Max Drilling vs CrewBoard
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.
CrewBoard
Streamline team communication by automatically sorting messages into flagged items, tasks, and events. This app helps business owners stay informed about critical updates and pending tasks without sifting through endless group chats. Crew members receive job details directly in their familiar texting interface.
- Auto-sorts messages into flagged items, tasks, and events
- Tracks tasks assigned via normal messages
- Schedules and displays daily jobs for the crew
- Provides a dashboard for crew members
- Centralizes business operations on one screen
- No new app required for crew members
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Your crew talks. We organize. Stop running your business through 47 group texts. CrewBoard sorts through the noise so you stay up to speed — without reading every message. Your crew chats like they always do. You stay on top of what matters: what's pressing, what's pending, and what's getting done. HOW IT WORKS Every message your crew sends gets read and sorted — flagged, task, or normal chat. The signal gets surfaced. The chatter stays in the chat. • Flagged — Important stuff surfaces automatically. Nothing slips through the cracks, and your crew never has to text you twice. • Tasks — A normal message like "Jake, grab filters from Lowe's before Park Ave" becomes a tracked task. It shows up pending for them and you. They mark it done; you see it done. • Events — Schedule the day's jobs. Your crew sees what to do and when. You see what's in progress and what's overdue — a pulse check without waiting for a reply. FOR THE OWNER • Every message auto-sorted, so you don't miss a beat • Big picture or little picture, fast • See what's pending, without keeping a separate list • The whole business on one screen FOR THE CREW • No new app to learn — they text like they do now • Job details right in the chat, so they know what to do and when • Their own simple dashboard — a glance at the day, no mental list • Everything in one place — they never have to leave the chat BUILT FOR SERVICE BUSINESSES Landscaping, cleaning, HVAC, trades, restoration, pest control, pool service — any crew, any size. If your work happens out in the field, CrewBoard fits. SIMPLE PRICING You pay as the owner. Your crew joins free. 14-day free trial, 5 minutes to set up. Cancel anytime from settings — no phone call, no runaround. Run your business. Not group texts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CrewBoard at 5.0 against Max Drilling's 3.2. Max Drilling's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 1). 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.
CrewBoard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Max Drilling has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Max Drilling | CrewBoard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NOV Inc. | Austin Insurance Group LLC |
Customer experience
Max Drilling
CrewBoard
In-app purchases
Max Drilling
No in-app purchases
CrewBoard
No in-app purchases









