Every European mobile device management tool reviewed
Stuttgart, Germany
Founded 2021
Free for up to five devices with no time limit; cloud and on-premises prices on request, with stated discounts for schools, public institutions and NGOs
Free tier for five devices, unlimited in time
Best for: Schools, public bodies and companies that want a German cloud or their own server, without a seat minimum
Relution is the most complete answer in this category to the question the category exists to ask. Relution GmbH was founded in Stuttgart in 2021 out of the MWAY GROUP, which has been building software there since 2005, and the product is developed, supported and hosted in Germany. You can run it in Relution's German cloud or install it in your own infrastructure, and the choice does not cost you features.
The breadth is unusual. Most tools in this directory manage iOS and Android and stop; Relution has dedicated management for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS, which covers the mixed estate a school or a council actually has rather than the one a vendor would prefer. Alongside the MDM sit an application store, a whiteboard product and security modules, and the education and public-sector focus shows in the tooling.
The free tier deserves naming properly: five devices, shared cloud or on-premises, with no time limit. That is not a trial. It is enough to run the thing against real hardware for as long as it takes to decide. Beyond that the price is on request, with stated discounts for schools, public institutions and NGOs, which is the part you cannot compare on a page.
What Relution does well
- German company, German cloud and a genuine on-premises option, with development and support in Stuttgart
- Six operating systems managed, including Linux and ChromeOS that most competitors ignore
- Free for five devices with no expiry, on cloud or on-premises
- Built for the education and public sector, with discounts stated for schools, public bodies and NGOs
- TeleTrusT "IT Security Made in Germany" and "IT Security Made in EU" trust marks
Where Relution falls short
- No published price beyond the free tier, so you cannot compare it against TinyMDM or AppTec360 without a sales call
- ISO 27001 and the Common Criteria EAL 4+ evaluation are described as in progress, not held
- Not open source, so on-premises means a licence you install rather than code you control
- The German-speaking, public-sector centre of gravity shows in documentation and support reach
Standout feature. A German cloud and an on-premises install from the same company, with five devices free forever — nothing else here lets you evaluate the real product, on your own server, without a contract.
Oslo, Norway
Founded 1997
Price on request; the shared cloud carries a 12-month minimum commitment and the on-premises edition can be bought on a perpetual licence
No self-service trial published; the site routes every enquiry through a demo
Best for: Organisations whose rules require a dedicated instance or an air-gapped install
Techstep is the largest company in this category and the only one on a stock exchange. Techstep ASA has been in Oslo since 1997, listed since 2002, with over 200 staff and operations in Norway, Sweden and Poland. That matters for a specific kind of buyer: an MDM is a ten-year decision, and a listed Norwegian company with published accounts is a different continuity risk from a ten-person GmbH.
The deployment options are the reason it ranks this high. Techstep Essentials MDM is sold three ways: a shared cloud with the fastest setup and a twelve-month minimum commitment, a dedicated cloud instance in a European data centre with more integration options, and an on-premises install on your own servers that supports air-gapped operation and can be bought on a perpetual licence. Air-gapped MDM is a short list, and most of it is American.
Coverage is broad — Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux, with explicit support for warehouse scanners and rugged devices alongside phones and tablets. The company markets the product as made in Europe with no CLOUD Act exposure, which is a claim the on-premises and dedicated-cloud options can actually carry.
What Techstep Essentials MDM does well
- On-premises with air-gapped operation and perpetual licensing, which almost nothing else in Europe offers
- Dedicated cloud instance in a European data centre as a middle option
- A listed Norwegian company since 2002 with 200-plus staff, so continuity is a matter of public record
- Manages Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux, including rugged and warehouse hardware
- Backed by a managed-mobility business, so the software can be bought with the service around it
Where Techstep Essentials MDM falls short
- No price published at all, and no self-service trial — every route goes through a demo call
- The shared cloud carries a twelve-month minimum commitment
- Norway is EEA rather than EU, which a contract clause written as "EU only" will not accept
- No security certification named on the product pages
Standout feature. Air-gapped on-premises operation on a perpetual licence. If the requirement is that the management server never touches the internet, this is one of the very few European products that says yes.
