Max Drilling vs RigCLOUD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Max Drilling
Monitor drilling operations in real-time with instant access to active and historical well data. Visualize drilling parameters, view rig reports, and communicate securely with your team from anywhere.
- 1-second data streaming
- Customizable data visualization
- Time and depth views
- Lagged channel tracing
- Rig and well reports
- Integrated chat
- Collaborative notes
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The new Max Drilling mobile app (formerly WellData MobileRT) provides easy access to active and historical well data so you can monitor your drilling operations from wherever you are. With NOV’s edge infrastructure and M/D Totco instrumentation, your data flows securely from sensor to screen—no third parties involved—so you see it instantly, in real time, with one-second resolution. Key Features: • 1-second data streaming: View real-time drilling data on your mobile device with less than a second of lag between the rig site and your screen (excluding satellite latency). • Customizable visualization: Configure strip charts and traces with flexible options for units, scaling, and more. All tags and channels available in the RigSense Electronic Drilling Recorder (EDR) are accessible, including data from integrated applications like Drilling Beliefs & Analytics and 3rd-party survey data. • Time and depth views: Access both active and historical well data by time or depth for full operational visibility. • Lagged channel tracing: Monitor channels such as gamma ray, methane, propane, total gas, and total gas normalized. • Rig and well reports: View IADC Reports (toursheets), Drilling Contractor Morning Reports, and well information including Bit Records and BHA Summaries. • Integrated chat: Communicate instantly between the rig and other Max Drilling mobile users. • Collaborative notes: View all rig notes or add your own to the official EDR notes in the time-series data. • Secure and compliant: Built on SOC 1 Type II–audited processes and end-to-end SSL/TLS encryption for secure access from anywhere. • Rig locations: View your wells on a map for quick spatial awareness and access directions to the location. • (Coming Soon) Integrated chat: Communicate instantly between the rig and other Max Drilling mobile users. If you experience any difficulties installing or using Max Drilling, please contact the Help Desk at WellDataSupport@nov.com or 1-855-935-5328.
RigCLOUD
Access and analyze well data to make informed drilling decisions. Understand rig performance with daily reports and detailed operational insights. Review well annotations and remarks with high-resolution data visualization.
- Access active and historical well data
- Daily Performance Reports for rig performance
- Configurable scroll graph for operational insights
- High-resolution data visibility
- Access Toursheets and Daily Reporting
- Searchable well annotations and remarks
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Using the latest data management technology, RigCloud® empowers you to quickly, effectively and easily make informed drilling decisions. - Access to active and historical well data - Quickly understand rig performance using Daily Performance Reports - Drill down into your operation with the highly configurable scroll graph - Get maximum visibility with high-resolution data - Easily access Toursheets and Daily Reporting - Review well annotation with searchable, indexed Remarks
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RigCLOUD at 4.4 against Max Drilling's 3.2. RigCLOUD also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). 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.
RigCLOUD holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 30 respectively.
Max Drilling ships an update every 4 months, RigCLOUD every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Max Drilling | RigCLOUD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (22 ratings) | 4.4 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NOV Inc. | NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES USA, INC. |
Customer experience
Max Drilling
RigCLOUD
In-app purchases
Max Drilling
No in-app purchases
RigCLOUD
No in-app purchases







