Run Your Creative Awards,
From Open Call to Gallery.
AwardKit is built for the photography, design, and creative competitions that live or die by how the work is shown. Collect rich media submissions, charge entry fees that land directly in your account, score with a jury rubric, run a people’s-choice vote, and publish winners to a public gallery. Self-serve from day one, no demo required.
No credit card. Build free, pay only to go live. No demo required.
- Unlimited art and design competitions
- Rich media entries: images, video, audio, PDF
- Jury rubric plus people’s-choice voting
- Public winners gallery and certificates
- Entry fees to your Stripe, 0% commission
Build for free, pay only when you go live. No demo required.
Art and design awards software, built around the work itself
AwardKit is art and design awards software for photography awards, design competitions, illustration prizes, and film and video awards that need to present creative work the way it deserves to be seen.
From the open call through jury scoring to the winners gallery, you run the whole program in one workspace: build custom entry forms that accept high-resolution images, video, audio, PDF portfolios, and external links, collect entry fees directly into your own Stripe account with zero commission, score entries on a weighted jury rubric across one or more rounds, and add a people’s-choice audience vote alongside it.
There is no sales demo to schedule and no commission taken from your entry fees. Build and test the entire program for free, then pay a flat annual price only when you are ready to open the call for entries.
Every submission shows
the work in full
Creative awards live or die by how the work is presented. AwardKit entry forms accept the media types a real submission carries, so jurors review the actual piece, not a shrunken thumbnail.
High-res images
Single frames and full series, shown at the quality they deserve.
Video
Short films, reels, and motion work that jurors play in place.
Audio
Sound design, scores, and audio pieces attached to the entry.
PDF portfolios
Multi-page case studies and design portfolios, read end to end.
External links
Live sites, prototypes, and hosted reels linked straight in.
From entry to a public gallery
Every accepted piece can flow into a shareable public gallery with category filters and winner badges, where a people’s-choice audience vote runs right alongside your jury scoring.
What creative awards organizers tell us about their tooling
The work is the point. Most platforms make it the hardest part.
Form tools that flatten the work
Photography and design entries are the whole submission, yet generic form and contest tools squeeze them into tiny thumbnails or a single file field. Jurors squint at low-res previews, and there is nowhere to show a video reel, an audio piece, or a multi-page PDF portfolio properly.
A sales demo just to find out the price
The incumbents hide pricing behind a Request a Demo button. You wanted to open the call for entries this month, but you cannot even get a number without sitting through a call and waiting on a custom quote built around your entry volume.
Pricing that scales up with every prize
Most platforms charge per program, so each new prize or open call is billed separately, and some add a commission on every paid entry on top. The studios and institutions running the most calls end up paying the most.
How it works
From a blank workspace to published winners, without a sales call in between.
Build your program for free
Create the program, add your categories, build the entry form, set per-category fees, and configure your judging rubric. Everything is free to build and test before you go live.
Open submissions and collect entry fees
Share the submission link. Entrants complete your form and pay the entry fee, which lands directly in your own Stripe account with zero commission.
Judge with your committee
Assign judges to categories, run one or more rounds with weighted criteria, and watch scores aggregate into a live leaderboard. No spreadsheets, no manual tallying.
Publish winners and report
Announce winners on a public results page when you are ready, issue certificates, and export entries, revenue, and judge participation for your board report.
A public gallery your entrants will want to share
When you publish results, entries and winners land on a fast, modern public gallery with category filters and winner badges. The kind of page artists link from their own portfolio, not a clunky 2010s results list.
What your creative awards program looks like on AwardKit
Submissions that show the work properly
Entry forms accept high-resolution images, video, audio, PDF portfolios, and external links, so each submission arrives the way the artist intended. Jurors review the actual work, not a shrunken thumbnail.
Jury scoring plus a people’s-choice vote
Score entries on a weighted jury rubric across one or more rounds, and run an audience vote alongside it for a people’s-choice award. Two distinct results, one program, no spreadsheets.
