A Modern Alternative
to Zealous

Features and Interface

Zealous gives you a dashboard for your call. Dapple gives you a suite of analytics for multiple calls or categories, all on a single page.

With visual kanban boards, you see every submission at a glance, in real time, moving through the different stages from collection to completion. It keeps things simple, easier to manage and reduces admin time further.

• Visual kanban view across all submissions
• All projects visible from a single hub
• Drag-and-drop stage management
• Filters, tags, and saved views
• Unlimited stages on every plan

Entrants

The entrant journey is modern, quick and integrated using the latest form tech.

• Beautiful entry forms: Custom backgrounds, headers, and a sleek visual layout improves the whole experience.
• Easy-to-use: Drag and drop, multiple field options, dynamic steps and smart conditional logic. Entrants find it simple and easy to complete.
• Payments: Create different dynamic payment options based on form selection.
• Draft reminders: Customise multiple automatic email reminders that nudge unfinished entrants back to complete their submission. This will improve conversion rates and revenue.
• Entrant accounts: They can view entries, download files, see payment history, upload supplementary material, withdraw entries and message your team directly.

Judges

Dapple's review panels are clean, fast, customisable and optimised for creative work. High-res images and video load beautifully. Scoring, voting, and commenting is frictionless. Judges see exactly what’s assigned to them, where they left off and what's complete with no learning curve.

• Personalised: Customisable judging accounts with clear to-do lists
• Media: Optimised for high-res image and video review
• Feedback: Custom scoring criteria, votes, and comments, due dates, min/max requirements
• Multiple panels: Create a panel for each stage of the application journey
• Feedback: Collated feedback overview for admins
• Simplicity: Designed to be visual, easy to operate with no steep learning curve

Pricing

Zealous prices by submission volume and features but they don’t give you much. You'll be watching your yearly count tick up against a hard cap, or realising that multi-round evaluation is locked to a higher tier.

Dapple gives you more submissions at a lower price point, with more features on the plan you can afford.

• 500 submissions from just £39/month
• Multi-stage reviews included from Growth plan
• Onboarding on all plans
• Low transaction fee: 3.5% + £0.49