ChargeDesk vs Signify FirstLink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChargeDesk
Manage multiple payment gateways like Stripe, PayPal, and Shopify from your mobile device. Receive instant notifications for payments and subscription changes. Perform actions like refunds, cancellations, and customer updates on the go.
- Manage multiple payment gateways
- Real-time payment notifications
- Process refunds and cancellations
- Create new charges and subscriptions
- Edit customer details and payment methods
- Integrates with existing e-commerce platforms
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Manage your Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, Recurly, Chargify, NMI, Zuora, GoCardless, WooCommerce, Shopify & Square customers on the go with ChargeDesk. Our powerful notification system lets you know immediately when important actions happen in your account. Find out straight away when a new customer pays you or upgrades their subscription. - Refund charges - Cancel subscriptions - Create new charges (either by invoicing the customer or charging a card on file) - Create new subscriptions - Edit subscription plans - Authorize and capture payments - Manage coupons - Send payment reminders - Edit customer details including adding VAT numbers - Securely update a customer's credit card on file ChargeDesk works with your existing e-commerce setup - in most cases no coding or changes are needed. Just connect your gateway to ChargeDesk and you'll be managing your customers in seconds.
Signify FirstLink
Manage your connected emergency egress lighting system from your smartphone. Configure devices, view test results, and set up testing schedules with this intuitive application.
- Configure emergency lighting devices
- View test results
- Export test data
- Define testing schedules
- Manage connected egress lighting system
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The Signify Firstlink app is your portal to the Signify Firstlink connected emergency egress lighting system. This easy-to-navigate smart phone application gives you the ability to configure your emergency lighting devices, view and export test results, define testing schedules, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Signify FirstLink at 5.0 against ChargeDesk's 3.0. Signify FirstLink also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 33 months). ChargeDesk's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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.
Signify FirstLink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
ChargeDesk ships an update every 33 months, Signify FirstLink every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChargeDesk | Signify FirstLink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Industries Pty Ltd | Signify Netherlands B.V. |
Customer experience
ChargeDesk
Signify FirstLink
In-app purchases
ChargeDesk
No in-app purchases
Signify FirstLink
No in-app purchases
