EchoDrive vs HaulBook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EchoDrive
Search and track available freight loads with ease. View load details, upload necessary documents, and manage your active, completed, and upcoming shipments all in one convenient place. Designed to streamline operations for drivers.
- Available loads board
- Real-time load tracking
- Consolidated load information
- Document upload
- Privacy controls
- View load status
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Put your load management on cruise control with EchoDrive. Search Echo’s available loads board, view load details in one place, and upload documents directly into the app. EchoDrive places everything you need at your fingertips. Our easy-to-use app provides drivers with: a. Echo available loads board b. Quick, simple, real-time tracking, resulting in fewer check-in calls c. Load info collected in one place d. Document upload capabilities e. Privacy Control Options f. Ability to view completed, active, and upcoming loads EchoDrive is a driver app designed by Echo Global Logistics to be convenient, efficient, and—most importantly—easy to use. Our goal is to make our carrier partners’ jobs easier, and the time you save using our app is time you can spend back on the road.
HaulBook
This app provides essential back-office tools for owner-operators and small fleets. It helps track load profitability, manage IFTA reporting, and bill for detention time. AI-powered document reading simplifies paperwork, and renewal reminders ensure compliance.
- Load profit calculation
- IFTA mileage and fuel tracking
- Detention time billing
- AI document reading
- Renewal reminders
- Fleet management
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The back office for owner-operators and small fleets. See what every load really pays, keep your IFTA miles and fuel by state, and stop losing detention — all from your phone. FREE FOR ONE TRUCK HaulBook Free is the whole app by hand, unlimited, forever — one truck and two drivers. No card. WHAT EVERY LOAD REALLY PAYS True net per load, truck, driver and month — revenue minus fuel, expenses, factoring and driver pay. Check a broker's offer against your own break-even before you say yes. IFTA WITHOUT THE SHOEBOX Miles and fuel by state add up as you run, ready for the quarterly return. DETENTION YOU ACTUALLY BILL On Pro, a live detention clock works out what you're owed from your rate con's own terms, and the revised rate con request is written for you. Email drafts on Standard and Pro. AI DOES THE PAPERWORK (STANDARD AND PRO) Upload a rate confirmation or fuel statement and HaulBook reads it into the load. On Pro it also reads BOLs, PODs, receipts and insurance certificates. NEVER MISS A RENEWAL Reminders before your CDL, medical card, registration, annual inspection and insurance expire. SOLO OR FLEET From one truck to a small fleet with drivers, settlements and relay tools — HaulBook grows with you. PLANS HaulBook Free is the whole app by hand, unlimited, forever — one truck and two drivers. Standard, $19.99 per truck, adds AI reading of rate confirmations and fuel statements, and broker emails written from the load. Pro, $44.99 per truck, adds everything else: all other document reading, automations, invoicing, the driver app and the web office. New companies get Pro free for their first 14 days on one truck. No card. Plans are managed at haulbookapp.com. There is nothing to buy inside this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HaulBook at 100% against EchoDrive's 50%. HaulBook also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). EchoDrive's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (31 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
HaulBook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EchoDrive has 31 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of EchoDrive's written reviews are positive against 100% of HaulBook's.
EchoDrive ships an update every 6 weeks, HaulBook every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EchoDrive | HaulBook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Echo Global Logistics | Haulbook Inc |
Customer experience
EchoDrive
HaulBook
In-app purchases
EchoDrive
No in-app purchases
HaulBook
No in-app purchases








