Comparison

Relay | Communicator vs Tive Shipments

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

Head to head
About

Relay | Communicator

This app provides two-way communication and location tracking for teams. It includes features like a panic button and work tracking to enhance team performance and operational efficiency.

Highlights
  • Two-way communication
  • Panic button
  • GPS tracking
  • Work tracking
  • Radio replacement
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Relay turns the phone in your pocket into the most capable radio your team has ever carried. Built for frontline teams who don't work at desks, Relay puts push-to-talk, worker safety, and real-time location on one screen. Nationwide range. No line of sight. No dead channels. PUSH TO TALK, ANYWHERE Push to talk and your voice reaches your whole channel instantly, whether they're across the building or across the country. Switch channels in a tap and catch what you missed. Live Audio keeps the conversation running in the background while you work. CHAT AND PHOTOS WHEN VOICE ISN'T RIGHT Send text to a channel or directly to a teammate, right alongside the voice traffic in the same conversation. And now you can send photos, too — snap the broken fixture, the spill, the delivery, the whiteboard, and share it in seconds. Some things are so much faster to show than to describe. EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS EVERYONE Language shouldn't slow a team down. TeamTranslate translations appear right in the conversation, so a multilingual crew works as one. PANIC, WITH SOMEONE ON THE OTHER END Slide to confirm and Relay broadcasts a panic alert with your live location to the people who can actually respond. Responders acknowledge, follow your location as you move, and resolve the incident once you're safe. It's the difference between an alarm and a lifeline. INCIDENTS, DISPATCHED AND DOCUMENTED Dispatch an incident with a single button, mapped to the workflows your organization has already built. Track it as it unfolds, add details along the way, review the full message history, and close it out with a resolution. Every incident is kept in history for the review that comes later. FIND ANYONE, INSIDE OR OUT Outdoor maps place your team across a site or a city. Indoor positioning takes it further — the right building, the right floor, the right room — so "where are you?" stops being a question. Geofence alerts let you know the moment someone crosses a boundary that matters. YOUR ATTENTION, ON YOUR TERMS Availability Modes put you in control of what reaches you and when. Choose Available to hear everything as it comes in, Critical Alerts to let only the urgent stuff through while you focus, or Silenced for quiet when you need it. One tap to switch, so you're never fumbling with settings mid-shift. BUILT FOR THE WORK YOU DO Manufacturing floors, hotels, casinos, hospitals, campuses, golf courses, and large venues. Wherever your team moves, Relay moves with them. Relay is made for organizations running on the Relay platform. An active Relay account is required to sign in — check with your administrator, or visit relaypro.com to learn more.

About

Tive Shipments

Monitor your shipments in real-time, anywhere. Identify at-risk shipments and track crucial health metrics like temperature deviations to ensure timely and complete delivery.

Highlights
  • Shipment list with live alert counts
  • Real-time location and condition data
  • Shipment timeline with key events
  • Identify shipments at risk
  • Track time out of temperature range
Features
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The Tive mobile app enables you to track the status of your Tive shipments anytime and anywhere you need to. It makes it dead simple to identify shipments at risk and track key health metrics like time out of temperature range to ensure that your shipments arrive on time and in full. Key Features: - Shipment list with live alert counts for all of your in-transit shipments - Shipment details with real-time location and condition data for specific shipments - [NEW] Shipment timeline containing key shipment events from start to finish

Screenshots

Relay | Communicator4 screens
Tive Shipments3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tive Shipments at 100% against Relay | Communicator's 67%. Tive Shipments also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Relay | Communicator's advantage is ratings volume (438 vs 4). 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

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

Tive Shipments holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Relay | Communicator has 438 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Relay | Communicator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tive Shipments's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Relay | Communicator ships an update every 2 weeks, Tive Shipments every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Relay | Communicator versus Tive Shipments: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRelay | CommunicatorTive Shipments
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (438 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings438 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRelay, IncTive, Inc.

Customer experience

Relay | Communicator

All ratings438 ratings
Positive98.2%
Neutral0.7%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

Tive Shipments

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Relay | Communicator

No in-app purchases

None

Tive Shipments

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Relay | Communicator free?
Relay | Communicator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tive Shipments free?
Tive Shipments is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Relay | Communicator or Tive Shipments?
Tive Shipments is rated higher. Relay | Communicator averages 4.8 out of 5 from 438 ratings, while Tive Shipments averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Relay | Communicator or Tive Shipments have ads?
Neither Relay | Communicator nor Tive Shipments shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Relay | Communicator or Tive Shipments?
Relay | Communicator ships an update every 2 weeks, and Tive Shipments every 3 weeks. Most recently, Relay | Communicator was updated on October 17, 2026 and Tive Shipments on October 1, 2026.

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