Salesforce Field Service vs DPS Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Salesforce Field Service
Empower your mobile workforce with a comprehensive field service management solution. Improve issue resolution with offline capabilities, real-time collaboration, and access to critical information. Streamline workflows, manage inventory, and capture proof of service on the go.
- Offline-first design
- Real-time collaboration
- Inventory management
- Customer signature capture
- Service report generation
- Barcode and QR code scanning
- Asset service history
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The Field Service mobile app by Salesforce is a brand new way to bring the full power of Field Service management to your mobile workforce. Improve first visit resolution by arming employees with this best-in-class mobile solution. Built to be offline first, Field Service presents information in a clean and easy-to-use user interface and arms your workforce with the latest information with in-app notifications. Backed by the Salesforce1 platform, this application lets you customize and extend the app to empower your mobile employees with whatever they need to easily resolve issues in the field. Note: This application requires your Salesforce org to have Field Service. Individual users must be provisioned with Field Service Technician licenses to use this application. Please contact your Salesforce Account Executive for more information on purchasing Field Service and user licenses. Features: - Easy-to-use thanks to an optimized, clear, and beautiful user interface to view service appointments, work orders, inventory, service history and other important information from anywhere. - Mapping, navigation, and geolocation capabilities let you know where you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re headed next. - Offline-first design with intelligent data priming and offline actions to let you finish work regardless of network connectivity. - Collaborate in real-time with dispatchers, agents, managers, and other technicians or mobile employees using messages and photos through Chatter. - Access relevant Knowledge Articles to help you finish tricky tasks. - Stay informed with the most up-to-date information with automatic push notifications to relevant users. - Easily obtain proof of service using your touch screen to capture customer signatures. - Quickly generate and send Service Reports to your customers after completing jobs. - Seamlessly manage your Van Stock inventory or record product transactions using a Price Book. - Plan ahead by viewing the parts required to complete a job, and easily record the products consumed after completing a job. - Extend and customize this application using configurable layouts to reorganize information, and list views to control user schedules. Custom tailored quick actions, Salesforce Flows, and deep-links to other apps allow users to tackle any case. - Declare your time off by recording it in the application - Scan barcodes and QR codes directly from the app - Intuitively visualize the different steps required to finish complex jobs with work order line items - Quickly get up to speed by viewing asset service history information.
DPS Mobile
Easily record and monitor your work hours from any device, whether you're in the office or on the go. This app helps you track billable time, especially for legal aid work, with simple taps and clear reports.
- Record time on the go
- Monitor recorded time
- Floating timer
- Time sheet entry
- Legal aid time recording
- Graphical reports
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Time recording is made simple with DPS. Whether you are in or out of the office, you will be able to quickly and easily record time and monitor time recorded with our time recording software solutions. You can do all of this within Spitfire from your computer, tablet or mobile phone, using our floating timer or time sheet to ensure you don’t miss any billable hours. But you can also do this from our mobile time recording and digital dictation app, DPS Mobile. With just a few taps, you can record time and have it saved to the case file. If you are doing legal aid work, you can record your time in the appropriate format, be it criminal or civil work. All of this time recorded can then be reported on with our graphical, easy to understand reports. You can find these in both Spitfire and DPS Mobile.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Salesforce Field Service at 4.6 against DPS Mobile's 2.0. Salesforce Field Service also leads on ratings volume (21K vs 4) and review sentiment (21% vs 0%). DPS Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). 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.
Salesforce Field Service holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Salesforce Field Service has 21K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Salesforce Field Service's written reviews are positive against 0% of DPS Mobile's.
Salesforce Field Service ships an update every 3 weeks, DPS Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Salesforce Field Service | DPS Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21K ratings) — better | 2.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21K — better | 4 |
| 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 | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 516 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | salesforce.com | Access UK Ltd |
Customer experience
Salesforce Field Service
DPS Mobile
Bugs and requests
Salesforce Field Service
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues and frequent sign-outs
- Syncing problems and data loss
- Barcode scanning not working properly
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add search functionality
- Improve offline capabilities
- Integrate with more mapping/navigation apps
- Allow bulk photo uploads
- Enhance calendar and scheduling features
DPS Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Salesforce Field Service
No in-app purchases
DPS Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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