# Omnissa Horizon review (2026): is it worth it? > Virtual desktops and apps on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Remote Desktop - **Made by:** Omnissa, LLC - **Website:** https://www.omnissa.com/products/horizon-8/ - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want an app to reach your own PC, as this is an IT-managed platform. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Omnissa Horizon's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## 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. ## Good for - IT teams running VDI for large or regulated workforces - Organizations replacing an existing Citrix environment - Sites that need air-gapped or on-premises desktop hosting ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published: the products page sends buyers to Omnissa for Horizon SaaS and Term pricing, so it sits at C. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial is listed anywhere on the vendor pages. - **Features: B.** Full desktops, published apps, App Volumes, REST APIs and a cloud desktop service are listed, which covers the core of virtual desktop delivery. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. It needs servers or a cloud tenant, images and policies set up by an IT team. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android are listed, with Teams, Zoom, Nutanix, AWS, NVIDIA and Terraform. No web client is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/remote-access ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: A fast, secure link to another computer through any network. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 369 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737089391 ## Works with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, Nutanix, AWS, NVIDIA, Terraform **Tags:** Remote desktop, Workflow automation, Public API ## Alternatives - [Citrix DaaS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/citrix-daas): Virtual apps and desktops delivered from cloud or on-premises. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/citrix-daas-vs-omnissa-horizon) - [Parallels RAS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/parallels-ras): Virtual apps and desktops across on-premises, hybrid and cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/omnissa-horizon-vs-parallels-ras) - [Cameyo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cameyo): Virtual app delivery that serves Windows apps as web apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cameyo-vs-omnissa-horizon) - [Apporto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/apporto): Browser-based virtual desktops and computer labs for work and schools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/apporto-vs-omnissa-horizon) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.omnissa.com/products/horizon-8/ - https://www.omnissa.com/products/horizon-cloud/ - https://www.omnissa.com/products/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/omnissa-horizon Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).