Pathwave vs Fieldclix NEXT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pathwave
This tool streamlines field service management by guiding teams through required forms and photos. It enhances visibility and quality control with real-time monitoring of field activities and standardized documentation workflows. The platform also helps minimize risk by ensuring on-site compliance and tracking safety procedures.
- Guided data capture with forms and photos
- Real-time monitoring of field activity
- Standardized project documentation
- On-site compliance tracking
- Safety procedure management
- Crew certification tracking
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Pathwave is a purpose-built tool for field service management. One platform for managing all your field project deliverables. CAPTURE FIELD DATA IN ONE PLACE • Guide field teams through required forms and photos for a project. • Complete project documents, safety documents, take photos, and provide daily status updates. INCREASE VISIBLITY AND QUALITY CONTROL • Instantly access and monitor field activity, photos, and forms in real-time. • Streamline project documentation and closeouts with standardized forms and time-saving workflows. MINIMIZE RISK. MAXIMIZE SAFETY • Ensure on-site compliance. • Track safety procedures. • Complete safety documentation. • Ensure crew certifications are always applicable, up-to-date and readily available. • Stay compliant and eliminate safety stand downs.
Fieldclix NEXT
This app streamlines field operations with tools for project management, crew scheduling, and automated timekeeping. It supports work orders, photo checklists, asset management, and revenue capture for complex deployment programs.
- Full lifecycle project management
- Crew scheduling and timekeeping
- Work order management with photo checklists
- Automated timekeeping (clock-in/out)
- Asset management and transfers
- Project progress dashboards
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Fieldclix brings improved structure, operational alignment and increased financial visibility to complex field deployment programs. Our Field Operations Management platform offers full lifecycle project management, including planning, budgeting, material requests, crew scheduling, timekeeping, milestone tracking, project progress dashboards and revenue capture. Our Fieldclix Mobile iOS app supports Work Orders and Photo Checklists, Automated Timekeeping, and Asset Management. Work Orders allows you to schedule work for your field teams, providing them with comprehensive photo/video checklists to complete. Those deliverables will be auto-sync to the Fieldclix. Field crews can also add as many adHoc pictures as needed with proper file naming conversion. Automated Timekeeping provides remote Clock-In/Out, automated time calculations per day/shift and assignment of job codes, displays total employee hours. Asset Management puts a record of your employee’s company-owned assets in the palm of their hand and provides remote Asset Transfers without the need to travel to office locations. Visit www.fieldclix.com to learn more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pathwave at 4.0 against Fieldclix NEXT's 1.8. Pathwave also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (35 vs 10). 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.
Pathwave holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 10 respectively.
Pathwave ships an update every 2 months, Fieldclix NEXT every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pathwave | Fieldclix NEXT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (35 ratings) — better | 1.8 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 229 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pathwave, Inc. | FieldCLIX, Inc. |
Customer experience
Pathwave
Fieldclix NEXT
In-app purchases
Pathwave
No in-app purchases
Fieldclix NEXT
No in-app purchases
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