Basel, Switzerland
EUR 2.39 per device per month for the UEM bundle and EUR 3.99 for the all-in-one bundle, falling to EUR 1.79 and EUR 2.99 at 5,000 devices; add-ons from EUR 0.49; school package EUR 0.39 including cloud hosting
Free full on-premises licence for up to 25 devices, support excluded
Best for: Buyers who want the price list before the sales call, and a free server to prove it works
AppTec is the most transparent supplier in this category and it is not close.
AppTec GmbH in Basel publishes an actual price sheet: EUR 2.39 per device per month for the Unified Endpoint Management bundle, EUR 0.79 for the secure connection and gateway package, EUR 0.79 for content management, EUR 0.49 for digital signage and kiosk, and EUR 3.99 for all four together — with a volume slider that shows EUR 1.79 and EUR 2.99 at 5,000 devices.
Consulting is EUR 1,600 for eight hours. Non-profits and fleets over 5,000 get 25 per cent off the software.
The free offer is the other unusual thing. AppTec gives away a full on-premises licence for up to 25 devices, permanently, with support excluded. That is a working server on your own hardware rather than a hosted trial, and for a small organisation that can self-host it may simply be the end of the procurement process. Public schools get a separate package at EUR 0.39 per device per month including cloud hosting.
Read the conditions before assuming it is cheap, though. The minimum order is 25 licences and the minimum re-order is 10, the standard licence term is 24 months with discounts for 36, 48 and 60, and subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled three months before expiry. The cloud option is described as Europe hosting in a shared environment, without a named country or provider.
What AppTec360 EMM does well
- Publishes a full per-device price list with volume pricing, which six of the eleven others do not
- Free full on-premises licence for up to 25 devices, permanently rather than for 30 days
- Modular: buy just the UEM bundle, or add gateway, content and kiosk packages separately
- EUR 0.39 per device per month school package including cloud hosting
- Swiss company with an EU adequacy decision behind it, and BYOD container management in the base bundle
Where AppTec360 EMM falls short
- 25-licence minimum order and a 24-month standard term, so a small pilot is not purchasable
- The cloud is described only as "Europe hosting in a shared environment" with no country or provider named
- Automatic renewal unless cancelled three months before expiry
- No security certification named anywhere on the site
- Switzerland is outside the EU, which some procurement rules will not accept
Standout feature. A published price list and a free permanent on-premises server for 25 devices. AppTec is the only supplier here you can evaluate and budget for without speaking to anyone.
Augsburg, Germany
Price on request, licensed per module within the baramundi Management Suite
30-day trial version
Best for: IT departments where phones are a small part of a Windows estate that also needs patching and imaging
baramundi is not really an MDM; it is an endpoint management suite from Augsburg where mobile device management is one module. baramundi software GmbH sits at Forschungsallee 3 in Augsburg, registered at the Amtsgericht there under HRB 38692, and the baramundi Management Suite covers OS deployment, patch management, software distribution, inventory, licence management, endpoint security and IT automation alongside Android and iOS.
That is the same shape as Microsoft Configuration Manager plus Intune, which is exactly what it is bought to replace in the German mid-market. If your actual problem is 800 Windows machines that need patching and 120 phones that need enrolling, a dedicated MDM solves a fifth of it and baramundi solves the whole thing from one console. The suite runs on-premises, hybrid or fully hosted, and a separate cloud platform called baramundi Proactive Hub handles multi-tenant management.
The mobile half is deliberately less ambitious than a specialist tool. The documented support is Android from 7.0, iOS from 9.0 and iPadOS from 13, with no macOS management named on the MDM page. There is a 30-day trial, and no price at all: licensing is per module, quoted per customer.
