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Hexnode UEM
Six device platforms, one console — from iPhones to warehouse Fire tablets to the signage in your lobby, with the kiosk depth Hexnode is famous for.
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Hexnode UEM is Mitsogo's unified endpoint management platform: one console for Android, iOS/iPadOS, macOS, Windows, Apple TV and Fire OS devices — zero-touch enrollment (ABM, Android Enterprise, Samsung Knox), policy and compliance management, app and content distribution, BYOD containers, and the deepest kiosk-lockdown toolkit in its class. Organisations from SMBs to Fortune 500s run it in 100+ countries; Gartner mentioned it in the UEM Magic Quadrant and Forrester lists it as a Mobility Specialist.
The Hexnode capability map
This page covers Hexnode UEM — the whole product. Its major capability areas:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Hexnode UEM — the single, deliberately unified flagship
- Vendor
- Mitsogo Inc. (San Francisco · founded 2013 · founder-led, India-engineered)
- Category
- UEM — mobiles, desktops and special devices in one console
- Platforms
- Android · iOS/iPadOS · macOS · Windows · Apple TV · Fire OS
- Enrollment
- Apple Business Manager/ADE · Android Enterprise · Samsung Knox ME · bulk & BYOD
- Signature
- Kiosk lockdown — single-app, multi-app, browser, signage, Android TV
- Analyst standing
- Gartner MQ UEM mention (2021) · Forrester Now Tech Mobility Specialist
- Peer standing
- G2 ~4.5/5 with consistent Leader badges; support quality a recurring theme
- Licensing
- Per device / month in feature tiers — entry around a dollar a device
- Reach
- SMBs to Fortune 500s across 100+ countries
Understand UEM before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is unified endpoint management?
UEM is one console for every device class your business runs: phones and tablets (the MDM part), laptops and desktops, and the special devices — kiosks, signage, rugged scanners — that older tools ignore.
It covers the whole lifecycle: enrollment (devices arrive managed), policy (configuration and restrictions by group), apps and content (silently provisioned), and security (lock, wipe, comply, prove). Hexnode’s version spans six platforms — including Apple TV and Fire OS, which almost nobody else manages.
Fragmented device tools vs one console — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Per-platform tools + unmanaged gaps | Unified console (Hexnode UEM) |
|---|---|---|
| Consoles | An MDM for phones + something else for desktops + nothing for signage | One console across six platforms |
| New device setup | 45 manual minutes per device, if IT gets it at all | Zero-touch: managed from the box (ABM/AE/Knox) |
| Frontline devices | Scanners with games installed; signage showing settings menus | Kiosk-locked to task, remotely recoverable |
| Personal phones | Company data everywhere, no recourse at exit | Work containers — managed data, private life intact |
| Lost device | Change every password and hope | Lock, locate, wipe — in minutes, with an audit trail |
| App landscape | Whatever users installed | Curated catalogues, silent installs, blacklists |
| Compliance | A spreadsheet last updated two audits ago | Live posture with jailbreak/root detection and reports |
| Cost shape | Two or three tools plus manual labour | Per-device tiers from about a dollar a device |
Adoption is incremental — platforms enroll in waves, and the per-platform tools retire at each renewal.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Console
Devices, policies, apps and compliance across every platform in one clean console — a UEM a two-person team runs without a certification course.
Enrollment Layer
ABM/ADE for Apple, Android Enterprise zero-touch, Samsung Knox Mobile Enrollment, plus bulk, QR and BYOD self-enrollment — devices arrive managed.
Policy Engine
Wi-Fi, email, restrictions, certificates and compliance rules assigned by group with hierarchy inheritance — write once, enforce everywhere.
Kiosk Engine
Single-app, multi-app, web-kiosk and digital-signage lockdowns with remote recovery — the deepest kiosk toolkit in the mid-market.
App & Content Layer
VPP and Managed Google Play, enterprise app catalogues, mandatory installs, blacklists and secure content distribution to every enrolled device.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Six platforms, one console.
Hexnode UEM replaces the per-platform tool zoo with one console — enrollment to retirement, iPhone to signage.
True Multi-Platform UEM
Android, iOS/iPadOS, macOS, Windows, Apple TV and Fire OS — including device classes most UEMs ignore entirely.
Zero-Touch Enrollment
ABM/ADE, Android Enterprise and Samsung Knox ME — corporate devices arrive already managed, straight from the box.
BYOD Work Containers
Android work profiles and iOS user enrollment — company data in a managed container, personal life untouched, selective wipe at exit.
Configuration Profiles
Wi-Fi, email, VPN, certificates and restrictions pushed by group — a new starter's device configures itself before the first coffee.
