Comparison

Crew Active vs DESC

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

Head to head
About

Crew Active

Features
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Plan jobs and tours, track working hours and chat with your team. Crew Active is the app for companies whose teams work at a different site every day: cleaning, home care, construction, landscaping and winter service. The office plans, the crew starts and stops with one tap. Try it free for 1 month, no credit card: www.crew-active.de NEW IN 2.0.10 • AI Assistant: Ask about workers, jobs and hours. It answers in your language. For the office, once it is switched on for your company and you have agreed to it. • Find cover: When a job has nobody assigned, the app suggests suitable workers. Assign, confirm, done. They get a push notification. • Count kilometers: one way or round trip, the way you bill. • Customer signature: After Stop, the customer signs right in the app. You can switch it off in Settings. FOR FIELD WORKERS • Calendar: jobs, leave and sick days in a week or month view. • Time tracking: Start, Pause and Stop with one tap. If your company requires GPS, the location is recorded with it. Without internet, times are saved and sent later. • Photos and receipts: Upload photos with a description to a job, photograph receipts and log expenses. • Leave and sick days: request them right in the app, no paperwork. • Documents: payslips and other papers from your company, always with you. • Team chat: photos included. FOR THE OFFICE AND TEAM LEADERS • Job planning: create and change jobs with customer, place, time and workers. • Tours, once you switch them on: plan fixed tours with stops in a set order in the browser. In the app you see each tour in the calendar, follow its progress, change the crew, skip a stop and start tours on demand, for example when it snows. Your team gets every stop as a job in the app. • Workers and customers: all in one place, with an evaluation per worker. • Approve leave and sick days. If a job is left without a worker, find cover right away. • Kilometers and mileage allowance: set how they count and the rate in Settings. • Team chat with your people. Crew Active is available in German, English, Italian, Turkish, Romanian and Polish. Try it now: www.crew-active.de

About

DESC

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DESC-Picture ist die App um professionelle Bilder Ihrer Fahrzeuge zu erstellen. Sie werden vollständig von der App durch den Prozess der Fotografie geleitet. Durch fortschrittliche künstliche Intelligenz werden die Bilder vollautomatisch optimiert. Auf Wunsch werden Ihre Fahrzeugbilder freigestellt und mit einem neutralen Hintergrund unterlegt. Durch die einheitliche Darstellung Ihrer Fahrzeuge, kann der Endkunde Ihre Fahrzeugangebote im Internet wiederkennen.

Screenshots

Crew Active4 screens
DESC3 screens

Verdict

The call

Crew Active and DESC 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crew Active ships an update every 3 weeks, DESC monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Crew Active versus DESC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrew ActiveDESC
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEni VeshiACKERMANN-netsolution GmbH

In-app purchases

None

Crew Active

No in-app purchases

None

DESC

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crew Active free?
Crew Active is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DESC free?
DESC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Crew Active or DESC have ads?
Neither Crew Active nor DESC shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crew Active or DESC?
Crew Active ships an update every 3 weeks, and DESC monthly. Most recently, Crew Active was updated on November 3, 2026 and DESC on November 3, 2026.

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