Pinewood Tech+ vs edays
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.
edays
This software streamlines absence management for businesses, ensuring local compliance while operating globally. It provides a comprehensive solution for tracking and managing employee time off, recognizing the importance of absence data.
- Global absence management
- Local compliance
- Employee time off tracking
- Absence data management
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edays absence management software is purpose-built to deal with absence, to comply locally but think and act globally, wherever you are in the world. Because absence matters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: edays at 100% against Pinewood Tech+'s 4%. Pinewood Tech+'s advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Pinewood Tech+ ships an update fortnightly, edays every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinewood Tech+ | edays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.9 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 3.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 47 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pinewood Technologies PLC | E-days Absence Management Ltd |
Customer experience
Pinewood Tech+
edays
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
edays
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pinewood Tech+
No in-app purchases
edays
No in-app purchases
