Approval App routes every sign-off to the right people in the right order — and keeps the record for you.
14-day trial · No credit card · Export your data any time
A contract needs the department head, then finance, then the VP. There's no system, so you're the system — forwarding, bumping, reminding, and reconstructing who said yes when someone finally asks.
A request that should clear in an hour takes days — no routing, no escalation, no visibility into where it's stuck.
When finance or an auditor asks who approved this and when, the honest answer is “let me reconstruct that.”
The whole process lives in one coordinator's head and inbox. When they're out, it breaks.
I’m not managing approvals. I’m chasing people. And when someone asks me who signed off on something three months ago, I have to go digging through email and hope I find it.
— the operations manager who became the routing engine
If your approvals are single-approver and simple, Teams Approvals may be all you need — honestly. Teams move to us the moment there are two approvers and the status gets out of sync, or you want conditional routing without building and maintaining a Power Automate flow, or you need the approver to review the actual document in one place. We're the step after Teams Approvals stops keeping up.
Not for you ifyour flows are simple and you live entirely in Microsoft 365.Adoption is the real problem, not setup. Approvers don't log into a new app — they get the request in email and Teams where they already are, and approve in one click. The reminders and escalations do the chasing you're doing now.
Not for you ifyour approvers won't engage with any structured process at all.Email “works” the way being the routing engine works — it costs you the chasing, the stalled decisions, and the afternoon you lose when finance asks who approved something. The question isn’t our price; it’s what the current way costs you.
Not for you ifapprovals genuinely aren't costing you anything yet.Approvers act from email or Teams — no new app to log into
The honest comparison you're already running — against the tools you actually weigh us against.
Competitor facts as of 2026-06 — reviewed quarterly.
A 14-day trial, and annual saves you two months. No card to start.
A flat monthly price for a small team running a handful of approval flows.
The volume tier — conditional routing, in-context review, and integrations for the whole team.
For teams that need SSO, advanced audit, and a defensible record across the org.
Too small for this? If “just ask Dana” still works, you don’t need it yet. Come back when a request last got stuck for three days.