Meraki Systems Manager vs Trimble ProjectSight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meraki Systems Manager
Manage all your iOS devices from a central web dashboard. This app enhances mobile device management with features like a managed app store, content delivery, and GPS location reporting.
- Centralized web dashboard management
- Managed app store
- Content delivery with backpack
- GPS location reporting
- Enhanced MDM and MAM functionality
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Meraki Systems Manager is Cisco Systems' Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution that allows you to manage all of your iOS devices from a central web dashboard. Installing this app on an iOS device provides enhanced MDM and MAM functionality that includes features such as a managed app store, content delivery with backpack, and GPS location reporting. Note: continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
Trimble ProjectSight
Organize construction teams and simplify paperwork by connecting the field and office. Access project information, including drawings and reports, from anywhere, even offline. Share progress updates and capture issues instantly.
- Organize construction teams
- Simplify paperwork
- Connect field and office
- Access project data offline
- Share progress updates
- Capture and share issues
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Get construction teams organized in minutes - for free. With ProjectSight you can build better, simplify paperwork and connect the office to the field. For every contractor from small teams to the enterprise, ProjectSight’s mobile application gives you access to the project information you need, from wherever you are. ProjectSight for iPhone and iPad Features GET STARTED FOR FREE Manage up to three projects for free Be productive in minutes with quick start guides ACCESS INFORMATION FROM ANYWHERE Access project data including drawings, RFIs, submittals and more Work offline to access information and sync ProjectSight when you have connection CONNECT TEAMS Share progress updates with photos and daily reports Capture issues from the field and instantly share them with the office If you are using the free version of ProjectSight, please note that you will only be able to access the free features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trimble ProjectSight at 3.7 against Meraki Systems Manager's 2.4. Trimble ProjectSight also leads on review sentiment (53% vs 18%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Meraki Systems Manager's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Trimble ProjectSight holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 93 and 80 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Meraki Systems Manager's written reviews are positive against 53% of Trimble ProjectSight's.
Meraki Systems Manager ships an update every 2 months, Trimble ProjectSight every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meraki Systems Manager | Trimble ProjectSight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (93 ratings) | 3.7 (80 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | 53.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 80 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 503 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meraki | Trimble Inc. |
Customer experience
Meraki Systems Manager
Trimble ProjectSight
User reviews
Meraki Systems Manager
From 93 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for managing student iPads
- 🚀 New app updates look nice
- 💡 Good for schools and enterprises
Room to improve
- 🐛 Causes issues with AirPrint and global proxy
- 🔒 Authorizes schools to control devices too much
- 🔋 High battery usage
- 🔒 Tracks location and user activity
- 🐛 Causes devices to crash or break
Trimble ProjectSight
From 80 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to get started
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 👍 Practical and clear features
- 👍 Efficient experience
- 👍 Free version available
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes all the time
- 🐛 Changes pages without touching
- 🐛 Requires re-login after crash
- 🐛 Missing half of desktop functions
- 🐛 Constant problems with daily reports, uploads, downloads
Bugs and requests
Meraki Systems Manager
Reported bugs
3 issues- Enrollment certificates become invalid
- Backpack functionality broken on iOS 9+
- Location services always running, draining battery
Requested features
3 requests- Improve enrollment process
- Add option to configure notification frequency
- Improve app stability and performance
Trimble ProjectSight
Reported bugs
25 issues- App crashes 5-6 times an hour
- App changes pages without touching screen
- Requires re-login after being kicked out
- Constant problems with daily reports, uploads, downloads
- App tends to be very glitchy and skippy
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- Crashes and deletes your work
- Not updating project information
- New update crashes every time you open it
- Says you need to download the newest update even after already doing that
- Always crashes
- Often times does not sync so your data isn’t saved
- Mobile version and desktop version do not sync with one another
- Constant clearing of data is needed to operate
- Sync issues where it says it synced but didn’t
- Trade Descriptions all too often get deleted/reverted to old descriptions
- App freezes after marking up a drawing and de-selecting the markup tool
- Detail call outs do not open up the reference drawings
- Syncing doesn’t work on iPhone
- Downloads up to around 56% then fails every time
- Constantly needs updating to no avail
- When accessing the tabs on the site on the iPad, the information does not look the same as the iPad as it does through the website on line
- There is missing tabs in the Document Control
- Downloaded. And tried to log in both via my Trimble account and through my gmail account and through my auto desk account. But nothing works. Just looping endlessly again and again to log in screen.
- When I download the app and press login, it brings me to the Trimble page, but no text Box or username field comes up for me to log in on.
- App constantly crashes
Requested features
4 requests- Picture module
- More tools needed
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
Meraki Systems Manager
No in-app purchases
Trimble ProjectSight
No in-app purchases
Questions
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