Comparison

Envoy vs Avigilon Alta Open

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

Head to head
About

Envoy

Streamline your office experience with tools for coordinating schedules, navigating workspaces, and booking desks or rooms. Manage visitor invitations, track deliveries, and report workplace issues efficiently.

Highlights
  • Coordinate office schedules
  • Interactive workplace maps
  • Book desks and rooms
  • Invite and track visitors
  • Package delivery notifications
  • Report workplace issues
Features
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Make your workplace work better for you with Envoy. Coordinate your office schedule with coworkers, see where to go with workplace maps, reserve the perfect desk, book a nearby conference room, invite visitors, see past visits, get notified about packages, report workplace issues, and more. COORDINATE YOUR OFFICE SCHEDULE Set your schedule for hybrid work. Easily see who plans to work onsite each day so you can plan to be there too. Invite coworkers to join you in person for collaborative work. NAVIGATE WITH INTERACTIVE WORKPLACE MAPS Know where to go and who to meet in the office. Find where your coworkers are sitting, book meeting rooms, see visitor details, and know where to pick up deliveries–all from the interactive workplace map. EASILY BOOK THE PERFECT DESK Book a desk by the hour, day, or week. Find a desk with the amenities you need to be comfortable and productive in the workplace. Save a spot by your team, favorite coworkers, or key collaborators to get things done. BOOK A ROOM FOR LAST-MINUTE MEETINGS Easily find the closest available meeting room on the interactive workplace map, so you can book a space, even when you’re on the go. Check in to your next meeting right from your phone, or free up the room for someone else. INVITE VISITORS & GET NOTIFIED WHEN THEY ARRIVE Invite guests to your office and keep track of who is scheduled to arrive and when, so you’re prepared for every visit. Receive a notification when your visitor arrives so your guest is never kept waiting. KEEP TRACK OF YOUR DELIVERIES Get notified as soon as your package arrives and easily confirm once you’ve picked it up, so you feel confident getting mail delivered to work. REPORT WORKPLACE ISSUES Create tickets right on your phone, including taking photos and noting the location of issues in the moment, so your facilities and IT teams can resolve them quickly. VIEW PAST VISITS Automatically maintain an up-to-date record of your workplace visits with Envoy Passport™.

About

Avigilon Alta Open

Transform your smartphone into a secure digital key for accessing Avigilon Alta-connected doors. Enjoy convenient touchless unlocking, manage guest access, and view your activity log. This app streamlines entry for authorized users within organizations.

Highlights
  • Phone as a digital key
  • Touchless wave to unlock
  • Mobile badge for sign-in
  • Digital guest pass creation
  • Remote door unlocking
  • Activity log
  • Switch between organizations
Features
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With Avigilon Alta Open, your phone is your key. Avigilon Alta Open allows users to quickly and securely unlock a door connected to the Avigilon Alta Access Control system with their smartphone. The easy-to-use mobile app finds nearby Avigilon Alta-connected readers, and lets you unlock the door with a single wave or tap. ACCESS FEATURES Avigilon Alta makes it easy to unlock the door, your way. - Touchless Wave to Unlock: wave your hand or phone in front of the reader to unlock the door - Mobile Badge: use your ID badge to sign in for all Avigilon Alta-connected organizations - Favorites: save your frequently used entries for quick access - Activity Log: view your access history right in the app - Single Login: Easily switch between Avigilon Alta-connected organizations without logging out - Remote Unlock: authorized users can unlock any door, from anywhere - Flexible access methods: unlock via Apple Watch, tablet app, or mobile app DIGITAL GUEST PASS Create and customize guest passes for visitors right in the app. Send the digital Cloud Key credentials via email or SMS, and guests can unlock the door right from their phone. REMOTE FEATURES Advanced security, accessed from anywhere. Authorized users can remotely unlock any door, create and send digital Guest Passes, and activate pre-configured system Lockdown plans in the event of an emergency, all from the app. Authorized users are determined by the system administrator. HOW IT WORKS - The application works only with the Avigilon Alta Access Control system. - Certain features, such as Mobile Badge and Lockdown, are enabled at the discretion of the organization administrator. - We leverage Bluetooth low energy, Wi-Fi and LTE capabilities, as well as location services to ensure the best door opening experience possible. - To ensure you are authorized as a user of your company’s Avigilon Alta Access Control system, please contact your administrator, who will check to see that your email address has been added and will send you links to enable your application to be authorized and credentialed. If you would like to start using Avigilon Alta Open in your organization visit www.avigilon.com/alta to learn more about the service and how to get started.

Screenshots

Envoy4 screens
Avigilon Alta Open4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Envoy at weekly against Avigilon Alta Open's monthly. Avigilon Alta Open's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 18%) and chart position (#86 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Envoy against 4.8 for Avigilon Alta Open. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18K and 16K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 18% of Envoy's written reviews are positive against 33% of Avigilon Alta Open's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Envoy ships an update weekly, Avigilon Alta Open monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Envoy versus Avigilon Alta Open: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEnvoyAvigilon Alta Open
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (18K ratings)4.8 (16K ratings) — better
Positive reviews17.6% of reviews33.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18K — better16K
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#86 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB151 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEnvoy, Inc.OpenPath Security, Inc.

Customer experience

Envoy

All ratings17,793 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews165 reviews
Positive17.6%
Neutral4.8%
Negative77.6%

Avigilon Alta Open

All ratings16,054 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews209 reviews
Positive33.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative56.9%

User reviews

Envoy

From 18K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Seamless office integration
  • 👍 Cools features
  • 👍 Does everything it needs to do
  • 👍 Excellent back to work app
  • 👍 High quality app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Terrible functionality, constant glitches
  • 🐛 Bad user experience
  • 🐛 It got a lot worse
  • 🐛 Buggy, barely usable
  • 🐛 Buggy and laggy

Avigilon Alta Open

From 16K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Convenient access
  • 🔒 Secure entry
  • 👍 User-friendly
  • 👍 Reliable functionality

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent performance
  • 🔋 Battery drain
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns
  • 👎 Clunky user experience

Bugs and requests

Envoy

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Notification toast covers over the functionality
  • Randomly reallocated the desks booked
  • Camera no longer works
  • Crashes for entire company
  • Booking desks in the future has some date issues
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  • Your schedule feature not working

Requested features

5 requests
  • Make booking desks easier please
  • Dark mode option
  • Recurring schedules
  • Recently visited office locations
  • Can add to wallet

Avigilon Alta Open

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App data randomly clearing
  • Bluetooth permission issues
  • Location services not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Apple Watch support without phone
  • Customizable location tracking
  • CarPlay integration
  • Streamlined app design

In-app purchases

None

Envoy

No in-app purchases

None

Avigilon Alta Open

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Envoy free?
Envoy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Avigilon Alta Open free?
Avigilon Alta Open is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Envoy or Avigilon Alta Open?
Avigilon Alta Open is rated higher. Envoy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 18K ratings, while Avigilon Alta Open averages 4.8 from 16K ratings.
Do Envoy or Avigilon Alta Open have ads?
Neither Envoy nor Avigilon Alta Open shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Envoy or Avigilon Alta Open?
Envoy ships an update weekly, and Avigilon Alta Open monthly. Most recently, Envoy was updated on September 24, 2026 and Avigilon Alta Open on September 23, 2026.

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