Ecatcher Mobile vs Brady Express Labels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ecatcher Mobile
Monitor machine status and performance remotely with live KPI and alarm data from Ewon Flexy routers. Securely access HMIs from various automation vendors via your mobile device.
- Live KPI and alarm monitoring
- Remote machine status access
- Secure remote access
- HMI integration
- Touch ID/PIN code login
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Ecatcher Mobile now offers live monitoring of KPI’s and alarms from any machine equipped with an Ewon® Flexy router. By using Ecatcher Mobile app users can get a live look into their machines’ status and performance from anywhere in the world. The Ewon Ecatcher Mobile application is used to initialize secure remote access and allows you to use mobile applications with HMIs from automation vendors such as Schneider Magelis, Rockwell and Siemens SIMATIC. Once you have logged in for the first time to your Ecatcher account, you can take advantage of the user-friendliness and security of Ecatcher Mobile by validating direct access to your account through Touch ID (or a PIN code), similar to most mobile banking applications.
Brady Express Labels
Design, view, and print labels directly from your smartphone. Offers extensive design options, including multiple guides, barcode types, fonts, languages, and symbols. Streamline labeling with data import, sequence creation, barcode scanning, and text recognition features.
- Label design and printing from phone
- 11 label design guides
- 34 barcode symbologies
- 85 fonts and 34 languages
- Over 1,500 symbols
- Import data from spreadsheets
- Voice-to-text and photo-to-text
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Simple. Easy. Intuitive. Design, view, and print labels right from your phone. Overflowing with label design options, including 11 unique label design guides, 35 barcode symbologies, 85 fonts, 34 languages, and over 1,600 symbols. Improve labeling efficiency by importing data from spreadsheets, creating sequences, scanning data from barcodes, and with voice-to-text and photo-to-text features. Express Labels works with the Brady M211, BMP51, M511, BMP61, M610, M611, M710, i3311, i4311, i5300, i5311, i7500, and S3700 label printers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brady Express Labels at 4.4 against Ecatcher Mobile's 3.6. Brady Express Labels also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 36%) and ratings volume (407 vs 9). Ecatcher Mobile's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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.
Brady Express Labels holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brady Express Labels has 407 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Ecatcher Mobile's written reviews are positive against 63% of Brady Express Labels's.
Ecatcher Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Brady Express Labels every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ecatcher Mobile | Brady Express Labels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (9 ratings) | 4.4 (407 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews | 62.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 407 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 313 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HMS Networks AB | Brady Corporation |
Customer experience
Ecatcher Mobile
Brady Express Labels
Bugs and requests
Ecatcher Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Brady Express Labels
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes immediately on launch
- Saved labels not working after update
- Orientation reverts unexpectedly when printing
- Cartridges marked as empty when not
- Text formatting issues (all uppercase)
Requested features
6 requests- Allow selective text editing
- Add default file location for cloud storage
- Provide backup/restore feature for saved labels
- Add copies field in wire wrap screen
- Improve text centering for multiple lines
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- Expand font options
In-app purchases
Ecatcher Mobile
No in-app purchases
Brady Express Labels
No in-app purchases
Questions
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