Pacific Pride vs PrePass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pacific Pride
Easily locate commercial fueling stations for your fleet. View nearby locations on a list or map and get turn-by-turn directions to your chosen site.
- Find nearby fueling locations
- Map view of fueling sites
- Turn-by-turn directions
- Commercial fueling network
- Fleet vehicle support
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Pacific Pride is the official app for the Pacific Pride commercial fueling network. Use it to quickly find the best location to fuel your fleet vehicle. View a list of locations nearby or switch to a map view that shows fueling sites all around you on the map. Get turn-by-turn directions from wherever you are.
PrePass
This app allows pre-cleared commercial vehicles to bypass weigh stations, saving time and fuel. It offers bypass options via mobile or transponder and provides customizable alerts for parking, safety, traffic, and weather.
- Weigh station bypass via mobile app
- Transponder bypass option
- Customizable alerts (parking, safety, traffic, weather)
- Works at fixed and mobile weigh stations
- Nationwide toll payment processing (with transponder)
- Florida agriculture inspection facility access
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The PrePass app gives drivers the option to bypass weigh stations using a mobile device. PrePass is the most reliable, widely utilized weigh station bypass system in North America. With PrePass, pre-cleared vehicles can continue at highway speeds without having to stop. PrePass not only saves fleets time, fuel, and money, but it helps create greater efficiencies for shippers and supports improved safety for all highway users. With PrePass, customers select whether to use the PrePass app, the transponder or BOTH. The PrePass app provides coverage to an expanded number of weigh station sites while the transponder provides greater bypass reliability and integration with NORPASS and Oregon Green Light weigh station locations. The transponder also provides the option of adding toll payment services through PrePass Plus. PrePass is an endorsed featured product of the American Trucking Associations ATA) and is also endorsed by the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), Truckers Service Association (TSA), National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) and state trucking associations across the country. - The most bypassing options with a mobile app and a transponder - Works at fixed and mobile weigh stations - Includes customizable alerts for parking, safety, traffic and weather - Transponder can also be used for nationwide toll payment processing - Includes Florida agriculture inspection facilities upon request - Access to PrePass customer support - Last recall feature provides last bypass confirmation For more information log on to the PrePass website at: https://prepass.com/services/weigh-station-bypass-service/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrePassForum/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prepass/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PrePass at 3.0 against Pacific Pride's 1.8. PrePass also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Pacific Pride's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
PrePass holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Pacific Pride's written reviews are positive against 18% of PrePass's.
Pacific Pride ships an update every 3 months, PrePass every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pacific Pride | PrePass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (28 ratings) | 3.0 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.9% of reviews | 17.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DHX Advertising | PrePass |
Customer experience
Pacific Pride
PrePass
Bugs and requests
Pacific Pride
Reported bugs
26 issues- Always says 0 nearest locations
- App crashes when selecting a store
- Worked for one day then never again
- Station doesn't appear in listing
- Locations are out of date and not accurate
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- Filter to show only cardlock locations still shows retail
- Blank search results
- App doesn't show search results
- Half the time 0-results
- App doesn't show ethanol free fuel
- Filter by gas type won't return a result unless all criteria met
- Poor GPS locator
- Some listed stations do not have Pacific Pride pumps
- App crashes after opening or selecting location
- Stopped working with iOS 8
- Won't work with iPhone 6 with iOS 8
- Won't load with updated OS
- Crashes on iOS 8
- Terrible app, inaccurate directions to locations that don't exist
- Doesn't work
- Will not open even with Wi-Fi
- App told me I need Wi-Fi setup to load locations
- Never loads when needed
- Old version and new rarely work
- Doesn't work at all after latest update
- 1 out of 3 times search a new fuel location, drive there and it is either closed down or does not even exist
Requested features
5 requests- Map function to see all locations
- Overview map for planning routes
- Update locations
- Add more information at each site (oil, showers, etc.)
- Fix filter for gas types
PrePass
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pacific Pride
No in-app purchases
PrePass
No in-app purchases
