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ConnectWise ScreenConnect vs LogMeIn Central comparison

 

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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

ConnectWise ScreenConnect
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Virtual Meetings (10th), Remote Access (18th)
LogMeIn Central
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

ConnectWise ScreenConnect and LogMeIn Central aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ConnectWise ScreenConnect is designed for Virtual Meetings and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 1.7% compared to last year.
LogMeIn Central, on the other hand, focuses on Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM), holds 3.0% mindshare, down 5.0% since last year.
Virtual Meetings
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)
 

Featured Reviews

Todd Blake - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Kelsey Braun - PeerSpot reviewer
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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Remote connect via webpage. I use it to support employees when I am not in the office or when they are at a remote location."
"Being able to flip quickly between however many monitors that I have running, detune the video for black and white, or with fewer colors to make it faster, is amazing."
"The product's two-factor authentication means we are not worried like before about the state of our security."
"I do love the monitoring page. If you are using ConnectWise Control, which is the on-prem version, when you are logged into the admin panel, there is a status page that checks network connectivity, the status of the license, and so on."
"The ConnectWise ScreenConnect tool is very good for remote access."
"Setup was very straightforward. All I had to do was write a GPO on my domain controller and it automatically installed the agent that I downloaded from the software. I literally had to do nothing."
"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."
"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."
"I would not want to tell other companies about it because it is so powerful, it does so much, and it makes me look so good."
"One of the improvements they made was a LogMeIn Central client - that was a couple years ago - and that has been great. You no longer have to use their web interface. There's actually a client that you can install, which lists all of the machines and servers that you can access. That works really well."
"It allows you to transfer along with many other functions."
"I like being able to dial in and transfer files for updates."
"​The initial setup was simple."
"I like the security aspect, that I can glance down and see quickly who's up to date on patches, and who has virus concerns."
"​The initial setup was pretty straightforward."
"For me, it's convenience because I cover three different offices, and I need to be able to remotely access any of those three offices from anywhere, anytime. With LogMeIn Central, I can do that."
 

Cons

"There needs to be a way to run the agent without installing, like GoToAssist."
"On a Linux machine, there are different limitations that are not there on a Windows Server. Much more limitations exist on Linux deployments."
"Speed is a major factor in Automate, and the control panel is horribly slow."
"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."
"At the moment, there's absolutely no specific feature that we actually need additionally since all the features that we need are available."
"Mobile interface."
"I would like to see more overlap, meaning, I would like to be able to see what processes are running on a computer, for example, or what services are running."
"Something that I would like to see in the future is mobile video streaming. They do provide audio conferencing, but seeing the problem makes it easier to solve the problem. If they had video streaming, if a client had a physical problem with something and I couldn't get remote access, the client could use his mobile phone to show me the problem. In these cases, even if a client's systems were down, I could help, so long as I had a mobile phone environment."
"Our clients are having issues with printing."
"The initial load is terribly slow and often has delays with the login page loading."
"There are some screens that are just ugly and difficult to manipulate."
"LogMeIn Rescue could be made a lot easier where you could just tell the person where to go and log in, and they could just log in. Or even make it simpler where you could just send a file to a person and they would click on it; just something easier. The way they have it right now, it's not easy."
"​File transfer on the free version needs improvement. Allow file transfer with drag and drop to and from Remote Desktop. ​"
"Compared to other products, I feel that their biggest weakness has been customer service. They are very nice, but things take forever to resolve. It has been a major issue there. Otherwise, we're happy. We haven't moved away from them because we haven't found anybody with comparable pricing for our business model."
"The file transfer could be better. They could make it a lot easier to deal with. LogMeIn Central is not that intuitive. It's a lot harder to figure out."
"They should provide intermediate device limit options for the users."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay $3,000 USD for the service, yearly upfront."
"Their licensing model is good, their pricing model is good, their service is good; bandwidth is excellent. They're consistent."
"ConnectWise Control is not an overly expensive tool. Its pricing is reasonable."
"We pay $85 per month for each user for a ConnectWise package with multiple solutions."
"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."
"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."
"Good price and works well."
"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."
"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. ​"
"Having to spend so much money on remote access is what I feel to be a necessary evil."
"The price needs improvement. It is ridiculously expensive now, and no features have really changed."
"Coming from where it was free, it's getting to be expensive."
"We've been trying to nail its cost down ourselves, and it is a disaster in that area because you get different numbers all the time. They say this is what it is, but the numbers don't make a lot of sense to me. I know that the numbers change. So, the more you have, the less they are per seat, but I don't really understand where those breakdowns are. Its billing is confusing. It is definitely the worst part. For 7,500 seats, it might be between 2,250 and 2,700 a month. It is somewhere in there."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"It is a little pricey. I have more than five seats, so I pay a $1000/year."
"Pricing is a little on the expensive side, compared to what TeamViewer has offered."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
6%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ConnectWise Control?
I download the product for free with ConnectWise RMM's license.
What needs improvement with ConnectWise Control?
All the features provided by the product in terms of screen connectors have been good. There can be some complexities when running patches or when building up all the profiles, making them areas wh...
What needs improvement with LogMeIn Central?
They should provide intermediate device limit options. It would be helpful for users who require more remote control capabilities than the lower device limit plans.
 

Also Known As

ConnectWise Control, ScreenConnect
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