Kiosk Lockdown (Signature)
Single-app and multi-app modes, secure web kiosks and autonomous recovery — POS, scanners and shared tablets that can't wander off-task.
Digital Signage & Android TV
Lobby screens, menu boards and Apple TV conference displays managed like any other device — content pushed remotely, drift impossible.
App Management
VPP and Managed Google Play, enterprise catalogues, mandatory installs and blacklists — the right apps present, the wrong ones gone.
Content Distribution
Documents and media pushed to device shelves securely — field manuals and price lists that update themselves fleet-wide.
Passcode & Encryption
Strength policies and storage encryption enforced across platforms — the lost-device nightmare defused in advance.
Remote Lock, Wipe & Locate
Lost phone locked in seconds, wiped if it stays lost — selectively for BYOD, completely for corporate — with location when enabled.
Geofencing & Location Rules
Policies that trigger by place — a warehouse scanner that locks itself the moment it leaves the site.
Compliance & Reports
Jailbreak/root detection, drift flags and audit-ready reports — mobile posture your auditors accept without a meeting.
Watch Hexnode in action
A hands-on walkthrough, the community signal, and the founder story.
Hexnode UEM Tutorial for Newbies
A third-party console walkthrough — account setup through core device management.
Announcing HexCon25 — Hexnode User Conference
Six editions of a global user conference — the community signal behind the product.
Apu Pavithran — Founder & CEO, Hexnode/Mitsogo
The founder on building a global UEM from India — vision, roadmap and the long game.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough on your own fleet?
Book a guided demo →Every UEM claims multi-platform. Few mean all of it.
Here’s what genuinely sets Hexnode apart from the narrower alternatives.
Six platforms, honestly supported
Most 'multi-platform' UEMs mean iOS + Android with Windows as a footnote. Hexnode treats macOS, Windows, Apple TV and even Fire OS as first-class — rare breadth at any price.
The kiosk toolkit rivals envy
Single-app POS lockdowns, multi-app scanner profiles, web kiosks, signage and Android TV — with remote recovery when a device wedges in the field. This is the capability Hexnode is famous for.
Depth without Intune pain
The mid-market sweet spot: enterprise-grade enrollment, policy and compliance — runnable by a lean team without a dedicated MDM administrator or a certification course.
Analyst-acknowledged, peer-proven
A Gartner MQ mention and Forrester Now Tech listing on the analyst side; consistent G2 Leader badges and ~4.5/5 from practitioners on the other. Both signals, same direction.
Support that actually responds
The most consistent theme across years of Hexnode reviews: fast, competent support. When a kiosk fleet wedges at 6 PM, that reputation is worth real money.
India-engineered, globally proven
Built largely from Kochi and Chennai, sold in 100+ countries, founder-led since 2013. For Indian buyers: a vendor whose engineering timezone is your timezone.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Hexnode journey looks like
Estate census & tier map
TechBag advisors inventory devices by platform and ownership, map use cases to Hexnode's feature tiers, and define trial success criteria.
Trial on the hard devices
14-day full-featured trial — enroll the wedging kiosk, the exec iPhone, the Fire tablet. Zero-touch rails (ABM/AE/Knox) wired up.
Policies, apps & kiosk live
Security baselines, app catalogues and the first kiosk conversions roll out by group; BYOD invitations follow once trust is visible.
Full estate steady-state
Every platform enrolled, compliance dashboards feeding audits, tier right-sized. TechBag handles renewals and true-ups.
Trusted across industries in 100+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“We manage iPads, Windows laptops, Android scanners and the lobby signage from one console. Nobody else we trialled covered all four without excuses.”
“Kiosk mode is the best we've used — 300 delivery scanners locked to task, and remote recovery has saved us a dozen site visits already.”
“Support responds in minutes with actual answers. After years of ticket-number purgatory elsewhere, it's disorienting — in a good way.”
“ABM zero-touch plus Samsung Knox enrollment means every corporate device arrives managed. Onboarding day lost its worst chore.”
“BYOD work profiles were an easy sell to staff — the privacy boundary is visible and real. Enrollment uptake beat our target.”
“Feature tiers need reading carefully — some kiosk depth sits in higher plans. Map use cases to tiers before you quote.”
“Windows management covers our needs but is thinner than the Microsoft-native stack — fair trade for having Macs and mobiles in the same pane.”
“Fire OS support sealed it — our warehouse Fire tablets were unmanageable orphans until Hexnode. Nobody else even mentioned them.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the UEM market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag UEM Market Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
The mid-market's honest all-rounder: six platforms, kiosk mastery, famous support — analyst-acknowledged without enterprise-tool pain. This page's subject.
