PowerDrive Plus vs Truckbays
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PowerDrive Plus
Control your inverter's full settings remotely using your connected device. Monitor battery voltage, output power, and temperature, and set protection alarms from a distance. Easily adjust personal settings and test your battery.
- Remote inverter control
- Monitor battery voltage
- Monitor output power
- Monitor product temperature
- Set protection alarms
- Adjust personal settings
- Test battery
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The PowerDrive Plus APP allows you to control full inverter settings with your connected devices. Main features: 1.Keeps user updated on battery voltage, output power and product temperature of the inverter. 2.Offers the ability to set up protection alarms from a distance. 3.Easily adjust personal settings and test battery.
Truckbays
Modernize your property's gates and electronic doors without physical keys or keypads. This app provides secure, remote access control for multiple locations and gates, allowing you to grant virtual keys to drivers, guests, or service providers with customizable access durations. Track activity and receive real-time notifications for enhanced security.
- Operate gates and electronic doors without physical keys
- Provide virtual keys for drivers, guests, and service providers
- Grant long-term or short-term access
- Remotely control access from anywhere
- Real-time and historical activity logs
- Push, email, and SMS notifications
- 24/7 customer support
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The Truckbays Access app allows users to modernize their gates. No more need for clickers, FOBs, or key pads. The app works with a universal device that requires installation and configuration. If you do not have the device installed at your property, this app will not work. Please contact support@truckbays.com for more information. Truckbays Access provides secure control of multiple locations and multiple gates. If you have a fleet you can easily invite drivers in order to be able to gain access to the location. You could also invite guests through the host dashboard. - Operate your gate, or any electronic door without a physical key - Provide virtual keys for Fleets, Drivers, guests, service providers, etc. - You can give long term or short term access - Remotely control your entire property's access controls from anywhere - Get a real-time and historical activity log. - Notifications - email, push and SMS - 24x7 customer support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Truckbays at 100% against PowerDrive Plus's 13%. Truckbays also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.9). PowerDrive Plus's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Truckbays holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 49 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of PowerDrive Plus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Truckbays's.
PowerDrive Plus ships an update fortnightly, Truckbays every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PowerDrive Plus | Truckbays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (38 ratings) | 4.3 (49 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 49 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DAS Companies Inc | Truckbays LLC |
Customer experience
PowerDrive Plus
Truckbays
In-app purchases
PowerDrive Plus
No in-app purchases
Truckbays
No in-app purchases
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