Coinless Mobile vs Tekmetric Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coinless Mobile
This app provides a contactless payment solution for car washes, allowing users to start and stop equipment directly from their smartphones. It handles credit card processing and supports loyalty and membership programs for frequent customers.
- Digital car wash payment
- Remote equipment control
- Credit card processing
- Loyalty programs
- Membership management
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The Coinless app connects customers with car washes by offering a digital payment solution through smart phones.The app speaks to carwash equipment, allowing customers to instantly turn car wash equipment on and off from their smart devices. This removes the need for cash and facilitates the payment process for carwash owners. Coinless handles the credit-card processing for all payments made through the app. The app also manages loyalty programs that reward customers for visiting their favorite carwash locations with frequency. For best functionality, the app requires the use of location services, messaging services, contacts services, payment services, and more. The app also manages club/membership programs for carwash locations that have chosen that service.
Tekmetric Mobile
Streamline automotive repair workflows with digital inspections and mobile check-in. Capture photos, videos, and notes directly from your device to document vehicle issues and track technician time. Real-time syncing ensures seamless collaboration between mobile and desktop platforms.
- Mobile Check-In with VIN/plate scanning
- Digital Vehicle Inspections (DVIs)
- Photo and video documentation
- Image markup for issue clarification
- Technician time tracking
- Real-time sync with desktop platform
- Repair Order access and job board
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Greet customers. Start repair orders. Perform inspections. All from your phone. Tekmetric Mobile is the fastest way to get work started and keep it moving — from the parking lot to the repair bay. With Mobile Check-In, service advisors can greet customers at their vehicle, scan a VIN or license plate, and instantly start or pull up a Repair Order. No running back and forth. No delays. Just faster, more personal service from the second a customer pulls in. Technicians can perform detailed Digital Vehicle Inspections (DVIs) right from their phone — complete with photos, videos, notes, and markups — without repeating steps or leaving the bay. Everything syncs in real time with the desktop platform, keeping the whole team aligned. That means fewer bottlenecks, less manual entry, and faster decisions — leading to shorter wait times, clearer communication, and more revenue across the shop. Whether you’re tracking time, documenting issues, or getting the next RO started, Tekmetric Mobile is built to match the way modern shops actually work: fast, flexible, and fully mobile. Key Features: - Mobile Check-In — scan VINs or plates to start or pull up ROs instantly - Digital Inspections — take photos, record videos, add notes and canned findings - Image Markup — show exactly what’s wrong with clear annotations - Time Tracking — clock in/out and track time from your phone - Repair Order Access — view vehicle and customer info, tech notes, and more - Job Board — find ROs by status: estimates, work in progress, or done - Real-Time Sync — mobile and desktop stay in sync automatically Say goodbye to messy clipboards, repeated measurements, and lost time. Tekmetric Mobile helps you work faster, stay consistent, and deliver a customer experience that keeps people coming back. Subscription required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Coinless Mobile at 4.6 against Tekmetric Mobile's 2.7. Coinless Mobile also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription) and ratings volume (3K vs 60). Tekmetric Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Coinless Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coinless Mobile has 3K ratings behind it against 60, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Coinless Mobile's written reviews are positive against 29% of Tekmetric Mobile's.
Coinless Mobile ships an update every 2 months, Tekmetric Mobile every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coinless Mobile | Tekmetric Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3K ratings) — better | 2.7 (60 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.6% of reviews — better | 29.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | 60 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 155 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Coinless, LLC | Sparkplug Studios LLC |
Customer experience
Coinless Mobile
Tekmetric Mobile
User reviews
Coinless Mobile
From 3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient payment
- 👍 Seamless experience
- 🚗 Useful for car washes
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔒 Aggressive location tracking
- 💰 Deceptive billing practices
- 🤯 Poor customer support
Tekmetric Mobile
From 60 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy inspections
- 🚀 VIN scanner is a game changer
- 👍 Great for techs
- 💡 Continuous improvements appreciated
- 👍 Mobile app is convenient
Room to improve
- 👎 App is very limited
- 👎 Website is easier to use
- 👎 Videos fail to upload
- 👎 Significant lag when capturing photos
- 👎 Customer number missing from work order
Bugs and requests
Coinless Mobile
Reported bugs
3 issues- Verification code never sent
- App freezes and crashes
- Inconsistent functionality across locations
Requested features
3 requests- Clearer instructions
- Option to disable location services
- Refund/credit processing improvements
Tekmetric Mobile
Reported bugs
21 issues- Videos always fail to upload
- Videos erase if not caught in time
- Significant lag when capturing photos
- App breaks after updates
- Camera function offline after update
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- Search feature broke after update
- Always wants you to go out
- Frustrating time tracking, RO never paused
- No way to know which jobs time is running on
- Pictures or videos disappear when uploading or fail to upload
- Text input in inspection deletes itself after saving
- Won't let me log in
- Unusable on iPhone
- Slow at loading
- Terrible for efficiency bonuses
- Doesn't always update RO
- Problem logging in (password/email incorrect)
- DVI skips around
- Unable to add media after initial media
- Keyboard not opening (fixed by update)
- Login issues
Requested features
39 requests- Ability to pull up history
- Ability to look at reports (billed hours)
- More options for office staff app
- Customer phone number on work order
- Customer lookup utility
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- Edit ROs
- See prices
- See the schedule
- Look at invoices
- See service history
- See specs (oil capacity, wheel torque)
- Edit a repair order marked complete
- Admin controls (appointments, tech settings)
- Make customer concerns visible to techs
- Add new customers via app
- Start repair orders via app
- Add new cars and jobs on the go
- More features for owners/admins
- Add scheduling option
- Add customer list
- Show dollar amounts for jobs/estimates
- Face login or Apple Face Login
- See schedules
- See inventory
- See vendors
- Inventory counts, audits
- Access employee hours
- See daily numbers (closing, performance)
- See fluid types and quantities
- See technical information (torque specs)
- See vehicle specs (fluids, filters, specs, TSBs)
- Canned findings auto-populate
- Ability to interact with repair order 'Jobs'
- Ability to view repair order 'Jobs'
- Ability to change RO job status
- Work-in-progress screen
- See times on ticket
- See previous job history and inspections
- App structured similar to desktop version
In-app purchases
Coinless Mobile
No in-app purchases
Tekmetric Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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