The modern alternative
to Submit.com
The most intelligent platform for grants, awards and open calls. Start today, and let Dapple check, summarise and route every application for you.
Last updated October 2026
What is the best alternative to Submit.com?
Dapple is the modern alternative to Submit.com: one visual, intelligent platform for grants, awards, fellowships and open calls that you can start using today.
Submit.com is legacy software, first built in 2013, and it's priced like it. Its entry plan costs €5,995 a year for a single programme and 1,000 applicants. Dapple Growth costs about a third of that and gives you multiple programmes and 2,500 applications a year.
Because Dapple is built on modern technology, it's flexible enough to fit the way you work. Every programme can have its own form, eligibility rules, review rounds and set-up, every application sits on a visual board, and intelligent checks do the admin for you. Create a free account and test it end to end, with no demo to book first.
Submit.com is rooted in Irish local government. Dapple was born in London's fast-moving tech startup scene and works with organisations across the UK, Europe and the US, from arts organisations and award programmes to foundations and grant-makers.
Dapple vs Submit.com at a glance
| At a glance | ✦ Dapple | Submit.com |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Growth from £179/month or £1,790/year | €5,995/year (Starter) |
| Non-profit and charity discounts | ✓ | Not listed |
| Getting started | Sign up and build today | Book a demo, then a quote |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Annual |
| Programmes | Up to 50 on Growth (£1,790/year) | 1 on Starter (€5,995/year) |
| Intelligence | Eligibility checks, summaries, tagging and routing | AI translation |
| Anonymous review and payments | Every plan | Not on Starter |
Visual workflow
How does Dapple make managing applications visual?
Dapple shows every application as a card on a board, with its status, tags and reviewer visible at a glance. You move applications from received to review to shortlisted to funded, so your whole programme is visible in one view rather than spread across screens and spreadsheets.
- Visual boards: Applications appear as cards you can drag between stages.
- One project hub: Every grant, award, fellowship and open call your team runs sits on one screen.
- Multiple programmes: Run several programmes on Growth, each with its own form, eligibility rules, review rounds and set-up.
- Automations: Move, tag and message applications automatically when they reach a stage.
- Branded forms: Your own background images, headers and styling on every plan.
Intelligence
How does Dapple save your team time?
Dapple takes care of the admin that slows every grant round down. As soon as an application arrives, Dapple checks it against your criteria, flags anything missing, writes a summary and sends it to the right reviewers. Your team spends its time on the applicants, not the spreadsheet.
- Eligibility checks: Every application is checked against your criteria the moment it's submitted.
- Problems caught early: Missing information and applications in the wrong category are flagged before review starts.
- Agentic workflows: Set Dapple to do jobs for you automatically, like writing a summary of each application, tagging it or sending it to the right review group.
- Answers in seconds: Connect Dapple to Claude or ChatGPT and ask for reports, charts or a summary of your applications.
- You stay in control: These features are optional, and people make every decision.
Getting started
Can you try Dapple without booking a demo?
Yes. Create a free account and build your programme yourself, the same day. Describe your programme to the AI form builder and it builds the application form for you, or start from a ready-made template with stages and review rounds already set up.
- Free account: Build and test your whole programme before you pay.
- AI form builder: Describe your programme in a sentence or two and get a ready-to-use application form in seconds.
- Templates: Start from a template with stages and review rounds ready to go.
- Duplicate projects: Copy last year's round, form and review set-up in one click.
- Free onboarding: The Dapple team helps you set up and can move you over from Submit.com.
Fair review
How does review work in Dapple?
Reviewers get a clear list of the applications assigned to them, score each one against your criteria and add comments, all without access to your dashboard. Anonymous review is included on every Dapple plan, where Submit.com leaves it out of Starter.
- Anonymous review: Hide names, contact details or any other field from reviewers on every plan.
- Rubric scoring: Weight several criteria into one clear score, on every plan.
- Review rounds: Run a first sift, a shortlist and a final panel, each with its own review group.
- Independent scoring: Each reviewer scores privately before you compare results.
Public voting and galleries
Can you run a public vote on Dapple?
Yes. Run a public vote alongside your review panel, or publish a public page showcasing your winners, successful applicants or awardees. Your page can be live in a few minutes, branded to match your forms, and only verified votes count. Public voting isn't part of Submit.com's published feature set.
- Live in minutes: Pick the stage your finalists are in and Dapple builds the public page for you, with your branding and its own public link.
