Effy AI and Leapsome represent opposite ends of the performance management spectrum. Effy AI is a focused, AI-powered review tool ideal for small teams needing a simple solution for performance reviews, with its standout feature being natural language review question generation. In contrast, Leapsome is a comprehensive platform better suited to mid-market organizations with dedicated HR resources, offering extensive functionality across reviews, goals, 1:1s, surveys, and more, backed by strong automation and integration capabilities. Choose Effy AI if you want a lightweight, easy-to-use review tool; choose Leapsome if you need a full-featured performance management suite and have the resources to implement it effectively.
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Leapsome vs Effy AI - Comparison 2025
Leapsome vs. Effy AI
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Reviewed by Paddy Stobbs
Stackfix Co-Founder & CEO
Advantages of Leapsome
Leapsome is vastly more comprehensive in functionality than Effy AI
Leapsome offers superior integration capabilities compared to Effy AI
Leapsome provides significantly better review scheduling and automation than Effy AI
Leapsome offers superior survey capabilities compared to Effy AI
Advantages of Effy AI
Effy AI is significantly easier to use than Leapsome for basic performance reviews
Effy AI offers superior AI-powered review question generation compared to Leapsome
Leapsome is best for
- Businesses with dedicated HR teams seeking comprehensive performance management with extensive control
- Businesses with mid-sized to large departments requiring sophisticated performance tracking
- Who need advanced goal alignment and OKR implementation across organizational hierarchies
- And/or who need extensive survey capabilities with advanced data visualization
Effy AI is best for
- Businesses with lean to no HR teams seeking AI-powered 360 reviews and feedback collection
- Businesses with minimal HR resources and limited performance management needs
- Who need AI assistance in creating and customizing review questionnaires
- And/or who need a streamlined, single-purpose 360 review tool integrated with Slack
Leapsome is less good for
- Businesses with limited HR resources or without dedicated personnel to manage complex performance processes
- Who need quick access to unified performance metrics and dashboards without extensive setup
- And/or who need to create and manage performance improvement plans directly within reviews
Effy AI is less good for
- Businesses needing comprehensive performance management beyond basic AI-powered reviews
- Businesses with complex performance management needs requiring goals tracking, OKRs, or detailed analytics
- Who need to schedule and manage recurring reviews or 1:1s automatically
- And/or who need extensive integrations beyond Slack for their HR tech stack
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Pricing, features & ratings
 Leapsome Starting at $8.15Converted from EUR Billed monthly |  Effy AI Starting at $0Billed monthly |
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| Functionality | 8 <p>Leapsome offers core performance management features like 1:1 meetings, feedback, reviews, surveys, and goal tracking—matching competitors Lattice and 15Five. While an optional learning module is available, the platform lacks performance improvement plans and has limited performance tracking capabilities. </p> | 4 <p>Effy AI specializes exclusively in the review cycle of Performance Management. It creates a seamless, easy feedback system where you can add employees, write reviews (or let AI generate them using natural language), and collect completed reviews. The review builder includes standard options like self-reviews and external reviewers for 360 feedback.</p><p>While Effy's natural language AI review template generation is innovative, the platform lacks all other performance management features - no 1:1s, goals, surveys, analytics, or anything else.</p> |
| Ease of Use | 7 <p>Leapsome provides regular users with a streamlined experience, offering clean interfaces and effective prompts for upcoming deadlines and tasks. This simplicity creates an intuitive environment for team members who aren't involved in administration.</p><p>For managers and administrators, however, the platform demands greater involvement. The extensive customization options introduce complexity through varied permissions, admin roles, and cycle ownership designations. Common elements like performance tracking dashboards require manual setup rather than being readily available. This added complexity makes Leapsome better suited for mid-market organizations with dedicated HR personnel who can properly configure and maintain the system while maximizing its robust feature set.</p> | 8 <p>Effy excels at simplicity for its single feature: performance reviews and feedback. Testing showed the process is straightforward—queue a review once, let the cycle run, close it, review data, and you're done. While its minimalist approach makes daily use effortless, the tool would be even more valuable if it included basic features like advance scheduling or recurring cycles. These additions would make it a truly low-effort solution for SMBs that could run automatically in the background.</p> |
| Look and feel | 8 <p>Leapsome's interface features clear navigation and an informative landing page for all users. While the design is clean and customizable, some information is hard to find, requiring extra exploration to locate specific features.</p> | 8 <p>Effy features a slick, modern interface with clear navigation, consistent design, and efficient workflows. While the site has limited functionality, its contemporary design is appealing, even if it feels somewhat template-based throughout.</p> |
| Customisability | 7 <p>Leapsome provides marginally above-average customization capabilities. While it covers basic options like logo changes, its dashboard creation tools offer somewhat better functionality than competitors, including tile resizing and various data visualization options. However, these enhancements represent only modest improvements over standard industry offerings.</p> | 2 <p>Other than the questions portion which offers Google Forms level customisability, nothing else on the platform can be changed. This omits branding changes, form layout changes, visualisation dashboard changes, and more.</p> |
| Ease of Setup | 8 <p>Leapsome offers one of the better setup experiences in its category, featuring excellent onboarding with a helpful sandbox mode containing dummy data to help users understand the platform's workflows. However, this sandbox has limitations—users cannot independently test creating reviews themselves.</p><p>The platform loses some points for navigation intuitiveness. Likely due to its high customizability, establishing processes like goals and review workflows requires more time than expected.</p><p>Regarding implementation timeframe, teams should plan for 1.5-2 days to fully configure the platform. Teams led by HR executives who can leverage the extensive customization options will trend toward the shorter end of this estimate.</p> | 9 <p>Effy's setup process is straightforward, mainly due to its limited connectivity and minimal feature set. Testing showed you only need to add team members (via email invites or Slack integration) and create a review by either prompting a question, specifying a use case, or using an existing template. We missed the ability to bulk import data via CSV—currently only available by contacting their team directly. Most users can master the platform in under 30 minutes and begin sending reviews within 2 hours of implementation.</p> |
| Customer Support | 7 <p>Leapsome features one of the better help systems in its category, with an accessible chat bubble that provides both an AI chatbot and various support resources directly from the main interface.While the bot doesn't always provide perfectly matched answers, it smoothly transitions complex inquiries to human support via email follow-up.</p><p>In our testing, we got a follow up response to our request for a human answer after 45 minutes.</p><p>The platform's help documentation also includes convenient 15-minute support calls that users can schedule through Calendly during business hours.</p> | 7 <p>Effy AI has a relatively responsive chatbot, and we got a response within 20 minutes of our first contact with them. Effy claims personalised support from their founders, and we found a personalised contact point from their CEO himself offering a tour and to reach out with any questions regarding the platform.</p> |
| Integratability | 9 <p>Leapsome offers an extensive integration library, connecting with numerous HRIS platforms and management tools like Jira. While unlisted software still requires custom API integration, the platform's comprehensive integration options greatly increase the chances of importing your employee data without complications.</p> | 2 <p>Other than their native integration with Slack, there are no integrations available. The useful connection with Slack is the only saving grace in a segment that typically has HRIS, Communications, and some calendar functionality.</p> |
| Ease of Migration | 5 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In testing, we found Leapsome to be largely in line with the average exportability features we see in the segment. We found the typical export functionalities of CSV and PDF within the reports, and some level of integrations with Slack amongst others to bring Leapsome's data beyond the software.</span></p> | 4 <p>You can export results via CSV and that's it, missing the option often available at full suite products like PDF, XML, and more.</p> |
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