Sunstate Connect vs CS RespondNow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sunstate Connect
Stay informed about company news, events, and job opportunities with this business app. Discover new equipment and construction technology updates from a leading rental provider.
- Company news updates
- Event information
- Leadership messages
- Job opportunities
- New equipment announcements
- Construction technology news
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Sunstate Equipment is a leading rental equipment provider bringing the best rental experience in the industry to your jobsites. Sunstate offers a full fleet of powerful construction and industrial rental tools and heavy equipment from top brands and serves our partners in construction from the southeast to the northwest US. Download our Sunstate Connect App to stay up to date with latest company news, events, leadership messages, job opportunities, new and upcoming equipment, and construction technology.
CS RespondNow
This app helps local businesses manage their online reputation by generating more reviews and responding to them. It provides a central dashboard to monitor and reply to feedback from various review sites, ensuring businesses stay in control of their online presence.
- Generate more online reviews
- Respond to reviews from one dashboard
- Receive alerts for new reviews
- Centralized review management
- Automated review responses
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RespondNow provides local businesses the ability to take control of their online reviews. This includes helping them generate more reviews on review sites that impact their business. RespondNow alerts you when reviews are posted about your business and allows you to respond to your reviews from one central dashboard. If you do not have time to respond to your reviews, RespondNow can do that too!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sunstate Connect at monthly against CS RespondNow's every 8 months. Sunstate Connect also leads on ratings volume (58 vs 2). CS RespondNow's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Sunstate Connect against 5.0 for CS RespondNow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sunstate Connect has 58 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sunstate Connect ships an update monthly, CS RespondNow every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sunstate Connect | CS RespondNow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (58 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HubEngage, Inc. | INSTITUTE OF MODERN BUSINESS, LLC |
Customer experience
Sunstate Connect
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In-app purchases
Sunstate Connect
No in-app purchases
CS RespondNow
No in-app purchases
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