Tungsten Mobile vs GlobalProtect™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tungsten Mobile
Connect to your on-premises, hybrid, or cloud business solutions from your mobile device. Manage financial processes, review documents, and make decisions from anywhere, anytime, to improve efficiency and reduce bottlenecks.
- Connect to on-premises, hybrid, and cloud solutions
- Manage accounts payable and financial processes
- Review live documents, images, and attachments
- Approve or reject financial requests
- Secure connection with data encryption
- Real-time data processing and insights
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Tungsten Mobile allows users of Tungsten Process Director applications to connect with their on-premises, hybrid and cloud solutions from mobile devices. Users become enabled to manage accounts payable and other financial processes and make informed decisions from anywhere, anytime. For busy executives and approvers, this mobility and flexibility can deliver significant efficiency gains. Users can access worklists and process financial documents and requests such as invoices, purchase requisitions, sales orders, etc. directly from their smartphones using Tungsten Mobile. You can review the live document, image data, attachments, and workflow status, as well as approve, reject or add a note to it - all from a mobile device. Suitable for you if: You are using Tungsten business applications for SAP and want to go wireless. Key benefits of using Tungsten Mobile: Reduce bottlenecks: Tungsten Mobile allows you to approve and process financial documents from anywhere, anytime, thus reducing delays in the process due to travels or you being out of the office. Speed up processing: Expediting your financial processes with mobile access helps you to avoid late payment penalties and get early payment discounts. Secure connection to the back end: Tungsten Mobile utilizes existing network infrastructure to establish a secure connection to your back-end system. Data is encrypted when it leaves the internal network and is decrypted on the smartphone. No data is stored on the smartphone. Real-time data processing: The application shows live data/image and workflow status through a secure connection to your back-end system. Capture real-time insights to make data-driven decisions.
GlobalProtect™
This app provides secure network connectivity for mobile users, allowing them to access enterprise resources safely from outside the office. It automatically connects to the best available gateway for optimal performance and security.
- Automatic VPN connection
- Remote Access VPN support
- Per App VPN mode
- Automatic gateway discovery
- IPSec or SSL connection
- MDM integration
- Two-factor authentication
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GlobalProtect for iOS connects to a GlobalProtect gateway on a Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall to allow mobile users to benefit from enterprise security protection. Enterprise administrator can configure the same app to connect in either Always-On VPN, Remote Access VPN or Per App VPN mode. The app automatically adapts to the end user’s location and connects the user to the best available gateway in order to deliver optimal performance for all users and their traffic, without requiring any effort from the user. This allows users to work safely and effectively at locations outside of the traditional office. Before installing this app, please check with your IT department to ensure that your organization has enabled a GlobalProtect gateway subscription on the firewall. Features: Automatic VPN connection using iOS VPN On-Demand Support for BYOD with Remote Access VPN and App Level VPN Automatic discovery of best available gateway Manual gateway selection capability Connection over IPSec or SSL Integration with MDM for easy provisioning Support for changing an expired AD/RADIUS password when the user connects remotely Support for 2 Factor One Time Password based Authentication using RADIUS, SAML Support for other PAN-OS authentication methods, including LDAP, Client Certificates, and Local User Databases Full benefits of the native iOS experience with integrated notifications Capability for enterprises to enable users to use any app securely Requirements: Supported on Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls running PAN-OS 7.1, 8.0, 8.1 and above Requires a GlobalProtect gateway subscription installed on the Palo Alto Networks firewall in order to enable support for GlobalProtect app for iOS. Supported on iOS 10 and later releases
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tungsten Mobile at 100% against GlobalProtect™'s 16%. GlobalProtect™'s advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 4). 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.
GlobalProtect™ holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GlobalProtect™ has 2.8K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Tungsten Mobile's written reviews are positive against 16% of GlobalProtect™'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tungsten Mobile | GlobalProtect™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.4 (2.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 16.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 2.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tungsten Automation Corporation | Palo Alto Networks |
Customer experience
Tungsten Mobile
GlobalProtect™
Bugs and requests
Tungsten Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
GlobalProtect™
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on iOS 15 and newer
- "Missing required input parameters" error
- Fails to connect with certain authentication methods
- Stuck in "connecting" state, requires reinstall
Requested features
5 requests- Multiple portal support
- Ability to save server addresses
- Support for hardware security keys
- Landscape mode for tablets
- Improved compatibility with newer OS versions
In-app purchases
Tungsten Mobile
No in-app purchases
GlobalProtect™
No in-app purchases
Questions
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