Take Control Console vs SyncroMSP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Take Control Console
This platform offers real-time remote access and support for Windows and Mac devices. It enables efficient remote management and monitoring, allowing for cost-effective business interventions. Access your desktop from any smartphone or tablet, chat with users, and check system information.
- Real-time remote access
- Remote management and monitoring
- Cross-platform support (Windows/Mac)
- Chat with remote users
- View remote system information
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The best remote support is not the one you’re thinking. Try a real-time platform able to deliver much more than just remote access & support: MSP Anywhere also provides easy and efficient remote management and monitoring, allowing a cost-saving complete intervention over your business. Taking advantage of the industry’s fastest protocol, access your Windows® OS or Mac OS® devices from any smartphone or tablet. Like thousands of other users worldwide, enjoy this app to: •Easily provide Support to any Windows® OS or Mac OS®; •Access any machine desktop as if you’re in front of it; •Chat with the remote user; •Check the remote system info; •And much, much more…
SyncroMSP
Manage your managed services business on the go. This app allows field technicians to handle tickets, invoices, and time tracking. Quickly check in and out of jobs, upload attachments, and process payments from anywhere.
- Ticket management
- Invoice processing
- Payment collection
- Field job check-in/check-out
- Time tracking
- Attachment uploads
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Syncro is your all-in-one platform for managing your managed services or similar business. Our (Lite) app enables you to work on tickets and invoices and more from the field. Quickly look up any of your open invoices, select a payment method, and take payment. You can use this as a field technician now too - one-tap "check-in" and "check-out" of a field job, upload attachments, and track time spent on tasks with ease. This app is free to use for all Syncro users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Take Control Console at 1.7 against SyncroMSP's 1.3. Take Control Console also leads on review sentiment (23% vs 7%). SyncroMSP's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Take Control Console holds the better App Store score, 1.7 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of Take Control Console's written reviews are positive against 7% of SyncroMSP's.
Take Control Console ships an update every 3 months, SyncroMSP every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Take Control Console | SyncroMSP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (11 ratings) — better | 1.3 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews — better | 6.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | N-able Technologies Inc. | Servably, Inc |
Customer experience
Take Control Console
SyncroMSP
Bugs and requests
Take Control Console
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SyncroMSP
Reported bugs
28 issues- UI crashes in a loop after signing in
- FaceID broke on latest iOS
- App freezes every time
- Cannot create a new ticket
- Signed out every single day
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- Same device listed multiple times
- Remote access not working
- Endless loading loop on new app version
- App immediately logs out after signing in
- Won't stay unlocked for more than .02 seconds
- App doesn't even open
- Login loop, crashes back to face recognition
- Application does not function with iOS 16.1 or iOS 16.2 beta2
- Cannot create tickets in v2.1.14
- Assets listed as offline and slow to load
- Loads to blank white screen
- App locks up all the time
- Notification for ticket leads to blank screen
- App hasn't been updated in 6 months
- Cannot open a ticket from the notification
- Fails to load or results are inaccurate
- Updated app does not launch on iOS 12 or 13
- Cannot delete tickets or mark them as spam
- Appointments are read only
- Cannot create new appointments on the go
- No notifications for new tickets
- Cannot remote connect on iPad Pro
- Assets are pretty much view only
Requested features
8 requests- Dark mode
- Organize companies by logos
- Asset list first in company view
- Remote access
- More options for the app
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- All documentation features
- Add contact to a ticket
- Reminders tab
In-app purchases
Take Control Console
No in-app purchases
SyncroMSP
No in-app purchases
Questions
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