Vector Mobile vs Fastweigh Management
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vector Mobile
Manage all your freight paperwork on the go. Scan and store documents like PODs, receipts, and more. Securely back up files and easily share them with dispatch, brokers, and customers.
- Scan and manage freight documents
- Secure cloud backup
- Share paperwork with dispatch and brokers
- Add and view comments on documents
- Web portal access
- Unlimited uploads
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Get started with Vector and have all your freight paperwork within reach from your smartphone or computer. The app is for OTR truck drivers to scan and manage all their documents. All your files will be backed up safely so you can't lose them. Easily invite others to view or leave comments for your POD's, receipts, weight tags, lumper receipts, OS&D paperwork, and more! * Unlimited uploads of paperwork and images * Quickly access previous documents * Easily share paperwork with dispatch, brokers, customers, and factoring companies * Add and view comments * View your documents on the web portal
Fastweigh Management
Access your truck scale data on the go with this mobile application. View real-time load and unit counts directly on your smartphone or tablet. Customers and carriers can also track their load information as scale tickets are generated.
- Real-time load and unit counts
- Mobile truck scale data access
- Customer and carrier load viewing
- Syncs with Fast Weigh Cloud
- Smartphone and tablet compatible
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The Fastweigh Management app takes the convenience of the Fastweigh Cloud web portal one step further by bringing all of your truck scale data to your fingertips. The app provides continuous, up-to-the-minute display of daily load and unit counts directly on your smartphone or tablet. Your customers and carriers can also use Fastweigh Management in the field to view their load information in real-time as scale tickets are generated. Fastweigh Management requires access to the Fastweigh Cloud web portal and uses the same user credentials.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fastweigh Management at 75% against Vector Mobile's 43%. Fastweigh Management also leads on rating (3.5 vs 3.2). Vector Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (125 vs 6). 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.
Fastweigh Management holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vector Mobile has 125 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Vector Mobile's written reviews are positive against 75% of Fastweigh Management's.
Vector Mobile ships an update every 3 weeks, Fastweigh Management every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vector Mobile | Fastweigh Management |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (125 ratings) | 3.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LoadDOCs | TACinsight |
Customer experience
Vector Mobile
Fastweigh Management
Bugs and requests
Vector Mobile
Reported bugs
39 issues- App quits working
- App freezes and gets stuck
- Submit button off-screen on new phones
- Cannot press options on iPhone 15 Pro Max screen
- Screen does not align well on iPhone 15 Pro Max
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- Workloads update inconsistently
- GPS stamp cannot be changed
- App keeps closing
- Cannot type information
- Crashes every time it opens
- Photos not uploading back to dispatch
- Notifications don't work on iPhone 12 Pro Max
- Crashes when taking pictures with flash
- Crashes after update
- Does not upload docs
- App crashes too much for photos
- Hit or miss document border detection
- Shows dark blotches in low light
- Manual cropping required
- Blurry photo errors
- Does not transmit all necessary information
- Slow to load
- Hard to tell if paperwork uploaded
- Drains data significantly
- Re-enter load information upon arrival
- No default settings for truck/team
- App won't send dispatch to teammate
- Add recipients is buggy
- Active info entry area not highlighted
- Confusing for new users
- No long loud notification tone
- Cannot delete old dispatches
- Dispatchers get behind, slow info
- Cannot clear completed trips
- Scans are very noisy
- No way to delete build-up in dispatches
- No notifications for incoming messages/dispatches
- Customer service not good
- Crashes phone, fried friend's phone
Requested features
11 requests- Add a torch/flashlight function
- Enable dark mode
- Allow multiple photo selection from library
- Add a long loud notification tone
- Allow deletion of old dispatches
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- Add user editable feature for corrections
- Option to take single or multiple pictures in a row
- Swap 'x' and 'delete' buttons on review screen
- Allow editing/cropping images in review screen
- Add matrix page for location codes
- Highlight active info entry area
Fastweigh Management
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vector Mobile
No in-app purchases
Fastweigh Management
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Vector Mobile free?
Is Fastweigh Management free?
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