Freight Book vs 5F OTR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Freight Book
This app helps truck drivers manage their trips, providing load information, GPS tracking, and audible instructions for pickups and deliveries. Drivers can share trip progress and history effortlessly, eliminating the need for manual updates to stakeholders.
- Create and manage trips
- GPS tracking for progress
- Audible pickup/delivery instructions
- Share trip history
- Load information
- Substantiate detention claims
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Freight Book Inc offers an effortless way for all truck drivers to create their own trips, track their location and progress, view their trip history, and even share their the trip history! Now drivers can hear audible helpful instructions as they arrive to the pickup, delivery. This app allows you to put the phone down and let voice instructions guide you in. No more calling shippers, brokers and consignees with updates on your location. Simply share your link with them and let the app do the check ins. -Trips- **Freight Book provides all of the load information you need to safely and accurately complete your Frieght Book load! **You can better keep track of trips and safely hear instructions: When you arrive at your pre-defined pickup, delivery will read you verbal instructions so you do not have to look at your phone. No more fumbling with your phone while you are driving. Arrive at your location and hear your instructions! -GPS Tracking- ** Freight Book allows you to easily track your trips progress and update load stakeholders with no effort on your part. ** You can quickly enable or disable GPS through the location setting! ** Freight Book provides you with the data to help you substantiate driver detention claims against shippers and consignees and to use GPS to prove on time delivery for guaranteed shipments! -My Trip Button- ** You can easily view and share your trip with anyone with a touch of a button!
5F OTR
This app connects drivers and owner-operators with Over The Road (OTR) work opportunities across North America. It uses AI to recommend the highest-paying loads based on your customized hauling preferences.
- Access OTR work network
- Customize hauling preferences
- AI-powered load recommendations
- Find highest paying markets
- For drivers and owner-operators
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5F OTR provides drivers and owner operators with access to network of Over The Road work across North America. Customize your hauling preferences and our AI recommends multiple payloads leading you to the highest paying markets.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 5F OTR at fortnightly against Freight Book's every 14 months. 5F OTR also leads on ratings volume (56 vs 2). Freight Book's advantage is iOS requirement (13.2 vs 15.0). 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 — 3.0 for Freight Book against 2.9 for 5F OTR. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 5F OTR has 56 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Freight Book ships an update every 14 months, 5F OTR fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Freight Book | 5F OTR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | 2.9 (56 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 32.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Freight Book, Inc | Vorto Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
Freight Book
5F OTR
In-app purchases
Freight Book
No in-app purchases
5F OTR
No in-app purchases









