble separate tools. Engage fits teams centered on surveys and recognition; Perform is the stronger match when 360° feedback and goal setting matter; Full Suite makes more sense when identity, directory, Slack, rewards, or priority support are requirements. The company describes the product as built for HR teams of every size and also offers white-label services for HR consultants and advisors.

It is a weaker fit for a small team that will quickly exceed the free tier’s five-user cap, or for buyers whose main requirement is analytics beyond the basic level described.

Pros and cons

Pros: Recognition, surveys, pulse checks, reviews, and goals sit in one platform, reducing the need to separate those workflows across tools.
Pros: Engage and Perform are both priced at $3.00 USD per month per employee, and Perform includes the Engage feature set as well as reviews and goals.
Pros: Full Suite covers SSO, directory sync, Slack, digital gift card rewards, and priority support for teams that need a more connected setup.
Cons: The free plan stops at 5 users, limiting its usefulness beyond a small group.
Cons: Rewards, key integrations, identity options, and priority support require the $5 Full Suite tier.
Cons: Analytics are basic, which may not satisfy organizations looking for deeper analytical capability.

Alternatives

For a free survey-focused option, FeedbackPulse offers up to 10 employees, five active or scheduled surveys, an employee directory, kudos recognition, basic dashboards, and email support. It is a better fit when a larger free allowance and survey workflow matter more than Teamphoria’s performance tools and mobile apps.

HeartCount has a free Starter plan for up to 25 employees with unlimited surveys and core features, plus a Business plan at $2.50 USD per month per employee for up to 500 employees. Choose it when survey volume and a larger free employee cap are the priority; Teamphoria is the more direct fit for combining those activities with performance reviews and goals.

Motivosity is another option to consider for employee recognition and rewards.

StaffCircle is another paid employee software option to compare.

Tap My Back has a $2.00 USD per month Starter plan billed annually with peer recognition, badges, rewards, analytics, MS Teams, Slack, Google integration, and email support. It is worth considering when those recognition and integration features are the main need and annual billing is acceptable.

Vantage Circle is another paid alternative to consider.

Xref Engage is another paid alternative to consider.

Culture Amp uses annual, quote-based pricing that depends on employee count, product, and service tier. It is an option for buyers prepared to request a quote rather than choose a published per-employee monthly tier.

Verdict

Choose Teamphoria if your HR team wants recognition, employee feedback, and performance management in one platform, with a free starting point and clearly priced monthly tiers. Perform is the most compelling $3 option for teams that need reviews as well as engagement tools. Look elsewhere if you need more than basic analytics, or if Full Suite’s integrations and rewards do not justify its higher per-employee price.

	Ambition	Teamphoria
Free plan	No	Yes
Free trial	No	No
Paid from	$45/mo	$3/mo
Open source	No	No
Platforms	Android, api, iOS, Web	Android, iOS, Web
Free plan	No	Yes
Paid from	45 /user/mo	—
Goal framework	goals	—
One-on-ones	Yes	—
Review cycles	both	—
Goal alignment	Yes	—

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