Absolute Secure Access vs Mark43 OnScene
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.
Mark43 OnScene
This app provides critical first responder functionality for law enforcement officers in the field. It enables real-time event details, assignment acceptance, and information collection that integrates with reporting tools. Stay safe, effective, and aware with up-to-the-second alerts and secure data.
- Real-time event details and updates
- Location cautions and alerts
- Accept assignments and routing
- Self-initiate calls with auto-location
- View critical assignment information
- Secure data and state-of-the-art security
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Mark43 OnScene is a native mobile application that provides critical first responder functionality away from a first responder’s MDT. It is intended for first responders who already use the Mark43 First Responder CAD application on their MDTs. First responders in the field need access to features that enable them to respond to events, understand what's going on in the field, and begin collecting information that will be seamlessly integrated into report writing within the Mark43 platform. OnScene is positioned to address law enforcement first responder on-scene workflows when in the field. It gives you as a first responder tools you need to stay safe, effective, and aware. RESPONDER SAFETY Real time event details, including narrative updates and location cautions that sync between dispatch, your MDT, and your smartphone mean that you receive up to the second alerts as situations evolve. And with state of the art security features, know that information kept in the app is secure. EFFICIENT WORKFLOWS Accept assignments and routing directly from your smartphone. Self-initiate calls and auto-populate your location for events using GPS without needing to go back to use your MDT. CONTEXT-DRIVEN Engage directly with dispatch and view critical information about assignments, including realtime unit movements. View assigned events and receive critical reporting party information and location with only a few taps. ----- Mark43 OnScene requires an active user account with Mark43 CAD.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Absolute Secure Access at 4.0 against Mark43 OnScene's 3.6. Mark43 OnScene's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (29% vs 20%). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Absolute Secure Access holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Absolute Secure Access's written reviews are positive against 29% of Mark43 OnScene's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Absolute Secure Access ships an update every 2 months, Mark43 OnScene every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Absolute Secure Access | Mark43 OnScene |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (21 ratings) — better | 3.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 357 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NetMotion Software Inc. | Mark43 |
Customer experience
Absolute Secure Access
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In-app purchases
Absolute Secure Access
No in-app purchases
Mark43 OnScene
No in-app purchases






