Meraki vs UniFi Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meraki
Manage and monitor your Cisco Meraki networks from your mobile device. Quickly check network status, configure devices, and troubleshoot alerts on the go.
- Network status monitoring
- Device configuration
- Alert troubleshooting
- Switch port configuration
- Mobile network management
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The power of the Cisco Meraki dashboard, in your pocket. Whether you need to quickly check the status of your networks, configure a misconfigured switch port, or check out an alerting device, the Cisco Meraki mobile experience is here to help. Have general feedback, or a feature that you wish you could use on mobile? Send us a wish from Settings -> Make a wish and let us know! We read them all!
UniFi Connect
Manage and automate your organization's IT infrastructure, from lighting to EV chargers. Discover, configure, and monitor devices remotely, applying custom settings to groups with ease.
- Remote device discovery, adoption, configuration, and monitoring
- Automate IT solutions like lighting and EV chargers
- Apply custom settings to multiple devices simultaneously
- Enterprise-grade network management
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Build an enterprise-grade network that allows you to connect and automate your organization’s IT solutions - from conference room lighting to multimedia displays, EV chargers, and more! With UniFi Connect, you can: - Discover, adopt, configure, and monitor devices from anywhere. - Apply custom settings to multiple devices and groups with a single tap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Meraki at 1.4K against UniFi Connect's 13. Meraki also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). UniFi Connect's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 56%). 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.
Meraki holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meraki has 1.4K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Meraki's written reviews are positive against 67% of UniFi Connect's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Meraki ships an update every 2 weeks, UniFi Connect monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meraki | UniFi Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better | 4.4 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.2% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meraki | Ubiquiti Inc. |
Customer experience
Meraki
UniFi Connect
Bugs and requests
Meraki
Reported bugs
17 issues- Button presses don't register
- Icon 🤮
- Organizations Disappeared
- Updates made app unusable
- Incompatible with iPhone XS Max
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- Phones with a finger print reader broken
- No support for SAML login
- Cameras not loading
- Constant crashing
- Login barely works
- Constant re-auth required
- Incompatible with iPhone X, Xs and Xs Max
- Cannot log in
- Does not scale to new phones
- Website does not load menu on mobile
- App does not even work
- App hangs when submitting your two factor code
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Landscape mode
- SAML login support
- Wake on LAN
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- More functionality and close to dashboard
UniFi Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Meraki
No in-app purchases
UniFi Connect
No in-app purchases
