Festool vs Badgered
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Festool
Manage and customize your power tools with this app. Track tool locations, register for warranty, order repairs, and stay updated on new products and promotions. It provides a direct connection to your tools and services.
- Tool customization and updates
- Location detection
- Tool registration and warranty
- Repair ordering
- Product discovery and watch list
- Dealer search
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Stay connected with the Festool app Download the Festool app now and discover practical additional functions for your tools! As an extension of the Festool system, you always have an overview of your tools and services, can customise them and receive help for your application. You can also keep your tools up to date with updates and benefit from exclusive information on promotions, new products and competitions! Your benefits: - Customise the settings of your tool to your individual needs and keep it up to date with regular software updates. - Use location detection to localise your tool at any time and from anywhere. - Register your tool, register it for the warranty all-inclusive, order repairs and communicate directly with Festool. - Discover Festool products directly and conveniently via the app. - Save your favourite products to your personal watch list and share them with your dealer. - With the dealer search, your nearest Festool partner is always just a click away. Save your favourites and navigate easily - even internationally. We learn from the best: From you! Festool means first-class power tools. With the claim that they make the everyday work of tradespeople easier, more productive and safer. We can only do that together with you. By communicating with each other openly and incorporating your feedback directly into the development of our products. Your success is the best praise.
Badgered
This app helps manage your in-office workdays by tracking badge swipes and organizing your daily priorities. It also allows you to capture and remember your accomplishments to boost productivity.
- Track in-office badge swipes
- Organize daily priorities
- Capture accomplishments
- Reduce mental load
- Boost productivity
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Today’s hybrid, in-office world of tracking badge swipes and staying productive can leave us feeling a bit, well, badgered. Reduce your mental load and let Badgered handle the tracking and progress of each and every one of your in-office badge swipes. Once you're badged in, organize your day around your three priorities to really get things done. Wrap it all up by capturing your accomplishments so they're never forgotten.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Festool at 1.4K against Badgered's 1. Festool also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Badgered's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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.
Badgered holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Festool has 1.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Festool ships an update every 2 weeks, Badgered every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Festool | Badgered |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Festool GmbH | Lone Pine Loop |
Customer experience
Festool
Badgered
Bugs and requests
Festool
Reported bugs
8 issues- Battery firmware update doesn't work
- Akkus und Maschinen werden einfach gelöscht
- Every update deletes the battery information
- Impossible to register a brand new tool with receipt scan
- App gets stuck on sign in
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- App stopped working
- Can't pair CTL Midi
- App no longer connects to Bluetooth devices after update
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to rename batteries
- Save and transfer angle settings
- Watch version
- Ability to delete old tools
Badgered
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Festool
No in-app purchases
Badgered
No in-app purchases