UEM Depth × Runnability
The grid nobody publishes — feature depth vs whether a lean team can actually run it.
The balanced corner: real depth (six platforms, four kiosk modes) at runnability a lean team sustains — the combination that defines the product.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Hexnode vs the UEM field
Feature matrices hide the questions that matter: platform truth, kiosk depth and whether your team can run it. Here they are.
| Dimension | Hexnode UEM | Scalefusion | LogMeIn Miradore | Microsoft Intune | Jamf Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage & focus | Mid-market UEM (2013) | Frontline specialist | Lean-team MDM | Enterprise default | Apple royalty |
| Platform coverage | 6 incl. tvOS & Fire OS | 4 + rugged | All four mainstream | Broadest overall | Apple only |
| Kiosk & frontline depth | Class-leading | Class-leading | Solid | Capable, complex | Apple-scoped |
| Enrollment automation | Every rail | Full stack | Full stack | Autopilot + ABM | ADE mastery |
| BYOD & privacy | Mature containers | Strong | Clean | MAM leader | Apple-scoped |
| Console & runnability | Lean-team friendly | Clean | Simplest | Steep | Admin-grade |
| Identity & ITSM integrations | Broad | Growing + OneIdP | Core set | Entra-native | Apple ecosystem |
| Support reputation | Famously responsive | Strong | Excellent | Enterprise queue | Good |
| Licensing economics | Tiers from ~$1/device | Competitive | Free tier + ~$3.30 | Bundled-or-pricey | Premium |
| Best fit | Mixed fleets + frontline | Frontline-first fleets | Lean-team first MDM | M365 enterprises | Apple-pure estates |
Which UEM is right for you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Hexnode if…
- ✓Your estate is genuinely mixed — including oddballs like Apple TV or Fire tablets
- ✓Kiosk/signage depth matters and Intune-grade complexity doesn't appeal
- ✓Support responsiveness is worth real money to you
- ✓You want analyst-acknowledged depth at mid-market prices
Choose Scalefusion if…
- ✓Frontline/kiosk fleets ARE the estate
- ✓India-local billing and support appeal
- ✓Its OneIdP identity angle interests you
Choose Miradore if…
- ✓You want the simplest possible start
- ✓The free tier fits your pilot
- ✓Deep kiosk needs aren't on the list
Choose Intune if…
- ✓You're licensed for E3/E5 already
- ✓Conditional access is a hard requirement
- ✓You have dedicated admin capacity
Choose Jamf if…
- ✓Your estate is Apple-only, now and in plan
- ✓You need the deepest Apple controls that exist
- ✓Budget accommodates the specialist premium
What does device chaos cost you?
Drag the sliders (count all devices). Estimates assume ~6 manual IT-hours per unmanaged device per year (setup, fixes, resets, audits), with ~65% removed by zero-touch enrollment, policies and kiosk automation — illustrative and conservative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Hexnode publishes clean per-device tiers (below, USD & indicative INR, billed annually). TechBag maps your use cases to the right tier and turns it into a GST-compliant quote in INR.
Express
Best for core management
- Enrollment, policies, basic MDM
- Entry-level device control
- Lowest-cost start
Pro
Best for kiosk & advanced MDM
- All basic + advanced MDM + kiosk
- Apple Business Manager, Knox enrollment
- The popular SMB tier
Enterprise
Best for full UEM (all OS)
- Windows, macOS, tvOS management
- All Pro features + UEM breadth
- The core UEM plan
Ultimate
Best for advanced macOS/Windows
- Advanced macOS & Windows management
- Deeper app management
- All Enterprise features
Ultra
Best for the full platform
- Everything in Ultimate + more
- Top-tier automation & controls
- Full Hexnode capability
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every UEM vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
List your ACTUAL device zoo — including Fire tablets and Apple TVs — and verify each platform's real depth, not the checkbox.
Which features live in which tier? Map your use cases (kiosk depth, BYOD) to tiers BEFORE comparing prices.
Deploy a kiosk, wedge it deliberately, recover it remotely — before you buy five hundred of them.
ABM, Android Enterprise and Knox ME wired to YOUR accounts in the trial — zero-touch is the difference between a programme and a chore.
What exactly can admins see on a personal phone? Your staff will ask; know the answer first.
Entra/Okta integration configured in week one — or you'll administer users twice, forever.
Raise a real ticket during the trial and time the response. Hexnode's reputation here is testable — test it.
If you ever migrate, what does re-enrollment look like? Plan the honest answer now.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Hexnode?
Get a quote, scope a 14-day trial on your hardest devices, or bring your device census and let a TechBag advisor map tiers with you.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.