Quest Compendium vs FCM Platform
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quest Compendium
This app provides hotel guests with instant access to property information, services, and local attractions directly on their own devices. It offers a digital alternative to printed materials, saving costs and improving guest experience with fast loading times and offline support.
- Digital in-room compendium
- Offline support for content
- Fast loading times
- Guest messaging notifications
- Information on local attractions
- Cost savings on printing
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Quest Compendium app keeps guests informed anywhere, on the facilities and guest services available at the property, alongside recommended local attractions. All accommodation types can benefit from our quest compendium app, which works on your guests own devices and does not require investing in any hotel tablets. With over 3.7 billion smartphones and tablets used regularly worldwide, now is the time to upgrade to our compendium app solution. Save on printing costs with an interactive, digital, in-room compendium. This reflects the quality and attention to detail provided by your hotel or resort. 3 Benefits of the Quest compendium Mobile App 1. Offline Support and Minimal Internet Download By saving your compendium details offline, guests do not need to use extra download from their daily Wi-Fi limit or phone data plan. The main benefits include saving images, brochures, menus, etc. offline. 2. Performance and Loading Times As digital devices continue to improve, peoples patience for content load times decreases. Our app allows guests to view content faster than loading webpages. This is possible as loading times are based on the speed of your phone, compared to Wi-Fi. 3. Guest Messaging Notifications Imagine using WhatsApp on your smartphone, but only in a web browser.
FCM Platform
This app provides instant access to your travel itineraries, real-time alerts for gate changes and delays, and direct communication with your travel consultant. It also offers security alerts to keep you informed and safe during your business trips.
- Instant itinerary access
- Real-time travel alerts
- Direct consultant chat/phone
- Security notifications
- Manual trip adding
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Manage Your Trip with Ease - Instant Itinerary Access: View your travel plans anytime, anywhere, from any device. Booked through FCM Travel? Your trips sync automatically. Adding trips yourself? No problem—you can manually add and organize them. - Real-Time Travel Alerts: Get essential notifications like check-in reminders, gate updates, delays, and safety alerts to keep you informed every step of the way. - Stay Connected with Your Travel Consultant: Need support? Reach out via chat or phone to get in touch with a consultant whenever you need help. - Security Alerts: Stay safe with real-time security notifications, including local emergency contacts and provider support in critical situations. Note: This app is exclusively for FCM Travel customers.
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Verdict
Quest Compendium and FCM Platform are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Quest Compendium ships an update every 6 weeks, FCM Platform every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quest Compendium | FCM Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.6 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better | 12.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Partho Ghosh | FCM |
Customer experience
Quest Compendium
FCM Platform
Bugs and requests
Quest Compendium
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
FCM Platform
Reported bugs
184 issues- App redirects to website
- Navigation unclear on profile completion
- Crashes instantly
- Cannot log in
- Session time-out
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- No forwarding, no automatic entry of hotels, no logical defaults
- Not user friendly or responsive
- Limited functionality, cannot authorize as manager
- Display issues
- Nonresponsive scrolling when choosing hotels
- Opens into browser page
- Kicks you out and loads through default browser
- App constantly logs you out
- Login is painful and slow
- App doesn't recognize email
- Doesn't give too many details
- Horrible experience logging in
- Cumbersome and lengthy login process
- Anti-efficient login process
- Useless app
- Forced to enter username/password every time
- Nonsense app
- Single sign on and get logged out
- Website forces into app
- Won't remember login details
- Kicks you out for switching apps
- Have to retype email address
- Go through all 2FA
- Currently unusable
- Newest version is hopeless
- Barely usable
- Logs out every time
- Difficult to log back in
- Flights frequently not found
