Comparison

MaintainX vs Relay | Admin

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Intelligent maintenance and asset management that increases equipment uptime, reduces maintenance and parts costs, and improves frontline productivity. Used by 15,000+ 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.

About

Relay | Admin

Configure and deploy your Relay system on-site with this field companion app. Map buildings, set up indoor positioning, and manage users and devices efficiently from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Map buildings, floors, and rooms
  • Configure indoor positioning with beacons
  • Scan QR codes for beacon addition
  • Verify room positioning with live data
  • Provision users and manage devices
  • Pair NFC tags to user profiles
  • Offline data synchronization
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Every great Relay deployment starts on-site — and Relay Admin is what gets it there. Relay Admin is the field companion for the technicians and administrators who roll out Relay. Map a building, configure indoor positioning, and provision your whole team — all from your phone, all before you leave the parking lot. BUILD YOUR SITE, FLOOR BY FLOOR Create buildings, floors, and rooms in a few taps. Drop a building on the map with address search and precise geocoding, then nudge the pin until it's exactly right. Your entire site structure lives in one place, ready for the rest of the job. INDOOR POSITIONING THAT HOLDS UP Add beacons by scanning a QR code or entering a MAC address, then confirm placement with live proximity ranging — no guesswork about whether that beacon made it onto the right wall. Auditing an existing room? Range for every beacon you expect, see what's missing at a glance, and clear out the stale ones. Prefer Wi-Fi? Use a Relay device as a scanning proxy to capture access-point fingerprints for any room, then confirm that room resolves correctly before you call it done. VERIFY BEFORE YOU WALK AWAY Room verification closes the loop. Point a proxy device at a configured space and watch it resolve to the right room — real validation, on-site, while you can still fix it. PROVISION USERS IN MINUTES Create users with a guided, step-by-step flow: pick a team, assign channels, set workflow groups, review, submit. Manage the whole roster from the same app — assign and unassign devices, rename users, handle seats, and remove accounts one at a time or in bulk. TAP TO PAIR NFC PROFILES Pair NFC tags to user profiles with a single tap. Built for shared-device environments where the right profile needs to follow the right person. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU WORK Permissions follow your Relay account, so every technician sees exactly the tools they're cleared for and nothing they aren't. Relay Admin hands off to the Relay app when you need it and picks up right where you left off when you come back. Lost signal mid-job? Relay Admin refreshes the moment you reconnect. Relay Admin is designed for Relay customers and partners. A Relay account is required to sign in.

Screenshots

MaintainX4 screens
Relay | Admin2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Relay | Admin at free against MaintainX's free with in-app purchases. MaintainX's advantage is ratings volume (5.9K vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MaintainX against 5.0 for Relay | Admin. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MaintainX has 5.9K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of MaintainX's written reviews are positive against 100% of Relay | Admin's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MaintainX ships an update weekly, Relay | Admin every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MaintainX versus Relay | Admin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaintainXRelay | Admin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (5.9K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.9K — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMAINTAINX INC.Relay, Inc

Customer experience

MaintainX

All ratings5,911 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews267 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral0.7%
Negative7.1%

Relay | Admin

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Relay | Admin

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MaintainX

No in-app purchases

None

Relay | Admin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MaintainX free?
MaintainX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Relay | Admin free?
Relay | Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MaintainX or Relay | Admin?
Relay | Admin is rated higher. MaintainX averages 4.9 out of 5 from 5.9K ratings, while Relay | Admin averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do MaintainX or Relay | Admin have ads?
Neither MaintainX nor Relay | Admin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MaintainX or Relay | Admin?
MaintainX ships an update weekly, and Relay | Admin every 2 weeks. Most recently, MaintainX was updated on November 3, 2026 and Relay | Admin on October 21, 2026.

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