Absolute Secure Access vs Dragon Anywhere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Absolute Secure Access
This app provides secure and resilient network connectivity for accessing critical resources. It offers a Zero Trust approach to network access, enhancing security and user productivity. The platform includes advanced threat detection and network monitoring capabilities.
- Resilient network connectivity
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Data encryption and access controls
- Proactive network monitoring
- AI/ML-powered threat detection
- User and entity behavior analysis (UEBA)
- Configurable alerts
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The Absolute Secure Access product portfolio provides resilient network connectivity for users to securely access critical resources in the public cloud, private data centers, and on-premises. These products allow users to transition from traditional VPN to a resilient Zero Trust approach, without impairing productivity or administrative controls. Absolute VPN provides security and confidentiality for data in motion by means of encryption and access controls. It also offers benefits to the end user, such as making tunnel and network sessions resilient and optimizing streaming video and audio. Absolute ZTNA provides a software-defined perimeter via Zero Trust Network Access, creating a context-based, logical access boundary around an application or set of applications – wherever they're hosted. It shields applications from the Internet, making them invisible to unauthorized users. Access policies are enforced at the endpoint, avoiding latency and any data transgression. Absolute Insights for Network offers diagnostic and experience monitoring capabilities across endpoints and network, allowing organizations to proactively monitor, investigate, and remediate end user performance issues quickly and at scale, even on networks that are not company-owned or managed. The Secure Access SaaS platform leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to provide highly resilient, advanced threat detection combined with user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA). Secure Access analyzes each device’s activity to establish a comprehensive baseline of normal network behavior for that device and user. Regardless of whether a device has Secure Access policies that route traffic inside or outside a tunnel, the new AI-powered network security and vulnerability detection capabilities continuously monitor all devices for deviations in behavior, analyzing network traffic, user behavior, application usage and data access patterns, including the following: o Data exfiltration o Unsafe application and web browsing behavior o Malicious network port scanning o New applications generating network traffic o Denial of service attacks o Device being used at unusual times o Higher than expected network activity o New network usage patterns o Device acting as a server o Device refusing server-like requests o Device network usage is abnormal Secure Access generates configurable alerts with rich context and direct links to detailed Insights for Network dashboards, empowering security teams to prioritize and investigate potential threats. As new threats emerge and user behavior evolves, Secure Access automatically modifies its baseline for each user’s device and potential threat profiles, ensuring your defenses remain continuously updated. All clients require a licensed server to work.
Dragon Anywhere
This app offers highly accurate mobile dictation and transcription for creating, editing, and formatting documents on the go. It features unlimited dictation length, custom vocabulary, and seamless integration with cloud storage and desktop solutions.
- 99% accurate dictation
- Unlimited dictation length
- Custom word additions
- Voice formatting and editing
- Form-based templates
- Cloud storage integration
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WHY USE DRAGON ANYWHERE Paperwork doesn’t end when you’re away from your desk. Dragon Anywhere is the only mobile dictation app that enables continuous dictation of documents, with no length or time limits. This means, you can dictate documents of any length, edit, format, and share them directly from your mobile device—whether visiting clients, a job site or at your local coffee shop. Mobile employees are often burdened with heavier documentation demands—client intake forms, reports and more. Dragon Anywhere makes it easy to create detailed and accurate documents, fill out reports and forms, or complete other paperwork— directly on your smartphone and tablet, all on-the-go. And because you can also synchronize your personal customizations with Dragon Professional for the desktop, work started in the field or out on the road can easily be completed back at your home or office. DRAGON ANYWHERE FEATURES: • Fast & accurate dictation means you can dictate immediately with 99% recognition accuracy right out of the gate, with no training required. • No time or length limits means you can speak as long as you want to complete documents of any length – from a business report to an entire book! • Need to fill out forms from the road? Easily create form-based templates using Dragon Anywhere’s auto-texts feature and create and fill out forms, such as client in-take forms, and even navigate field to field by voice commands. • Powerful customizations, like the ability to add words specific to your industry, means even better dictation accuracy as you create documents. Or create simple voice commands to short-cut repetitive steps, like inserting an email signature or standard clauses into documents. • Robust voice formatting and editing lets you select words and sentences for editing, correction, and deletion, apply common formatting like underline and bold, or voice navigate through fields of a report template. • Need to share or work anywhere? Simply import and export to and from popular cloud-based document-sharing tools like Dropbox®. • Synchronize with supported Dragon desktop solutions and work started on the road or in the field can be completed back at the desktop for seamless document workflows. Additional Information: • Dragon Anywhere supports the following languages: US English, Canadian English, UK English, French (Canada), French (France), and German. • Dragon Anywhere uses cloud-based speech recognition, and requires an internet connection to dictate. • For any technical or subscription assistance with Dragon Anywhere, please contact Nuance Support: https://www.nuance.com/dragon/support/dragon-anywhere-support.html Dragon Anywhere has your privacy in mind: • All communication with the cloud is secured with Enterprise grade encryption. • The app does not require access to your personal information, and only requires access to the device’s microphone and storage. Privacy policy: https://www.nuance.com/dragon/producturl/en-us/dam/privacypolicy Terms of Service: https://www.nuance.com/dragon/producturl/en-us/dam/termsofservice
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Absolute Secure Access at 4.0 against Dragon Anywhere's 2.6. Absolute Secure Access also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Dragon Anywhere's advantage is ratings volume (726 vs 21) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17). On price, review sentiment, 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. Dragon Anywhere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Absolute Secure Access asks for nothing beyond the download.
Absolute Secure Access holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dragon Anywhere has 726 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Absolute Secure Access's written reviews are positive against 15% of Dragon Anywhere's.
Absolute Secure Access ships an update every 2 months, Dragon Anywhere every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Absolute Secure Access | Dragon Anywhere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (21 ratings) — better | 2.6 (726 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better | 15.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 726 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | NetMotion Software Inc. | Nuance Communications |
Customer experience
Absolute Secure Access
Dragon Anywhere
Bugs and requests
Absolute Secure Access
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Dragon Anywhere
Reported bugs
4 issues- Subscription not recognized after purchase
- Microphone randomly stops working
- Dictated text disappearing or not saving properly
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Improved integration with other apps and services
- Better formatting and editing capabilities
- Voice command support for common actions
- Ability to import/export custom vocabulary
In-app purchases
Absolute Secure Access
No in-app purchases
Dragon Anywhere
- Dragon Anywhere7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Dragon Anywhere7 Days trial$149.991 Year
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