Comparison

Greetly · Digital Receptionist vs CloudGate Smart Kiosk

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

CloudGate Smart Kiosk

Features
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The CloudGate Smart Kiosk provides an all-in-one solution to manage your visitors and workforce to optimize busy buildings with high traffic or unsupervised lobbies. Powered by CloudGate platform and CloudGate Web Portal, it delivers a highly scalable, enterprise class end-to-end access management system.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CloudGate Smart Kiosk at every 3 weeks against Greetly · Digital Receptionist's every 6 weeks. Greetly · Digital Receptionist's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Greetly · Digital Receptionist ships an update every 6 weeks, CloudGate Smart Kiosk every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Greetly · Digital Receptionist versus CloudGate Smart Kiosk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGreetly · Digital ReceptionistCloudGate Smart Kiosk
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (82 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews98.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings82 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB145 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreetly, Inc.Soloinsight Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Greetly · Digital Receptionist

No in-app purchases

None

CloudGate Smart Kiosk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Greetly · Digital Receptionist free?
Greetly · Digital Receptionist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CloudGate Smart Kiosk free?
CloudGate Smart Kiosk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Greetly · Digital Receptionist or CloudGate Smart Kiosk have ads?
Neither Greetly · Digital Receptionist nor CloudGate Smart Kiosk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Greetly · Digital Receptionist or CloudGate Smart Kiosk?
Greetly · Digital Receptionist ships an update every 6 weeks, and CloudGate Smart Kiosk every 3 weeks. Most recently, Greetly · Digital Receptionist was updated on November 3, 2026 and CloudGate Smart Kiosk on November 7, 2026.

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