Pinewood Tech+ vs Genie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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.
Genie
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Fit a Genie-Lock automatic toolbox lock to your Snap-On toolbox and with this app open on your smartphone your toolbox will automatically lock when you walk far away enough to loose the Bluetooth connection and will unlock your toolbox when you are close enough for your Phone to automatically connect again. when in Bluetooth range and connected you can also lock and unlock your toolbox via a button in the app, turn on and off the audible buzzer.The app also displays the number of lock and unlock operations it has completed and gives you the opportunity to win free Genie-Lock Merchandise. Genie-Locks are available from www.Genie-Lock.co.uk and www.Genie-Lock.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Genie at 12.0 against Pinewood Tech+'s 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
| Parameter | Pinewood Tech+ | Genie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 3.5% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pinewood Technologies PLC | Pimp My Box Ltd |
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
Genie
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pinewood Tech+
No in-app purchases
Genie
No in-app purchases
