Vector Mobile vs Lytx Driver
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
Lytx Driver
Enhance driving safety and efficiency with tools to review video events, track performance data, and manage vehicle inspections. Stay compliant with Hours of Service reporting and plan routes with real-time road condition updates from a nationwide camera network.
- Review driving event videos
- Track 90-day performance trends
- Submit DVIR reports
- FMCSA compliant ELD service
- View nationwide road conditions
- Hours of Service reporting
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This app provides the tools drivers need to be more efficient and drive more safely. SAFETY Take charge of your driving safety by reviewing your own video and performance stats so you can track how you’re doing. Fast, Easy Event Review * Watch videos of your events in the Activity tab * Quickly see which videos are new in the feed Track Your Performance Data * See your 90-day trend line * Dive deeper into your performance with detailed stats * Understand behavior frequency and duration DVIR (DRIVER VEHICLE INSPECTION REPORT) * Submit Vehicle Inspections before or after your trip ELD SERVICE * User-friendly, FMCSA compliant solution * Hours of Service Reporting * End-to-end vehicle inspection workflow ROAD CONDITIONS * See what’s happening right now on public roads nation-wide with the Lytx camera network. * Explore weather-related road conditions highlighted on the map. * Plan ahead for bad weather, traffic, construction, and closed roads. Key benefits: * Simplify compliance * Increase productivity and efficiency * Increase accuracy of reporting * Easily respond to roadside inspections
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lytx Driver at 4.5 against Vector Mobile's 3.2. Lytx Driver also leads on ratings volume (451 vs 125). Vector Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (43% vs 27%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Lytx Driver holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 125 and 451 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Vector Mobile's written reviews are positive against 27% of Lytx Driver's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Vector Mobile ships an update every 3 weeks, Lytx Driver every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Vector Mobile | Lytx Driver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (125 ratings) | 4.5 (451 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 27.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 125 | 451 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LoadDOCs | Lytx, Inc. |
Customer experience
Vector Mobile
Lytx Driver
User reviews
Vector Mobile
From 125 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🚀 Efficient for scanning paperwork
- 👍 Great for business document uploads
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 👍 Offline syncing is awesome
Room to improve
- 🐛 Hit or miss document border detection
- 🐛 Shows dark blotches in low light
- 🐛 App quits working/won't load
- 🐛 User unfriendly and frustrating
- 🐛 Manual cropping required
Lytx Driver
From 451 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for training time
- 👍 Live view anywhere
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Provides transparency
- 👍 Driver-centric approach
Room to improve
- 😞 Terrible company, joke customer service
- 😞 Worst customer service ever
- 😞 Employees worthless, can't do jobs
- 😞 Cameras absolutely suck
- 😞 Technology shortcomings blamed on users
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
Lytx Driver
Reported bugs
10 issues- Videos stopped working
- App not working properly after new update
- No drive cams, no location, nothing
- Safety Tab never opens, keeps loading
- App won’t load new videos after using for a bit
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- App won’t load, stays blank on iPhone
- Performance section won’t load on iOS
- Only half of the iOS app works
- Upon logging in, no data exists for the fleet
- Redirects to browser to login
Requested features
10 requests- Satellite allocation improvement
- Real-time data before thresholds at traffic lights
- Fix for iPhones
- Research infrared lights and their effect on eye health
- Fix for Safety Tab not opening
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- Improve AI functionality
- Improve camera quality
- Fix app login redirecting to browser
- Fix iOS app Performance section loading
- Ensure app shows fleet data like PC version
In-app purchases
Vector Mobile
No in-app purchases
Lytx Driver
No in-app purchases
Questions
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