SEP Mobile vs ActiveShield
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SEP Mobile
This app provides advanced mobile security for businesses, protecting devices from threats during productivity tasks, file sharing, and financial transactions. It intelligently filters alerts to prevent user fatigue and offers actionable notifications.
- Proactive mobile security
- Secure mobile productivity
- Safe file sharing
- Secure financial transactions
- Neutralizes alert fatigue
- Actionable notifications
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SEP Mobile (Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile) enhances enterprise mobile security. Symantec offers SEP Mobile for proactive mobile security so you can more securely practice mobile productivity for work or conduct any type of sensitive file sharing or financial transaction on your devices. Most users have a low pain threshold for false-positives. SEP Mobile neutralizes alert fatigue by factoring in crowd intelligence and providing descriptive and actionable notifications. Activation Instructions: - Download SEP Mobile for free from iTunes and install it on your iOS device - Open SEP Mobile and activate the app using your email address
ActiveShield
This app enhances mobile productivity for enterprises by providing proactive detection and prevention on iOS devices. It offers visibility, intelligence, and security measures against unverified Wi-Fi networks without impacting user experience or collecting personal data.
- Proactive detection and prevention
- BYO and corporate-owned device support
- Visibility and intelligence
- Stop connections to unverified Wi-Fi
- Remediation steps
- Minimal footprint agent
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Better provides enterprises proactive detection and prevention on BYO and corporate-owned iOS mobile devices. Smartphones and tablets give us unprecedented access to the critical business information we need to work faster and more accurately. With Better, enterprises can empower the full benefits of mobile productivity in business. Better is a lightweight agent that has no impact on the way users use their favorite apps and access data. Our solution runs in the background with a minimal footprint, and does not collect personal information from the user. Better Active Shield provides: - Visibility and intelligence - Stop connections to unverified Wi-Fi networks - Steps for remediation How to activate BETTER: 1. Consult with your IT team before downloading 2. Download from the App Store 3. Open the app and enter the credentials provided by your company 4. Better is now active
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ActiveShield at 4.4 against SEP Mobile's 2.7. ActiveShield also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). SEP Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (110 vs 7). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ActiveShield holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SEP Mobile has 110 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SEP Mobile | ActiveShield |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (110 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Broadcom Inc | Better Mobile Security Inc. |
Customer experience
SEP Mobile
ActiveShield
Bugs and requests
SEP Mobile
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes on opening
- Error 9155 during activation
- Error 1955 during setup
- App analysis not enabled for organization error
- Service unreachable/unavailable message
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- Not running Mobile threat defense solution properly
- Unable to allow tracking and location
- App analysis takes excessively long
- Crashes on iOS 17.5
- Doesn't acknowledge latest updates
- Cannot verify server identity
Requested features
9 requests- Improve battery efficiency
- Fix app crashes
- Resolve activation/setup errors
- Provide clearer app functionality explanation
- Reduce false warnings
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- Optimize app analysis speed
- Offer German language option for security notifications
- Allow app analysis without MDM subscription
- Reintroduce features like map of hijacked WiFi hotspots
ActiveShield
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SEP Mobile
No in-app purchases
ActiveShield
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is SEP Mobile free?
Is ActiveShield free?
Which has better reviews, SEP Mobile or ActiveShield?
Do SEP Mobile or ActiveShield have ads?
Which is updated more often, SEP Mobile or ActiveShield?
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