Sophos Mobile Control vs Absolute Secure Access
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sophos Mobile Control
This app enables organizations to manage, control, and secure mobile devices like iOS. It allows for policy configuration, app distribution, and device security. Users install it upon their organization's recommendation to access these management features.
- Manage and secure mobile devices
- Configure device policies
- Distribute applications
- Report device compliance status
- Locate lost or stolen devices
- Receive management console messages
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Sophos Mobile is a Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solution which allows companies to easily manage, control and secure iOS and other mobile devices. Sophos Mobile Control allows you to enroll your device with Sophos Mobile. Your organization can then configure device policies, distribute apps and further secure your device. IMPORTANT: This app will not function without the appropriate Sophos management console in place. Only install the app if advised by your organization. Key features • Report the device compliance status. • Trigger device synchronization with the Sophos Mobile management console. • Install apps from an Enterprise App Store. • Display all compliance violations. • Find the device when it’s lost or stolen. • Receive messages from the Sophos Mobile management console. • Display privacy and support information. For more information, visit the Sophos website. The app can access the device’s location in the background to let your organization find the device when it’s lost or stolen. The app doesn’t routinely monitor or record your location.
Absolute Secure Access
This app provides secure and resilient network connectivity for accessing critical resources. It offers a Zero Trust approach to network access, enhancing security and user productivity. The platform includes advanced threat detection and network monitoring capabilities.
- Resilient network connectivity
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Data encryption and access controls
- Proactive network monitoring
- AI/ML-powered threat detection
- User and entity behavior analysis (UEBA)
- Configurable alerts
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The Absolute Secure Access product portfolio provides resilient network connectivity for users to securely access critical resources in the public cloud, private data centers, and on-premises. These products allow users to transition from traditional VPN to a resilient Zero Trust approach, without impairing productivity or administrative controls. Absolute VPN provides security and confidentiality for data in motion by means of encryption and access controls. It also offers benefits to the end user, such as making tunnel and network sessions resilient and optimizing streaming video and audio. Absolute ZTNA provides a software-defined perimeter via Zero Trust Network Access, creating a context-based, logical access boundary around an application or set of applications – wherever they're hosted. It shields applications from the Internet, making them invisible to unauthorized users. Access policies are enforced at the endpoint, avoiding latency and any data transgression. Absolute Insights for Network offers diagnostic and experience monitoring capabilities across endpoints and network, allowing organizations to proactively monitor, investigate, and remediate end user performance issues quickly and at scale, even on networks that are not company-owned or managed. The Secure Access SaaS platform leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to provide highly resilient, advanced threat detection combined with user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA). Secure Access analyzes each device’s activity to establish a comprehensive baseline of normal network behavior for that device and user. Regardless of whether a device has Secure Access policies that route traffic inside or outside a tunnel, the new AI-powered network security and vulnerability detection capabilities continuously monitor all devices for deviations in behavior, analyzing network traffic, user behavior, application usage and data access patterns, including the following: o Data exfiltration o Unsafe application and web browsing behavior o Malicious network port scanning o New applications generating network traffic o Denial of service attacks o Device being used at unusual times o Higher than expected network activity o New network usage patterns o Device acting as a server o Device refusing server-like requests o Device network usage is abnormal Secure Access generates configurable alerts with rich context and direct links to detailed Insights for Network dashboards, empowering security teams to prioritize and investigate potential threats. As new threats emerge and user behavior evolves, Secure Access automatically modifies its baseline for each user’s device and potential threat profiles, ensuring your defenses remain continuously updated. All clients require a licensed server to work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Absolute Secure Access at 4.0 against Sophos Mobile Control's 2.6. Sophos Mobile Control's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 20%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Absolute Secure Access holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 21 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Sophos Mobile Control's written reviews are positive against 20% of Absolute Secure Access's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and July 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sophos Mobile Control | Absolute Secure Access |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (28 ratings) | 4.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sophos | NetMotion Software Inc. |
Customer experience
Sophos Mobile Control
Absolute Secure Access
In-app purchases
Sophos Mobile Control
No in-app purchases
Absolute Secure Access
No in-app purchases
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