Dubai REST vs DARB
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dubai REST
Manage your Dubai properties with ease. This app offers a secure real estate wallet for owners and landlords to handle leases, track property values, rental yields, and service fees. Tenants can also benefit from streamlined property management.
- Property management
- Real estate wallet
- Lease registration and renewal
- Property value tracking
- Rental yield monitoring
- Service fee management
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Own it. Rent it. Manage it—effortlessly. Experience Dubai REST like never before! Our newly redesigned app comes with a modern theme, seamless navigation, and faster performance, making property management easier and smarter for property owners, landlords, and tenants. The app lets you manage properties effortlessly through a secure real estate wallet. Stay informed with real-time property values, rental yields, and service fees, while handling leases—from registration and renewal to cancellation—with ease.
DARB
Manage your Abu Dhabi toll gate account and vehicle transactions directly from your smartphone. Register as a new user, link your vehicles, top up your wallet, view traffic statistics, and manage fines and grievances.
- New user registration
- Vehicle registration
- Create money wallets
- Balance top-up and fee payment
- Traffic statistics
- View fines
- Submit grievances/exemptions
- Gantry location map
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The mobile application of the Tolling Management System in Abu Dhabi DARB provides the user with the ability to manage his account using a set of services and features that allow him to manage his vehicles’ transactions under Abu Dhabi Tolling Gantries through the mobile application directly without return to the website. The application provides the following services: - New user registration service in the Tolling Management System in Abu Dhabi. - Vehicle registration service for the user‘s vehicles defined in his traffic file. Create money wallets service and link it with the vehicles. - Balance Top-up service for the user’s wallet and fees payment. - Traffic statistics service for user’s vehicles transactions under the gantries and their fees. - View the fines details listed against him. - Submitting grievance or exemption service with the required documents attached. - Check the location of the traffic gantries on the map. - Account management services. يوفر تطبيق نظام التعرفة المرورية لإمارة أبوظبي درب للمستخدم إمكانية إدارة الحساب الخاص به من خلال مجموعة من الخدمات والميزات التي تتيح له متابعة حركات مركباته عند استخدام بوابات التعرفة المرورية من خلال تطبيق الهاتف الذكي مباشرةً دون الحاجة للرجوع إلى الموقع الالكتروني. يوفر تطبيق نظام التعرفة المرورية الخدمات التالية: - خدمة تسجيل مستخدم جديد في نظام التعرفة المرورية لإمارة أبوظبي. - خدمة تسجيل مركبات المستخدم في النظام من خلال استرجاع قائمة المركبات المرتبطة بالملف المروري الخاص به. - خدمة إنشاء المحافظ المالية وربطها بالمركبات. - خدمة شحن رصيد المحفظة المالية ودفع الرسوم. - خدمة عرض احصائيات حركات المرور لمركباته من البوابات والرسوم المترتبة عليها. - خدمة الاطلاع على تفاصيل المخالفات المدرجة بحقه. - خدمة تقديم طلب تظلم أو إعفاء مع إرفاق الوثائق المطلوبة. - إمكانية الاطلاع على أماكن تواجد بوابات التعرفة المرورية على الخارطة. - إمكانية إدارة الحساب الشخصي.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DARB at 4.6 against Dubai REST's 2.0. DARB also leads on review sentiment (49% vs 7%) and ratings volume (12K vs 64). Dubai REST's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). 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.
DARB holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DARB has 12K ratings behind it against 64, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of Dubai REST's written reviews are positive against 49% of DARB's.
Dubai REST ships an update every 3 weeks, DARB every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dubai REST | DARB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (64 ratings) | 4.6 (12K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.0% of reviews | 49.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 | 12K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dubai Land Department | Q Mobility |
Customer experience
Dubai REST
DARB
Bugs and requests
Dubai REST
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
DARB
Reported bugs
3 issues- Screen freezes and blank screens when trying to pay
- Inability to register vehicles, especially those under a different owner's name
- Inconsistent behavior when trying to add a new vehicle
Requested features
4 requests- Improve English language support
- Add vehicle exemption management
- Provide notifications for low wallet balance
- Integrate with Apple Pay for easier top-ups
In-app purchases
Dubai REST
No in-app purchases
DARB
No in-app purchases
