Omnissa Horizon review (2026): is it worth it?
Virtual desktops and apps on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid
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Omnissa Horizon report card
Weak · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for company virtual desktops and published apps
Omnissa Horizon serves full desktops and published apps to staff, on your own servers or in the cloud. No prices are published, you pay for hosting on top of the licence, and it is run by an IT team, not by the person using the desktop.
Who Omnissa Horizon is for
- Fits if you are an IT team that needs desktops and apps delivered to many users
- Works for firms that want a choice of on-premises or cloud hosting
Who Omnissa Horizon is not for
- Skip it if you want an app to reach your own PC, as this is an IT-managed platform
- Watch out: Horizon Term licences run on your own infrastructure, so hosting and management cost extra
- Watch out: Horizon 8 and Horizon Cloud are separate products with their own features
- Tight if you want a price up front, as none is published
Why Omnissa Horizon gets a 1.8
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyNo price is published: the products page sends buyers to Omnissa for Horizon SaaS and Term pricing, so it sits at C.
- FFree plan and trialNo free plan and no trial is listed anywhere on the vendor pages.
- BFeaturesFull desktops, published apps, App Volumes, REST APIs and a cloud desktop service are listed, which covers the core of virtual desktop delivery.
- DEase of useNo store rating on record. It needs servers or a cloud tenant, images and policies set up by an IT team.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWindows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android are listed, with Teams, Zoom, Nutanix, AWS, NVIDIA and Terraform. No web client is listed.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Omnissa's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/omnissa-horizon#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/omnissa-horizon.svg" alt="Omnissa Horizon: 1.8 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Omnissa Horizon stands among remote desktop apps
Omnissa Horizon's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 6 of the 85 other remote desktop apps we grade, and level with 6.
It stands best on features (B, above 55 of 85) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 86 remote desktop apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Omnissa Horizon’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 7 of 85, level with 46
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 85, level with 14
- BFeaturesAbove 55 of 85, level with 30
- DEase of useAbove 0 of 85, level with 9
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 28 of 85, level with 50
Keep Omnissa Horizon, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Omnissa Horizon you would be making a fast, secure link to another computer through any network. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 73 of the 85 other remote desktop apps grade higher.
What you could not
- A fast, secure link to another computer through any network.
- Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Omnissa Horizon’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Omnissa Horizon?
Omnissa Horizon delivers virtual desktops and applications to users on any device, with centralized management of policies and infrastructure. It comes as Horizon 8 for on-premises and hybrid cloud setups and as Horizon Cloud, a managed desktop-as-a-service.
Worth knowing
- No prices are published; the products page offers Horizon SaaS and Horizon Term pricing only through the vendor.
- Horizon Term licenses run on your own infrastructure, so hosting and management cost is extra.
- Horizon 8 and Horizon Cloud are separate products with their own feature sets.
- It is an IT-managed platform, not an app for reaching your own PC.
Key features
- Full desktops and published apps
- Horizon 8 serves complete virtual desktops or individual applications, with centralized control over performance, policies and infrastructure.
- Deploy where it suits
- Desktops can run on-premises, in private clouds or in public cloud, and the site also lists air-gapped and isolated environments as a use case.
- App Volumes
- Omnissa App Volumes packages and delivers applications on demand, which the vendor says reduces image sprawl and speeds up updates.
- Automation through REST APIs
- Deployment and management tasks can be scripted with REST APIs and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Horizon Cloud DaaS
- Horizon Cloud is a separate cloud-native desktop-as-a-service offering, and the site announces a version that runs on OpenStack.
Omnissa Horizon pricing
We could not confirm Omnissa Horizon’s current pricing from its own site, so we are not listing plans here. See omnissa.com for current prices.
How people rate the Omnissa Horizon app
4.6
out of 5 for the iPhone and iPad app
369 ratings on the App Store in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. It rates the app, not everything the product does. See the listing
Works with
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- Webex
- Nutanix
- AWS
- NVIDIA
- Terraform
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Common questions
Is Omnissa Horizon open source?
Omnissa Horizon is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Omnissa Horizon have an API?
Yes. Omnissa Horizon offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026. What people say is linked where it appears.