Reviews and judging, made easy

How it works

Dapple saves your reviewers and judges time to focus on what matters most — the submissions. Everything happens in one place, so the process is seamless, fair, and can be set up in a few minutes.

• Create Review Rounds: Set up bespoke groups of reviewers and assign them to different projects and stages.
• Assign Submissions: As new submissions are received, they are then sent to the right Review Round.
• Dedicated Review Accounts: Reviewers sign in to their own Review Accounts, where they’ll see only the submissions assigned to them.
• Due Dates: Hold reviewers and judges accountable by creating deadlines that display in each individual's dashboard.
• Collate Feedback: See all reviews and feedback saved against each individual submission.

Review rounds

Creating Review Rounds is a bit of a game-changer. Here’s why:

• Involve multiple perspectives: Readers, editors, or judges can all contribute feedback.
• Flexible setup: Create different Review Rounds, with customised rules for different projects.
• Multi-round reviews: Different Review Rounds for different stages. For example, use Round 1 for initial screening and Round 2 for shortlisted work.
• Reviewer flexibility: Reviewers can take part in several Review Rounds at once.
• Remove Bias: Promote fairness by selecting fields on the form that are automatically hidden from reviewers.
• It’s quick!: Assign multiple reviewers to a project in a couple of clicks. It keeps the whole process transparent and organised.

Ways to review

Reviewers can review anywhere, any time, and on any device using their own personalised Review Account. Depending on how you set up your Review Round, reviewers can:

• Rubric Scoring: Score submissions against multiple weighted criteria, like originality and technical ability, and get one clear result out of 100 instead of a single gut-feel number.
• Score: Rate submissions on a scoring scale you define, from a quick 1–5 to a detailed 1–100.
• Vote: Record a straightforward decision, like Yes/No, Shortlist/Reject, or any custom option you choose.
• Comment: Add written feedback alongside a score, so the reasoning behind a decision isn't lost by the time you get to the final discussion.
• Save Feedback: Reviewers can save a review in progress and pick it back up later — no need to get through a whole batch in one sitting.
• Toggle: Move between pending and in-progress reviews without losing your place.
• Complete: Reviewers can batch submit reviews back to the admin in one click.

All feedback in one place

On the admin side, all the feedback and reviews are brought together in a single, organised view, saved against each submission.

• Real-time feedback: See up to date feedback from your reviewers regardless of whether it is in progress or completed.
• Transparency: See reviewer comments side by side.
• Set limits: Set minimum or maximum numbers of reviews per submission.
• Record: Track average scores and tallied votes.
• Decide: Compare perspectives across your reviewers. Send to a designated next stage in one click
• Toggle: Quickly skip through each submission, comparing feedback and scores.

Reviewer oversight

See exactly where each reviewer stands — who's done, who's in progress, and who hasn't started. Stay in control of your review process without chasing anyone manually.

• Full reviewer dashboard: See all your reviewers in one place, with a live snapshot of their progress across completed, in-progress, and outstanding reviews.
• Status at a glance: Progress counts to make it instantly clear how each reviewer is tracking — no digging required.
• Nudge reminders: Send a one-click reminder to reviewers who haven't completed their reviews, keeping the process moving without awkward emails.
• Review group visibility: See which review rounds each reviewer belongs to, so you always know who's responsible for what.
• Joined and last active dates: Track when reviewers joined and when they last submitted a review to spot anyone who's gone quiet.