The 2026 ClearBox intranet report, released and free

The 2026 edition of our Intranet and Employee Experience Platforms report is now available as a free download. This year’s report includes robust, independent reviews and scores for 37 leading intranet, employee app, and internal communications platforms – reflecting the latest product developments, market shifts, and buyer priorities.

Download your free copy now to see how the top products on the market compare, such as: Appspace, Beekeeper, Blink, Interact, LumApps, MangoApps, Oak, Poppulo, SharePoint, Staffbase, Unily, Workvivo, and Zoho.

How the report will help you 

We’ve been reviewing platforms in this market for over ten years and each time we’ve taken market leaders through their paces, helping readers make the right choices for their businesses. We’ve taken all that experience, and the knowledge gained from working with scores of clients on their digital workplace projects, to create this new report that assesses some of the best products on the market.  

Each vendor demonstrated to us how their software fulfils certain business scenarios. This is more than a list of features and functions: our scenarios are real-life business situations that products should meet head-on (such as internal communication needs, knowledge management, and general user experience). We identified these scenarios after months of research into the products on the market, user needs, and business requirements. The scenarios are outlined in the report (those familiar with past editions will see they’ve been overhauled for 2026) and our reviewers used the framework to form each review.  

We believe that our report will give you the foundation information you need before you consider the right approach for your organisation. This will save you weeks of research, as well as provide information you simply can’t get from vendors’ websites, giving you the confidence to make the right decisions. 

And for those who are interested in market trends and insights, there are dozens of pages of supporting materials, brimming with useful information. For example: 

• You guessed it – AI! We’ve seen even more AI capabilities added to products in the past year, many of which are genuinely useful. 

• A knock-on of the AI developments is a return to the concept of the intranet as the “front door” to the organisation. 

• Organisations are being more cautious about budgets and spending more time on purchasing decisions due to global economic concerns. The report can help in multiple places. 

• Internal Communicators are front and centre of many products now, so we’re seeing a bunch of innovative capabilities being introduced.  

• The ripple-effect of Meta’s announcement in 2024 that they would be sunsetting their Workplace platform continues to be felt, with even more social features introduced to platforms in the past year.  

What’s changed from V4 in 2025

Thousands of you downloaded the 2024 edition (thank you for your support!) and you will find that the 2026 edition has been entirely updated. We conducted reader research again and overhauled our scenarios to reflect that feedback, along with our latest client research. We’ve also introduced a few new products this time too, both as full reviews with scores and as ‘product overview’ reviews. 

If you downloaded the 2025 edition I’d strongly encourage you to download this new edition so that you can read the most up-to-date information possible about the market. I say it every year, but I really do think this is our best edition yet! 

Independent experts 

We haven’t written the report alone, we’ve had help from people across the world of internal communications, digital workplaces, and intranets – all of them experts in their fields and excellent voices in our report. 

Please get in touch 

We’d really like to hear your thoughts on our report, so please leave a comment below or email us at reports@clearbox.co.uk. Please let us know if you write a blog post about the report, or tag us if you do anything on social media too. If you’re a vendor who’s interested in being involved in our reports in future, please have a look at our ‘information for software vendors’ section and get in touch. 

A last word… 

Even if you downloaded the 2025 edition, you’ll want to get this one. We’ve revised everything – scenarios, reviews, scores, and our findings – and added in some new products that we’ve never reviewed before (such as Zoho) plus welcomed back some wonderful platforms (like LumApps and Workvivo). Whether you’re looking for an intranet, employee experience platform, a comms tool, or something else to supplement your digital workplace – we’ve reviewed all sorts! 

The free report includes reviews of 37 of the best products on the market, and includes SharePoint with Viva in support. This will let you compare and contrast your options, so you can decide whether SharePoint truly is the best solution for your business or whether you need something more. We’re confident that our expert assessments will help you shortlist and select the best intranet, employee app, communication platform, or employee experience software for your organisation.