ELVIS(Location Verified Visit) vs Checkwriters ESS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ELVIS(Location Verified Visit)
This app is designed for home care clients to track visits, record patient signatures, and log tasks. It also allows for the transmission of vital signs and provides office benefits like real-time visit status updates and reduced paper usage.
- Schedule Viewer
- Visit Verification (Arrival/Departure)
- Patient Signature Input
- Simplified Task Tracking
- Comment System
- Vital Signs Recording
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Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. ELVIS is a time and location collection application that works exclusively for clients of RiverSoft's home care software. REQUIRES 1) GPS 2) Internet Connectivity FEATURES - Schedule Viewer: update your schedule simply by loading the schedule page! - Visit Verification: confirm your GPS location and arrival time just by pressing the “arrive” button! Likewise, confirm your location and departure time by pressing “depart”. - Signature Input: collect patient signatures on the device, with either finger or stylus. - Simplified Task Tracking: record tasks by selecting their status. Usually, just choose “done” or “not done”. - Comment System: was the patient not home? Was the GPS location a bit off? Record any noteworthy information as a comment for the back office to see. - Vital signs: record and transmit the patient's vital signs directly to the office OFFICE BENEFITS - ELVIS reduces paper usage to only when internet connectivity fails or the visit proceeds off-site. - ELVIS apprises the office of visit status in near real-time. - ELVIS helps ensure visits are actually performed. AIDE BENEFITS - ELVIS maintains an up-to-date schedule of visits. - ELVIS provides 1-tap directions to the patient’s address. - ELVIS provides 1-tap calling to the patient’s home phone. - ELVIS notifies you when visits are scheduled to begin. If your area has internet coverage, leverage it. ELVIS deploys/updates schedules, ensures visits are timely kept, “keys itself in”, and actively assists the user in ways paper can’t.
Checkwriters ESS
Empower employees to access and print their paychecks, view payroll and benefits information, and submit administrative requests. This app also facilitates document sharing, such as company handbooks and tax forms.
- View and print paychecks
- Access payroll information
- View benefit services
- Submit administrative requests
- Share company documents
- Access tax forms
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Checkwriters Employee Self Service (ESS) Provide your employees with the ability to view and print their checks when they need to. Let them view payroll or benefit services and submit requests for administrative approval, and send them documents like company handbooks and tax forms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Checkwriters ESS at 3.6 against ELVIS(Location Verified Visit)'s 1.9. Checkwriters ESS also leads on review sentiment (44% vs 13%) and ratings volume (408 vs 29). ELVIS(Location Verified Visit)'s advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Checkwriters ESS holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkwriters ESS has 408 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of ELVIS(Location Verified Visit)'s written reviews are positive against 44% of Checkwriters ESS's.
ELVIS(Location Verified Visit) ships an update fortnightly, Checkwriters ESS every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and August 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ELVIS(Location Verified Visit) | Checkwriters ESS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (29 ratings) | 3.6 (408 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 44.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 408 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 225 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Riversoft, Inc. | CheckWriters |
Customer experience
ELVIS(Location Verified Visit)
Checkwriters ESS
Bugs and requests
ELVIS(Location Verified Visit)
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Checkwriters ESS
Reported bugs
4 issues- Time off and leave request features crashing
- Unable to access banking and payroll information
- Constant password reset issues locking users out
- Compatibility problems with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Bring back Face ID/fingerprint login
- Improve time off and leave request features
- Allow more flexibility in password changes
- Provide better visibility into payroll details
In-app purchases
ELVIS(Location Verified Visit)
No in-app purchases
Checkwriters ESS
No in-app purchases






