Hexnode Kiosk

Hexnode provides unified endpoint management with kiosk capability, published across sixteen languages spanning North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific, with a fully functional trial and enterprise two-factor authentication for technicians.

The language coverage is the characteristic worth noting, and for kiosk software it matters more than for most categories.

A kiosk speaks to the public. A managed employee laptop is used by someone the organisation trained; a kiosk is used by whoever walks up to it, and in most countries that includes people who do not read the local language natively. A kiosk platform that cannot present in several languages excludes users from the service it exists to provide, which for a public sector or transport deployment may be a legal requirement rather than a courtesy.

The administrative interface being multilingual serves a different purpose, since the technicians managing devices across a multinational deployment are frequently local staff rather than a central team.

Two-factor authentication for technicians is worth singling out because of what device management consoles can do. An administrator of a kiosk fleet can push applications, change configuration, wipe devices and view what is on screens. A compromised administrator account is therefore control of every device in the estate, and treating that account with the same protection as any ordinary user is a serious mismatch of risk.

A fully functional trial rather than a limited one suits this category, since kiosk deployments are physically specific and the only meaningful evaluation involves putting real devices in a real location.

Pricing is published from $2.20 per device with $3.20 published for the tier including enterprise two-factor authentication for technicians.