- Showcase your winners: Publish your winners, successful applicants or awardees on a public page you can share.
- Community choice: Let local people vote on which projects or ideas get funded.
- Verified votes: Voters confirm with email, Google or Microsoft, and CAPTCHA and rate limits block automated voting.
- Live results: Track verified and total votes for every finalist, then export them.
Security and compliance
Is Dapple secure and compliant?
Yes. Dapple is Cyber Essentials certified and GDPR compliant, with role-based permissions, audit trails and single sign-on. Everyone sees only what they should, and you can always show who did what and when.
- Role-based permissions: Administrators, managers, members and reviewers each get exactly the access they need.
- Reviewers kept separate: Reviewers only see the applications assigned to them, with no access to your dashboard or final decisions.
- Audit trails: Every change to applications, awards and payments is logged with who made it and when, on Growth and Pro.
- Secure sign-in: Google, Microsoft or a magic link, with no Dapple passwords to manage, plus single sign-on with Okta, Entra ID or Google Workspace on Pro.
- Two-person sign-off: One person approves a grant payment and another records it as paid.
Funding
Can Dapple manage grant funding after awards are made?
Yes. Dapple's fund management tracks every grant from budget to final payment. Set funds, award money to successful applicants, schedule payments and approve them with two-person sign-off, all with a full audit trail.
- Budgets and funds: See what's committed, awarded, paid and left to award at a glance.
- Payment schedules: Single, 50/50, quarterly or milestone payments, applied to every award in a fund in one go.
- Conditions: Hold a payment until a condition is met, such as a signed grant agreement.
- Two-person sign-off: One person approves a payment and another records it as paid.
- Your bank, your control: Dapple never holds or sends money. It records each payment so it's easy to reconcile.
Pricing
How much does Submit.com cost compared with Dapple?
Submit.com starts at €5,995 a year for one programme. Dapple Growth costs £1,790 a year, about a third of the price, and runs multiple programmes.
- About a third of the price: Dapple Growth against Submit.com's entry plan.
- Pay monthly or yearly: No annual contract needed.
- Multiple programmes: Run several programmes on Growth, where Submit.com Starter includes one.
- More included: Anonymous review and payments on every plan.
- Free onboarding: We help you get set up at no cost.
See Dapple's pricing, or compare both plan by plan in the table below.
Side by side
Dapple vs Submit.com: pricing and features compared
Costs and features on both platforms, plan by plan.
| Cost | ✦ Dapple | Submit.com |
|---|---|---|
| Core plan | Growth: from £179/month (£1,790/year) | Starter: €5,995/year (about £5,200) |
| Pro plan | Pro: £349/month (£3,490/year) | Pro: price on request |
| Enterprise plan | Price on request | Price on request |
| Monthly billing | ✓ | — |
| Discounts for non-profits and charities | ✓ | Not listed |
| Applications per year | 2,500 / 10,000 / custom (Growth / Pro / Enterprise) | 1,000 / 5,000 / unlimited applicants |
| Programmes | 50 / unlimited / unlimited | 1 / 5 / 5+ |
| Reviewers | Unlimited | 20 / 50 / 50+ |
| Admin users | 20 / unlimited / unlimited | 5 / 5–20 / 20+ |
| Fee on application payments | 2% + £0.20, plus Stripe processing | Not listed (not on Starter) |
| Feature | ✦ Dapple | Submit.com |
|---|---|---|
| Workflow & set-up | ||
| Visual boards for applications | ✓ | — |
| Every programme in one project hub | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-serve set-up, live the same day | ✓ | Demo-led onboarding |
| AI form builder | ✓ | — |
| Ready-made templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk messaging to applicants | All plans | ✓ |
| Automations | Growth and Pro | ✓ |
| Intelligence | ||
| Eligibility checks on every application | Growth and Pro | Rule-based eligibility screening |
| Summaries of each application | Growth and Pro | — |
| Applications tagged and sent to the right reviewers | Growth and Pro | Rule-based auto-tagging |
| Connect to Claude and ChatGPT | Growth and Pro | — |
| AI translation | — | ✓ |
| Review | ||
| Rubric scoring | All plans | ✓ |
| Anonymous review | All plans | Not on Starter |
| Public voting and galleries | Growth and Pro | Not listed |
| Applications & funding | ||
| Take application or entry fees | All plans | Not on Starter |
| Form conditional logic | All plans | ✓ |
| Fund management and payment schedules | Growth and Pro | Grant tracking, not on Starter |
| E-signatures | — | Not on Starter |
| Integrations, security & support | ||
| Single sign-on (SSO) | Pro | Not on Starter |
| API and webhooks | Pro | Not on Starter |
| Zapier and other integrations | Pro | Not on Starter |
| Multilingual forms | — | Not on Starter |
| Role-based permissions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit trails | Growth and Pro | ✓ |
| Cyber Essentials | ✓ | ✓ |
| GDPR compliant | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
Submit.com information is based on its public pricing page and other publicly available information as of October 2026. Submit.com prices are in euros; sterling figures are approximate. Prices exclude VAT.
