Diligent Boards vs FactSet RMS
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.
FactSet RMS
Manage research and contact records for CodeRed clients. Create, edit, sync, and download information. Search and filter research by keywords, entities, and date ranges.
- Create research records
- Edit research records
- Sync research records
- Download research records
- Search research by keyword
- Search research by entity
- Search research by date range
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This application supports RMS functionality for CodeRed clients: - Create, edit, sync, and download research and contact records - Search and download research by keyword(s), entity, and/or date range
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FactSet RMS at 4.0 against Diligent Boards's 3.2. FactSet RMS also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). Diligent Boards's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (55 vs 4). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FactSet RMS holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diligent Boards has 55 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Diligent Boards ships an update monthly, FactSet RMS every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diligent Boards | FactSet RMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (55 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 426 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | FactSet Research Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
Diligent Boards
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In-app purchases
Diligent Boards
No in-app purchases
FactSet RMS
No in-app purchases
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