Board Director vs BoardPro

Board Director is board portal software for board members, management, and administrators preparing meetings and sharing information. Users can schedule board and committee meetings, build agendas and board books, take minutes, send calendar invitations, and track RSVPs and attendance. Meetings can sync with Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar, while Zoom supports virtual meetings. A central repository stores board materials, with permissions set by folder or file. PDF annotations include highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, text, notes, drawings, and attached images. Members can take part in public, committee, and private one-to-one discussions, as well as voting, polls, and approvals. The service offers electronic signatures and unlimited committee workspaces; all plans include unlimited documents, meetings, signatures, and committees. Administrators can set access by group or person, including controls over viewing, downloading, publishing, and printing. Board Director runs on Android, iOS, and the web. Pricing is on request and based on user seats, business phase, and organizational complexity. A free 21-day trial is offered.

BoardPro is a board management platform for organizing agendas, board packs, minutes, actions, decisions, and governance documents across the meeting cycle. It is built for boards at nonprofits, SMEs, and schools. Meeting tools cover agenda building, pack compilation, live minute-taking, voting, action assignment, and searchable registers. AI Assistant answers questions about board packs and meeting history with responses linked to BoardPro documents. AI Minutes drafts minutes from an uploaded meeting transcript against the agenda for review and approval. The iPhone, iPad, and Android apps support offline board pack reading, private annotations, and action updates. BoardPro provides multi-factor authentication, board-oriented permission levels, and administrator controls for adding or revoking users. The company says data is hosted in Microsoft Azure facilities in New South Wales, with Victoria used for backup, and encrypted in transit and at rest. Every plan includes unlimited users, unlimited document storage, agenda builder, and chat support; subcommittees cost US$82.50 separately. Essentials costs $165 a month per board, Premium $275 a month per board, and Ultimate $440 a month per board. A 30-day trial does not require a credit card.