Compare Hightail and Highfive - Jun 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Jun 23, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Hightail or Highfive?

Highfive is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Hightail, and Highfive is rated higher (88/100) than Hightail (83/100). Hightail offers users more features (18) than Highfive (1).

Looking for the right Team Collaboration solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

YouSendIt Vs. Highfive Technologies

YouSendIt: Yousendit helps users and IT securely share content, sign documents, and access files from any mobile device or PC.

Highfive Technologies: Highfive is video and web conferencing you can actually love. Beautifully simple video for every conference room and employee in your company. Video and screen sharing for every laptop, tablet, and phone. At a fraction of the cost of other providers, our hardware is affordable enough to make video available everywhere.

Who is more expensive? Hightail or Highfive?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Team Collaboration software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Hightail and Highfive.

Hightail price starts at $12 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Hightail is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Team Collaboration software. Highfive price starts at $15 per user/month , When comparing Highfive to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Team Collaboration software cost.

Bottom line: Highfive is more expensive than Hightail.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Hightail Vs. Highfive based on some of the most important and required Team Collaboration features.

Hightail: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Access and retrieval from anywhere, Automated Version Control, Custom User Interface, Document Assembly, Document Check-In/Check-Out, Document Comparison, Document Encryption, Document Indexing.

Highfive: Chat.

Target customer size

Hightail can be quite useful for businesses that already use Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint. and Highfive's target customer size include: Small businesses and start ups.



Hightail

ITQlick rating
(4/5)

starts at $12 per month

Hightail is a cloud-based file sharing service offered by a company of the same name that was originally named YouSendIt when established in 2004. The company's early focus was to help users send files that we...

Categories: Document Management, File Sharing, File Storage.

Highfive

ITQlick rating
(4.3/5)

starts at $15 per user/month

Highfive software is a cloud-hosted video conferencing & collaboration platform that enables web conferencing, video conferencing and screen sharing in an organization.

Categories: Business Phone Systems, Cloud PBX, Online Meeting, Video Conferencing, VoIP.

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Hightail: 18 Features

Access and retrieval from anywhere
Automated Version Control
Custom User Interface
Document Assembly
Document Check-In/Check-Out
Document Comparison
Document Encryption
Document Indexing
Document Publishing
Document Tagging
Document Versioning
Edits Tracking
Functions with e-Mail Systems
Integration with Office
Integration with Outlook
Mobile Access
Remote Document Access
User Access Controls

Highfive: 1 Features

Chat
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
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Hightail
ITQlick rating
4/5
Score
83/100
Pricing
3.6/10
License pricing
$12 per month
Functionality
21
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Highfive
ITQlick rating
4.3/5
Score
88/100
Pricing
6/10
License pricing
$15 per user/month
Functionality
8
Slack
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
100/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$6.67 per month
Functionality
15
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Dropbox
ITQlick rating
4.5/5
Score
99/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$9.99 per month
Functionality
23
Deltek P...
ITQlick rating
4.1/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
6.4/10
License pricing
Pricing not available
Functionality
6

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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.