Kenect vs KickStart DLA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kenect
Connect with customers through text messaging to boost leads, gather online reviews, and process payments. Initiate video calls directly from text conversations.
- Customer texting
- Lead generation
- Online review generation
- Payment capture
- Video chat via text
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Engage with your customers where they are - texting on their phone. Double your leads, generate online reviews, capture payments and start video chat conversations all via text message.
KickStart DLA
This business application streamlines demonstration registration, lead generation, and equipment scheduling. It offers robust CRM integration with over 30 popular platforms, enhancing sales and management processes.
- Demonstration Registration
- Lead Generation
- Equipment Scheduling
- CRM Integration
- Sales Management
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KickStart Suite includes capture and management modules for Demonstration Registration, Lead Generation, Dyno Rider and Photo Experience, OEM equipment Scheduling, plus a robust CRM integration engine that connects to over 30 of the most popular assists with CRM and ERP platforms such as CDK, Lightspeed, Reynolds and Reynolds, Salesforce.com, Lightspeed, eleads, Shift Digital and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kenect at 3.8 against KickStart DLA's 2.1. Kenect also leads on review sentiment (38% vs 0%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). KickStart DLA's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). 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.
Kenect holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kenect has 68 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Kenect's written reviews are positive against 0% of KickStart DLA's.
Kenect ships an update fortnightly, KickStart DLA every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kenect | KickStart DLA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (68 ratings) — better | 2.1 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 830 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kenect, LLC | Ncompass Marketing |
Customer experience
Kenect
KickStart DLA
In-app purchases
Kenect
No in-app purchases
KickStart DLA
No in-app purchases
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