Hexnode Alternative: How Infronest Compares

Hexnode focuses on unified endpoint management across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and tvOS, with a well-regarded administrative UI.

If your estate is Apple-heavy — supervised iPhones and iPads at scale, Apple TVs in meeting rooms, maybe visionOS on the horizon — Hexnode covers ground Infronest does not: Infronest manages iPhone and iPad through native Apple MDM, but not tvOS or visionOS. The same goes for Fire OS tablets and Android TV signage. No consolidation argument beats a platform gap: if those devices are your fleet, stay.

Hexnode also earns its keep as a focused UEM when device management is genuinely your only gap. If monitoring, helpdesk and assets are already handled by tools your team likes, adding a platform to replace one product can be more change than the benefit justifies.

The Infronest case appears when the tool count itself is the problem: device management is one of four or five subscriptions, each with its own console, renewal and partial inventory, and you want devices, tickets, assets, patches and vulnerabilities to be one connected record.

The change is less about features and more about joins. A helpdesk ticket opens against an asset; that asset is the managed device; the device’s patch level, monitoring state and open vulnerability findings sit on the same record. Questions that used to need two consoles and a spreadsheet — which unpatched laptops belong to the finance team, which server behind a ticket is alerting — become filters.

For MSPs, Infronest’s tenant isolation applies across every module: each client gets a separate workspace for devices, monitoring, tickets and VAPT findings, with remote desktop via MeshCentral isolated per organisation. That is a different shape from adding multi-tenancy to a UEM console alone.

A single workspace changes what an audit looks like: device compliance, patch state, ticket history and VAPT findings with CVSS scores and retest evidence come from one system with one audit trail, instead of exports from a UEM, a monitor and a helpdesk stitched together.

Infronest is India-based and DPDP Act 2023 aligned, with tenant isolation per organisation — a practical point for Indian companies mapping processor obligations. And because a VAPT module ships in the platform, the tool that manages endpoints can also run and document security testing against them; UEM specialists like Hexnode leave that to separate vendors.

Plan around the platform rules: Windows, macOS and Linux machines unenrol and install the Infronest agent without a wipe, while fully managed (Device Owner) Android devices need a factory reset to change owner. iPhones and iPads re-enrol through native Apple MDM (a signed configuration profile, no Infronest app); supervised devices enrolled through Apple Business (formerly Apple Business Manager) are their own project: Infronest's Automated Device Enrolment has to be set up with your Apple Business account first, and devices below iOS/iPadOS 26 usually need erasing to move. Apple TVs stay behind: Infronest does not manage tvOS, so scope the migration to the platforms both products share.

Hexnode’s breadth is real, and some of it has no Infronest equivalent. Leaving it costs you:

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