Spok Mobile vs Lab GPS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spok Mobile
This app facilitates critical messaging and alerting for professionals in healthcare, government, and public safety. It enables secure communication for urgent situations, with some features requiring a subscription to a supported system.
- Critical messaging
- Alerting
- Healthcare communication
- Government communication
- Public safety communication
- Secure messaging
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Spok Mobile™ is a critical messaging / alerting application for use in healthcare, government, and public safety environments. Some functionality requires a subscription / connection to a supported Spok system.
Lab GPS
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Lab GPS™ is the first fully cloud-based offering from Data Innovations, built to improve uptime with lab connectivity monitoring, control, and notifications. Offered to all Instrument Manager™ connectivity customers, Lab GPS brings the power of our industry-leading vendor-neutral solution outside the four walls of the lab and enables users to monitor, stop, start, and resolve connection issues even when they are off-site. Connectivity failure and downtime cause inefficiency in the lab and have a significant impact on patient care and turn-around time. Recovery from these downtimes stress the lab further. The longer systems remain disconnected or down, the longer the recovery time will be. Notifications in Lab GPS™ allow users to be notified via visual notification in the web-app when a connection is disrupted or via email if they are off-site. Users can then securely sign into the web-app using single-sign on to stop and start the downed connection, which can resolve connectivity issues and reduce downtime. Lab GPS™ is built to improve business continuity by increasing uptime and reducing recovery time. Our purpose, as always, is to help your lab focus on what matters most - improving patient care.
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Verdict
Spok Mobile and Lab GPS 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spok Mobile ships an update every 4 months, Lab GPS every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spok Mobile | Lab GPS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (128 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 10.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 128 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Spok, Inc. | Data Innovations |
Bugs and requests
Spok Mobile
Reported bugs
24 issues- App crashes on startup or when opening messages
- Push notifications fail to deliver unless app is open
- Audio settings revert to high volume automatically
- Status switcher disappeared after iOS updates
- Alerts continue after message is opened
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- Messages arrive hours or days late
- Null messages received with no information
- App logs out unexpectedly
- Badges show unread pages but app won't load them
- Registration errors during setup
- Login timeouts and unresponsive authentication
- Dark mode makes text unreadable
- Incompatible with iOS low battery mode
- Phone number links require multiple taps to work
- App breaks with iOS updates
- Messages disappear from history quickly
- Confirm receipt system broken on iOS
- App freezes during update process
- Incompatible with VPN connections
- CarPlay compatibility issues
- Notifications don't work with Focus mode enabled
- Message body doesn't display in notifications
- Slow app startup and message loading
- Pages received out of order or with wrong timestamps
Requested features
20 requests- Apple Watch support with message preview
- Customizable alert tones and volume control
- Ability to mute/silence pager independently from phone
- Copy and paste functionality within messages
- Search function for messages
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- Better message threading and group messaging
- On-call directory integration
- Character count display before sending
- Repeat notification alerts until acknowledged
- Message preview in notifications and lock screen
- Delete all messages button
- Better dark mode support
- Improved Focus mode integration
- Vibrate-only alert option
- Custom ringtone selection from iTunes store
- Message templates/canned responses
- Improved favorites list
- Better message history retention
- Multimedia support expansion
- One-time alert option instead of multiple alerts
Lab GPS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spok Mobile
No in-app purchases
Lab GPS
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Spok Mobile free?
Is Lab GPS free?
Do Spok Mobile or Lab GPS have ads?
Which is updated more often, Spok Mobile or Lab GPS?
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