Cattle Driver vs FR8Star
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cattle Driver
This app facilitates real-time communication and documentation for livestock transporters. It allows users to update all stakeholders on load progress, share important documents, and reduce redundant calls, ensuring efficient and secure animal transport.
- Real-time communication with stakeholders
- Load progress and update tracking
- Secure document upload and storage
- Reduced redundant communication
- Animal welfare and equipment issue reporting
- Picture uploads for dispatchers and customers
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As a professional livestock transporter, you expect your tools to be as awesome as you are. Nothing is more important than taking care of your customers while ensuring animal welfare. Cattle Driver by LTN was built for cattle haulers like you by cattle haulers just like you. Cattle Driver by LTN requires that you have an LTN account. LTN helps facilitate matching qualified carriers with livestock producers, then manage communication throughout the delivery process. Each livestock load represents a sophisticated transaction involving several companies, including key contributors at each one, working together to ensure safe and timely delivery of each load of animals: * Pickup location * Delivery location * Carrier company * Customer company * Dispatcher, in many cases Use Cattle Driver by LTN to provide even higher standards of customer service: * Communicate with all the stake holders immediately, in real time, securely, in one place: the Load History * Reduce redundant phone calls: head count, weight, pickup and delivery times by updating everybody using the Load History * Provide real time progress and updates: pickup, delivery, Bill of Lading documentation, weather, traffic, animal welfare, equipment issues * Upload pictures to the Load History that the dispatcher or customer might find useful * LTN’s document automation both securely stores and efficiently delivers signed paperwork to your customer and to your office * Never lose a Bill of Lading again: no need to hand deliver documentation to your office once you’ve uploaded it to the Load History
FR8Star
This app simplifies load and shipper management for carriers by consolidating all load information into a single interface. It eliminates the need for physical paperwork and tedious communication, offering automatic status updates and direct access to shipper details.
- Access high-paying loads
- Simplify load management
- Consolidated load information
- View shipper and broker details
- Automatic status updates
- Direct access to directions
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Gain access to thousands of high quality, high paying loads, and take the complexity out of load and shipper management for free through the FR8Star mobile app. The FR8Star app removes the need for physical paperwork, emails and notes by consolidating all Load Information in one simple interface. View shipper and broker contact information, load photos, dimensions, loading and unloading methods, directions and specific requests right from the app! Remove the need for tedious phone calls and emails to shipper and broker regarding the status and location of load. Use your phones location service to provide hands-off, automatic updates – giving you more time and freedom to focus on what matters – your safety and your time! Using the FR8Star app makes you a desirable carrier for thousands of FR8Star brokers, opening the door to new and repeat business.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FR8Star at 4.3 against Cattle Driver's 4.0. Cattle Driver's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
FR8Star holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Cattle Driver ships an update every 10 days, FR8Star monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cattle Driver | FR8Star |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 187 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Livestock Transport Network, LLC | Sandhills Global, Inc. |
Customer experience
Cattle Driver
FR8Star
In-app purchases
Cattle Driver
No in-app purchases
FR8Star
No in-app purchases
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