Comparison

Greetly · Digital Receptionist vs Visitly

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Greetly · Digital Receptionist

This app modernizes office reception by managing visitors, deliveries, and tours through a customizable, touchless digital system. It offers instant notifications, e-signatures, and badge printing, saving time and money for businesses.

Highlights
  • Touchless visitor sign-in
  • Customizable branding
  • Instant visitor notifications
  • E-signature collection
  • Visitor badge printing
  • Integration with Microsoft/Azure AD
Features
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Greetly is the only fully customizable and touchless visitor management system serving enterprise and SMB clients across the globe. Greetly's digital receptionist app manages visiting customers, vendors, interview candidates, deliveries, facility tours, scheduled entries and exits and more. This modernization to office reception capabilities results in significant time and money savings for Greetly clients. The technology - which provides instant visitor notifications, collects e-signatures, and prints visitor badges – can be branded and customized to the unique needs of each work environment. Greetly’s solutions are used by several brands including DHL, the Dallas Cowboys, Office Evolution, Randstad, and the United States Air Force. NO-TOUCH Greetly’s “no-touch” visitor sign-in keeps your workplace healthy and productive. Visitors can check into your office, shared workspace, production facility and more without touching a shared kiosk. FULLY LOADED From instant visitor notifications via voice call, text messages, emails, Microsoft Team, Google Hangouts and Slack, to collecting eSignatures, to printing visitor badges, Greetly can be customized to the branding and unique receptionist needs of every work environment. Greetly’s solutions are used by several brands including DHL, Office Evolution, the United States Air Force, the Dallas Cowboys and Randstad. Greetly was named “Best ROI” by G2 and a Key Company within the visitor management space by QY Research. EASY PEASY You go to work to solve interesting problems. To make peoples’ lives better. Not to get bogged down receiving Bob from accounting’s lunch order. Let Greetly do it. With Greetly, the visitor registration process is quick and easy. And dare we say… FUN! YOUR DIGITAL RECEPTIONIST Greetly is a 100% white-labeled visitor sign-in app. Guests see only your logo and brand colors. Imagine your visitors will saying: “Wow, your company is so high tech, your virtual receptionist app is so impressive!” Launch Greetly today and make every day Happy Administrative Professionals Day. INCREDIBLY CUSTOMIZABLE Require visitors to sign an NDA? Greetly’s check-in app has got ya’ covered - it doubles as an eSignature app. Need event registration software? Voilà, you know who is in da’house. Lots of package deliveries? Done. Secure facility? Greetly can take a photo of every visitor and print visitor badges so visitors are recognized at a glance. Want to change the verbiage to reflect your brand? It's a matter of seconds. TONS OF INTEGRATIONS Make managing your host list super easy with our Microsoft Active Directory and cloud-based Azure AD integrations. UNLIMITED HOSTS, VISITORS AND RECEPTION NOTIFICATIONS The Greetly iPad sign in app proudly provides digital visitor management to organizations ranging from tech startups to non-profits to global corporations. No matter how big or small your employee base, Greetly's i Receptionist offers unlimited visitor registrations and instant check-in notifications. No worry about usage fees or add-ons for too many SMS notifications – it’s all included. INSTANT NOTIFICATIONS Greetly sends instant reception notifications to employees via voice call, text message, email, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts and Slack. Each employees gets to choose which types of eReceptionist notifications they want to receive. Whatever they prefer, Greetly works fast… And there it went. HABLA ESPANOL. ET FRANÇAIS. と日本語. Make your lobby experience comfortable for guests. Allow visitors to check in with the language of their choice. Greetly’s front desk sign in app can be customized to display in whatever languages you choose. DIGITAL VISITOR LOG Want to contact visitors to thank them for coming? Did something go missing? Need to know who was onsite during an evacuation or drill? Greetly’s visitor check in app includes a secure cloud-based visitor log. Access, view and download your visitor list anytime, anywhere. Keep your workplace safe and productive.

About

Visitly

Streamline front desk operations with a digital visitor sign-in system. Capture visitor information, digitally sign documents, and print badges instantly. Manage locations and receive real-time host notifications.

Highlights
  • Digital visitor sign-in
  • Document signing
  • Photo ID capture
  • Web dashboard for administration
  • Real-time host notifications
  • Instant badge printing
Features
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Fast and Easy Tablet Sign In Use the Visitly iPad app at your front desk or lobby and provide a fast and easy way for your visitors, guest and employees to fill in their information, digitally sign documents and capture their photo ID. Your visitors or employees can sign in and sign out within a few seconds. Configure the look and feel, colors, and logo based on your brand Web Dashboard Online web based application for your administrators and front desk staff to view all visitors, guests and/or employees signing in and out of your location. Administrators can manage your sites, locations, devices and other settings in an easy to use navigation and UI. Rich dashboards provides key metrics such as busiest times of the day and various other information for you to plan accordingly. Realtime Host Notifications With Visitly you can integrate automated real time notification to your Hosts based on your preferred communication method. Use out of the box integrations with Email,Slack, and/or Webex Teams for real time notifications to your hosts and other recipients on sign in and sign out. Instant Badge Printing Print a visitor badge instantly on any approved wireless thermal printer on visitors’ sign in. Easily configure options for printing badges on the web portal and customize based on your needs

Verdict

The call

Greetly · Digital Receptionist and Visitly both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 98% of Greetly · Digital Receptionist's written reviews are positive against 50% of Visitly's. Greetly · Digital Receptionist also leads on ratings volume (82 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). Visitly's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Visitly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Greetly · Digital Receptionist has 82 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 98% of Greetly · Digital Receptionist's written reviews are positive against 50% of Visitly's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Greetly · Digital Receptionist ships an update every 6 weeks, Visitly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Greetly · Digital Receptionist versus Visitly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGreetly · Digital ReceptionistVisitly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (82 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.4% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings82 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreetly, Inc.Visitly, Inc.

Customer experience

Greetly · Digital Receptionist

All ratings82 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.6%

Visitly

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Greetly · Digital Receptionist

No in-app purchases

None

Visitly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Greetly · Digital Receptionist free?
Greetly · Digital Receptionist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visitly free?
Visitly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Greetly · Digital Receptionist or Visitly?
Visitly is rated higher. Greetly · Digital Receptionist averages 4.8 out of 5 from 82 ratings, while Visitly averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Greetly · Digital Receptionist or Visitly have ads?
Neither Greetly · Digital Receptionist nor Visitly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Greetly · Digital Receptionist or Visitly?
Greetly · Digital Receptionist ships an update every 6 weeks, and Visitly every 3 weeks. Most recently, Greetly · Digital Receptionist was updated on November 3, 2026 and Visitly on November 2, 2026.

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