Meraki vs Brivo Access
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!
Brivo Access
Manage your Brivo access control and video surveillance system from your smartphone. Control devices, manage users and credentials, monitor events in real-time, and view recorded video for enhanced security and operational flexibility.
- Manage users and credentials
- Review events and recorded video
- Unlock or secure doors remotely
- Real-time event monitoring
- Integrate device control
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Extend your Brivo access control and video surveillance experience to your smartphone with the Brivo Access mobile app. Integrate device control, credential management, real-time event monitoring, and recorded video into a single app that delivers peace of mind, operational flexibility and ease of use. After signing in with their Brivo credentials, administrators can: * Manage users and credentials * Review events and recorded video * Unlock or secure doors remotely * Respond to emergency situations immediately The Brivo Access mobile application for iOS requires an active subscription to Brivo Access. To activate mobile video surveillance, an active video subscription with a compatible platform is also required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meraki at 56% against Brivo Access's 13%. Meraki also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and monetization model (free vs subscription). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meraki has 1.4K ratings behind it against 1, 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 13% of Brivo Access's.
Meraki ships an update every 2 weeks, Brivo Access every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meraki | Brivo Access |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.2% of reviews — better | 12.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meraki | Brivo Inc. |
Customer experience
Meraki
Brivo Access
User reviews
Meraki
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Great management
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Convenient tool
- 👍 Intuitive and powerful
- 👍 Excellent products
Room to improve
- 🐛 Broken for iOS
- 🐛 Used to be great
- 🐛 Get it together
- 🐛 Don't rely on it
- 🐛 Issue with app
Brivo Access
From 1 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Convenient mobile management
- 👍 Live video feature
- 👍 "Stay Signed In" functionality
- 👍 Larger video player on iPad
- 👍 Faster access to logs/controls on iPad
Room to improve
- 🐛 App doesn't work
- 🐛 Barely usable
- 🐛 Things don't fit on screen
- 🐛 Things flash and disappear
- 🐛 Can't access items
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
Brivo Access
Reported bugs
58 issues- App doesn't work
- Things flash up and disappear
- Can't access items
- Can't view complete website on iPhone
- No audio alerts
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- Failed access panel communication
- Can no longer see lock/unlock state without clicking
- App signs out constantly
- App won't refresh on its own
- Must swipe through all sites to get to one alphabetically later
- App starts at the beginning of the series alphabetically every time it reopens
- App does not send alerts to Apple Watch
- Takes forever to sign in and sometimes won't sign in, plus it'll kick you out
- Lockdown menu item is there but it's not functional
- App crashes repeatedly trying to get to doors section
- App will not save login
- Users should not have to login every time
- App stopped working weeks ago
- Nothing in the app works after updating
- Nothing on the app works
- Glitches so I can see door activity
- Latest version will not load activity
- Activity will not load and the user view is all wonky
- When I log in, it doesn’t connect at all
- Latest version (Jan ‘22) is completely unusable
- Activity tab will not load
- Doors will not unlock through app
- Mobile app simply doesn’t work
- App keeps locking up on the loading activity screen
- App constantly fails
- Remote mobile lock/unlock not working
- App has not worked for a very long time
- App is no longer responding
- Crashes all the time in activity mode
- App crashes while trying to access our site
- Can’t use at all
- Cannot control access by date range
- Logins no longer save
- Lost the face ID capability
- Doesn’t show names before the update
- Won’t show all activity correctly
- App doesn’t update the day till 8 at night
- Always says cannot connect to the server
- Can’t see who used the door, just that someone used it
- Constant outages to their systems
- Not displaying unlock information with associated person (only door)
- Unable to add/edit credentials/groups as the information does not load on the user
- Inability to add or send a Brivo Mobile Pass to a user
- App says can’t connect to server since the update
- Won’t show who is entering or using their cards or Brivo passes
- Can’t see names on who enters and exits gate
- Most of the time now it does not display names
- Not seeing who swipes a door makes it useless
- Opening doors through the app is so painful now
- When logged in it never unlocks doors
- Deletes login information on an update
- Crashes after login
- Still crashes even after fresh installation
Requested features
9 requests- Get this on Apple Watch
- Allow user to save username and password
- Use iPhone 6 fingerprint scanner for faster access
- Add PIN or TouchID for faster access
- Bring back ability for admins to see PIN
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- Add audio alerts
- Improve UI for easier site navigation
- Add dark mode option
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
Meraki
No in-app purchases
Brivo Access
No in-app purchases
Questions
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