Dealerware vs First Group
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.
First Group
Connect with your vehicle dealer for post-sale services like warranties and service contracts. Manage ownership programs and receive dealer updates. Streamlines service claims and enhances customer loyalty.
- Manage service contracts and warranties
- Explore ownership enhancing programs
- Streamline service claim process
- Receive dealer announcements and specials
- Enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction
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Your Dealer Experience (YDE) is a simple, accessible and transparent connection to enhance the post vehicle sales connection between the dealer and their customer. In one unified app experience, customers can see and engage their purchased service contracts, warranties and other ownership enhancing programs (that were purchased with their vehicle) and explore new ways to protect their journey. The dealer’s service advisors have the same unified solution to support their customers when claim service is needed, removing the current multiple administrator analog service maze that diminishes a world class service moment. Customers will also stay connected with Dealer Messaging, to inspire welcome awareness of their dealer’s latest announcements, specials and events. Increasing loyalty and ownership satisfaction through each frictionless touch point...benefits everyone. It’s Your Dealer Experience in one app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: First Group at 5.0 against Dealerware's 2.7. First Group also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Dealerware's advantage is ratings volume (52 vs 5). On price, update cadence, 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.
First Group holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dealerware has 52 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dealerware | First Group |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (52 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Silvercar Retail Automotive, LLC | FINANCE INSURANCE RESOURCE & SERVICES TRAINING, INC. |
Customer experience
Dealerware
First Group
In-app purchases
Dealerware
No in-app purchases
First Group
No in-app purchases
