Pingboard vs Grow BI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pingboard
Access a comprehensive employee directory to find colleagues by various criteria, view organizational charts, and stay updated on team statuses. Recognize peers for their contributions and celebrate employee milestones like birthdays and anniversaries.
- Employee directory search
- Rich employee profiles
- Team status updates
- Peer recognition (Applause!)
- Organizational charts
- Employee milestone tracking
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With Pingboard, you have access wherever you are to: + A Powerful Employee Directory Search the directory for answers to everyday questions. Find coworkers by name, office location, skills, interests, and more. Learn more about the people you work with through rich profiles that go beyond the basics. + Who’s Who Put a face to a name and discover fun facts about people on your team. + The Away Message, Reimagined Status tells you who’s in and who’s out. Update your status with just a few taps to keep everyone informed. + Genuine Peer Recognition Recognize each other for going above and beyond with Applause! + An Always-Relevant Org Chart See who reports to who, and how departments and teams fit together. + Employee Milestones See who’s celebrating a birthday, first day, or work anniversary today—and in the future. If you have feedback or encounter an issue, drop us a note at support@pingboard.com. We love to hear from you!
Grow BI
Access real-time business insights and interactive data visualizations on the go. This platform empowers users to make data-driven decisions by providing immediate access to key metrics and dashboards from their mobile devices.
- Real-time interactive data visualizations
- Trigger data source refreshes
- On-the-go business insights
- View and manage dashboards
- Drill into metric expanded views
- Intuitive dashboard navigation
- Interact with data to ask questions
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See what's actually happening in your business right now. Go beyond static reports and explore your most important metrics and data. Grow empowers everyone to make data-driven decisions. With our turnkey business intelligence (BI) platform you can get real-time insights for your organization. Whether you're in the boardroom or catching a flight, keeping a pulse on your business has never been easier than with the Grow mobile app. The same beautiful dashboards you use on your computer are now just one tap away. Features - See the same real-time, interactive data visualizations on your computer - Trigger data sources to refresh - Get insights into your business on the go - View and manage all your dashboards - Drill in to metric expanded views - Scroll, search, and browse your business dashboards with an intuitive navigation - Interact with your data to ask and answer questions on the go.
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Verdict
Pingboard and Grow BI both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of Grow BI's written reviews are positive against 28% of Pingboard's. Pingboard's advantage is ratings volume (174 vs 9). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Pingboard against 4.6 for Grow BI. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pingboard has 174 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of Pingboard's written reviews are positive against 50% of Grow BI's.
Pingboard ships an update every 4 weeks, Grow BI every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pingboard | Grow BI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (174 ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 27.9% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 174 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pingboard, Inc | Epicor |
Customer experience
Pingboard
Grow BI
Bugs and requests
Pingboard
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes on launch
- App freezes after login
- Login fails with ADP/SSO
- Homepage is unclickable
- Employee details not loading
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- Calendar status changes difficult
- Birthday dates are incorrect
- App crashes when opening org chart
- App crashes during game aspect
- Status update feature removed
- Automatic renewal despite cancellation attempts
- Contact sync not to main folder
Requested features
7 requests- Fix unclickable homepage
- Restore contact sync option
- Add option to sync contacts to a separate folder
- Fix SSO/ADP login crashes
- Fix birthday bug
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- Add button to create status
- Improve customer interaction
Grow BI
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pingboard
No in-app purchases
Grow BI
No in-app purchases