What baramundi does well
- Mobile sits beside patching, OS deployment, inventory and licence management in one suite
- On-premises, hybrid or hosted, so the Windows estate and the phones stay under one deployment model
- German company in Augsburg with a long-established mid-market installed base
- 30-day trial of the full suite
- Replaces the Configuration Manager plus Intune pairing rather than only half of it
Where baramundi falls short
- The MDM module is thinner than a dedicated tool: Android 7 and iOS 9 upwards, with no macOS management named
- No price published, and module-based licensing makes the total hard to estimate
- The hosted option and the Proactive Hub cloud do not state where they run
- No security certification named on the product pages
- Overkill if you only have phones
Standout feature. It treats a phone as one more endpoint. For an IT team already running imaging and patching, that removes a whole console rather than adding one.
Biarritz, France
EUR 3.49 per device per month on Business from 50 devices, EUR 5.49 on Enterprise from 100 devices, plus EUR 1 per device for the advanced add-on
14-day free trial, no card required
Best for: French public bodies and regulated firms that need hosting inside the SecNumCloud perimeter
Appaloosa is the only tool in this directory hosted on SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure, and that single fact is why it ranks where it does. SecNumCloud is the French ANSSI qualification scheme, and its immunity criteria are written to exclude providers subject to non-European law — which means the usual "European company, American cloud" answer does not get you the badge. Appaloosa states plainly that it is hosted in France on qualified infrastructure.
The company behind it is OB2J, a société par actions simplifiée at 9 impasse Rolland in Biarritz, registered at the RCS Bayonne under 901 232 520, with French law and French courts in the terms. The product covers iOS, Android, Windows and macOS from one console, with zero-touch enrolment, private and public app distribution, BitLocker and FileVault enforcement, OS update control and kiosk mode.
Pricing is published and it is the highest of the four that publish: EUR 3.49 per device per month on Business with a 50-device minimum, EUR 5.49 on Enterprise with a 100-device minimum, and EUR 1 per device for the advanced add-on that brings remote support, contacts sync and file sharing. Enterprise adds SSO and directory integration, priority support and four hours of admin training. The 14-day trial needs no card.
What Appaloosa does well
- Hosted in France on SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure, the strongest hosting claim in this category
- Published pricing with the add-on cost and the plan differences stated
- iOS, Android, Windows and macOS in one console with zero-touch enrolment
- Disk encryption enforcement and OS update control included at the Business tier
- French company, French law, French courts, stated in the terms
Where Appaloosa falls short
- 50-device minimum on Business and 100 on Enterprise, so small fleets cannot buy it
- The most expensive published price here at EUR 3.49 and EUR 5.49
- Cloud only — no on-premises option at all
- The hosting provider behind the SecNumCloud qualification is not named
- SSO and directory integration are held back for the Enterprise tier
Standout feature. SecNumCloud-qualified hosting in France. It is the one supplier here whose infrastructure claim has been tested against a state scheme rather than asserted in marketing copy.
Leipzig, Germany
Price on request; the supplier publishes no packages and states that one licence covers every MDM function
Test access on request
Best for: German mid-market fleets that want every function in one licence and no feature-gated tiers
MobiVisor is built by IOTIQ GmbH at Emilienstraße 13 in Leipzig, registered at the Amtsgericht Leipzig under HRB 33576. It manages Android, iOS, macOS and Linux devices from one interface, and the deployment choice is cloud on German servers or an install on your own.
The commercial model is the distinguishing part. IOTIQ publishes no packages: one licence covers every MDM function, with no add-on tiers and no features held back for the enterprise plan. That removes the most common annoyance in this category, where kiosk mode or SSO turns out to be two tiers above the one you costed. The flip side is that there is no published price at all — every quote follows a needs analysis.
The customer list is German mid-market and public: an insurer, an industrial shipyard, a therapy centre, the city of Halle. The site is available in German, English, French, Italian, Turkish, Thai and Arabic, which is a wider reach than the German-only tools, though the documentation depth is clearly strongest in German.
What MobiVisor does well
- One licence covers every function, with no feature-gated tiers
- German servers or an on-premises install on your own hardware
- Android, iOS, macOS and Linux managed from one interface
- Android Enterprise Approved, with kiosk mode, remote lock and app management included
- Interface available in seven languages, which is unusual for a German mid-market product
Where MobiVisor falls short
- No price published anywhere and no package structure, so budgeting requires a sales conversation
- No trial you can start yourself — test access is granted on request
- No security certification named, and the security page does not state a data centre operator
- Documentation and support are strongest in German
- A small company, which is a continuity question worth asking directly
Standout feature. One licence, every function. There is no upgrade path to argue about, and no discovering in month four that kiosk mode was in the other tier.
