Diligent Boards vs Brainloop Secure Client
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.
Brainloop Secure Client
Access your secure document repositories from your mobile device. Download and read documents offline, manage collections, and add annotations. Features include synchronized comments and customizable security settings.
- Offline document access
- Document synchronization
- Boardbook view
- Comment on documents
- Customizable security policies
- Favorites tab
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Brainloop Secure Client allows you to access your Brainloop Datarooms directly from your tablet or mobile phone to read documents and document collections in online and offline mode. The key features of the app are: - Download documents from your Dataroom and synchronize regularly - Information on Dataroom synchronization at a glance - Read any document version online or offline - Direct access to your important documents, including a dedicated Boardbook view for easy access to your document collections - Key options such as Votes, Events, Dataroom navigation, and Settings at your fingertips - Add documents to your Favorites tab to quickly access them again - Preferences are remembered for your start screen, your document view, as well as the configuration of your commenting tools, comments save automatically - Next and Previous page buttons and a convenient page slider let you flip through documents smoothly - Comment on Brainmark documents directly on your device and synchronize your comments with the Dataroom server - Convenient commenting functionalities such as marker properties offer customizable opacity, thickness, and color selection - Rely on security features from Brainloop Secure Dataroom such as customizable security policies for the Secure Client app, as well as Brainmark styles for documents, folders or groups
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Diligent Boards at 28% against Brainloop Secure Client's 0%. Diligent Boards also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Brainloop Secure Client's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). 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 ships an update monthly, Brainloop Secure Client every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Diligent Boards | Brainloop Secure Client |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (55 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 426 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | Brainloop AG |
Customer experience
Diligent Boards
Brainloop Secure Client
In-app purchases
Diligent Boards
No in-app purchases
Brainloop Secure Client
No in-app purchases
Questions
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