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ReadyTalk vs ScreenConnect comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

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

ReadyTalk
Ranking in Virtual Meetings
27th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ScreenConnect
Ranking in Virtual Meetings
21st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (22nd), Remote Visual Support (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Virtual Meetings category, the mindshare of ReadyTalk is 1.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ScreenConnect is 2.2%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Virtual Meetings Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ScreenConnect2.2%
ReadyTalk1.4%
Other96.4%
Virtual Meetings
 

Featured Reviews

it_user479847 - PeerSpot reviewer
Marketing Campaign Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Great pay as you go options.
- Marketo Integration - Simulive events - Customer service - Cut down bandwidth - Scale at a cheaper cost - 1 year - No. Very easy! - A few minor issues along the way - No, but would like to have more support outside of US Customer Service: - Great! Technical Support: - Great! - Cheaper,…
Todd Blake - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Specialist at COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC
Simple to set up, reasonable pricing, and useful remote control capabilities
I'm on the latest version of the solution. I just updated it yesterday. While we have the solution on-premises at this time, we'll likely move to the cloud later this year. They have a trial version that you can try. They have a free version that you can try as well. I use it myself to support my family. I would try the free version or the trial version depending on your business. They can set you up and you can get to see all the features. I would also advocate going to the cloud version. Don't bother with the on-prem. It's just easier to jump to the cloud. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I utilize ReadyTalk to train roughly 300 people monthly, my colleagues use it to host staff meetings, to supplement coursework from our online university, and to deliver organizational content to our constituent base."
"We have recovered the 6 to 8 (agonizing) hours a month we used to spend with another platform's tech support."
"Customer Service: Excellent. Technical Support: Also excellent."
"Customer Service is the best."
"Chairperson controls are pretty user-friendly."
"ReadyTalk helped my organization deliver high-quality training webinars to small business owners around the country."
"Customer Service: World-Class! Technical Support: World-Class!"
"Using ReadyTalk has strengthened our webinar program at AMA."
"I've noted an ROI while using the solution."
"it gives me the ability to remotely connect to machines that I manage without user intervention."
"The product's two-factor authentication means we are not worried like before about the state of our security."
"Valuable features include the responsiveness, ability to tune up and tune down the connection, and video."
"The remote management piece is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us due to the fact that we can support our clients after hours."
"It is super easy to use and relatively inexpensive."
"It's very easy to use. Provides connections that are always on. It was nice to be able to see a list of end-points and see whether or not they were connected so I could troubleshoot any network issues I had."
"Session groups and triggers are the most valuable features, because they make a greater degree of organization possible. Greater degree of organization is valuable to my organization, because we have many sessions to handle."
 

Cons

"I wish there wasn't the "arbitrary" 150 people cutoff."
"Compared to other webinar platforms, ReadyTalk's pricing is a bit high."
"Prices can always be dropped but overall these rates are competitive with other teleconferencing systems."
"The aesthetics are not great."
"Add animation capabilities!"
"You have to download a spreadsheet three times post-meeting if you want surveys, registration, attendance. Kind of tedious."
"I would love to see a lobby that attendees can wait in prior to starting the conference."
"Would love to have a calendar (much like Outlook offers) that included scheduled appointments."
"Mobile interface."
"For my company, just installing the software and using it is very easy. But if I need to give one of my customers access to their machines, the process that you have to go through is some 15 to 20 steps. You have to create a group, and then you have to assign a policy. It takes 15 to 20 minutes to set up someone for remote access to their own machine."
"There can be some complexities when running patches or when building up all the profiles, making them areas where improvements are required."
"There is one back-end issue that I am running into at some of locations where I login to provide support, and sometimes port 443 is blocked. That is what it uses to connect. So, I am having to do workarounds to get a session started."
"There could be improvement to the remote command line tools."
"They could provide a toolbox for the plan I'm on."
"We have had issues. We have had circumstances, for reasons we don't know, where the service will stop running, and when the service stops running that computer no longer becomes reachable. We haven't really seen that so much on desktops, but we have seen that happen quite frequently on server operating systems, Server 2008, Server 2012. You can install the product and then a week down the road it will just stop."
"The solution is a little bit complicated when you want to implement it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We pay $3,000 USD for the service, yearly upfront."
"It is priced well and it is still a great value. Although I have been reading a lot about Splashtop. They are getting pretty competitive on their pricing, including a fairly easy to use remote support for mobile applications, like iOS and Android."
"For the price we pay, we definitely feel it's worth it, but there are some contenders in the market that are coming out now, whose products are as good; they are offering more features and the price is actually less than ConnectWise. All things considered, the biggest thing is the lack of patching in ConnectWise. If they could integrate that into the product, that would be a game changer, if offered at the same price point."
"ConnectWise Control is not an overly expensive tool. Its pricing is reasonable."
"Make sure you have enough licensing for all the techs that you have."
"It is priced fairly."
"The cloud version is relatively inexpensive, but the on-premise version is expensive if you do not need three technicians, only one or two for concurrent sessions."
"I think the product's pricing is a good value. I paid $600 a year and that was fine for me. It was about $50 a month. Licensing is all very straightforward."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Manufacturing Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Performing Arts
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise7
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

No data available
ConnectWise Control
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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