Help Desk+ vs Spiceworks Help Desk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Help Desk+
Streamline customer and project support with this customizable app. Easily create service tickets, manage incidents, and collaborate with multiple users. Ideal for small businesses and organizations needing efficient teamwork and self-work management.
- Create service tickets and change requests
- Multi-user collaboration
- Customizable attributes and reports
- User management and role assignment
- Branch management for different locations
- Face ID for secure access
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Help Desk+ is a help desk, service ticket, incident, and change request management app for support teams, service businesses, IT operations, and internal workflows. Create and track tickets, incidents, requests, and support work while keeping customers, employees, teams, and business locations organized from iPhone, iPad, and Mac. HELP DESK & TICKETS • Create service tickets, incidents, and change requests. • Track support work from creation through completion. • Organize tickets by customer, status, category, worker, or team. • Keep service information available to multiple users. • Support customer service, internal support, repairs, maintenance, and project incidents. TEAM WORKFLOW • Coordinate support work across employees and teams. • Assign responsibilities and control access by role. • Separate operations by branch, location, or department. CUSTOMIZATION • Add custom attributes for ticket and service workflows. • Personalize reports and views for your business. • Customize fonts, colors, headers, footers, and logos. SECURITY & ACCESS CONTROL • Manage users, roles, branches, and access lists. • Limit who can view, add, or update data. • Authorize individual devices before account access. • Use biometric authentication supported by your device. STARKODE FOR BUSINESS Part of the Starkode business suite for teams working across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Need help? Contact support@starkode.com. SUBSCRIPTION Starkode membership is month-to-month with no long-term contracts or cancellation fees. Cancel anytime from your device. Privacy Policy: https://starkode.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://starkode.com/terms/
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: Help Desk+ at 5.0 against Spiceworks Help Desk's 1.8. Help Desk+ also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Spiceworks Help Desk's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (63 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Help Desk+ sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Spiceworks Help Desk asks for nothing beyond the download.
Help Desk+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spiceworks Help Desk has 63 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Help Desk+ ships an update every 4 weeks, Spiceworks Help Desk every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Help Desk+ | Spiceworks Help Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 1.8 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 6.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Starkode Limited Company | Spiceworks, Inc. |
Customer experience
Help Desk+
Spiceworks Help Desk
Bugs and requests
Help Desk+
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
Help Desk+
- Single User7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- 3 Users7 Days trial$19.491 Month
- 6 Users7 Days trial$34.991 Month
Spiceworks Help Desk
No in-app purchases
Questions
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