NYSDOT RSDA vs Awake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NYSDOT RSDA
This app helps New York State Department of Transportation staff assess damage to the state's roadway infrastructure. It provides a tool for reporting and evaluating road conditions.
- Roadway infrastructure damage assessment
- Statewide road condition evaluation
- DOT staff utility
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RSDA is an application used by New York State Department of Transportation staff to assess damage to the State’s roadway infrastructure.
Awake
This utility app prevents your device's screen from automatically locking, ensuring uninterrupted access. It's particularly useful for time-sensitive online queues and events where you need to maintain your position without interruption.
- Prevents screen auto-lock
- Uses Picture-in-Picture
- One-tap start/stop
- Lightweight floating window
- Fast and reliable sessions
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Keep your screen on when it matters most. Awake starts a lightweight Picture-in-Picture session that helps prevent Auto-Lock on iPhone and iPad. Tap Start to keep your display awake while you wait, read, cook, monitor, or hold your place in a time-sensitive queue. Useful for: - ticket drops and preorder queues - recipes, instructions, timers, and checklists - reference pages, dashboards, and monitoring screens Important: Awake uses iOS Picture in Picture/media playback. While it is active, other audio or video may pause. Simple one-time purchase. No subscriptions. No account. No data collected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NYSDOT RSDA at Free against Awake's $1.99. NYSDOT RSDA also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Awake's advantage is review sentiment (29% vs 0%). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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
NYSDOT RSDA is free to download; Awake costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.0 for NYSDOT RSDA against 2.0 for Awake. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of NYSDOT RSDA's written reviews are positive against 29% of Awake's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | NYSDOT RSDA | Awake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (2 ratings) | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | New York State Department of Transportation | Alex Kitcoff |
Customer experience
NYSDOT RSDA
Awake
In-app purchases
NYSDOT RSDA
No in-app purchases
Awake
No in-app purchases
