LogMeIn Central vs LogMeIn Rescue comparison

"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."

"I have called for help to their technical support, and they have been extremely helpful."

"It’s enabled me to remotely do updates to servers and workstations in off-hours – without needing to travel into the office. Makes my life much easier."

"No issues with stability. It has worked on every platform I’ve tried it on, and not interfered with anything."

"Using the product, we provide a quicker response when supporting customers.​"

"This solution has allowed granular permission access to machines, very consistent and solid most of the time."

"The alerts are helpful."

"It saves us drive time, we don't have to go to clients. We can just use remote access."

"They've thought of everything in terms of features. It's got all the little drill-down details and capabilities to apply patches and other stuff like that. I don't use everything they offer but you can go wherever you want to take this tool. It's been around for a really long time. We try as much as possible to train our staff to take care of their own systems and train our customer staff to take care of their own systems. There's a little laser pointer feature that you can pull up on the screen and say, "No, over here, click on this." That's very educational. It's a simple thing but when you're trying to get people to take responsibility and learn to take care of their own infrastructure, being able to just point at something while you're viewing their screen, as well as, take over their screen, is very valuable."

"​Our favorite feature is being able to diagnose customers' problems by seeing them on the screen, rather than just over the phone."

"Being able to reboot computers into safe mode, when needed. That has come in handy in regards to IT troubleshooting."

"With the product, I have never had an issue with it. I have never had to look up anything or call anyone."

"The vendor's reliability provides me with peace of mind. Over the 10-plus years, we've literally had no issues with it going down or with it causing any problems or causing issues when our end-users are trying to get access to it."

"It works with different operating systems, I can connect to a PC or Mac."

"The ability to run it as a console when I log in. It thinks I'm there. It allows me to do file transfers. It allows me to see event logs through the utility, as opposed to having to open them on the client machine, so I can help troubleshoot unobtrusively."

"I can remote reboot and know I can reconnect automatically without having to have the end user log back in again."

"​File transfer on the free version needs improvement. Allow file transfer with drag and drop to and from Remote Desktop. ​"

"It is easy to get locked out, which is something that needs to be improved."

"Sometimes it just fails to load."

"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."

"I do not like the antivirus."

"They should provide intermediate device limit options for the users."

"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 solution is expensive as hell."

"They need to improve their technical support."

"Secondly, the product needs improvement on mobile interfaces because on mobile devices it doesn't perform very well. On computers, it is good, with desktops, laptops, it is good. Sometimes iPad is good, but going with other devices, like Android or Windows on smart phones, ​it's always a problem."

"I would like to see a mobile client that would work on an iPad, so I do not always have to be on a PC or a full-blown Mac operating system."

"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."

"The billing team was poor when fixing their billing mistake and customer service was missing in action."

"​The pricing, is a little on the high end but it's proven itself to be worth it for sure."

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."

"I occasionally need to reboot my computer after using LogMeIn, due to an issue with IE. It stops responding to keyboard input every once in a while, after disconnecting from a session. A reboot resolves it."

"It's getting more expensive and we are starting to evaluate other products. It's starting to become unaffordable."

"It's probably worth the value, but the price increases over the last five years are getting harder to justify."

"The price is a little high but it's competitive. The licensing process is fairly easy."

"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."

"The solution's price is reasonable."

"We are an educational institution, so anything to make it cheaper would be better because we don’t grow money on trees."

"It is a little pricey. I have more than five seats, so I pay a $1000/year."

"The price needs improvement. It is ridiculously expensive now, and no features have really changed."

"I did look into a couple of other products, TeamViewer in particular, at one point. The price point of Rescue, compared to some of the other things that are in the marketplace right now, is high. But it's what I would call the "Cadillac" of the industry."

"​The rescue model is licensed by user."

"The pricing is worth the value."

"Look at the different plans they have. Do not pay for a plan you do not need.​"

"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."

"The only downside is pricing. I think each technician license is somewhere around $100 or $120 a month now. So if you have a lot of technicians, it can get expensive, for a small business."

"Pricing is reasonable and easily offsets other costs, while resolving issues in a much quicker timeframe."

"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."