MangoApps vs SharePoint Smart Org Chart & Directory

MangoApps is an employee platform combining intranet, communications, knowledge, workflows, services and AI for frontline and office employees. Its Communications & Intranet suite includes a Communications Hub, Sites, Wikis, Surveys, Recognitions and more. The intranet works on any device, supports more than 50 languages, and is designed for employees without corporate email or VPN access. MangoApps lists connections to more than 200 systems, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Workday, UKG, ADP and Paylocity. It also offers REST and webhook APIs with a published OpenAPI specification. Deployment options include SaaS, Private Cloud, Customer VPC and On-Premise. The company lists HITRUST CSF, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, and describes controls including AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, SSO, MFA, role-based access, audit logs, eDiscovery, retention and legal hold. Pricing starts at $9 a month for Communications & Intranet, from 200 employees. There is no free plan, and a 14-day trial is listed. Employee suites require at least 200 employees; specialist-team plans require at least 10 seats.

SharePoint Smart Org Chart & Directory is a free, open-source web part that adds a searchable employee directory and interactive organization chart to a modern SharePoint page. The directory shows employee photos, names, job titles, departments, offices, email addresses, and phone numbers, with search and A–Z filtering. Chart layouts include drill-down, vertical tree, and horizontal tree views. Reporting hierarchies come from Entra ID manager and direct-report relationships through Microsoft Graph, while profile cards can display Microsoft Teams presence. Five themes, card size, sorting, visible fields, and manager levels are configurable. The interface supports 30 languages and follows each user’s Microsoft 365 language setting or the site default. Charts export to PDF or PNG, and directory data exports to Excel or CSV in the browser. The client-side web part uses delegated Graph permissions; the maker says employee data stays within the tenant. A Global or SharePoint administrator must approve User.Read.All and User.ReadBasic.All. Installation requires uploading and deploying the .sppkg package in the tenant App Catalog, then adding it to a modern page.