Tableau Mobile vs ThoughtSpot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tableau Mobile
Access and interact with your business dashboards and data from anywhere. Explore visualizations, find insights, and answer questions on the go with an intuitive mobile experience. Requires a Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud account.
- Interactive data previews
- Offline access to data
- Favorite dashboards
- Intuitive dashboard navigation
- Data interaction for insights
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Tableau Mobile gives you the freedom to stay on top of your data, no matter where you are or when you need it. With a fast, intuitive, and interactive experience, explore your dashboards and find just what you’re looking for, all from the convenience of your mobile device. The Tableau Mobile app requires a Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud account. Please note, it does not work with Tableau Public. Features: • Interactive previews let you access your data even when you’re offline. • Mark your favorite dashboards or views to always have them at your fingertips. • Scroll, search, and browse your organization’s dashboards with a navigation experience that’s both intuitive and familiar. • Interact with your data to ask and answer questions on the go.
ThoughtSpot
Access AI-powered business analytics on the go. Ask questions in natural language to get real-time insights, monitor key metrics, and discover the drivers behind changes in your KPIs. Stay informed and make confident decisions from anywhere.
- Natural language data querying
- Interactive Liveboards and Answers
- AI-driven insight discovery
- Personalized KPI Watchlist
- Automated KPI alerts
- One-tap insight sharing
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With ThoughtSpot Mobile, AI-Powered Analytics is easy and accessible. Whether you're seeking real-time insights away from your desk or just catching up between meetings, ThoughtSpot Mobile keeps you informed about what’s happening and why, wherever you are. Stay in touch with your business right from the app and move with confidence. You can use ThoughtSpot Mobile to: * Ask natural language questions and receive trusted, verifiable insights. * Browse and interact with Liveboards and Answers created by your team. * Drill down on AI-generated answers to ask follow up questions. * Monitor your most important metrics on a personalized Watchlist, and instantly spot unusual or critical changes. * Discover meaningful drivers behind changes in KPIs instantly. Get to the bottom of changes by tapping AI-generated explanations and drilling down on visual analyses. * Set up and receive automatic or custom KPI alerts via push notifications or email. View more details by tapping the alert. * Share insights with one tap to start a discussion with your colleagues. * Switch between Orgs to access and consume relevant data. * Set a home Liveboard for ready access to your favourite Liveboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ThoughtSpot at 80% against Tableau Mobile's 26%. ThoughtSpot also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Tableau Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (2.8K vs 122). 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.
ThoughtSpot holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tableau Mobile has 2.8K ratings behind it against 122, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Tableau Mobile's written reviews are positive against 80% of ThoughtSpot's.
Tableau Mobile ships an update every 5 weeks, ThoughtSpot monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tableau Mobile | ThoughtSpot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.8K ratings) | 4.9 (122 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.5% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.8K — better | 122 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 291 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tableau Software, LLC | ThoughtSpot |
Customer experience
Tableau Mobile
ThoughtSpot
Bugs and requests
Tableau Mobile
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes
- Login issues
- Incompatibility with certain devices
- Data not updating properly
Requested features
4 requests- Offline mode
- Improved mobile optimization
- Ability to download reports
- Support for multiple servers
ThoughtSpot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tableau Mobile
No in-app purchases
ThoughtSpot
No in-app purchases








