Comparison

Bobcat® Machine IQ vs TRUEHOUR

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bobcat® Machine IQ

Monitor and manage your select Bobcat equipment remotely. Track location, fuel, maintenance, and operator efficiency. Receive alerts for maintenance needs and security breaches.

Highlights
  • Real-time machine location tracking
  • Monitor fuel levels and usage
  • Track maintenance progress and schedule
  • View critical fault codes
  • Set up geofence, curfew, and motion alerts
  • Receive push notifications for maintenance and security
Features
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MONITOR AND MANAGE YOUR FLEET FROM ANYWHERE. Bobcat Machine IQ, Bobcat Company’s telematics service, delivers vital information about select Bobcat equipment to the equipment owner’s Bobcat Owner Portal. The information is organized to help owners make decisions to increase equipment security, protect against unauthorized usage or theft, stay on top of proactive equipment maintenance, monitor operator efficiency, and better understand ownership costs associated with running Bobcat equipment. All the telematics data and information available in your Bobcat Owner Portal account is now available on your mobile device. THE BOBCAT MACHINE IQ MOBILE APP ALLOWS CUSTOMERS TO: VIEW MACHINE DATA • Location • Hours • Fuel level • Maintenance progress • Create custom asset names ACCESS MACHINE IQ FEATURES • View critical fault codes • Utilization reporting: • Idle time vs. working time • Fuel usage • Create and manage geofence, curfew and motion detection • Review and manage notifications • Receive mobile push notifications for: • unplanned maintenance • planned maintenance • security breaches *Mobile app-exclusive features

About

TRUEHOUR

This app helps small businesses in equipment-heavy industries accurately calculate their operating costs. It provides tools for job estimating, real-time profitability analysis, and tax summaries, ensuring fair pricing and increased earnings.

Highlights
  • True Owning & Operating (O&O) cost per hour
  • Job estimating with all cost factors
  • Real-time profitability engine
  • Estimated vs. actual job tracking
  • AI cost guidance
  • Machine health score
  • Schedule C tax summary export
Features
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TRUEHOUR is the financial operating system for equipment-based small businesses. Built for skid-steer operators, landscapers, owner-operator truckers, tractor owners, dozer crews, and small service contractors — it turns the cost of running your machine into a number you can actually charge against. Most small operators undercharge because they don't know what their equipment really costs to own and operate. Fuel, depreciation, interest, insurance, repairs, tires/tracks, and overhead disappear into the noise — and so does your margin. TRUEHOUR makes those costs visible, accurate, and actionable. TRUSTED METHODOLOGY, ADVANCED FOR YOUR BUSINESS TRUEHOUR's cost engine is built on the same Owning & Operating (O&O) calculation standard created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for 70 years — a standard adopted by AGC, Caterpillar, AED, and AACE International as the gold standard for equipment cost calculation. Traditional O&O focused on machine-level costs only. TRUEHOUR adds the Business Overhead Center, automatically allocating business overhead across your fleet on a per-hour basis so your rate reflects the full cost of running your operation. WHAT YOU GET • True Owning & Operating (O&O) cost per hour for every machine — using the trusted industry gold standard • Job estimating with equipment, vehicle, labor, materials, permits, subcontracts, and non-productive time • Real-time profitability engine: break-even rate, recommended rate, sensitivity analysis • Estimated vs. actual job tracking — finally know which jobs made money • AI cost guidance that suggests realistic ranges without ever overriding your inputs • Anonymized benchmark ranges from similar equipment • Machine health score (0–100) — utilization, downtime, repair patterns • End-of-year Schedule C tax summary, ready to hand to your accountant • PDF and CSV export for reports, estimates, and tax summaries • Mobile-first UI built for the job site — gloves, sunlight, one-handed use FREE (BASIC) One machine, full O&O calculation, expense tracking, monthly/yearly reports, basic job estimating, Schedule C summary, AI cost-fill assistance. TRUEHOUR PRO Unlimited machines, save/export/send job estimates, estimated vs. actual analysis, real-time profitability engine, enhanced AI insights, weekly reports, customer/lender-ready summaries, saved equipment templates, cloud backup, cross-device sync (iPhone, iPad, Android, desktop). WHO IT'S FOR • New owner-operators pricing their first jobs • Micro-business contractors running 1–3 machines • Side-hustle equipment owners doing weekend work • Small fleet owners with 2–10 machines and employees • Anyone tired of broken spreadsheets and gut-feel pricing PRIVACY & CONTROL TRUEHOUR never auto-fills your inputs. AI suggests; you decide. Benchmark contributions are anonymized and opt-in. Your data stays yours. Know your true hour. Charge what you're worth. Keep what you earn. Support: support@truehourapp.com TERMS OF USE: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bobcat® Machine IQ4 screens
TRUEHOUR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TRUEHOUR at 100% against Bobcat® Machine IQ's 50%. TRUEHOUR also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Bobcat® Machine IQ's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TRUEHOUR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Bobcat® Machine IQ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TRUEHOUR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Bobcat® Machine IQ's written reviews are positive against 100% of TRUEHOUR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bobcat® Machine IQ ships an update every 3 months, TRUEHOUR weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bobcat® Machine IQ versus TRUEHOUR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBobcat® Machine IQTRUEHOUR
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (11 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDoosan Bobcat North America, Inc.TRUEHOUR

Customer experience

Bobcat® Machine IQ

All ratings11 ratings
Positive54.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative45.5%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

TRUEHOUR

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bobcat® Machine IQ

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

TRUEHOUR

Subscriptions2
  • TRUEHOUR Pro$14.991 Month
  • TRUEHOUR Pro$149.991 Year

Questions

Is Bobcat® Machine IQ free?
Bobcat® Machine IQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TRUEHOUR free?
TRUEHOUR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bobcat® Machine IQ or TRUEHOUR?
TRUEHOUR is rated higher. Bobcat® Machine IQ averages 3.3 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while TRUEHOUR averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Bobcat® Machine IQ or TRUEHOUR have ads?
Neither Bobcat® Machine IQ nor TRUEHOUR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bobcat® Machine IQ or TRUEHOUR?
Bobcat® Machine IQ ships an update every 3 months, and TRUEHOUR weekly. Most recently, Bobcat® Machine IQ was updated on November 3, 2026 and TRUEHOUR on November 5, 2026.

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