REX (Retail Excellence) vs IRI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
REX (Retail Excellence)
This app helps field representatives for a retail merchandising service manage their work. It allows them to view assigned tasks, complete in-store reports, capture photos, and submit their findings directly from their mobile device.
- View assigned work by location
- Complete store report questionnaires
- Take photos within the app
- Submit reports easily
- Manage scheduled services
Read full descriptionHide full description
REX (Retail Excellence) is a mobile application for Retail Merchandising Services, Inc. field representatives that allows them to view their assigned work and complete reports in store. This allows reps to easily view their scheduled services by location, complete their store report questionnaires, take photos, and submit reports.
IRI
This app allows field service representatives to scan product barcodes in grocery stores. The collected data helps assess and improve product and store performance, offering job independence and flexible work.
- Scan product barcodes
- Collect in-store product data
- Assess product performance
- Improve store performance
- Job independence
- Flexible weekly work
Read full descriptionHide full description
Having been to the grocery store, you know it’s packed with products! ScanScape goes into these types of stores to collect information on the products it sells. Using a mobile phone app, our Field Service Representatives scan barcodes throughout the store for products on display and in-aisle. This data is then used to assess, compare and improve product and store performance. Being an FSR offers job independence and flexible weekly work.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: IRI at 3.1 against REX (Retail Excellence)'s 2.0. IRI also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (29% vs 14%). 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.
IRI holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of REX (Retail Excellence)'s written reviews are positive against 29% of IRI's.
REX (Retail Excellence) ships an update every 2 months, IRI every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | REX (Retail Excellence) | IRI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (29 ratings) | 3.1 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.7 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Retail Merchandising Services | Circana, Inc. |
Customer experience
REX (Retail Excellence)
IRI
In-app purchases
REX (Retail Excellence)
No in-app purchases
IRI
No in-app purchases