Nantes, France
EUR 1.77 per device per month billed annually (EUR 21.20 per device per year), EUR 2.12 billed monthly
30-day free trial for up to 10 devices, all features included
Best for: Large Android fleets where the per-device price decides the business case
TinyMDM is the cheapest published price in this category, at EUR 1.77 per device per month on annual billing — EUR 21.20 per device per year — or EUR 2.12 month to month. For a fleet of 500 handhelds that is a materially different number from Appaloosa at EUR 3.49, and on large Android estates the price is often the whole argument.
It comes from ARS NOVA SYSTEMS at 9 rue des Olivettes in Nantes, and it is the best-certified small supplier here: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 through Certi-Trust, Android Enterprise Silver Partner, Samsung Knox Validated Partner. The trial is 30 days for up to 10 devices with every feature switched on, which is long enough to run a real pilot. Larger deployments get SAML integration and extra storage under a custom plan.
The honest caveat is the infrastructure. TinyMDM states that it is hosted on secure servers in Europe at Amazon Web Services, with backups on Amazon S3 and daily backups kept for two months. The company is French and the data is in Europe, but the operator of the servers is an American corporation, and there is no on-premises option to escape into. For a warehouse fleet that is usually irrelevant; for a ministry it is the end of the conversation.
What TinyMDM does well
- EUR 1.77 per device per month on annual billing, the lowest published price in this category
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, which most small suppliers here are not
- Android Enterprise Silver Partner and Samsung Knox Validated Partner
- 30-day trial for 10 devices with all features enabled
- French company in Nantes, with data kept in Europe
Where TinyMDM falls short
- Runs on Amazon Web Services, so an American provider sits under a French company
- Cloud only — there is no on-premises or self-hosted edition to fall back on
- Strongest on Android; the Apple and Windows story is thinner than a full UEM suite
- SAML single sign-on sits in the custom plan rather than the published tiers
- No legal-notice page on the site: the company identity has to be read off the footer
Standout feature. The price. At EUR 1.77 per device per month with ISO 27001 behind it, TinyMDM makes the business case for a thousand-device Android fleet almost arithmetic.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Founded 1992
Price on request, quoted as a product, a solution bundle or the whole platform
30-day free trial
Best for: Enterprises where device management has to sit inside service and asset management
Matrix42 GmbH has been in Frankfurt since 1992, employs over 600 people, serves more than 4,300 customers and has offices in Germany, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Romania and Ukraine. It is the largest software-only vendor in this category, and it markets itself as "the European choice" in service management — software built, hosted and supported in Europe.
Unified endpoint management here is one layer of a platform that also covers enterprise service management, software asset management and endpoint data protection. That is the pitch: a device enrolled in the UEM is the same asset in the CMDB, the same object in the licence position, and the same subject of the service request. For an enterprise that has separate tools for each of those, consolidating is worth more than any individual feature.
Deployment is cloud, on-premises or hybrid, and there is a 30-day trial. Pricing is not published in any form — the company says it is tailored per customer and sells at three levels, individual products, bundled solutions, or the whole platform. The European hosting claim is made at the level of the company rather than the data centre: no region and no provider are named on the site.
What Matrix42 does well
- UEM sits inside service management, asset management and endpoint data protection on one platform
- Cloud, on-premises or hybrid deployment, chosen per customer
- Founded 1992 with 600-plus staff and 4,300-plus customers, so continuity is not a question
- Offices across eight European countries, with support in the local language
- 30-day free trial before committing
Where Matrix42 falls short
- "Built, hosted and supported in Europe" is stated without naming a region, data centre or provider
- No pricing published at any level, and three purchasing tiers make estimation harder
- Platform scale means an implementation project rather than a signup
- The mobile layer is not the product's centre of gravity
- No security certification named on the product pages
Standout feature. The device, the asset and the service ticket are the same record. That is the argument for buying a platform rather than an MDM, and Matrix42 is the European one that can make it.
