MaintainX vs E
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MaintainX
This app provides a comprehensive solution for maintenance management and work order tracking, designed for field technicians and managers. It simplifies task assignment, asset information access via QR codes, and safety inspections, while also offering inventory management capabilities.
- Work order creation, assignment, and tracking
- Mobile work order completion with photos and voice notes
- Offline mode for technicians
- QR code asset scanning for instant information
- Streamlined safety inspections
- Inventory and asset management
- ERP system integration
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Intelligent maintenance and asset management that increases equipment uptime, reduces maintenance and parts costs, and improves frontline productivity. Used by 14,000+ customers and downloaded over 1 million times, MaintainX is built for the people who keep physical operations running: maintenance managers, technicians, and operators across asset-intensive industries. What you get with MaintainX: - One platform for maintenance, repair, and operations. Manage work orders, assets, parts, and purchase orders in one place, with real-time insights that flag problems before they cause or extend downtime. - A mobile app for the field. Schedule and track work from anywhere. Scan a QR code to get an asset’s maintenance history, open work orders, and safety protocols. Let technicians take photos, record voice notes, and keep working even offline. - Streamlined checklists and safety inspections. Every inspection is time-stamped and logged automatically. Step-by-step procedures make sure work is completed the same way, every time. - Spare parts management and mobile purchase orders. View parts inventory across every site, get low stock alerts, and send purchase orders out with just a few taps. - Less admin, more wrench time. MaintainX AI turns your manuals, past work orders, and photos into searchable data. Technicians get real-time troubleshooting help, procedure guidance, and voice-based reporting on work orders. Companies using MaintainX as their CMMS have found: 32% reduction in unplanned downtime 49% improvement in on-time inspections 34% reduction in parts inventory costs Paper forms, excel sheets, and clunky software cost you time and money that you don't have. Try MaintainX for free today.
E
This software streamlines maintenance and asset management for various industries. It helps plan preventive and predictive maintenance, monitor work orders remotely, and manage team tasks efficiently to reduce downtime and boost productivity.
- Streamlined maintenance management
- Asset management
- Preventive and predictive maintenance planning
- Work order monitoring
- Team task arrangement
- Downtime reduction
- Productivity boost
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e-maintain is a CMMS software that streamlines maintenance management and asset management across many industries. e-maintain manages your assets, reduces downtime and boosts productivity. With e-maintain you can plan and implement preventive and predictive maintenance easily and you can monitor your work orders from wherever you are. Keep an eye on your team and arrange all the tasks. Let e-maintain do all these jobs for you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MaintainX at weekly against E's every 2 months. MaintainX also leads on ratings volume (5.7K vs 1). E's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MaintainX against 5.0 for E. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MaintainX has 5.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MaintainX ships an update weekly, E every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MaintainX | E |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (5.7K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.7K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MAINTAINX INC. | Tarek Ajaj |
Customer experience
MaintainX
E
Bugs and requests
MaintainX
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes or freezes on certain devices
- Inconsistent performance across mobile and desktop
- Issues with photo/attachment uploads and syncing
- Glitches in work order status updates
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved barcode scanning and inventory management
- Integration with accounting/ERP systems
- Enhanced reporting and analytics capabilities
- Customizable work order templates
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- Ability to share work orders with team members
E
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MaintainX
No in-app purchases
E
No in-app purchases









