Brady Express Labels vs Severe Service
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brady Express Labels
Design, view, and print labels directly from your smartphone. Offers extensive design options, including multiple guides, barcode types, fonts, languages, and symbols. Streamline labeling with data import, sequence creation, barcode scanning, and text recognition features.
- Label design and printing from phone
- 11 label design guides
- 34 barcode symbologies
- 85 fonts and 34 languages
- Over 1,500 symbols
- Import data from spreadsheets
- Voice-to-text and photo-to-text
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Simple. Easy. Intuitive. Design, view, and print labels right from your phone. Overflowing with label design options, including 11 unique label design guides, 35 barcode symbologies, 85 fonts, 34 languages, and over 1,600 symbols. Improve labeling efficiency by importing data from spreadsheets, creating sequences, scanning data from barcodes, and with voice-to-text and photo-to-text features. Express Labels works with the Brady M211, BMP51, M511, BMP61, M610, M611, M710, i3311, i4311, i5300, i5311, i7500, and S3700 label printers.
Severe Service
This app helps users perform initial sizing for control valves, diagnose issues by selecting symptoms, and explore severe service applications across various industries. It also provides access to a technical library with videos and PDFs, a product catalog, and a contact feature for expert assistance.
- Control valve sizing tool
- Issue diagnosis by symptom
- Industry application explorer
- Technical library with videos and PDFs
- Fisher product catalog
- Keyword search functionality
- Direct contact with experts
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App Features: • Sizing Tool: Quickly perform initial sizing for Fisher globe control valves. Share the results with anyone. • Diagnose an Issue: Choose the symptom that’s causing you headaches, then view Fisher products that combat the issue. • Industry Application: Access a list of severe service applications in Hydrocarbon, Power, and General Industries. • Technical Library: Keep up-to-speed on severe service issues by watching our videos and viewing PDFs. • Products: Browse thru an alphabetical listing of Fisher products and learn more about their functionality. • Search: Enter the first few letters of a keyword to easily find available topics and documents. • Contact Us: Submit a question, we have experts available to answer your questions at every step of the process.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Severe Service at free against Brady Express Labels's free with in-app purchases. Severe Service also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (13.2 vs 15.0). Brady Express Labels's advantage is ratings volume (407 vs 7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Severe Service holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brady Express Labels has 407 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Brady Express Labels ships an update every 2 months, Severe Service monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brady Express Labels | Severe Service |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (407 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 407 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 313 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brady Corporation | Emerson Process Management |
Customer experience
Brady Express Labels
Severe Service
Bugs and requests
Brady Express Labels
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes immediately on launch
- Saved labels not working after update
- Orientation reverts unexpectedly when printing
- Cartridges marked as empty when not
- Text formatting issues (all uppercase)
Requested features
6 requests- Allow selective text editing
- Add default file location for cloud storage
- Provide backup/restore feature for saved labels
- Add copies field in wire wrap screen
- Improve text centering for multiple lines
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- Expand font options
Severe Service
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brady Express Labels
No in-app purchases
Severe Service
No in-app purchases
Questions
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