Dealerware vs ReyText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dealerware
Streamline fleet vehicle contracting and management with a mobile-first solution. Contract customers anywhere, manage your daily schedule efficiently, and quickly process payments for fuel, mileage, or damage at contract close.
- Mobile contracting
- Daily schedule planning
- Driver license scanning
- Credit card scanning
- Insurance information capture
- Instant billing for fuel, mileage, damage
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Transform the way you contract and manage fleet vehicles with the Dealerware+ mobile experience. Not only can you contract your customers from anywhere from any mobile device, but you can also easily plan for your day with a robust daily schedule to keep your service lane moving at record speed. Quickly scan customer driver license, credit card, and insurance information at contract start, and then instantly bill customers for fuel, mileage, or damage at contract close.
ReyText
This app enables dealership personnel to communicate with customers via text messages for service updates, sales follow-ups, and repair notifications. It integrates with a retail management system to store conversation history and enhance employee productivity by allowing off-station communication.
- Customer text messaging
- Service update notifications
- Sales lead follow-up
- Repair completion alerts
- Conversation history storage
- Enhanced employee productivity
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ReyText from Reynolds and Reynolds allows dealership personnel to engage with customers through text messages. For example, employees can text vehicle service updates to customers, follow-up with a sales lead after a test drive, or let a customer know when his vehicle repair is complete. Designed and built as part of Reynolds Retail Management System, ReyText stores conversation history with the customer profile to maintain a relationship throughout the ownership experience. ReyText also enhances productivity and efficiency as employees are no longer tied to workstations when communicating with customers. This mobile application gives users the functionality of standard text messaging applications, while offering the elite security and capabilities of operating within Reynolds Retail Management System. *ReyText is only available for ERA-IGNITE.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dealerware at every 3 weeks against ReyText's every 9 months. Dealerware also leads on rating (2.7 vs 2.4) and review sentiment (14% vs 0%). ReyText's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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.
Dealerware holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dealerware has 52 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Dealerware's written reviews are positive against 0% of ReyText's.
Dealerware ships an update every 3 weeks, ReyText every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dealerware | ReyText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (52 ratings) — better | 2.4 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 13.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Silvercar Retail Automotive, LLC | The Reynolds and Reynolds Company and its affiliates |
Customer experience
Dealerware
ReyText
In-app purchases
Dealerware
No in-app purchases
ReyText
No in-app purchases