Berlin, Germany
Price on request across Basic, Pro and Enterprise, monthly or annual, with volume discounts
14 days free, no payment details required
Best for: Teams that want a dedicated MDM built on native Apple and Android security, with the subprocessors written down
Cortado Mobile Solutions GmbH sits at Alt-Moabit 91a in Berlin, registered at the Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg under HRB 163439 B.
The product philosophy is stated plainly: use Apple's and Android's own security architecture rather than layering a proprietary container on top, on the grounds that it gives the best balance between user acceptance and security. In practice that means a light touch on the device and quick support for new platform features — Apple TV management and Mac management both arrived recently.
Cortado is also the most honest supplier here about its own dependencies, which is why it is worth reading its data processing addendum before any other.
That document names Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington as the host of the Cortado cloud platform at the Microsoft Azure site Germany West Central in Frankfurt am Main, alongside Cloudflare in San Francisco and Google Ireland in Dublin. The data is in Frankfurt; the operator is American; the transfer mechanism is standard contractual clauses with a transfer impact assessment.
That transparency is a genuine credit and a genuine problem at the same time. For most commercial buyers, Azure in Frankfurt with a named DPA is perfectly acceptable and better documented than what most competitors offer. For anyone whose rules reach the subprocessor, it is disqualifying, and no amount of German registration changes it. The 14-day trial runs without payment details; the price across Basic, Pro and Enterprise is on request.
What Cortado MDM does well
- Publishes a data processing addendum that names every subprocessor and the exact Azure region
- Built on native Apple and Android security rather than a proprietary container, so user friction is low
- Mac and Apple TV management added alongside iOS and Android
- 14-day trial with no payment details required
- Berlin company, with the contracting entity inside the EU
Where Cortado MDM falls short
- The platform runs on Microsoft Azure, so a US corporation operates the infrastructure under a German company
- Cloudflare Inc is a further US subprocessor in the chain
- No price published for any of the three plans
- Cloud only — no on-premises option
- The group has subsidiaries in Denver, Tokyo and Sydney, which is worth checking against a strict EU-only policy
Standout feature. The DPA names Azure Germany West Central and every other subprocessor. It is the only supplier here that tells you exactly whose machines your fleet is managed from — which is both the best documentation in the category and the reason it does not rank higher.
Aachen, Germany
Founded 2017
Free for three devices; EUR 80 per month for up to 50, EUR 360 for up to 300, EUR 890 for up to 1,000, with annual billing at twelve times the monthly rate
Free workspace for three devices, no card required
Best for: Companies that build the hardware and need the Android build and the management in one contract
emteria is the odd one out and the better for it. emteria GmbH at Oppenhoffallee 9-15 in Aachen, trading since 2017 and registered under HRB 21466, does not manage someone else's Android — it ships its own Android build for your hardware and manages the devices running it. For a manufacturer of kiosks, terminals, medical devices or in-vehicle units, that collapses two suppliers into one and removes the gap where a custom Android image meets a generic MDM.
The pricing shape follows from that. emteria charges by workspace band rather than per device: free for three devices, EUR 80 a month for up to 50, EUR 360 for up to 300, EUR 890 for up to 1,000, with annual billing at twelve times the monthly rate and custom pricing above.
Application storage and remote access are included on the free tier and optional on the paid ones. All cloud servers are stated to be physically in the European Union, and on-premises deployment is available on request.
Do the arithmetic on the bands before assuming it is cheap. Fifty devices at EUR 80 is EUR 1.60 each, cheaper than anything else here. Fifty-one devices costs EUR 360, which is EUR 7.06 each. The model rewards fleets that sit just under a boundary and punishes the ones just over it.
What emteria does well
- Ships a custom Android OS build and the device management together, which nothing else here does
- All cloud servers stated to be physically in the EU, with on-premises available on request
- Free workspace for three devices with no card, and priced by fleet band rather than per seat
- Built for kiosks, terminals and custom hardware rather than adapted to them
- German company in Aachen with the register entry and VAT number published
Where emteria falls short
- Android only — no iOS, macOS or Windows management at all
- The band pricing steps hard: 51 devices costs four and a half times what 50 devices cost
- Not a general-purpose MDM for a corporate phone fleet
- No security certification named
- Application storage and remote access become paid options above the free tier
Standout feature. The operating system and the management platform come from the same supplier. If you manufacture the device, that removes the integration nobody wants to own.
