i3 CMS vs FaceFirst Touch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
i3 CMS
This business intelligence tool analyzes sales data and video surveillance to identify loss, theft, and sales opportunities. It provides user-friendly reports and an online interface to help businesses improve key performance indicators and implement retail best practices.
- Multi-level data correlations
- Sales opportunity identification
- Loss and theft detection
- User-friendly reports
- Online web interface
- Leverages video surveillance
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Cloud Managed Services or CMS is i3's engine for business insights. It utilizes i3 Video Analytics technology and point of sales information providing multi-level data correlations. This information will identify sales opportunities and is able to identify loss and theft within a business. Utilizing user-friendly reports and an easy to use online web interface i3 customers can form effective strategies to improve their key performance indicators and follow retail business best practices. CMS by i3 allows users to leverage their current investment in a video surveillance system and turn it into a cost-effective capable of detecting and deterring loss and identifying new sales opportunities.
FaceFirst Touch
This enterprise companion app offers a limited set of features from its desktop counterpart for authenticated business clients. It is exclusively for licensed FaceFirst customers and provides no public functionality.
- Enterprise companion functionality
- Subset of desktop/web features
- Authenticated customer access
- iOS device compatibility
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The FaceFirst iOS App is an enterprise companion application solely used by licensed FaceFirst customers. This is not a consumer application and provides no functionality to general users outside of our enterprise deployments. The FaceFirst iOS companion app provides a subset of functionality provided by our desktop/web application only to authenticated FaceFirst enterprise customers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: i3 CMS at 100% against FaceFirst Touch's 0%. i3 CMS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). FaceFirst Touch's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). 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.
i3 CMS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: i3 CMS has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of i3 CMS's written reviews are positive against 0% of FaceFirst Touch's.
i3 CMS ships an update every 3 months, FaceFirst Touch monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | i3 CMS | FaceFirst Touch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | i3 International Inc. | FaceFirst, LLC |
Customer experience
i3 CMS
FaceFirst Touch
In-app purchases
i3 CMS
No in-app purchases
FaceFirst Touch
No in-app purchases
