Diligent Boards vs NBV OnPrem
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.
NBV OnPrem
This platform facilitates executive collaboration and meeting management, treating documents as a core asset. It offers a rich mobile experience with secure board portal features, supporting tasks and complex meeting environments. Interactive tools like eSignatures and secure email enable collaboration between meetings.
- Meeting management
- Document repository
- eSignatures and approvals
- Secure email
- In-document discussions
- Online/offline auto-syncing
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Designed as a platform for meeting management and leadership team collaboration, Nasdaq Boardvantage recognizes documents as the principal asset for executive collaboration while combining a rich mobile experience with the security of a board portal. Nasdaq Boardvantage presents users with a task-driven environment which fully captures the complexity of face-to-face or remote meetings. Between meetings, Nasdaq Boardvantage offers the interactive functionality necessary to continue collaborating with eSignatures, Approvals, Surveys and secure Email. Because ease-of-use is paramount, the Nasdaq Boardvantage experience is calibrated for the iPad and iPhone, and takes full advantage of the graphics and animations of iOS. User Features • Meetings • New Items • Document Repository • High-Fidelity Viewer • Full-text Document Search • Approvals • eSignatures • Surveys • Secure Email • Rich Annotation Tools • In-Document Discussions • Online/Offline Auto-Syncing • Browser, iPad and iPhone Admin Features • Meeting Creation • Document Management • Approvals/Votes Dashboard • Survey Creation • User Administration • Brand Control
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: NBV OnPrem at free against Diligent Boards's freemium. NBV OnPrem also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Diligent Boards's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 2) and rating (3.2 vs 3.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Diligent Boards holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diligent Boards has 55 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Diligent Boards ships an update monthly, NBV OnPrem every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diligent Boards | NBV OnPrem |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (55 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 426 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | BoardVantage |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Diligent Boards
No in-app purchases
NBV OnPrem
No in-app purchases
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