1Gesture vs Greenspark 2026: a side-by-side comparison
1Gesture vs Greenspark: a meeting, or a checkout?
Two products that fund a small, countable good deed on behalf of a business. They start from different moments, and somebody different does the choosing.
Everything said here about Greenspark was read from their own public pages on 21 September 2026. Every source is listed at the end of this page.
Greenspark attaches environmental impact to a customer action such as an order, and the business picks it. 1Gesture attaches an act of kindness to your online-meeting reminder, and your guest picks it.
How do the two compare, line by line?
| Question | 1Gesture | Greenspark |
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| Starts from an online meeting | ✓ | ✗ |
| Starts from a store order or checkout | ✗ | ✓ |
| The recipient chooses the cause | ✓ | ✗ |
| One flat price per unit | ✓ | ✗ |
| Unlimited users on every plan | ✓ | ✗ |
| A free plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| An impact dashboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| A public impact page | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publishes how long setting up takes | ✓ | ✗ |
| More than three causes to choose from | ✗ | ✓ |
| Funds carbon offsetting | ✗ | ✓ |
| Pre-built ecommerce and email integrations | ✗ | ✓ |
Setting up takes about 30 seconds, and a Gesture is only used when your guest chooses one.
What is the actual difference?
The moment that starts it, and the person who chooses.
Greenspark starts from something your customer does on your site. Its retail and ecommerce page lists the triggers as orders, spend thresholds, products, reviews, signups, subscriptions, loyalty milestones, in-store payments and custom API events, wired in through pre-built integrations with ecommerce, email, review, payment and POS tools. The business sets up which of those fund which project, across trees, carbon, ocean-bound plastic, kelp, clean water and bees.
1Gesture starts from a meeting. It sends your online-meeting reminder for you, from your connected Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook, and that reminder invites your guest to choose one act of kindness that you pay for and a named Gesture Partner delivers: 5 school meals from Mary’s Meals, 6 days of clean drinking water for a family from charity: water, or 25 plastic bottles removed from coastal areas by Plastic Bank. Your guest chooses. That choice is the point.
Everything else on this page follows from those two sentences.
How does the pricing compare?
Compare the structures, not the headline numbers. They are built differently.
1Gesture is $1 per Gesture, and the price will never move. There is no monthly subscription and no per-seat fee. You open your account from $20 and buy from 20 to 5,000 Gestures at a time. For larger volumes, talk to us and a real person will get back to you. A Gesture is only used when your guest chooses one, so a reminder nobody acts on costs nothing. Unused Gestures expire after 12 months. The Free plan is $0 forever, with branded meeting reminders and dashboard access.
Greenspark publishes plan fees billed yearly: Starter at “$7 per month” with “1 active user account”, Growth at “$29 per month” with up to 3, Premium at “$79 per month” with up to 8, and Enterprise shown as “Book a demo” with unlimited user accounts. Impact is charged per unit on top of the plan fee, at published rates including “$0.40 / tree”, “$0.05 / bottle”, “$0.01 / kg” of CO2 and “$0.40 / day” of clean water. A free “Pay-as-You-Grow” plan carries no subscription fee and higher per-impact rates.
When is Greenspark the better choice?
When the moment you want to mark is something a customer does on your site.
1Gesture has nothing to attach to a checkout. If your business runs on orders, sign-ups, reviews, subscriptions or in-store payments, Greenspark is built for exactly that and 1Gesture is not. Its retail and ecommerce page names those triggers and lists pre-built integrations with ecommerce, email, review, payment and POS tools.
Greenspark also funds a wider range of causes than 1Gesture does. It offers trees, carbon, plastic, kelp, clean water and bees. 1Gesture offers three outcomes and nothing else. If you need a carbon line for a sustainability report, 1Gesture does not produce one.
The specifics, from their own pages: six kinds of project rather than three — trees, carbon, ocean-bound plastic, kelp, clean water and bees. Pre-built integrations with ecommerce, email, review, payment and POS tools, plus a documented API. Impact that can hang off orders, spend thresholds, individual products, reviews, sign-ups, subscriptions, loyalty milestones and in-store payments. A dashboard, a public profile and a published ledger of payments on every plan.
