Maersk vs GRL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maersk
Track and book ocean cargo with real-time shipment information. Favorite searches and receive notifications for changes. Advanced features require login for bookings, pricing, and invoice management.
- Real-time shipment tracking
- Booking and price search
- Notifications for shipment changes
- Terminal information
- Invoice overview
- Customer dashboard
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Real-time shipment information. Favorite a B/L, container, schedule or price search. Receive notifications. • Instant lookup for point-to-point, port calls and vessels • Follow your shipments and get notified of changes • Find terminal opening hours and contact details • Detailed FAQ and local information Login for advanced features, including: • Place a booking or just find a price. • Search for spot rates, save recent searches • Complete invoice overview • Dashboard with up-to-date cargo information and shortcuts • Easily switch between different customers
GRL
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GRL are a freight forwarder based in Egypt. This is their app: a shipping rate in a few minutes, instead of waiting on an email. Ask for a shipping rate the way you would ask a colleague. Describe your shipment — "a 40ft container from Alexandria to Rotterdam" — and the app answers with a full quotation drawn from GRL's live rate sheet: the lane, the carrier, transit time, the next sailing, and the total in US dollars, along with what the price does not cover. QUOTES YOU CAN KEEP Every quotation is saved to your phone and stays there. Come back a week later and it is still in your list, with the date it was issued and how long it stands. SHARE AS A PDF Export any priced quotation as a properly typeset PDF — the kind you can forward to a colleague, attach to an email, or print for a file. Not a screenshot. ENGLISH AND ARABIC The whole app works in both, including right-to-left layout. Switch at any time; the choice is remembered. EVERY GRL SERVICE Ocean freight is priced in the app. Air freight, trucking, customs clearance and warehousing are quoted case by case — tap any of them to reach the team directly on WhatsApp, with the service already named. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED No sign-up, no password, no email address. Open the app and ask. ABOUT GRL GRL handle ocean and air freight, land transport, customs clearance and warehousing out of Egypt.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GRL at every 5 days against Maersk's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Maersk ships an update every 2 weeks, GRL every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maersk | GRL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (108 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A.P. MOLLER - MAERSK | Silk Labs AI Digital Solutions for Programming |
In-app purchases
Maersk
No in-app purchases
GRL
No in-app purchases






