# ThinApp Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [OS Imaging & Deployment Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/os-imaging-deployment) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About ThinApp ThinApp accelerates application deployment and simplifies application migration by isolating applications from their underlying operating systems to eliminate application conflict and streamline delivery and management. ## ThinApp Reviews ### 1. Portable apps for the enterprise **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** Thinapp's appeal is twofold for me. Firstly the apps themselves are fully self-contained. There is no need to have a Thinapp client in place beforehand for them to run. This makes deploying them a snap. Either have them copied to your endpoint or run them from a network share. Simple. Secondly, the package creation process is very quick and simple. Use the capture tool to create a snapshot or before picture of a machine, install the software, configure it and take the after snapshot. You are left with a ready-to-run package that somebody can deploy infinitely! Lastly (did I say two). User config that would normally be stored in appdata and hkcu is saved to a store on disk so you can run Thinapps of the same package but of different versions on the same machine. You can use a Profile management tool such as Ivanti UWM to allow profile settings to migrate to App-V or natively installed software on other devices. **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** Not much, really. Just that the options to change the package after saving are limited. I may have missed it, but it would be nice to be able to control what stays in the sandbox and what 'falls through' to the real file system and registry. **Recommendations to others considering ThinApp:** Make sure you package on a clean machine with as little as possible management software. **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thinapp lets you package once and deploy to many with such little overhead. I can isolate my software from my OS so easily. ### 2. Thinapp it’s a cool tool for packaging **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praneet S. | Infrastructure Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** We no need to do spend more time in evaluating building app. Even we can use that machine as a base one where we want to build thinapp once it's done we can revert it back so every time it will help us for deploying as a fresh machine. **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** Nothing much I encountered while building new applications **Recommendations to others considering ThinApp:** It's a good tool nothing else I can comment as we do deploy when an application to publish it as a shared one **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it on a shared publish apps with a gpo so if we know more about it or how to utilise as a positive note that will help a lot ### 3. Migrate legacy applications easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** Porting applications to newer operating systems, for exampe legacy software that would not run on newer host os's. **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** Is there anything bad to say about it? can't think of anything. **Recommendations to others considering ThinApp:** Give it a try, it's easy to use and most of the time you only need to ThinApp applications once! **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compatibility issues, Easy installtion by using Click and Run Apps with Res Workspace Manager (ONE). ### 4. application virtualization **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tariq D. | Entrepreneur, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** Even able to capture dongles drivers shine virtualization **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** UI is not that appealing, it should provide integrated points **Recommendations to others considering ThinApp:** Good fit for application virtualization **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Virtualizing application ### 5. Thin app usin Thinapp **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek S. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** Easy method to virtualize the app and more easy for users to use the app with awesome UI **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** Troubleshooting require further more horizon **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application virtualization ### 6. ThinApp is needed when in specific use-case scenarios and sandboxing is needed. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** Ease of use, frequently updated to support latest OS's. **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** Application integrations are not always easy to make. **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Still see many legacy apps that need older middleware applications, and ThinApp is a good solution for this. Some customers use ThinApp as their primary application virtualization solution and don't use application layering solutions. ### 7. VMware ThiApp **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** VENKAT GOWDA I. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** VMware ThiApp is very good Virtualization Technology. It is very easy to package and deploy the packages **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** Need to improve on Isolation technology. **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application packaging and Virtualization ### 8. Thinapp review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** karthik p. | Assistant Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** Virtualisation techniques and speed of application. **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** Cost of license and accessability over internet. **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application dependencies, tools used for it ### 9. User friendly and effective tool for virtualization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2021 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** It is a light weight application.Easy to handle and very effective in results. **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** Documentation can be improved and handling huge application suites like MS office shpuld be taken care **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy deployment, light weighted applications after virtualization using thinapp. ### 10. ThinApp Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** The ease of use to create a portable version of an application. We **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** The ability to UPDATE an already created thinapp. It has been best to just recreate the thinapp as new and makes any changes necessary, then capture again. **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing users access to software that we do not want in our base/parent golden image for all to use. This has also been useful for giving to students to use on their home machines, already configured and ready for use at home. ### 11. ThinApp **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about ThinApp?** ThinApp enables us to deploy applications to the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure better **What do you dislike about ThinApp?** ThinApp doesn't seem to work successfully on all apps. **What problems is ThinApp solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application Deployment ## ThinApp Discussions - [How do I virtualize an application using VMware ThinApp?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-virtualize-an-application-using-vmware-thinapp) - [Is VMware ThinApp free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-vmware-thinapp-free) - [What is ThinApp package?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-thinapp-package) - [What is VMware horizon ThinApp?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vmware-horizon-thinapp) - [View ThinApp pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/thinapp/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-05+18%3A43%3A42+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ae33782a-42a8-4b57-92d8-433b41972c5f&secure%5Btoken%5D=454341e6961f9790cdd9a7459ea9854ffb135cbe4816cf5738ca0497958410b8&format=llm_user) ## ThinApp Features **Administration** - Compression - Automation - Web Interface - Administration Console **Deployment** - Device Variety - OS Variety - Deployment Methods **Imaging** - Remote Imaging - Offline imaging - Online imaging ## Top ThinApp Alternatives - [SmartDeploy](https://www.g2.com/products/smartdeploy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (145 reviews) - [Ivanti Endpoint Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/ivanti-endpoint-manager/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (134 reviews) - [KACE Unified Endpoint Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/kace-unified-endpoint-manager/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (93 reviews)