None of that is something 1Gesture does or intends to do. If the moment you want to mark is a purchase rather than a meeting, this comparison ends here and Greenspark is the answer.
When is 1Gesture the better choice?
When the moment you want to mark is a meeting, and you want the other person to choose.
Your meeting reminder is the last thing your guest reads before they decide whether to turn up. Most reminders say the time and the link, and nothing else. 1Gesture sends that reminder for you, from your own connected email account, in your name, not from a 1Gesture address, and it invites your guest to choose one act of kindness that you fund.
Your guest chooses, and that is the whole point. This is not something you pick for them. You could send the money yourself and say nothing, and nobody would feel anything. You get an email before the meeting telling you which cause your guest chose. Not their job title. Not their company size. What they picked when someone asked them to choose.
Starting is small. Setting up takes about 30 seconds, timed with people outside our team. The Free plan is $0 forever, and a Gesture is only used when your guest chooses one.
Why teams choose a meeting Gesture?
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Why does your guest choose, and not you?
The choice is the point. You could send the money yourself and say nothing, and nobody would feel anything. Being asked to choose is a small moment of being treated as a person with a view, in the middle of a working day. That is why this is not a gift you picked for them.
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Why does it come from your own address?
It comes from you. The reminder is sent from your own connected email account, in your name, not from a 1Gesture address. Your client sees the address they already know. Sign up with Google or Microsoft, and your meetings go in your calendar exactly as before.
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Why is the price fixed?
The price never moves. $1 per Gesture, and the price will never move. No monthly subscription, no per-seat fee, so there is nothing to renegotiate later. A Gesture is only used when your guest chooses one. If they ignore it, nothing is spent.
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Why only three causes?
A short, closed list. Three named Gesture Partners, each with a signed agreement: charity: water, Mary’s Meals and Plastic Bank. No open directory, no self-listing. A closed list is what lets every figure be confirmed in writing by the Partner that delivers it.
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Why are you told before the meeting?
You know before you join. You get an email before the meeting telling you which cause your guest chose. Not their job title. Not their company size. What they picked when someone asked them to choose — the one thing about them you could not have looked up.
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What does your guest actually see?
One tap, no login. The reminder you already send, with one thing added: an invitation to choose an act of kindness you fund. Clean water. A school meal. Plastic pulled off a coastline. They tap one. No login, no account, and then a thank-you. You can watch it happen before you send one.
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What do you store about your guest?
Two things, and no more. Their email address, and the cause they chose. That is the whole record. Nothing else about them is kept, and nothing is asked of them beyond the one tap.
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What happens to Gestures nobody uses?
Twelve months. Unused Gestures expire after 12 months. Until then they sit in your account, and a Gesture is only drawn down when a guest actually chooses one, so nothing is spent on a reminder that goes unanswered.
So which one should you choose?
The honest answer is that it depends on one thing: what moment you want to mark.
Choose Greenspark if
- the moment is a purchase, a sign-up, a review or a subscription renewal
- you need carbon offsetting, trees, kelp or bees, not just meals, water and plastic
- you want impact wired into Shopify, Klaviyo, a POS or your own API
- you want your customers to see the running total on your storefront
Choose 1Gesture if
- the moment is an online meeting with someone you want to keep
- you want the other person to choose, rather than being handed something you picked
- you want one fixed price with no subscription and no per-seat fee
- you want to know what they chose before you join the call
They are not substitutes, and nothing stops a business running both. One hangs off what your customers do on your site; the other hangs off the meetings you hold.
Frequently asked questions
Is 1Gesture an alternative to Greenspark?
Only partly. Both attach a small, countable good deed to something a business already does. Greenspark works from customer actions such as orders, reviews and sign-ups. 1Gesture works from your online-meeting reminder. If you have no meetings to remind people about, 1Gesture has nothing to attach to.
Can a business use both?
Yes. Nothing in either product stops the other. They are started by different things: one by what your customers do on your site, the other by the meetings you hold.
Which one costs less?
