AutoElevate Notify vs Spiceworks Help Desk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AutoElevate Notify
This app enables Managed Service Providers to manage end-user privilege requests in real-time. It allows for entering time and ticket information, receiving notifications, and checking request status as part of a larger privilege management system.
- Real-time privilege request management
- End-user privilege elevation
- Time and ticket information entry
- Request notification system
- Status checking
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AutoElevate Notify is part of AutoElevate's Real-Time Privilege Management System which allows Managed Service Providers to elevate end user's privilege requests, enter time and ticket information, receive request notifications, and check status. This app is provided at no charge with the overall AutoElevate system but requires an active account, subscription, and login with AutoElevate.
Spiceworks Help Desk
Manage your IT help desk tickets and users on the go. This app provides IT professionals with the tools to respond to, create, and manage trouble tickets from their mobile devices. Stay informed with real-time notifications for ticket updates.
- Manage help desk tickets
- Respond to tickets
- Create new tickets
- Assign tickets
- Ticket notifications
- Manage users
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Manage your Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk - Anywhere. Take your help desk tickets and users with you wherever you go! With Spiceworks Help Desk (mobile), Spiceworks users have the tools and info they need to do their IT jobs – at their fingertips. Used by over 1 million IT pros worldwide, Spiceworks free IT management tools & apps (and online community) simplifies “everything IT” about the IT workday. From network inventory and monitoring to help desk, vendor ratings & reviews and more, Spiceworks delivers everything an IT pro needs to get their daily grind done. All for free. Spiceworks Help Desk for IT Pros. RUN YOUR HELP DESK & TEND TO YOUR TICKETS - See and respond to all of your trouble tickets - Create new tickets, close and re-open existing ones - Add and edit ticket description and details - Assign tickets and set priorities, due date & more - Receive notifications on your mobile device for new/assigned/reopened tickets, and ticket comments ..and you’ll be off-and-running and able to take your tickets and users with you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AutoElevate Notify at 3.0 against Spiceworks Help Desk's 1.8. Spiceworks Help Desk's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 10). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
AutoElevate Notify holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spiceworks Help Desk has 63 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of AutoElevate Notify's written reviews are positive against 6% of Spiceworks Help Desk's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
AutoElevate Notify ships an update every 6 weeks, Spiceworks Help Desk every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AutoElevate Notify | Spiceworks Help Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (10 ratings) — better | 1.8 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 6.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SuperUser Software, Inc. | Spiceworks, Inc. |
Customer experience
AutoElevate Notify
Spiceworks Help Desk
Bugs and requests
AutoElevate Notify
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Spiceworks Help Desk
Reported bugs
27 issues- Unable to sign into mobile app
- Notifications fail to deliver
- Notifications result in 404 error
- App logs out repeatedly
- App crashes on reply
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- 404 error when clicking notifications
- Errors when closing tickets
- Unable to send messages to update tickets
- App freezes on login
- Tickets are missing on the mobile app
- App doesn't work on iPad
- Tapping notification leads to an error
- Cannot send a response to tickets
- Push notifications are useless hyperlinks
- App doesn't work on iPad
- Cannot login using Google credentials
- Basic functionality is bugged/missing
- App is phone format only, no iPad version
- Ads are too close to send button
- Reply function doesn't work
- Creating a ticket for another user doesn't always work
- Responding to tickets is broken
- Back button opens advertisement
- App doesn't load, spins endlessly
- Due date not saved
- Cannot accept tickets
- App is not syncing
Requested features
12 requests- Make the app open source
- Add dark mode
- Add iPad support
- Add Google SSO
- Improve multi-account support
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- Add API for automation
- Custom mail server settings
- Improve UI/UX
- Fix notification repetition
- Allow ticket deletion/merging
- Improve search functionality
- Add loading/splash screen
In-app purchases
AutoElevate Notify
No in-app purchases
Spiceworks Help Desk
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is AutoElevate Notify free?
Is Spiceworks Help Desk free?
Which has better reviews, AutoElevate Notify or Spiceworks Help Desk?
Do AutoElevate Notify or Spiceworks Help Desk have ads?
Which is updated more often, AutoElevate Notify or Spiceworks Help Desk?
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