# 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.) **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.) **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.) **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.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM App ID?** untuitive, reliable and meet expectation **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.) **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 which a much higher avaialbility 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.) **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=2026-05-13+21%3A28%3A30+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e87ff392-2b7e-4c3d-aae6-60adac218cf2&secure%5Btoken%5D=b4a1f9f82e1d4b2139833dd2cf49566803610e7e8c0d89db509a23f90cae2848&format=llm_user) ## IBM App ID Features **Authentication type** - SMS-Based - Voice-Based Telephony - Email-Based - Hardware Token-Based - Software Token - Biometric Factor - Mobile-Push - Risk-Based Authentication **Functionality** - Multi-Device Sync - Backup **Implementation** - Easy Setup - Mobile SDK - Web SDK ## Top IBM App ID Alternatives - [Google Authenticator](https://www.g2.com/products/google-authenticator/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (562 reviews) - [Auth0](https://www.g2.com/products/auth0/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (252 reviews) - [LastPass](https://www.g2.com/products/lastpass/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,021 reviews)