Comparison

Meraki vs eMessenger

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

Head to head
About

Meraki

Manage and monitor your Cisco Meraki networks from your mobile device. Quickly check network status, configure devices, and troubleshoot alerts on the go.

Highlights
  • Network status monitoring
  • Device configuration
  • Alert troubleshooting
  • Switch port configuration
  • Mobile network management
Features
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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!

About

eMessenger

This app transforms mobile devices into mobile command centers for emergency alerting and response management. It integrates facility alarms for comprehensive situational awareness, enabling real-time threat information delivery for faster, more efficient responses.

Highlights
  • Mobile command and control centers
  • Intuitive dashboards for situational awareness
  • Color-coded alerts from disparate systems
  • Receive and initiate detailed alerts
  • Escalate alerts and response management
  • Approximate location data for alarm sources
Features
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Description: SARA’s eMessenger Mobile is an advanced alerting capability of Status Solutions’ Situational Awareness and Response Assistant (SARA), an automated alerting engine that provides integrated alarm monitoring, alerting/mass notification and reporting. SARA’s eMessenger Mobile turns Apple iPhone and iPad devices into mobile command and control centers for emergency alerting and response management. All life safety, security and environmental controls within a facility can be integrated with SARA for a single point of alarm management and therefore complete situational awareness. And with situational awareness comes the ability to deliver information about potential threats in real time to virtually any communication device – especially mobile ones equipped with SARA’s eMessenger Mobile – for faster, more efficient response, especially in an emergency. Organizations can retire obsolete communication technologies, such as pagers, and expand their use of mobile devices for greater flexibility and situational awareness in the palms of users’ hands. Responders then can deal with an unfolding event more quickly, initiate alerts and associated response plans more effectively, and escalate/notify others as necessary – all from one interface. Therefore, SARA’s eMessenger Mobile is critical to and unique in risk management because it: +Turns mobile devices into command and control centers with intuitive dashboards for situational awareness and response management +Delivers color-coded alerts from disparate alarm systems across a single facility, multi-building campus or large enterprise +Allows users to receive and initiate detailed alerts, including the nature of an alarm plus location data +Escalates alerting and response management by enabling key individuals or select groups of responders to be notified in a single touch +Provides approximate location data so clinicians and staff can locate an alarm source more quickly Command and control on the go and the ability to read, hear, see, do and then analyze information for real-time situational awareness is what SARA’s eMessenger Mobile makes possible for any organization.

Screenshots

Meraki4 screens
eMessenger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meraki at 56% against eMessenger's 0%. Meraki also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). 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

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

Meraki holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meraki has 1.4K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Meraki's written reviews are positive against 0% of eMessenger's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meraki ships an update fortnightly, eMessenger every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Meraki versus eMessenger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMerakieMessenger
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better4.0 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews56.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.4K — better11
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1413.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMerakiStatus Solutions

Customer experience

Meraki

All ratings1,409 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.1%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews319 reviews
Positive56.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative38.2%

eMessenger

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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
Show 12 more
  • 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
Show 1 more
  • More functionality and close to dashboard

eMessenger

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Meraki

No in-app purchases

None

eMessenger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meraki free?
Meraki is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is eMessenger free?
eMessenger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meraki or eMessenger?
Meraki is rated higher. Meraki averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while eMessenger averages 4.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Meraki or eMessenger have ads?
Neither Meraki nor eMessenger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meraki or eMessenger?
Meraki ships an update fortnightly, and eMessenger every 2 months. Most recently, Meraki was updated on November 1, 2026 and eMessenger on November 1, 2026.

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