--- title: IBM App ID Reviews meta_title: 'IBM App ID Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM App ID works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.7 review_count: 6 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: Identity Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/identity-management --- # IBM App ID Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/multi-factor-authentication-mfa) **Average Rating:** 3.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 6 ## About IBM App ID App ID helps developers to easily add authentication to their web and mobile apps with few lines of code, and secure their Cloud-native applications and services on IBM Cloud. App ID also helps manage user specific data that developers can use to build personalized app experiences. ## IBM App ID Reviews ### 1. Secure and authenticate your applications with IBM App ID **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaren L. | Student, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM App ID?** IBM App ID provides an easy to use authentication service for applications. Setting up an App ID service is quick and simple, and by registering your apps against App ID, you can issue API tokens for authentication into your applications. This is very useful as it allows for application developers to focus on the development of business logic and user experience, with the assurance of authentication being handled by the App ID service. **What do you dislike about IBM App ID?** IBM App ID requires the use of IBM Cloud, which might not be in everyone's tech stack. If this authentication service can be exported to other infrastructures, it will be much more appealing and have a bigger user base. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App ID:** A strong recommendation to offload authentication service for your applications **What problems is IBM App ID solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securing and authenticating applications is a huge issue and one of the first lines of defense for an application. By offloading the authentication to App ID, this allows application developers to focus on the business logic and user experience of the application, with the assurance that authentication is safely managed by IBM App ID. ### 2. IBM APP ID IS LOVE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naoufal B. | Embedded System Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App ID?** Secure apps
Secure your apps, back-ends, and APIs. Easily add standards based authentication– no security knowledge needed.

Manage users at scale
Scale to many users, who can sign up for your app and self-service their accounts.

Tailor experiences
Tailor your apps for individual users with an easy way to collect and access user preferences and user data. **What do you dislike about IBM App ID?** Mobile application that responds to customer sentiment
Use Cloud Functions along with cognitive and data services to build a serverless backend for a mobile application. The application shown in this tutorial is a feedback app that analyses the tone of the feedback text and appropriately acknowledges the customer through a push notification. **What problems is IBM App ID solving and how is that benefiting you?** App ID features
Authentication
Add email/password login, social login, or enterprise login to your apps with APIs, SDKs, pre-built UIs, or your own branded UIs.

User repository
Enable app users to sign-up and sign-in with email and password, verify their email, reset/change passwords etc. ### 3. Easily Secure APIs and Applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM App ID?** It is great to use IBM APP ID and its ease of use is what I like the most. The API Docs are too good and very helpful for application developers to integrate their Apps and secure them as needed. This is moving towards future. **What do you dislike about IBM App ID?** The pricing model of cloud subscriptions is almost the same and it a bit heavier. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App ID:** yes **What problems is IBM App ID solving and how is that benefiting you?** App to APP and APP to API authentication was tedious and APP ID helped ease that out. The security and ease of use is what I commend on. The api guides are very good and helpful for begineers to start integration with the application ### 4. ease of use **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** nuong l. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM App ID?** intuitive, reliable and meets expectations **What do you dislike about IBM App ID?** it works well in my environment. No suggestion at this time **What problems is IBM App ID solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy to use along with other products ### 5. Enabler of sharencare **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM App ID?** App ID among other IBM products help us build our blockchain-based peer2peer insurance solution. It helped us in a very efficient way. **What do you dislike about IBM App ID?** We wish for a much higher availability as we like to scale our solution **What problems is IBM App ID solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build our peer2peer insurance solution faster. ### 6. Another great IBM product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App ID?** Security and privacy while remaining shareable **What do you dislike about IBM App ID?** Cost, it becomes another fee we have to pay **What problems is IBM App ID solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlining organizational tasks on the tech side - [View IBM App ID pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-app-id/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-09-30+09%3A27%3A04+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6fe80ce0-5c2e-449c-b615-eb6de30e2b07&secure%5Btoken%5D=60f250df753b98ff5e421d7219ee94f4c9cf196c47d68be186380299012d71c4&format=llm_user) ## IBM App ID Features **Additional Functionality** - Fraud Detection - PCI Compliance - Application Management - Audit Management - Single Sign On - Secure Data Storage - SSL Security - Privileged Account Management - Reporting & Statistics - Two-Factor Authentication - Member Accounts - HIPAA Compliant - AI Copilot - Self-Service Access Request - User Provisioning - Audit Trail - Third-Party Integrations - Real-Time Notifications - Active Directory Integration - Authentication - Compliance Management - Workflow Management - Access Controls/Permissions - Access Management - Secure Login - Customizable Branding - Real-Time Monitoring - Security Auditing - Policy Management - Data Synchronization - Collaboration Tools - API - Unified Directory - Multi-Factor Authentication - Biometrics - Activity Dashboard - Generative AI - Credential Management - Event Logs - Real-Time Analytics - Password Management - Access Certification - Self Service Portal - Mobile Access **Authentication type** - SMS-Based - Voice-Based Telephony - Email-Based - Hardware Token-Based - Software Token - Biometric Factor - Mobile-Push - Risk-Based Authentication - Knowledge-Based Authentication - Two-Factor Authentication - Mobile Authentication **Functionality** - Multi-Device Sync - Backup **Implementation** - Easy Setup - Mobile SDK - Web SDK **Additional Functionality** - Credential Management - Active Directory Integration - Activity Dashboard - Remote Access/Control - Compliance Management - Audit Management - Social Sign On - Secure Login - Real-Time Monitoring - API - Access Management - Third-Party Integrations - Event Logs - Role-Based Permissions - Policy Management - Reporting & Statistics - Fraud Detection - Access Controls/Permissions - Member Accounts - Real-Time Notifications - AI Copilot - Generative AI - Customizable Branding - Alerts/Notifications - Secure Data Storage - Single Sign On - Real-Time Analytics - Data Verification - Biometrics - Multiple User Accounts - Workflow Management - Activity Tracking - User Management - Risk Alerts - Self Service Portal - Password Management - Push Notifications - Access Control - Email Alerts - Data Security - Reporting/Analytics - Knowledge Base Management - Monitoring - Multiple Authentication Methods ## Top IBM App ID Alternatives - [Google Authenticator](https://www.g2.com/products/google-authenticator/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (575 reviews) - [Auth0](https://www.g2.com/products/auth0/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (276 reviews) - [LastPass](https://www.g2.com/products/lastpass/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,080 reviews)