Absolute Secure Access vs SolarWinds Service Desk
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.
SolarWinds Service Desk
Access essential IT service desk functions on the go. Technicians can manage incidents and provide support remotely, while employees can submit tickets, request services, and track their requests.
- Real-time notifications for technicians
- Ticket tracking and assignment
- Remote incident resolution
- Service request submission
- Self-service article access
- Request status checking
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The SolarWinds® Service Desk app for iOS gives your technicians and employees instant access to core service desk capabilities directly from their mobile device. Your technicians can work on incidents and provide services from anywhere. With the newly included version for requesters, your service desk is available anytime from anywhere, ensuring your employees have access to the support and resources they need to stay productive. For Technicians: - Receive real-time notifications - Track open and incoming tickets - Assign or reassign active incidents - Update and resolve issues - Reference historical data for troubleshooting For Employees: - Submit a ticket (such as a broken device) - Request services (such as access to an application) - Access self-service articles - Check request status - Add comments to open tickets © SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SolarWinds Service Desk at 4.6 against Absolute Secure Access's 4.0. SolarWinds Service Desk also leads on review sentiment (56% vs 20%) and ratings volume (322 vs 21). 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.
SolarWinds Service Desk holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SolarWinds Service Desk has 322 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 56% of SolarWinds Service Desk's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Absolute Secure Access | SolarWinds Service Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (21 ratings) | 4.6 (322 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 322 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NetMotion Software Inc. | SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC |
Customer experience
Absolute Secure Access
SolarWinds Service Desk
Bugs and requests
Absolute Secure Access
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SolarWinds Service Desk
Reported bugs
15 issues- Unable to get out of attachments without closing app
- Blank white screen on opening app
- App closes automatically after updating incident
- Notifications are delayed
- Incident searching is unreliable
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- Cannot upload pictures from phone
- Cannot reassign or check off tasks not assigned to user
- App opens and operates like a website
- Post button for notes doesn't show up
- Giant 'x' button in a bad spot
- Scrolling doesn't work correctly when typing long messages
- App won't let some users sign in
- Tapping notification only opens app, doesn't go to ticket
- Notifications are delayed by days and hours
- Used to work great, now no longer connects to server
Requested features
18 requests- Dark mode option
- Read-only dashboard
- Open links to incidents in app
- View 'Problems' section
- Add tasks to incidents
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- Don't default current user as requester
- Copy title of last incident
- Add configuration item to tickets
- Notification for new tickets received
- Add ticket number to banner notifications
- Integrate CMDB and inventory
- Time tracking entry
- Ability to add tasks
- Open various attachment types
- Export to other apps
- Toggle between agent and user app modes
- iOS notifications for incidents
- Notification for specific ticket categories
In-app purchases
Absolute Secure Access
No in-app purchases
SolarWinds Service Desk
No in-app purchases
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