Comparison

AskNicely vs FieldRoutes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AskNicely

This AI-powered platform helps businesses manage customer experience by collecting and responding to feedback in real-time. It identifies areas for improvement, suggests focus areas for teams, and helps set company-wide growth goals.

Highlights
  • Real-time customer feedback collection
  • AI-powered customer experience management
  • CSAT and NPS performance tracking
  • Actionable feedback with templates and workflows
  • Team focus areas and coaching tips
  • Goal setting for business growth
Features
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Manage the customer experience from your iPhone or iPad. Collect and respond to customer feedback instantly with an AI-powered customer experience management platform. Designed to enable action, AskNicely suggested focus areas, improvement opportunities, and helps you set company-wide goals to help your business grow. With AskNicely: Stay on top of individual and team CSAT and NPS performance daily. Act on feedback fast with templates, workflows, and AI-enabled dynamic surveys. Set focus areas for your team to help them determine what to work on first, highlight areas for improvement, and provide coaching tips based on customer feedback. Feedback from AskNicely customers "AskNicely changed our coaching conversations. We now have regular examples of excellent customer service to coach from, and our team leads actually compete to get to the top of the AskNicely leaderboard." — Wayne Pointon, Global General Manager, Service Delivery. “We chose AskNicely versus something more traditional in healthcare. It helps spot trends that may seem like one-off incidents or track positive trends.” — Julie Gessin, Chief Operating Officer, PA-C “The ability to see real-time customer feedback allows our crew to adjust their approach immediately, whether it’s improving communication, upselling a popular product, or addressing service gaps. We’re seeing a much more engaged and proactive team as a result.” — Chris Luong, Business Analyst at Jetstar Requires an AskNicely account Book a call with an AskNicely rep today to learn more. About AskNicely: AskNicely helps you collect and transform CX feedback into frontline action by equipping distributed teams with clear, AI-driven goals, and reinforcing habits that reduce churn fast. Unlike traditional CX programs that stall at insight, AskNicely accelerates change through dynamic surveys, tailored coaching tasks, and in-app behavior tracking, making improvement a habit, not a project.

About

FieldRoutes

This app streamlines field service operations by integrating sales and service functionalities into a single platform. It allows for customer management, appointment execution, scheduling, and sales team management, enabling upsells and new subscriptions directly within the app.

Highlights
  • Customer management
  • Appointment execution
  • Appointment scheduling
  • Sales team management
  • Subscription management
  • Sales leaderboards
  • Customer feedback
Features
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The FieldRoutes™ Mobile app simplifies the process of selling and servicing your field service customers by combining the features of our previous two apps into a single app. The sales functionality features an all-new user interface, and technicians can now sell or upsell within the FieldRoutes Mobile app. Use the FieldRoutes Mobile app to: · Create and manage customers · Execute customer appointments · Schedule new appointments · Manage areas for your sales teams · Add new subscriptions to existing customers · View sales leaderboards · View customer feedback Only available to FieldRoutes subscribers/customers. Having trouble? Contact us via email at support@fieldroutes.com.

Screenshots

AskNicely4 screens
FieldRoutes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FieldRoutes at 3.6 against AskNicely's 2.1. AskNicely's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and review sentiment (42% vs 10%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FieldRoutes holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 18 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 42% of AskNicely's written reviews are positive against 10% of FieldRoutes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AskNicely ships an update monthly, FieldRoutes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
AskNicely versus FieldRoutes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAskNicelyFieldRoutes
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.1 (47 ratings)3.6 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.1% of reviews — better9.9% of reviews
Number of ratings47 — better18
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAskNicelyPestRoutes LLC

Customer experience

AskNicely

All ratings47 ratings
Positive27.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative72.3%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive42.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.9%

FieldRoutes

All ratings18 ratings
Positive61.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews141 reviews
Positive9.9%
Neutral5.0%
Negative85.1%

Bugs and requests

AskNicely

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

FieldRoutes

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when switching between screens
  • Data loss when device goes to sleep or app is minimized
  • Inconsistent behavior when adding products and services
  • Unreliable GPS and navigation integration

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to customize map views and pin sizes
  • Offline mode to work without internet connection
  • Improved product entry and management
  • Faster syncing and saving of data

In-app purchases

None

AskNicely

No in-app purchases

None

FieldRoutes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AskNicely free?
AskNicely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FieldRoutes free?
FieldRoutes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AskNicely or FieldRoutes?
FieldRoutes is rated higher. AskNicely averages 2.1 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while FieldRoutes averages 3.6 from 18 ratings.
Do AskNicely or FieldRoutes have ads?
Neither AskNicely nor FieldRoutes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AskNicely or FieldRoutes?
AskNicely ships an update monthly, and FieldRoutes every 3 weeks. Most recently, AskNicely was updated on October 21, 2026 and FieldRoutes on October 17, 2026.

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