Comparison

Pinewood Tech+ vs LMS Validate

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Job time tracking
  • Voice-activated job clocking
  • Technical document upload
  • Digital VHC approvals
  • Menu pricing for quoting
  • Parts management
Features
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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.

About

LMS Validate

Features
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LMS Validate makes identity verification for property transactions quick, secure, and straightforward. Complete your Basic ID Check directly from your phone using a simple guided process. Verify your identity, submit the required information, and track your progress in one secure app. Key features: โ€ข Fast and easy identity verification โ€ข Secure document and facial checks โ€ข Clear step-by-step guidance โ€ข Encrypted data handling โ€ข Designed for property transactions LMS Validate helps you complete your identity check without printing documents, scanning paperwork, or visiting an office.

Screenshots

Pinewood Tech+1 screens
LMS Validate3 screens

Verdict

The call

Pinewood Tech+ and LMS Validate are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pinewood Tech+ versus LMS Validate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinewood Tech+LMS Validate
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews3.5% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size197 MB112 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPinewood Technologies PLCVeyco 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

LMS Validate

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pinewood Tech+

No in-app purchases

None

LMS Validate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pinewood Tech+ free?
Pinewood Tech+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LMS Validate free?
LMS Validate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pinewood Tech+ or LMS Validate have ads?
Neither Pinewood Tech+ nor LMS Validate shows ads.

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