Real ELD vs Mountain ELD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Real ELD
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Real ELD is a powerful tool that helps you manage your fleet and comply with FMCSA regulations. Very accurate, monitors current location, current speed, miles traveled and helps to select the most efficient route, keeps track of detention time, improves, and makes it easy to communicate with your drivers. Capable of working with all fleet sizes. User-friendly platform, created by drivers for drivers.
Mountain ELD
This app provides a DOT-compliant Electronic Logging Device (ELD) solution for managing Hours of Service (HOS) and fleet operations. It offers powerful yet simple tools for tracking and tracing, supporting property-carrying FMCSA regulations for US and Canada.
- DOT Compliant ELD Solution
- HOS Management Tools
- Fleet Operations Oversight
- GPS Track and Trace
- Property-Carrying FMCSA Regulations Support
- USA and Canada Duty Cycle Support
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Mountain ELD is a self-certified and compliant ELD Solution which offers a huge variety of tools to manage your HOS as well as oversee your daily operations. Powerful yet simple to use tools makes Mountain ELD one of the few ELD solutions on the market to stand out. The Electronic logging device and GPS track and trace system for fleet management. The Electronic logging device supports Property-carrying FMCSA regulations and main Duty Cycles according to the USA and Canada regulations.
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Verdict
Real ELD and Mountain ELD are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Real ELD ships an update every 2 months, Mountain ELD every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Real ELD | Mountain ELD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Real Trucking Inc | Mountain Safety Inc. |
In-app purchases
Real ELD
No in-app purchases
Mountain ELD
No in-app purchases
Questions
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