Dapple vs Submit.com: FAQs
Dapple is a strong Submit.com alternative for grant-makers, award programmes and open calls that want one visual, intelligent platform they can start using straight away. You can create a free account and build and test your programme yourself, with no demo to book first, then pay monthly or annually and run several programmes from one place.
Dapple Growth costs £1,790 a year, about a third of Submit.com's €5,995 Starter plan.
Submit.com is best suited to government and the public sector, particularly local councils in Ireland. It says most Irish local authorities use it, it partners with Ireland's Local Government Management Agency (LGMA), and it offers a library of more than 100 pre-built council grant schemes. It also offers forms in several languages, including Irish and Welsh, and is listed on the UK government's G-Cloud framework.
Dapple is the better fit for grant-makers, foundations, charities, award programmes and arts organisations that want a modern, visual platform with intelligent checks built in, set up in an afternoon, at a fraction of the price.
As of October 2026, Submit.com Starter costs €5,995 a year (about £5,200) for one programme, up to 1,000 applicants, 20 reviewers and 5 admins. Pro and Enterprise are priced on request, and every plan starts with a sales demo.
Dapple starts with a free account to build and test your programme. Dapple Growth costs £179 a month (£1,790 a year), Pro costs £349 a month (£3,490 a year), and Enterprise is priced on request.
Yes. Dapple Growth costs £1,790 a year, about a third of Submit.com's €5,995 Starter plan. Dapple Growth also runs multiple programmes and 2,500 applications a year, where Submit.com Starter covers one programme and 1,000 applicants.
Dapple also offers monthly billing, so you can start without an annual contract.
Yes. You can create a free Dapple account, build your application form with the AI form builder or a ready-made template, and test your whole programme before you pay. Submit.com plans start with a sales demo and a quote.
If you'd like help, onboarding with the Dapple team is free.
Submit.com's AI feature is AI Localisation, which translates forms, emails and decision letters for a human to review. Its other automation is rule-based, such as auto-tagging and auto-scoring.
Dapple uses intelligence to save your team time on the applications themselves. On Growth and Pro, every application is checked against your eligibility criteria as it arrives, missing information is flagged, and agentic workflows can write a summary of each application, tag it and send it to the right reviewers. You can also connect Dapple to Claude or ChatGPT for reports and summaries. These features are optional, and people make every decision.
Yes. You can hide any field from reviewers on every Dapple plan, so reviewers judge the application rather than the name on it. On Submit.com, anonymised review isn't included in the Starter plan.
Yes. Dapple is Cyber Essentials certified and GDPR compliant. Role-based permissions give administrators, managers, members and reviewers only the access they need, and reviewers only see the applications assigned to them.
Audit trails log every change to applications, awards and payments with who made it and when, on Growth and Pro. Your team signs in with Google, Microsoft or a magic link, with single sign-on available on Pro, and grant payments can require two-person sign-off.
Yes. Dapple Growth and Pro include public voting and galleries, so you can run a people's choice award or let your community vote on which projects get funded. Voters verify with email, Google or Microsoft, so duplicate votes don't count. Public voting isn't part of Submit.com's published feature set.
Yes. Dapple's fund management lets you set budgets and funds, award money to successful applicants, schedule payments and approve them with two-person sign-off, with a full audit trail. Dapple never holds or sends money. You pay awardees from your own bank as usual, and Dapple records each payment. Fund management is included on Growth and Pro.
Yes. Every grant, award, fellowship and open call sits in one project hub. Dapple Growth runs multiple programmes, each with its own form, eligibility rules, review rounds and set-up, and Pro is unlimited. Submit.com Starter includes one programme.
Yes. The Dapple team helps you rebuild your forms, review rounds and workflows, and can import existing data if you need it. Onboarding is free, and you can set up and test a full programme on a free account before you commit.