Essential GPS vs Dashen Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Essential GPS
Monitor vehicle locations in real-time, view trip history for up to three months, and set up custom alerts for movement and speed. Access vehicle diagnostics and manage account settings through a user-friendly interface.
- Real-time vehicle location tracking
- Trip history replay (3 months)
- Customizable movement and speed alerts
- Vehicle diagnostics sensor data
- User-friendly dashboard and settings
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Features: · Dashboard - View a summary of all vehicles, quick view map, and access the menu, · Real-Time Tracking - View the exact location of your vehicle, travel speed, status and address. · History – View historic replay of the trips carried out on any day over the previous 3 months. · Alerts – Setup real-time activity based alerts to get notified on events such as movement and speed, · Sensors - View a summary of all diagnostics information regarding the vehicles in your account, · Settings – View and edit account and interface settings, EI mobile app has been updated with a list of useful features and a user-friendly interface. It allows the user to view, edit and create alerts, view sensor information, replay history playback and access to the latest notifications.
Dashen Mobile
Manage your finances with this mobile banking app. Perform fund transfers, check balances, pay bills, and purchase airtime. It also supports QR code payments and offers an offline USSD service.
- Fund transfers
- Balance and statement inquiries
- Bill payments
- Airtime purchase
- QR code scanning for payments
- Offline USSD service
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We are delighted to launch the newly designed ‘Dashen Amole Lite’ Mobile Banking app. This release has significant functionalities, including fund transfers from and to account and wallet pay merchants, balance, and statement inquiries. The new release includes: - Improved User experience with modern UI design - Bill payments - Air time purchase - DSTV payments - QR code scanning in the Pay Merchant function. - we also have included offline USSD service on the mobile app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Essential GPS at 5.0 against Dashen Mobile's 3.7. Dashen Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (89 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Essential GPS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dashen Mobile has 89 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Essential GPS ships an update every 11 months, Dashen Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and June 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Essential GPS | Dashen Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.7 (89 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 89 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rewire Security | Dashen Bank S.c. |
Customer experience
Essential GPS
Dashen Mobile
In-app purchases
Essential GPS
No in-app purchases
Dashen Mobile
No in-app purchases
