Diligent Boards vs OnBoard Meetings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diligent Boards
This app provides a secure and intuitive platform for board members to access meeting materials, review documents, and collaborate. It offers tools for voting, questionnaires, and digital signatures, ensuring efficient decision-making and governance.
- Secure access to board books and meeting materials
- Tools for review, discussion, and collaboration
- Streamlined voting and questionnaire features
- Digital signature approvals
- Annotation and note-taking tools
- Offline access to materials
- 24/7 concierge-level support
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DILIGENT BOARDS – iPHONE and iPAD The most intuitive and secure way to improve communications and decision-making, Diligent Boards gives you immediate access to board books and meeting materials, along with the tools to review, discuss and collaborate on them. You’ll find streamlined voting, questionnaire tools and signature approvals with features that can be enabled or disabled to meet your organization’s governance and security requirements. Features: • Access current agendas and meeting materials, or archives from previous meeting • Protect all of your data with world-class security and encryption • Annotate any page using a suite of markup, bookmarking and note-taking tools • Collaborate with groups or select individuals by sharing comments, right on the page • Transition seamlessly between online and offline to access the app anywhere, even when Internet connectivity is unavailable • Keep up-to-date with built-in contact list and meeting calendar functions • Vote on motions and directives with instant digital signatures • Respond to questionnaires that save your responses as you go • Review your organization’s repository of governance information • Use side-by-side with Diligent Messenger to enable secure messaging and real-time collaboration. • Get assistance any time with award-winning 24/7/365 concierge-level support Experience a streamlined Diligent Boards on iPhone, with only essential features for on-the-go reading, annotation and more. Additional information: Over 4,700 organizations and 140,000 executives and board members trust Diligent with their most confidential board meeting materials. The Diligent Boards solution meets or exceeds the standards of the most security-conscious IT departments. Diligent’s information management security is ISO 27001 certified and our internal control processes have received clean SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 (SOC 1 Type 2) audits for nine consecutive years. You can count on unlimited training via one-on-one personal or group sessions, delivered either in person or online and including board presentations. We also provide regular webinar tutorials to keep you up-to-date about product features from Diligent and in-person seminars where you can compare notes with your peers. Ninety-nine percent of all support calls are answered immediately by our deeply knowledgeable employees. In addition to 24/7/365 support in English, our own employees also provide coverage during specified times in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, and select Indian and Sri Lankan dialects.
OnBoard Meetings
Streamline board meetings with a secure platform for preparation, execution, and analysis. Features include virtual meeting integration, eSignatures, voting, and secure messaging. Maintain compliance and enhance productivity with robust security protocols and offline access.
- Zoom integration for virtual meetings
- eSignatures and voting
- Secure messaging
- Offline access
- Resource library
- Annotations and notes
- Multi-board support
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Board meetings should be informed, effective, and uncomplicated. The OnBoard board intelligence platform enables teams and boards be forward-looking and strategic. OnBoard provides a secure and comprehensive set of tools to help you and your organization prepare, conduct, and analyze board meetings to maximize post-meeting productivity. Key features include a seamless Zoom integration for virtual meetings, annotations, eSignatures, secure messaging, RSVP, voting and approvals, a resource library, offline access, multi-board and subcommittee support, and more. OnBoard's industry-leading Microsoft Azure-based and multi-certified security protocols keep meeting materials safe and within compliance. Features include end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication, Face & Touch ID, granular access permissions, remote device wipes, and multiple data centers. Key Features and Capabilities: • Fully integrated Zoom web conferencing that allows remote participation while having access to all the features of OnBoard • Always up-to-date board books in real-time on any device, anywhere • Secure Messaging • Vote on motions and approvals • Powerful analytics and insights • In-Meeting Agenda and Time Tracker & Post-Meeting Ratings • RSVP and attendance tracker • Resource center for bylaws, past notes, annual budget, and key governance materials • Personalized Dashboard with access to the latest meetings, meeting materials, and announcements • Notes and Annotations that sync across every device • Two-factor authentication • Multi-board and sub-committee support • Offline access • eSignatures • D&O Surveys and Questionnaires • Industry-Leading Support and Customer Success Security: OnBoard’s security features keeps your meeting materials safe and your organization in compliance. We apply industry-leading security measures. • Encryption in Transit and Rest and the most robust standards in the board portal industry. Our data centers utilize industry-leading RSA 4096-bit encryption for data in transit between a user's device and the data centers. • Compliant with a broad range of international information security standards, including but not limited to: GLBA, FERPA, HIPAA, FISMA ISO 27001/27002, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, SSAE 16/ISAE 3402. • Azure Security Partnering with Microsoft Azure, OnBoard offers world-class security, full disaster recovery, and active geo-replication. Support and Training: OnBoard support includes 24/7 U.S. based phone and online chat. An online resource center includes detailed guides on how to use OnBoard. Customer Success Managers provide ongoing support. This includes strategic guidance and best practices as well as live, interactive, training to administrators and end-users whenever needed. Support is wide-ranging and comprehensive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OnBoard Meetings at 4.7 against Diligent Boards's 3.2. OnBoard Meetings also leads on ratings volume (4.8K vs 55) and review sentiment (47% vs 28%). On price, update cadence, 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.
OnBoard Meetings holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OnBoard Meetings has 4.8K ratings behind it against 55, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Diligent Boards's written reviews are positive against 47% of OnBoard Meetings's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diligent Boards | OnBoard Meetings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (55 ratings) | 4.7 (4.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | 46.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 | 4.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 426 MB | 326 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | Passageways |
Customer experience
Diligent Boards
OnBoard Meetings
Bugs and requests
Diligent Boards
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
OnBoard Meetings
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to access meeting material
- App keeps crashing, even after reinstall
- App no longer works on iPhone
Requested features
3 requests- Improve motion functionality
- Allow tracking reading progress and making notes
- Fix login and device trust issues
In-app purchases
Diligent Boards
No in-app purchases
OnBoard Meetings
No in-app purchases
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