A public gallery worthy of the work
Publish a shareable public gallery of entries and winners with category filters and winner badges. The kind of page entrants are proud to link from their own portfolio.
Entry fees land in your account, in full
Fees are collected through your own Stripe account via Stripe Connect. AwardKit takes zero commission on entries, so the program revenue funds your prize and exhibition, not a middleman.
One flat price, every competition you run
A single $1,995 per year workspace covers unlimited programs. Run your photo award, your design competition, and your student prize side by side without per-program fees.
Reopen the series each season in minutes
Creative awards run as a series, year after year. Clone the previous edition, refresh the dates and categories, and reopen the call. Your form, fees, and rubric carry over so you are not starting from a blank page.
Every art and design competition, one workspace
Run as many of these as you like at no extra cost. Each gets its own categories, entry fees, rubric, and jury.
Photography award or open call
Single-image and series categories with high-resolution uploads, juried scoring, and a public gallery where the winning frames are shown at full quality.
Art prize or juried exhibition
An open call feeding a juried exhibition, with image and portfolio submissions, a selection round, and a curated honorees gallery for the shortlist and winners.
Design competition
Brand, product, web, and packaging design categories with multi-image and PDF case-study entries, scored by a panel on a weighted rubric you control.
Illustration and graphic design award
Illustration, type, and graphic design categories with rich image entries and external portfolio links, plus a people’s-choice vote alongside the jury result.
Film and video award
Short film, animation, and motion categories that accept video and external links, reviewed by jurors from any device with a clean playback and scoring flow.
Student and emerging-artist award
Early-career and student categories with reduced or comped entry fees via discount codes, a friendly submission flow, and a gallery that gives new talent real visibility.
Built for creative submissions
The pieces a media-rich competition actually needs, ready out of the box.
Rich media entry forms
Accept high-resolution images, video, audio, PDF portfolios, and external links on a custom form with the fields and eligibility questions your categories require.
Entry fees via Stripe Connect
Set per-category fees, early-bird pricing, and discount codes. Payments route directly to your own Stripe account with zero commission.
Weighted, multi-round jury scoring
Custom criteria and weights, multiple rounds, and per-category juror assignment for panels of any size.
Friction free for entrants and jurors
Artists submit and jurors score without fighting the tool.
A modern submission experience
A clean, fast entry flow that reflects well on your award, not a 2010s portal entrants dread logging into.
Jurors score from any device
Jurors open a personal link and review entries from a laptop, tablet, or phone, with no accounts to create and no training needed.
People’s-choice audience voting
Open a public audience vote alongside the jury to crown a people’s-choice winner and drive engagement around your series.
After the call closes
The follow-up work that usually eats a week, handled.
A public winners gallery
Announce winners and finalists on a shareable public gallery with category filters and winner badges, published when you are ready.
Certificates for winners and finalists
Every winner and finalist can receive a verifiable certificate they can share with their own network and clients.
Entry and revenue reports
Export entries, fees collected, and juror participation to CSV for your sponsor recap and next season’s budget.
See what you would pay elsewhere
Most platforms charge per program or take a commission on entry fees. Estimate your cost across every major platform against AwardKit’s flat $1,995 a year.
Keep exploring
Award program planning guide
A step-by-step guide to scoping, launching, and running an award program end to end.
Compare AwardKit to alternatives
See how AwardKit stacks up against Award Force, OpenWater, Submittable, and more.
How judging works
Weighted rubrics, multiple rounds, judge assignment, and live results explained.
Pricing
Flat $1,995 per year, unlimited programs, zero commission. Build free, pay to go live.
Questions creative awards organizers ask
Open Your Call for Entries This Week, Not Next Quarter.
Build your creative awards program for free and pay only when you go live. Flat $1,995/year, unlimited programs, zero commission on entry fees. No demo required.
No credit card. Build free, pay only to go live. No demo required.