Kiosk vs Trio Kiosk Management

Kiosk is a free, open-source PDF reader for web, desktop, mobile, and browser extensions. It renders PDFs and offers full-text search with highlighted results, page thumbnails, zoom, and light, dark, and night display modes. Its Chrome extension adds highlighting, underlining, strikethrough, drawing, shapes, and text annotations. The project says PDFs stay on the device, with no telemetry, cloud processing, or account requirement. Android works offline after installation, and the extension release notes also state that offline use is supported. The web app can run locally or be deployed through GitHub Pages as a self-hosted instance. Desktop apps can open PDFs directly and associate Kiosk with PDF files; the extension can intercept PDFs opened in Chrome. The extension supports Chrome 88+, Edge 88+, and Brave, but not Firefox or Safari. The project is released under the MIT License. Its Android release is an early alpha, and the macOS app is ad-hoc signed but not notarized, so Gatekeeper may warn on first launch.

Trio Kiosk Management gives IT teams one console for turning tablets, phones, and desktops into single-purpose devices. It offers single-app and multi-app kiosk modes enforced through platform-native management, plus silent deployment and updates for approved apps, allowlists, and preconfigured app settings. Devices can loop local images and video, show web content, and follow scheduled sleep and wake settings. Enrollment options include Apple Business Manager, Android Zero Touch, and Windows AutoPilot. The product lists kiosk support for iOS, iPadOS, Android, Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Linux. Security capabilities include factory reset protection, device encryption enforcement, and audit records for configuration and deployment changes; automated evidence collection supports SOC 2 and HIPAA reporting. Essentials costs $5 a month per device, Secure costs $8 a month per device, and Zero Trust costs $11 a month per device. Each plan starts with 20 devices and includes a 14-day free trial. Trio advertises 24/7 support.