Brady Express Labels vs Prometheus Mobile for Maximo
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.
Prometheus Mobile for Maximo
Enhance IBM Maximo functionality in the field with a mobile solution that supports online and offline data collection. Improve accuracy and efficiency by bringing asset management capabilities directly to your maintenance teams.
- Offline data collection
- Real-time data synchronization
- Interactive maps
- Dynamic data forms
- Integration with enterprise systems
- Mobile-first responsive design
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Maintenance and asset management work doesn’t always take place where there’s connectivity or a computer. Today’s asset-intensive businesses need flexible mobile technologies to expand and simplify the functionality of IBM Maximo and bring it out into the field. Improve time-on-tools/wrench time, data accuracy, and derive more value from your maintenance resources by collecting data at the source, in real-time with DataSplice, while preserving Maximo as your single source of truth. DataSplice (now known as Prometheus Group’s Mobile for Maximo solution): • Is a single mobile platform for Maximo, Esri, and other enterprise systems. • Is built with scalable technology that readily integrates into existing operations, and can be extended as your needs evolve • Supports online, offline and mixed mode multi-use capabilities • Collects accurate data in the field and increases data reliability • Incorporates interactive maps (that function fully online or offline) into enterprise business processes • Uses modern HTML5 mapping techniques, allowing users to interact with millions of GIS features in remote areas where reliable connectivity is not available • Is built with a mobile-first responsive design • Works with Prometheus Mobile for Maximo Forms; a complete dynamic data form, perfect for condition-based tasks, such as inspections. This full-featured system, which may be used with or without Maximo, can quickly be configured to meet regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements through a form-building toolset • Integrates with Commercial-off-the-shelf solutions (COTS) for mobile work orders, inventory, planning, requests, reports, and forms The Prometheus Mobile for Maximo Server uses a plug-in architecture to provide integration into a range of external systems including: • IBM Maximo (through the MBO interface) • Oracle & SQL Server databases (through Ado.NET database connections) • ESRI web services (through REST API endpoints) • LDAP & Active Directory systems • Network file systems Our server combines data from across these sources making them available to end users within a single customer application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brady Express Labels at 4.3 against Prometheus Mobile for Maximo's 2.8. Brady Express Labels also leads on ratings volume (419 vs 9) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). Prometheus Mobile for Maximo's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (75% vs 63%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Brady Express Labels holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brady Express Labels has 419 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Brady Express Labels's written reviews are positive against 75% of Prometheus Mobile for Maximo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Brady Express Labels ships an update every 2 months, Prometheus Mobile for Maximo every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brady Express Labels | Prometheus Mobile for Maximo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (419 ratings) — better | 2.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.9% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 419 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| 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 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 313 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brady Corporation | PROMETHEUS GROUP, INC. |
Customer experience
Brady Express Labels
Prometheus Mobile for Maximo
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
Prometheus Mobile for Maximo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brady Express Labels
No in-app purchases
Prometheus Mobile for Maximo
No in-app purchases
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