Diligent Boards vs Govenda
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.
Govenda
This platform empowers companies to streamline board meeting planning, creation, governance, and management. Board members can access all necessary information, including documents and polls, through an interactive mobile or web application, enabling active participation.
- Board meeting planning
- Document management
- Board membership management
- Interactive mobile/web access
- Offline access to information
- Committee assignments
- Archived documents
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Govenda -- the board empowerment platform designed to transform the way companies plan, create, govern, and manage board meetings. Transform the way board members experience meetings. For companies, Govenda provides an intuitive yet secure and powerful interface. Manage meetings, board documents, board membership and communication preferences efficiently and cost effectively. Board members can access all of the information they need to be active and engaged directors via the Govenda interactive mobile/web app. From these apps, members can access all of their meeting information, committee assignments, board books, archived documents, announcements and even polls. Access all your information across devices and online or offline depending on your situation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Govenda at 4.1 against Diligent Boards's 3.2. Govenda also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and review sentiment (50% vs 28%). Diligent Boards's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 14). 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.
Govenda holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Diligent Boards's written reviews are positive against 50% of Govenda's.
Diligent Boards ships an update monthly, Govenda every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diligent Boards | Govenda |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (55 ratings) | 4.1 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.7% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 426 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | BoardBookit |
Customer experience
Diligent Boards
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In-app purchases
Diligent Boards
No in-app purchases
Govenda
No in-app purchases
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