Comparison

Centranet vs Helix Field Dispatch

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

Head to head
About

Centranet

Manage your home Wi-Fi network with ease. Create guest networks, set up parental controls, and monitor your internet speed. Secure your network with password, security, and SSID management.

Highlights
  • Guest network creation
  • Parental controls
  • Speed tests
  • Password management
  • Security management
  • SSID management
Features
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Never lose control of your home Wi-Fi network. Centranet is a mobile application that puts you in control with easy guest network creation, parental controls, speed tests and more. Protect your home network with password, security and SSID management.

About

Helix Field Dispatch

This app helps field technicians manage their daily tasks, from viewing job details and checklists to capturing photos and customer signatures. It facilitates communication with customers and enables payment processing, while also tracking hours, mileage, and expenses. The app functions even without a signal, syncing data when connectivity is restored.

Highlights
  • View daily job schedule and details
  • Complete service checklists
  • Capture before/after photos
  • Customer signatures
  • Text customers arrival updates
  • Process payments
  • Track hours, mileage, and expenses
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Helix Field Dispatch is the technician app for companies that run on Helix Field, the field service platform from BAW International. The office schedules the work on the web; the crew runs the day from this app. YOUR DAY, IN ORDER See today's stops in the order the office set, with the address, the customer's notes, the gate code, and what the job needs. Open the map for any stop. Get a notification when the office assigns you a job or changes the day, and accept or decline a job when your company allows it. EVERY STEP, RECORDED Clock in and out from the truck. Work through the checklist your company set for each service, attach before and after photos, and hand the phone over for the customer's signature before you pull away. TELL THE CUSTOMER YOU ARE ON THE WAY One tap opens a text message to the customer from your own phone, with the arrival window filled in. GET PAID BEFORE YOU LEAVE Send the customer a pay link they open on their own phone, or record cash or a check against the job. The invoice is marked paid in the office at the same moment. HOURS, MILEAGE, EXPENSES See your own hours for the pay period, enter odometer readings when the app asks, and photograph receipts so the office has them the same day. PARTS ON THE TRUCK Scan a barcode to find a part and see what is on the truck. WORKS WHERE THE SIGNAL DOES NOT What you record with no signal is kept on the phone and sent when the signal comes back. WHERE THE CREW IS, ONLY IF YOUR COMPANY TURNS IT ON If your company switches the crew map on, the app sends where you are every few minutes while you are clocked in and the app is open, and tells you on screen the whole time. Nothing is sent off the clock, and nothing runs in the background. FOR HELIX FIELD COMPANIES You need an account from your employer to sign in: the company code, your email, and the password the office gave you. There is nothing to buy in the app. Companies subscribe on the web at helixfielddispatch.com.

Screenshots

Centranet4 screens
Helix Field Dispatch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Helix Field Dispatch at 100% against Centranet's 38%. Helix Field Dispatch also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Centranet's advantage is ratings volume (131 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Helix Field Dispatch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Centranet has 131 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Centranet's written reviews are positive against 100% of Helix Field Dispatch's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Centranet versus Helix Field Dispatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCentranetHelix Field Dispatch
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (131 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings131 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCentranetBAW International Inc.

Customer experience

Centranet

All ratings131 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral0.8%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative62.5%

Helix Field Dispatch

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Centranet

No in-app purchases

None

Helix Field Dispatch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Centranet free?
Centranet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Helix Field Dispatch free?
Helix Field Dispatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Centranet or Helix Field Dispatch?
Helix Field Dispatch is rated higher. Centranet averages 4.7 out of 5 from 131 ratings, while Helix Field Dispatch averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Centranet or Helix Field Dispatch have ads?
Neither Centranet nor Helix Field Dispatch shows ads.

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