Meraki Systems Manager vs ShoWorks™
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.
ShoWorks™
This companion app streamlines event management for fairs and livestock shows. It allows for easy check-in, judging, and updating of exhibits by syncing with desktop software. Utilize your device's camera for quick scanning and efficient data management.
- Entry management for events
- Check-in and judge exhibits
- Syncs with desktop software
- Barcode scanning via camera
- Kiosk check-in functionality
- Animal weigh-in and placing
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ShoWorks is the world’s leading entry management software for fairs, festivals, livestock shows, and exhibitions. Manage, check-in and judge exhibits with this “must have” tool by swiping ribbons, places, weights, and more, onto entries downloaded from your existing ShoWorks fair management software for Windows. Not a ShoWorks user? Start your FREE trial today. How does ShoWorks work? • Install the full client version of ShoWorks onto any Windows machine. • Receive entries to your show via the built-in online entries website or manual data entry, letting exhibitors optionally print their barcoded receipts and entry tags. • Use this free iPad app as a companion to manage and update these entries in various ways, such as kiosk check-in, animal weigh-in, judging and placing, and more. • Use the existing built-in iPad camera to scan barcoded tags and receipts for quick access. • Sync the changes back to the client version of ShoWorks where you can complete the process of distributing awards and reports for your participants. Requires ShoWorks for Windows.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ShoWorks™ at 100% against Meraki Systems Manager's 18%. ShoWorks™ also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.4) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). Meraki Systems Manager's advantage is ratings volume (96 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ShoWorks™ holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meraki Systems Manager has 96 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Meraki Systems Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of ShoWorks™'s.
Meraki Systems Manager ships an update every 2 months, ShoWorks™ every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Meraki Systems Manager | ShoWorks™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (96 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meraki | Gladstone Inc. |
Customer experience
Meraki Systems Manager
ShoWorks™
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
ShoWorks™
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Meraki Systems Manager
No in-app purchases
ShoWorks™
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Meraki Systems Manager free?
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