That depends on how much you fund, so compare the structures rather than the headline numbers. 1Gesture is $1 per Gesture, and the price will never move, with no monthly subscription, and a Gesture is only used when your guest chooses one. Greenspark publishes plan fees of $7, $29 or $79 a month billed yearly, with per-impact rates charged on top.
Does my guest need an account?
No. No login. No account. One tap and they are done, on one of three causes. We store two things about your guest: their email address and the cause they chose.
Which calendars does 1Gesture work with?
Google and Microsoft. Nothing else changes: your meetings go in your calendar as normal, and the reminder is sent from your own connected email account, in your name, not from a 1Gesture address.
How current are the Greenspark facts on this page?
Every Greenspark line was read from their own public pages on 21 September 2026, and every source is listed at the end of this page. Prices and features move, so check them again before relying on them.
Does 1Gesture cost anything per month?
No. There is no monthly subscription and no per-seat fee. You open your account from $20 and buy from 20 to 5,000 Gestures at a time, at $1 per Gesture, and the price will never move. A Gesture is only used when your guest chooses one, so a reminder nobody acts on costs nothing. Unused Gestures expire after 12 months.
Does Greenspark work from meetings?
Not according to their own pages. Greenspark's published trigger list is customer actions — "orders, spend thresholds, products, reviews, signups, subscriptions, loyalty milestones, in-store payments and custom API/MCP events", read on their retail and ecommerce page on 21 September 2026. Meetings are not among them. If your impact needs to hang off a meeting rather than a purchase, that is the difference.
Can I use 1Gesture without an online store?
Yes. 1Gesture connects to a Google or Microsoft calendar, not to a shop. There is nothing to install on a website and no orders to hook into. If you run external meetings, you have everything it needs.
Who actually delivers the act of kindness?
One of three named Gesture Partners, each with a signed agreement with 1Gesture: charity: water, Mary's Meals and Plastic Bank. There is no open directory and no self-listing. 1 Gesture buys 5 school meals, confirmed in writing by Mary's Meals; 6 days of clean drinking water for a family, confirmed in writing by charity: water; or removes 25 plastic bottles from coastal areas, confirmed in writing by Plastic Bank.
What happens if I stop using it?
Nothing to cancel, because there is no subscription. Whatever you have bought stays in your account and unused Gestures expire after 12 months. You are never billed again for a month you did not use.
How quickly can I be running?
Setting up takes about 30 seconds, and we have timed that with people outside our team. Sign up with Google or Microsoft, connect your calendar, and nothing else changes: your meetings go in your calendar as normal and the reminder is sent from your own connected email account, in your name.
Want to try the meeting side of this?
Sign up with Google or Microsoft and connect your calendar. Nothing else changes: your meetings go in your calendar as normal. Setting up takes about 30 seconds.
Where did all of this come from?
Every line on this page, on both sides, and when it was checked.
| Source | What it backs | Read |
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| getgreenspark.com | The six impact types, and that carbon offsetting is one of them | 21 September 2026 |
| getgreenspark.com/pricing/business | Every Greenspark price: plan fees, per-impact rates, the free plan, and the per-plan limit on user accounts | 21 September 2026 |
| getgreenspark.com/solutions/retail-ecommerce | What triggers impact, and the pre-built ecommerce and email integrations | 21 September 2026 |
| getgreenspark.com/features/manage | The impact dashboard and the public ledger of payments | 21 September 2026 |
| 1gesture.org/signup | The Gesture price, the $20 minimum, the 20 to 5,000 range, unlimited seats, the engagement rule | 21 September 2026 |
| Written confirmation from each Gesture Partner | The three outcome figures: 5 school meals, 6 days of clean drinking water, 25 plastic bottles | Held on file |
| The people who run 1Gesture | Product behavior, the signed Partner agreements, the dashboard, the 30-second setup | September 2026 |
Everything said here about Greenspark comes from the Greenspark pages listed above. Nothing is taken from a review site, a directory or a sales conversation.
Where Greenspark does not publish something, the comparison says it is not stated on the pages we read. That is not the same as saying Greenspark does not do it.
Prices and features move. Treat the dates above as the expiry on this page, not as decoration.