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LogMeIn Central vs LogMeIn Rescue comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

LogMeIn Central
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) (15th)
LogMeIn Rescue
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

LogMeIn Central and LogMeIn Rescue aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. LogMeIn Central is designed for Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) and holds a mindshare of 3.5%, down 4.7% compared to last year.
LogMeIn Rescue, on the other hand, focuses on Remote Access, holds 2.3% mindshare, up 2.2% since last year.
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
LogMeIn Central3.5%
Kaseya VSA13.8%
NinjaOne10.7%
Other72.0%
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)
Remote Access Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
LogMeIn Rescue2.3%
TeamViewer8.6%
Microsoft Intune7.1%
Other82.0%
Remote Access
 

Featured Reviews

Kelsey Braun - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at Allegheny Coupling
Has good stability and an easy initial setup process
We use the solution for remote access control and endpoint protection features The solution has the best remote access control and protection features. They should provide intermediate device limit options. It would be helpful for users who require more remote control capabilities than the lower…
Aditya Chhibber - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Partner Manager - India at To be determined Company
Easy setup and effective support
I am with the company that sells LogMeIn Rescue. So, we engage with end customers, enterprise customers, manufacturing customers, BFSI customers, and healthcare customers. We try to find their use cases and provision our solution accordingly. For instance, if someone is in manufacturing and wants…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It allows you to transfer along with many other functions."
"It saves us drive time, we don't have to go to clients, we can just use remote access."
"If you have a small footprint in the IT department, it's a very efficient tool to give a very well-rounded perspective of remote access and security control on devices, and in an environment where it's geographically disbursed."
"Unattended remote assistance."
"It saves us drive time, we don't have to go to clients. We can just use remote access."
"For the servers, you have 24/7 unattended access, and for the clients, it may be 24/7."
"It's easy to install, and it's robust and secure."
"The biggest improvement is being able to solve problems or do upgrades of software without having to go onsite."
"I think it’s the best product out there, and I tried to get off LogMeIn Rescue because of cost, but doing that hindered our performance and productivity and it was not worth the savings, so we quickly went back to LogMeIn after three months."
"It allows us to rapidly solve issues for our customers on a remote basis, regardless of the location of the customer."
"The desktop sharing allows our clients to demonstrate the issue they are having, and then allows us to provide remediation directly."
"Customer satisfaction went up by 40 percent and productivity for my staff went up by 30 percent."
"The tech support person I spoke to was very knowledgeable about the product, and was straightforward with me about its capabilities. There was no fluff about the product. They basically said this is not available now and we're hoping to have it available in the third or fourth quarter. It was nice to talk to someone who was straightforward and knew about the product."
"This allows us to remote into their computers or servers whenever they request speeding up the time to connect without having to send them a website and give them a code to get us in."
"it's very easy to use, it's very efficient."
"Being able to transfer files quickly and easily via the remote file manager."
 

Cons

"It's getting more expensive and we are starting to evaluate other products. It's starting to become unaffordable."
"There are some screens that are just ugly and difficult to manipulate."
"Do not use the technical support."
"It needs backwards compatibility for non-Microsoft-supported operating systems, for example, XP and 2003. In situations where I have no options but to run older operating systems, I would like for it to be backwards compatible."
"The only thing I found is that they've gotten very, very expensive over the years."
"​File transfer on the free version needs improvement. Allow file transfer with drag and drop to and from Remote Desktop. ​"
"We are an educational institution, so anything to make it cheaper would be better because we don’t grow money on trees."
"File transfer on the free version needs improvement. Allow file transfer with drag and drop to and from Remote Desktop."
"Support to remotely control more mobile devices' screens is desperately needed. It is sad to see how long this product has been out and how many phones are still not supported for, specifically, remote screen control."
"The iPhone support has been the Achilles heel for the longest time, because all of my users are on iPhones."
"Their ability to support mobile has been really problematic. I've seen other products that have done a better job in supporting mobile products. LogMeIn has just never been able to come up to par there, and that would be a detractor. They've been talking about supporting mobile for 10-plus years, and I really haven't seen any improvement on that."
"it needs better iOS integration. It's still limited in its functionality when it comes to iOS. Currently, when you do something other than iOS, you're not able to take control of what's going on; instead of having to tell the user, "Click here, click there," I would like to have full control over an iOS device."
"Network browsing and connecting on the LAN, because if you can't see the computers on your network, what good is the product?"
"I would like a single sign on for all of our (five) accounts so that I can immediately use an available seat. Right now, I have to try to log in with each account separately, in an attempt to find an available license that is not currently in use."
"You should be able to remote on an iPhone like you remote on an Android. It is not the same experience. Unless you are very savvy on iOS, you are pretty much lost.​"
"I would like a single sign on for all of our (five) accounts so that I can immediately use an available seat. Right now, I have to try to log in with each account separately, in an attempt to find an available license that is not currently in use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is a little high but it's competitive. The licensing process is fairly easy."
"Having to spend so much money on remote access is what I feel to be a necessary evil."
"The only thing I found is that they've gotten very, very expensive over the years. I started out with about about 100 users on it. Two years ago it was about $600 for 100 users. Now, it's that price for 25 users."
"Coming from where it was free, it's getting to be expensive."
"Pricing is a little high. They require for LogMeIn Central to go into brackets. If you go over a certain amount of PCs or servers to access, going up to the next bracket is a big jump."
"It sucks that I am paying for LogMeIn Central, LogMeIn Pro, and LogMeIn Rescue, plus LogMeIn Ignition, which is the mobile app​. It costs me a lot of money every month at LogMeIn. ​"
"It's probably worth the value, but the price increases over the last five years are getting harder to justify."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"The pricing is a little on the higher side, though.​"
"Pricing is reasonable and easily offsets other costs, while resolving issues in a much quicker timeframe."
"Right now, I'm using ScreenConnect, which is about $45 per technician. Unless I buy LogMeIn with a large license and commit for the long-term and prepay, I will have to pay almost $120 per user a month. It's almost three times the price over the normal price for ScreenConnect, which is very similar in regards to all of the features that LogMeIn Rescue can do."
"Look at the different plans they have. Do not pay for a plan you do not need.​"
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"​The rescue model is licensed by user."
"It is ​on the medium to high side. For us, it is worth it. For the amount of time they save us, it pretty much pays for itself.​"
"The cost of LogMeIn is high... I went with another product that was going to give me savings of 50%. One technician tested it, he gave us the thumbs up. Then once we moved all my technicians to it, but it didn’t work... Trying to move from LogMeIn hindered our performance and productivity and it was not worth the savings."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Performing Arts
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
 

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