Space Auto vs Grip Intelligence
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Space Auto
This app empowers car dealerships to manage their entire digital sales process. It offers tools for customer interaction, deal management, inventory tracking, and AI-powered sales assistance. Features include real-time payment calculations and customer insights.
- Customer relationship management (CRM)
- Vehicle inventory management
- AI-powered sales assistance
- Real-time payment calculations
- Customer interaction via SMS, email, calls
- Sales and marketing reporting
- Collaborative deal management
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The Space Auto App is a revolutionary digital retailing tool for car dealerships. The Space Auto App gives car dealerships full control over their digital retailing experience with access to powerful reporting, customer relationship management (CRM), vehicle inventory management, and so much more. Interact With Customers And Manage Deals, Tasks, and Appointments The Space Auto App allows your sales team to track every customer across the entire journey and communicate with customers by phone, text message, or email from directly within the app. Easily track the status of each customer and deal from Fresh to Closed and even set Tasks and Appointments. Powered by AI to Give Your Sales Team Super Powers The Space Auto App can help sales teams respond to customers in moments with instantaneous message suggestions that are crafted with your business goals, preferred tone, and actual vehicle inventory in mind. AI Translations and Message Cleanup make it possible to communicate with perfect style, grammar, and tone across multiple languages. AI Automations even allow dealerships to craft unique automated responses to every customer. Digital Retailing And Desking With Real Payment Calculation The Space Auto App provides everything a dealership needs to create the ideal digital retailing experience. Space Auto App’s digital desking tools include connections to hundreds of lenders and penny-perfect payment calculations based on accurate taxes, rates, and fees. Dealership staff can collaborate with their customers in real-time and bundle every detail of the deal into a beautiful deal jacket for the finance department. Gain deeper, actionable customer insights The Space Auto App integrates directly with your dealership website and retailing experience to provide robust information about each customer lead, including details such as their marketing channel and ad campaign origination, website behavior, and deal information. Metrics and dashboards can be analyzed at a dealership level as well as via an individual customer view. Features include: • Collaborative deal management • Cloud based for real time updates • Customer digital retailing portal • AI Responses • 1st party audiences • SMS, email, calls • Drip campaigns • Salesforce insights • Inventory management system • Trade values • Send customer walkaround videos • Document manager • Sales and marketing reporting • Customer insights • Photo uploads and VIN scanner
Grip Intelligence
This app streamlines daily tasks for automotive dealership staff by consolidating customer data, text conversations, and an AI assistant. It prioritizes high-value customers and allows salespersons to work efficiently from the showroom floor.
- Ranked daily worklist
- Integrated text messaging
- AI assistant for inquiries
- Real-time customer insights
- Passwordless sign-in
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Grip is the daily working app for automotive dealership staff. It puts the day's highest-value customers, the store's text conversations, and an AI assistant in one place, so a salesperson can work from the floor instead of from a desk. Grip is for dealership employees. Accounts are created by the dealership; there is no public sign-up. TODAY'S ACTION Your ranked worklist for any day. Appointments and fresh leads in one list, each row showing the customer's trade equity and approval outlook, so you know who to call first and why. Filter by credit tier, equity, or appointments versus leads. TEXTING The store's inbox on your phone. See who replied and who is still waiting, oldest first, so nobody gets dropped. Send from saved snippets or write your own. Messages composed after hours are held and released in the morning. SCOUT, THE ASSISTANT Ask a question instead of navigating menus, by voice or by typing: - "Who should I work today?" - "Any Silverados in stock under 40,000 miles?" - "Is anyone waiting on a reply?" Scout answers from your own dealership's records and puts the results on screen. It drafts messages but never sends one on its own; you review and tap send. Scout is enabled per dealership. WHAT GRIP SEES Real-time trade valuations, equity positions, and credit insight, all scoped to your store. Every rep sees only their own dealership's customers, and permissions follow the role your administrator assigns. Grip works alongside your dealership's existing Grip account. Sign-in is passwordless: enter your work email and we send you a code.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grip Intelligence at 5.0 against Space Auto's 4.3. Space Auto's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Grip Intelligence holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Space Auto has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Space Auto ships an update weekly, Grip Intelligence every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Space Auto | Grip Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Space Automotive, LLC | Grip Intelligence |
Customer experience
Space Auto
Grip Intelligence
In-app purchases
Space Auto
No in-app purchases
Grip Intelligence
No in-app purchases
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