Vector Mobile vs The Home Depot Driver Handheld
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
The Home Depot Driver Handheld
This app helps approved delivery partners manage their daily routes, document deliveries with notes, signatures, and photos, and track their progress. It offers offline capabilities and compliance guidelines for efficient last-mile delivery.
- Delivery management
- Digital proof of delivery
- Geolocation and tracking
- Offline mode
- Compliance guidelines
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The Home Depot Driver Handheld is a user-friendly mobile app designed specifically for approved last mile delivery partners only, allowing drivers to access their daily routes, manage deliveries, and document all the relevant details through the delivery experience. Key Features: Delivery Management: Drivers can view and update the status of each delivery in real-time, including completing, or marking deliveries as missed or delivered with exception. Digital Proof of Delivery: Capture driver notes, customer signatures and take photos of deliveries to provide irrefutable proof of successful delivery or reason for an exception. Geolocation & Tracking: GPS integration allows managers to track deliveries, ensuring accountability and transparency. Offline Mode: In areas with poor connectivity, drivers can still access delivery details and update statuses, with data syncing once they’re back online. Compliance: The app includes compliance guidelines, and alerts to help drivers ensure SOPs are followed to provide the optimal delivery experience. The Driver Handheld app ensures that last-mile delivery is more efficient, and more reliable, empowering drivers to provide exceptional service to Home Depot customers while optimizing operational workflows for the business.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vector Mobile at 3.2 against The Home Depot Driver Handheld's 2.9. Vector Mobile also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (43% vs 33%). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Vector Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 128 and 50 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Vector Mobile's written reviews are positive against 33% of The Home Depot Driver Handheld's.
Vector Mobile ships an update every 3 weeks, The Home Depot Driver Handheld every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Vector Mobile | The Home Depot Driver Handheld |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (128 ratings) — better | 2.9 (50 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 128 — better | 50 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LoadDOCs | The Home Depot, Inc. |
Customer experience
Vector Mobile
The Home Depot Driver Handheld
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
The Home Depot Driver Handheld
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vector Mobile
No in-app purchases
The Home Depot Driver Handheld
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Vector Mobile free?
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