Comparison

ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud vs Microsoft Azure

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Request management
  • Task management
  • Approval management
  • Real-time notifications
  • Dynamic dashboard
  • Asset management
  • AI-powered smart assistant
Features
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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.

About

Microsoft Azure

Manage and monitor your cloud resources from anywhere. Receive real-time notifications and alerts for critical health issues. Take immediate corrective actions on your virtual machines and web apps directly from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Monitor cloud resource status
  • View critical metrics
  • Receive notifications and alerts
  • Start/stop VMs
  • Manage web apps
Features
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The Microsoft Azure app helps you keep track of your resources while on-the-go: • Stay connected to the cloud and check status and critical metrics anytime, anywhere • Stay informed with notifications and alerts about important health issues • Stay in control of your resources and take corrective actions, like starting and stopping VMs and web apps -------------------- Microsoft collects data to operate effectively and provide you with the best experiences in our products. This mobile application may collect personal information, for example, the email address used to log in. We do not share this personal information with third-parties without your consent. We do not use your information for marketing purposes. If you do not agree with Microsoft collecting this data, please do not log into the application and delete it from your device.

Screenshots

ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud4 screens
Microsoft Azure4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Microsoft Azure at 4.8 against ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud's 4.4. Microsoft Azure also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (29% vs 10%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Microsoft Azure holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft Azure has 2.8K ratings behind it against 215, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud's written reviews are positive against 29% of Microsoft Azure's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud ships an update every 2 weeks, Microsoft Azure every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud versus Microsoft Azure: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterServiceDesk Plus | CloudMicrosoft Azure
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (215 ratings)4.8 (2.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.3% of reviews28.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2152.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size221 MB113 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZoho CorporationMicrosoft Corporation

Customer experience

ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud

All ratings215 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral3.7%
Negative12.1%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive10.3%
Neutral16.2%
Negative73.5%

Microsoft Azure

All ratings2,796 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.3%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews188 reviews
Positive28.7%
Neutral14.4%
Negative56.9%

User reviews

ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud

From 215 App Store ratings

What 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

Microsoft Azure

From 2.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Streamline services with the cloud
  • 👍 Surprisingly doesn't suck
  • 👍 Great app for managing Azure cloud

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes, freezes, and bugs
  • 🚫 Limited functionality, read-only
  • 🚫 Useless, can't do anything meaningful
  • 🚫 Doesn't work with newer iOS versions

Bugs and requests

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

Microsoft Azure

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login issues, can't sign in
  • Face ID crashes the app
  • Blank/black screen after updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add billing and cost management
  • Integrate Azure AD and DevOps
  • Allow creating/editing resources
  • Improve cloud shell experience

In-app purchases

None

ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud

No in-app purchases

None

Microsoft Azure

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud free?
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Microsoft Azure free?
Microsoft Azure is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud or Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is rated higher. ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud averages 4.4 out of 5 from 215 ratings, while Microsoft Azure averages 4.8 from 2.8K ratings.
Do ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud or Microsoft Azure have ads?
Neither ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud nor Microsoft Azure shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud or Microsoft Azure?
ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud ships an update every 2 weeks, and Microsoft Azure every 4 weeks. Most recently, ServiceDesk Plus | Cloud was updated on September 22, 2026 and Microsoft Azure on September 21, 2026.

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