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Sprout Social vs UserVoice comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Sprout Social
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Social CRM (2nd), Social Media Management Solutions (2nd), Social Media Analytics Software (1st), AI Customer Experience Personalization (10th), AI Content Creation (4th)
UserVoice
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Customer Feedback Management (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Customer Relationship Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Sprout Social is designed for Social CRM and holds a mindshare of 8.4%, down 11.0% compared to last year.
UserVoice, on the other hand, focuses on Customer Feedback Management, holds 4.7% mindshare, down 6.4% since last year.
Social CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Sprout Social8.4%
Sprinklr12.4%
HootSuite10.3%
Other68.9%
Social CRM
Customer Feedback Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
UserVoice4.7%
Qualtrics XM Platform13.6%
Sprinklr9.8%
Other71.9%
Customer Feedback Management
 

Featured Reviews

Mirella Karpiesiuk - PeerSpot reviewer
Social Engagement Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized social channels have transformed daily engagement and reporting workflows
Regarding how Sprout Social can be improved, these are very minor areas. Sometimes we have this metric called action rate, which reflects how fast a message has been touched in Sprout Social, whether that is the message being tagged, responded to, or closed out. Apparently, we cannot get a 100% action rate because some responses come in that are auto-replied to, and that action rate misses that. I think this is one thing that can be improved: figuring out how to count those auto-responded messages. This is a niche area. Outside of that, I do not have much advice for improvements in Sprout Social; I truly think it is a hub of value and provides a lot for us. The user interface is great; it is super friendly. For someone who has never touched it before, I knew where everything was and maneuvered through it within a week of using it. The integrations are seamless with all of our social media accounts: Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and all of that. We can also export data and PDF files, which helps us with other projects. I see very minimal improvements needed on my end; I think it is a very valuable program that we use.
it_user494850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Client Support at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
The knowledge base was instrumental in elevating our self-help tools for clients. We took all of our user guides to the cloud, as well as other client-facing documents.
I would like to see more flexibility in UserVoice when it comes to content sharing / privacy. We have clients with custom builds, and I would like to have an easy way to host all of their custom content in the same KB and maintain those articles that are only visible to those clients. When I was with ReadyPoint, we had public content (applicable to every client) and private content (applicable only to one client's customizations, etc.). We were told by UserVoice that there was not a way to control who could see what content on a KB at the article level, and so parts of the information available on the KB (for example, the article about logging in and password setup) was not applicable to a large section of our clients (who had a custom login screen), and therefore caused lots of confusion.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The only outcome I have seen in my workflow because of Sprout Social is the time, as the same thing if I do manually will cost me around maybe one day or two days, and using Sprout Social this time has shortened to maybe one hour or one and a half hour maximum."
"We would not be able to do it without Sprout Social, and it is very easy to use; the user interface is very friendly and intuitive."
"In my experience, the best features Sprout Social offers are the ability to manage multiple campaigns."
"One of the biggest advantages of Sprout Social is its user-friendly dashboard and clear visual reports, which make it easy to interpret data and present insights to clients."
"Sprout Social has positively impacted the organizations that I have worked with by helping us to be more efficient and it was much easier to use rather than manually going into these social channels."
"Sprout Social impacts my organization positively by allowing me to gauge the sentiment around different topics and helping me to stay on top of my social media growth and reporting."
"Sprout Social is the best; it is very good, actually, because I have used Intercom and Zendesk, but when I look at the different software I have used as a customer service agent, I would go for Sprout Social as it is more complete and easy to navigate."
"Sprout Social has positively impacted our organization by aligning with our team goals and being very efficient at scheduling, publishing, and pulling analytics."
"I can respond to customers extremely fast, which helps reinforce our company's image and culture as a friendly and responsive startup."
"It has helped us to improve our response time to users, thus giving them a better experience from support."
"If your core team of support and content managers adopts this platform and works within its structure, they'll benefit from a clean, easy-to-handle interface that grows quickly and makes their lives much easier!"
 

Cons

"If you do not already have existing solutions and you are using the platform to help schedule out marketing campaigns, it will not be that helpful."
"My advice to others considering Sprout Social is that I believe it is a good platform to use temporarily for some clients, but it does not scale well for growth."
"There is a limitation for us with Sprout Social in publishing boosted content within LinkedIn, and we would appreciate that to be improved."
"AI tool reliability and accuracy is a significant concern."
"Realistically, I find the pricing quite high."
"It is not perfect. Sometimes its information or its syncing to platforms is clunky, so you end up having slightly wrong information or data."
"As of now, I have been using Sprout Social for almost two years, but there are some glitches in the back-end; sometimes the posts are not integrated or do not come with the proper details, proper dates, or proper content."
"Sprout Social could be improved by being able to schedule out Stories, which is a current limitation."
"Right now, I can only respond to customers. I really want the ability to compose and send a message to individual customers prior to them contacting us."
"The idea forum is lacking in features, it doesn’t allow you to attached files when commenting on an idea."
"We were told by UserVoice that there was not a way to control who could see what content on a KB at the article level, and so parts of the information available on the KB (for example, the article about logging in and password setup) was not applicable to a large section of our clients (who had a custom login screen), and therefore caused lots of confusion."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise18
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sprout Social?
Our client is the one managing the pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
What needs improvement with Sprout Social?
Sprout Social could improve by keeping up with social media trends and enhancing their analytics capabilities. As we also use several different analytics tools as marketers, it would be beneficial ...
What is your primary use case for Sprout Social?
My main use case for Sprout Social is social media management for a client.
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