Active Directory Assist Pro vs Spiceworks Help Desk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Active Directory Assist Pro
Manage Active Directory users, groups, and computers remotely without any server components. This app provides secure, encrypted access to your domain controllers, offering features like password resets, account management, and insightful reports.
- Remote Active Directory management
- User, group, and computer management
- Password reset and account options
- Account status monitoring
- Real-time reports (locked accounts, expiring passwords)
- Secure, encrypted direct connection
- Agentless and no server component required
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Securely manage Active Directory from anywhere and anytime! Absolutely NO server component required. ADAssist is innovative, intuitive and beautifully designed with native iPhone and iPad support. “Active Directory Management was never so fun, easy and intuitive. It is like holding AD in your hands and managing it from anywhere and anytime. Really cool and trendy, with management just a tap away.” AD Assist turns your iOS device into an Active Directory Management tool, no matter where you are. ADAssist is the ultimate little app to search and manage your users, computers , groups and contacts. The built in reports provide real time data to gain deep insight on "Locked accounts", “Soon to expire passwords “ and “Soon to expire accounts”. AD Assist provides an end to end, secure and encrypted access to your Active Directory over Wifi or Cellular networks, using direct connection or via VPN. This solution is completely agent less, with absolutely no software installation or SSL certificates required on your domain controllers or in your Infrastructure. It is compatible with Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 with full unicode and globalization support. Imagine managing your co workers accounts right in front of them while chatting in the cafeteria or walking in the hallways. Or imagine, being far away from office, and needing access to Active Directory immediately, just download this app and immediately manage your Active Directory within minutes. Use the “Soon to Expire passwords” report to surprise your Senior Management with pro-active password reset before they leave on a business tour. Balance your work and life, Attend to help desk requests while on the Go. AD Assist is an ideal solution for IT professionals and IT enthusiasts. KEY FEATURES ************** User Management * Intelligent and fast user search using ANR. * View and Edit more than 30 user attributes grouped into 6 categories. * Manage Password Reset, and options like “Password never expires” and “User must change password at next logon”, and Account Expiry. * Reflect user status like “Account Expire”, User Disabled”, and Account Lockout. * Add or remove group membership. * Enable and Disable Accounts. * Add and Move users to any OU in the Domain. * Delete users. * prompts to sms or email new password after password reset (either mobile or mail attribute should be set) * Add User Group Management * Add Group * Move and Delete Groups. * Search Group objects. * View and edit group attributes * Manage Group membership * Export group memberships in csv format Computer Management * Add Computer * Search and View Computer Attributes. * Move and delete computer accounts. * Enable and Disable computer accounts. Contact Management * Add Contact * Search and View Contacts. * Move and Delete Contacts. Reports * Find locked users. * Find “Accounts expiring”. * Find “Passwords expiring” * Export reports output in csv format Advanced Reports * 27 new reports for users, computers and printers Domain Profiles Automatically saves domain fqdn/ip and user name for quick switching. optionally save passwords (encrypted) in iOS login keychain using TouchID/FaceID. We have more exciting features on the roadmap. So stay tuned. We welcome any and all feature ideas or suggestions. Questions or comments? Email us at info@bitsabound.com Active Directory is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. This application is developed by a third party developer with no input or advise by Microsoft Corporation.
Spiceworks Help Desk
Manage your IT help desk tickets and users on the go. This app provides IT professionals with the tools to respond to, create, and manage trouble tickets from their mobile devices. Stay informed with real-time notifications for ticket updates.
- Manage help desk tickets
- Respond to tickets
- Create new tickets
- Assign tickets
- Ticket notifications
- Manage users
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Manage your Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk - Anywhere. Take your help desk tickets and users with you wherever you go! With Spiceworks Help Desk (mobile), Spiceworks users have the tools and info they need to do their IT jobs – at their fingertips. Used by over 1 million IT pros worldwide, Spiceworks free IT management tools & apps (and online community) simplifies “everything IT” about the IT workday. From network inventory and monitoring to help desk, vendor ratings & reviews and more, Spiceworks delivers everything an IT pro needs to get their daily grind done. All for free. Spiceworks Help Desk for IT Pros. RUN YOUR HELP DESK & TEND TO YOUR TICKETS - See and respond to all of your trouble tickets - Create new tickets, close and re-open existing ones - Add and edit ticket description and details - Assign tickets and set priorities, due date & more - Receive notifications on your mobile device for new/assigned/reopened tickets, and ticket comments ..and you’ll be off-and-running and able to take your tickets and users with you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Active Directory Assist Pro at 58% against Spiceworks Help Desk's 6%. Active Directory Assist Pro also leads on rating (3.8 vs 1.8) and chart position (#196 vs unranked). Spiceworks Help Desk's advantage is price (Free vs $19.99) and ratings volume (63 vs 5). On update cadence, 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
Spiceworks Help Desk is free to download; Active Directory Assist Pro costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Active Directory Assist Pro holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spiceworks Help Desk has 63 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Active Directory Assist Pro's written reviews are positive against 6% of Spiceworks Help Desk's.
Active Directory Assist Pro ships an update monthly, Spiceworks Help Desk every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Active Directory Assist Pro | Spiceworks Help Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (5 ratings) — better | 1.8 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better | 6.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #196 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | BitsAbound Inc | Spiceworks, Inc. |
Customer experience
Active Directory Assist Pro
Spiceworks Help Desk
Bugs and requests
Active Directory Assist Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Spiceworks Help Desk
Reported bugs
27 issues- Unable to sign into mobile app
- Notifications fail to deliver
- Notifications result in 404 error
- App logs out repeatedly
- App crashes on reply
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- 404 error when clicking notifications
- Errors when closing tickets
- Unable to send messages to update tickets
- App freezes on login
- Tickets are missing on the mobile app
- App doesn't work on iPad
- Tapping notification leads to an error
- Cannot send a response to tickets
- Push notifications are useless hyperlinks
- App doesn't work on iPad
- Cannot login using Google credentials
- Basic functionality is bugged/missing
- App is phone format only, no iPad version
- Ads are too close to send button
- Reply function doesn't work
- Creating a ticket for another user doesn't always work
- Responding to tickets is broken
- Back button opens advertisement
- App doesn't load, spins endlessly
- Due date not saved
- Cannot accept tickets
- App is not syncing
Requested features
12 requests- Make the app open source
- Add dark mode
- Add iPad support
- Add Google SSO
- Improve multi-account support
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- Add API for automation
- Custom mail server settings
- Improve UI/UX
- Fix notification repetition
- Allow ticket deletion/merging
- Improve search functionality
- Add loading/splash screen
In-app purchases
Active Directory Assist Pro
No in-app purchases
Spiceworks Help Desk
No in-app purchases
Questions
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