Brady Express Labels vs Chesterton Connect
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.
Chesterton Connect
This system allows for the safe and convenient monitoring of industrial equipment and processes. It collects and displays operating condition data, providing insights into performance.
- Data acquisition system
- Process monitoring
- Equipment condition monitoring
- Safe operation
- Convenient data access
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Chesterton Connect™ is a simple to use data acquisition system that enables you to safely and conveniently monitor your process and equipment's operating conditions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Chesterton Connect at free against Brady Express Labels's free with in-app purchases. Brady Express Labels's advantage is ratings volume (423 vs 4). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Brady Express Labels against 4.3 for Chesterton Connect. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brady Express Labels has 423 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brady Express Labels | Chesterton Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (423 ratings) — better | 4.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 423 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 313 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brady Corporation | A.W. Chesterton Company |
Customer experience
Brady Express Labels
Chesterton Connect
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
Chesterton Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brady Express Labels
No in-app purchases
Chesterton Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
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