Pinewood Tech+ vs Dragon2000 Workshop App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Pinewood Tech+
This app empowers technicians to boost workshop revenue by seamlessly integrating with a planning system. It allows for job time tracking, voice-activated clocking, document management, and digital customer approvals for vehicle health checks. Technicians can also access menu pricing for immediate quoting and manage parts directly.
- Job time tracking
- Voice-activated job clocking
- Technical document upload
- Digital VHC approvals
- Menu pricing for quoting
- Parts management
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Tech+ works seamlessly with Workshop Planner in Pinewood DMS, it's a great tool to help your technicians build on workshop revenue. - Clock onto jobs and easily keep an eye on how much time is remaining. - Clock onto the job using the voice assistant, which is automatically allocated from the planner. - Technical documents can be uploaded to the job for future reference. - Service history can be viewed as well as the original documents. - Checklists can be tailored to specific jobs. - In the VHC, items can be set as urgent, recommended or OK and confirmed digitally by the customer. - Record a VHC video to send to your customer, adding intro and outro clips to reflect your dealership's branding. - When you find work to do, menu pricing is available to help you immediately quote your customer. - If you need to speak to the parts team, you can send a note to share important information. - You can view parts that have been prepared for the job or even issue them yourself by selecting the part or scanning a bar code.
Dragon2000 Workshop App
Streamline automotive service departments with digital job cards, real-time technician updates, and detailed vehicle health checks. Improve efficiency and customer communication with video and image documentation of vehicle conditions and defects.
- Digital job cards for technicians
- Clocking in/out of tasks and workplace
- Real-time job and technician status updates
- Vehicle Health Checks with video/images
- Create detailed condition reports
- Document vehicle defects with media
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Revolutionise the way you run your Automotive Service Department with the Workshop mobile app from Dragon2000 Ltd. Features include: * Digital Job Cards Paper Job Cards are a thing of the past! With the Workshop app, your Technicians will be able to see exactly what they need to be working on and in which order. It will allow them to clock on and off of the service task and update with any notes that may be needed. The app also includes clocking in and out of the workplace. As a Service Advisor, you can manage all of your jobs and Techs from one place, including notifications when you fall behind schedule, the current status of each employee (Idle, Behind Schedule, etc), view the tasks that need to be completed on each job, set the work order for each Tech and much more. * Vehicle Health Checks (VHC) with Video and Images Allow your Technicians to undertake custom made VHCs, including images of any defects found and the ability to record and send the customer a video explaining the issues they have found - a guaranteed way to increase and upsell service work. * Create Condition Reports Condition Reports allow you to move around a vehicle and pinpoint any defects a vehicle may have, noting the size, severity, cost, etc - you can also add images and video. This is a great tool to use as it provides evidence of a vehicle's condition before being moved into the workshop.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pinewood Tech+ at fortnightly against Dragon2000 Workshop App's every 2 months. On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pinewood Tech+ ships an update fortnightly, Dragon2000 Workshop App every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinewood Tech+ | Dragon2000 Workshop App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 3.5% of reviews โ better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly โ better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pinewood Technologies PLC | Dragon2000 Ltd |
Customer experience
Pinewood Tech+
Dragon2000 Workshop App
Bugs and requests
Pinewood Tech+
Reported bugs
53 issues- App keeps crashing
- Too many steps to clock on
- Can only load one video per job card
- Can't login on desktop app
- System gets worse with every update
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- Have to remove gloves for fingerprint access
- Lines to clock in are tiny
- Spend majority of day watching loading
- App is unreliable with constant crashes
- Kicking off app during use
- Closing down causing restart of health check
- Slow, glitchy, and continuously crashes
- Painfully slow to use
- New update made app slower
- Removed vehicle history
- Constantly kicked out
- Always crashing when processing videos
- Recorded videos disappear
- Freezes half way through health check
- Menu pricing not working
- Won't upload videos
- Won't let you log in
- Bad on Apple device
- Constantly freezes
- Nothing works correctly
- Updates make it worse
- Cannot log on and off job
- Signs you out and loops with error messages
- Deleting app to clock in/change jobs
- Can't clock in or log on and off jobs
- Constantly signs you out
- Session expired loop
- App crashes
- Disconnects all the time
- Unable to login after update
- App won't open on certain iPads
- Struggling to log in
- Crashes and loses video
- Clocks you off and on at random
- Videos don't work
- Freezes
- App totally unstable
- Video fails
- Detective text not available in health check pro
- Predictive text no longer working
- App logged me out twice
- Can't log in (invalid credentials)
- Doesn't upload videos
- Over complicated system
- Lots of loading
- Crashes out whilst carrying out evhc or video
- Health check sometimes will not save
- Tyres in wrong order in health check
Requested features
12 requests- Allow login on desktop
- Improve VHC video upload
- Add explanation for updates
- Larger clock-in lines
- Option to fill reason for authorized idle
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- View old health checks
- View other jobs without clocking off
- Save login details
- Personal choice for device orientation
- Predictive text working
- Improve health check saving
- Correct tyre order in health check
Dragon2000 Workshop App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pinewood Tech+
No in-app purchases
Dragon2000 Workshop App
No in-app purchases






