Meraki Systems Manager vs ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud
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.
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud
Manage IT and business service requests, tasks, and approvals from anywhere. Features intuitive ticketing, real-time dashboards, and an AI-powered assistant to enhance service delivery across departments like IT, HR, and finance.
- Request management
- Task management
- Approval management
- Real-time notifications
- Dynamic dashboard
- Asset management
- AI-powered smart assistant
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Manage your requests, tasks, and approvals—regardless of whether you are on the floor or on the move. With a suite of intuitive ticketing capabilities, real-time dashboards, and an AI-powered voice assistant, you can enhance service delivery not only in IT but across HR, finance, facilities, and beyond. Discover the key features that can transform your service experience ● Multiple instance management: Switch effortlessly between service desk instances and access different modules. ● Request management: Create, edit, and manage incident and service requests with ease. ● Advanced filtering and search: Quickly filter and search for requests by type, ID, subject, or name, ensuring you find what you need without hassle. ● Request details: Access comprehensive request details, including conversations, history, and resolutions. Add notes and upload attachments directly to requests, enriching context and collaboration. ● Task management: Create, edit, and manage tasks across all modules. Filter and search tasks, track work logs, and delete tasks as needed. ● Approval management: View and manage approvals for requests, changes, releases, and purchase orders. ● Real-time notifications: Stay informed about help desk events and request updates with timely push notifications. ● Dynamic dashboard: Keep track of organizational announcements and monitor key performance metrics, including pending requests and daily due requests, to stay ahead of your tasks. ● Change management: Filter, sort, search, and take action on change requests. ● Asset management: Add, view, and manage your organization’s assets by scanning barcodes, QR codes, or RFIDs. Track asset details, raise requests related to assets, and modify asset information on the go. ● Knowledge base access: Power up self-service and accelerate resolutions by accessing solutions from the knowledge base. ● AI-powered smart assistant: Connect with Zia for instant support through conversational chat or voice commands. ● Interactive widgets: Pick up requests, handle approvals, or even call end users from your home screen through interactive widgets. If you haven't installed ServiceDesk Plus yet, go ahead and try out out the fully featured, 30-day, free trial at https://mnge.it/install-servicedesk. Note: This is not a stand-alone application. To log in, your organization must have an account with ServiceDesk Plus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud at 4.4 against Meraki Systems Manager's 2.4. ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Meraki Systems Manager's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 96 and 218 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 18% of Meraki Systems Manager's written reviews are positive against 14% of ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Meraki Systems Manager ships an update every 2 months, ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meraki Systems Manager | ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (96 ratings) | 4.4 (218 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews — better | 13.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 96 | 218 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 222 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meraki | Zoho Corporation |
Customer experience
Meraki Systems Manager
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud
User reviews
Meraki Systems Manager
From 96 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
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud
From 218 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Handy for remote access
- 👍 Useful for creating tickets
- 👍 Great visibility for customer/technician
- 👍 Works well on iPhone
- 👍 Great app (when it works)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Login issues/loops
- 🐛 App is complicated/difficult to use
- 🐛 Does not update/sync with online portal
- 🐛 Lacks basic functionality
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
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud
Reported bugs
51 issues- App crashes frequently
- Login loop/unable to sign in
- App does not update/sync with web portal
- MSP instance no longer supported
- Cannot access Requests module
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- Session terminated error
- Template selection field unavailable
- Attachment feature not working
- App crashes when trying to review conversations
- Signature not inserted correctly
- Hard to find last reply
- Ticket update issues
- App crashes when managing assets
- Unable to sort or filter properly
- No ability to create or modify filter views
- Losing functionality/cannot see descriptions
- App crashes on iOS 15.3.1
- Logging issues when creating new jobs
- App crashes after update claiming to fix crashes
- Unable to pull down to refresh
- iPad app does not work in landscape mode
- App defaults to all request queue on launch
- Useless in 'night mode'
- No landscape mode
- Version 6.0 crashes frequently
- Not working with iOS 15.1
- App opens to an error on iOS15
- App requires too much data access
- App crashes when clicking check mark
- Cannot open latest release
- App crashes every time after first use on iPad
- App closes when editing a ticket
- Cannot get ticket information properly displayed
- App crashes when trying to sign in
- App crashes when adding notes or looking at requests
- App does not load
- App lags then crashes
- App opens to a blank page
- App shows white screen after notification
- App shows unread ticket notifications that aren't there
- Login attempts spin endlessly
- Latest update broke the app (crashes on settings)
- App unexpectedly quits when saving assets on iPhone
- Verification email not sent for login
- Badges for new tickets do not clear
- Screen doesn't automatically scroll down when typing replies
- Only shows last message in conversations
- App crashes all the time with local installation
- New tickets assigned randomly
- Cannot login to local installation
- On-premise installations not supported
Requested features
8 requests- Convert ticket types (incident/request)
- Access CMDB data
- Dark mode
- Calendar integration
- Support for on-premise installations
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- Improved sorting and search functionality
- Ability to feed default required fields
- Ability to assign technicians/departments when creating tickets
In-app purchases
Meraki Systems Manager
No in-app purchases
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud
No in-app purchases
Questions
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