Spain
Founded 2016
Starter EUR 2 per device per month billed annually (EUR 2.50 monthly), Advanced EUR 3 and EUR 3.50, Enterprise on request
14-day free trial, no card required
Best for: Development teams that need app distribution and device management from the same API
Applivery started as an application distribution platform and grew into unified endpoint management, and that history is still the reason to pick it. An enterprise app store, private and public app distribution and an API-first design sit alongside management of Android, iOS, macOS, iPadOS and Windows — so a team shipping internal builds to a device fleet does both jobs in one product instead of pairing an MDM with a separate distribution service.
Applivery S.L. was founded on 20 September 2016 and its terms name Spanish law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Madrid. Pricing is published and competitive: Starter at EUR 2 per device per month billed annually or EUR 2.50 monthly, Advanced at EUR 3 and EUR 3.50, Enterprise on request, with a 14-day trial that needs no card. The company holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022.
The infrastructure is the weak point, and it is why this ranks eleventh. The security page names Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as the providers and does not state a region, a country or an EU data residency commitment anywhere. The contracting party is Spanish; where your device inventory physically sits is not documented on the public site. If that matters to you, it is the first question to put in writing.
What Applivery does well
- Enterprise app store and device management in one product, with an API-first design
- Published pricing from EUR 2 per device per month on annual billing
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified
- Manages Android, iOS, iPadOS, macOS and Windows from one dashboard
- Spanish company with Spanish law and Madrid courts written into the terms
Where Applivery falls short
- Runs on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, with no region or EU residency stated anywhere on the site
- The privacy policy and terms name no registered address or company number, only the entity name
- Cloud only — no on-premises option
- Subprocessors are described generically rather than listed
- Pricing sits on a separate page from the main pricing page, which is easy to miss
Standout feature. App distribution and device management on one API. For a team that already ships internal builds, that is a whole integration that stops existing.
Piacenza, Italy
Not published; a free trial is offered and quotes are given on request
Free trial offered, length not stated
Best for: Italian organisations that want endpoint management and mobile threat defence in the same console
Ermetix is the product formerly sold as Chimpa, from Ermetix S.R.L. at Via dei Mille 3 in Piacenza. It is the only tool in this directory that puts unified endpoint management and mobile threat defence in one console rather than expecting you to buy the second from someone else — which closes the most common gap in an MDM deployment, where configuration is enforced but a compromised device goes unnoticed.
Coverage is broad for a company this size: Android with Android Enterprise and Samsung Knox validation, iOS, iPadOS and tvOS with Apple Business Manager and volume purchasing integration, and Windows with Azure and Microsoft Business Store integration. The education market is a visible strength, with Lenovo case studies and school deployments under the old Chimpa branding.
The documentation is the weakness. The company describes itself as software as a service "100 per cent made in Italy", and its privacy policy names Armada Srl in Venafro as its hosting provider with servers inside the European Union — but that statement covers the website, and the platform's own hosting arrangements are not separately documented. No price is published, and the trial length is not stated.
What Ermetix does well
- Mobile threat defence in the same console as endpoint management, which nothing else here offers
- Android, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and Windows, with Apple Business Manager and volume purchasing
- Validated by Android Enterprise and Samsung Knox
- Italian company with the registered address, VAT number and a named data protection officer published
- A named Italian hosting provider with servers stated to be in the EU
Where Ermetix falls short
- The hosting statement covers the website; the platform's own data location is not separately documented
- No pricing published and no stated trial length
- Cloud only — no on-premises option
- The Chimpa-to-Ermetix rebrand leaves older documentation and case studies under the previous name
- Documentation and support are strongest in Italian
Standout feature. Threat defence and device management in one console. Every other supplier here assumes you will buy the detection half from somebody else, and most organisations never do.
