Comparison

Absolute Secure Access vs ManageBridge HD

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

ManageBridge HD

This business communication tool allows administrators to manage critical notifications from their mobile devices. It offers a graphical reporting interface and the ability to send messages with images to various contact groups or geographical regions. Users can also record and send voice messages on the go.

Highlights
  • Mobile access to Everbridge Platform
  • Graphical notification reporting
  • Initiate communications on-the-go
  • Send notifications with images
  • Target notifications by individuals, groups, or region
  • Record and send voice messages
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Everbridge ManageBridge HD brings the same set of rich communication features available in Mass Notification to administrators who frequently use smartphones and tablets. The free, native mobile application is available to Everbridge clients, providing them with more control than ever before over their critical communications. With ManageBridge HD, users can access the Everbridge Platform from any location, monitor notifications via a graphical reporting interface, and initiate communications from smartphones and tablets while on-the-go. Users have the ability to securely send notifications complete with images to contacts by selecting Individuals, Groups, Rules or a Geographical Region and they can launch notifications on-the-fly or from a template. ManageBridge HD also allows users to record a voice message and send it immediately or save it as a template.

Screenshots

Absolute Secure Access2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Absolute Secure Access at 4.0 against ManageBridge HD's 3.0. Absolute Secure Access also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 2). ManageBridge HD's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Absolute Secure Access holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Absolute Secure Access has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Absolute Secure Access's written reviews are positive against 25% of ManageBridge HD's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Absolute Secure Access ships an update every 2 months, ManageBridge HD every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Absolute Secure Access versus ManageBridge HD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbsolute Secure AccessManageBridge HD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (21 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews25.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS1712.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNetMotion Software Inc.Everbridge, Inc.

Customer experience

Absolute Secure Access

All ratings21 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral4.8%
Negative23.8%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

ManageBridge HD

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

In-app purchases

None

Absolute Secure Access

No in-app purchases

None

ManageBridge HD

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Absolute Secure Access free?
Absolute Secure Access is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ManageBridge HD free?
ManageBridge HD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Absolute Secure Access or ManageBridge HD?
Absolute Secure Access is rated higher. Absolute Secure Access averages 4.0 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while ManageBridge HD averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Absolute Secure Access or ManageBridge HD have ads?
Neither Absolute Secure Access nor ManageBridge HD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Absolute Secure Access or ManageBridge HD?
Absolute Secure Access ships an update every 2 months, and ManageBridge HD every 4 months. Most recently, Absolute Secure Access was updated on November 6, 2026 and ManageBridge HD on November 6, 2026.

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