- The worst app in existence
- Painful to use
- No Face ID
- Will not stay logged in
- SSO is nonfunctional
- Have to use magic link every time
- Trying to book flight redirects to website
- Going to website suggests using app
- Viewing flights is painful
- Janky AF
- Digital assistant is annoying
- Always has times wrong
- 100% pointless
- Very poor quality app
- Feels like no real-world testing
- Keeps logging out
- Crashing
- Failed to login
- Company email address unidentified
- Cannot recognise valid email
- Not usable
- Terrible app
- Works less than a third of the time
- Often says unrecognized email
- Cannot login
- Buttons won't work
- Can only get so far
- Ending in frustration
- No reservations
- Only option is to call
- Lengthy hold time
- Expensive call
- Travel app that almost never works is useless
- Cannot log in
- Telling me email address is not registered
- No answer from agent
- Bug in the app
- Simply doesn't work
- Need to get support
- Hopeless app
- Need to keep typing email
- Does not even recognise email
- Doesn't Work
- Says you need recognized email
- Doesn't accept email address
- Needs work
- Email no longer recognized
- Painful process to log in
- Need a specific confirmation
- Frustrating not to be able to access
- After last update tells me email is not registered
- Can no longer log into the app
- Could log on last week, now I can't
- Waste of space
- Won't recognise my email
- Annoying
- Can't log in to latest update
- App refuses to recognise email
- Not user friendly
- Slow and hard to use
- Not good
- Need to input email and password every single time
- Always requires login details
- Forces a sign-out every time
- Good when it works, doesn't open when you need it
- Extremely glitchy
- Decides you need to login
- Password incorrect
- Very frustrating
- Keeping having to log in
- Updates introduced more shortcomings
- Useless
- Unusable
- Select a hotel property, whole thing freezes
- Have to start over
- Easier to book through hotel apps
- Cannot use a tool that doesn't work
- Written by somebody who never uses it
- Constantly starts with update screen
- Cannot open without internet
- No way to look at next flights or hotel
- Does not work
- Does not keep me logged in
- Redirects to a webpage
- Cannot use any functions in the app
- Authentic authentic authentic
- Forced to enter username/password every time
- Pushing travel emails to trip-case
- Takes you to their website - that's it
- Logs you in there
- Log in failure
- Poor business choice
- iPad app is garbage
- Doesn't work
- Webpage poorly designed
- Issues with accounts
- Finding available hotels
- Getting support
- Hard pass
- Not even useable as a first draft
- App Support doesn't exist
- Technical support doesn't support the app
- App support link takes you to same people
- Issue still exists
- Great source of outdated info
- Almost no information from AI about upcoming trips
- Just past ones
- App doesn't sync
- Have to manually add trips
- Not use the app
- Deleted it
- Reported to FCM months ago
- Nothing they can do
- SSO doesn't work
- Sends me to a browser for login
- Never goes back to the app
- Don't have a PW for the app/FCM other than SSO
- Can't use the app
- App isn't working
- Won't let you book a flight
- Automatically takes you to a web page
- Opens app back to same option
- Over and over again
- FMC is very poorly done
- Slow, confusing, low quality
- Clutters up the screen
- Cannot register no matter what
- Cannot access the app
- Password registration does not work
- Cannot achieve access
- App is a joke
- Just a web page launcher
- Amateurs
- Developers are a joke
- Want to go back to Egencia/Expedia
- White background app launches
- Click 'book', launches mobile browser
- Basically a shortcut
- Couldn't cope with finding hotels
- Weird overlay with blank buffering placeholders
- Sorrrentos spinners
- Browser locked up
- Lose patience
- Force close chrome mobile
- Quit your jobs
- Out of your league
- The worse travel platform app I have ever used
- Doesn't retain login credentials
- Doesn't support touchID/faceID
- Flight itinerary doesn't come with important info
Requested features
7 requests- Copy Concur's list display and scrolling
- Allow password creation and Face ID sign-in
- Implement Face ID login
- Implement Single Sign-On (SSO) that works
- Improve app's ability to retain login credentials
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- Add support for Touch ID/Face ID
- Include important flight itinerary info like booking reference and cost
In-app purchases
Quest Compendium
No in-app purchases
FCM Platform
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Quest Compendium free?
Is FCM Platform free?
Do Quest Compendium or FCM Platform have ads?
Which is updated more often, Quest Compendium or FCM Platform?
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