Comparison

GEO Staff App by BuildingLink vs Relay | Admin

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

Head to head
About

GEO Staff App by BuildingLink

This app streamlines building management tasks for staff and managers. It allows for efficient recording of deliveries, maintenance requests, and resident information. Features include offline work capabilities and enhanced communication tools.

Highlights
  • Record and edit pickups/deliveries
  • Create, edit, and fulfill maintenance requests
  • Look up resident information
  • Simplify bulk delivery recording
  • Use Event Log and Shift Log
  • Record signatures and guest photos
  • Offline work with WiFi sync
Features
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THIS APP IS FOR MANAGERS AND STAFF ONLY. IF YOU’RE A RESIDENT, PLEASE DOWNLOAD OUR RESIDENT APP. Download GEO for iOS to access all the core features of BuildingLink via an easy-to-learn, touch screen interface. ***** Save time and increase efficiency: ***** • Record and edit pickups and deliveries. • Create, edit, and fulfill maintenance requests. • Look up resident info by unit number or name. • Simplify recording of bulk deliveries. ***** Improve communication between staff: ***** • Use the Event Log to stay up-to-date. • Keep your staff on the same page with the Shift Log. ***** Ensure building and data security: ***** • Record signatures and guest photos right from your phone. • Work offline. GEO will sync your work to our secure database when you reconnect to WiFi. • Take payments with the built-in credit card scanner (cradle only).

About

Relay | Admin

Configure and deploy your Relay system on-site with this field companion app. Map buildings, set up indoor positioning, and manage users and devices efficiently from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Map buildings, floors, and rooms
  • Configure indoor positioning with beacons
  • Scan QR codes for beacon addition
  • Verify room positioning with live data
  • Provision users and manage devices
  • Pair NFC tags to user profiles
  • Offline data synchronization
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Every great Relay deployment starts on-site — and Relay Admin is what gets it there. Relay Admin is the field companion for the technicians and administrators who roll out Relay. Map a building, configure indoor positioning, and provision your whole team — all from your phone, all before you leave the parking lot. BUILD YOUR SITE, FLOOR BY FLOOR Create buildings, floors, and rooms in a few taps. Drop a building on the map with address search and precise geocoding, then nudge the pin until it's exactly right. Your entire site structure lives in one place, ready for the rest of the job. INDOOR POSITIONING THAT HOLDS UP Add beacons by scanning a QR code or entering a MAC address, then confirm placement with live proximity ranging — no guesswork about whether that beacon made it onto the right wall. Auditing an existing room? Range for every beacon you expect, see what's missing at a glance, and clear out the stale ones. Prefer Wi-Fi? Use a Relay device as a scanning proxy to capture access-point fingerprints for any room, then confirm that room resolves correctly before you call it done. VERIFY BEFORE YOU WALK AWAY Room verification closes the loop. Point a proxy device at a configured space and watch it resolve to the right room — real validation, on-site, while you can still fix it. PROVISION USERS IN MINUTES Create users with a guided, step-by-step flow: pick a team, assign channels, set workflow groups, review, submit. Manage the whole roster from the same app — assign and unassign devices, rename users, handle seats, and remove accounts one at a time or in bulk. TAP TO PAIR NFC PROFILES Pair NFC tags to user profiles with a single tap. Built for shared-device environments where the right profile needs to follow the right person. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU WORK Permissions follow your Relay account, so every technician sees exactly the tools they're cleared for and nothing they aren't. Relay Admin hands off to the Relay app when you need it and picks up right where you left off when you come back. Lost signal mid-job? Relay Admin refreshes the moment you reconnect. Relay Admin is designed for Relay customers and partners. A Relay account is required to sign in.

Screenshots

GEO Staff App by BuildingLink4 screens
Relay | Admin2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Relay | Admin at 100% against GEO Staff App by BuildingLink's 32%. Relay | Admin also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). GEO Staff App by BuildingLink's advantage is ratings volume (828 vs 2). 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

Relay | Admin holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GEO Staff App by BuildingLink has 828 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of GEO Staff App by BuildingLink's written reviews are positive against 100% of Relay | Admin's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GEO Staff App by BuildingLink ships an update every 3 weeks, Relay | Admin fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GEO Staff App by BuildingLink versus Relay | Admin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGEO Staff App by BuildingLinkRelay | Admin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (828 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews32.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings828 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuildingLink.comRelay, Inc

Customer experience

GEO Staff App by BuildingLink

All ratings828 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral2.8%
Negative14.0%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive32.5%
Neutral6.8%
Negative60.7%

Relay | Admin

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

GEO Staff App by BuildingLink

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • App crashes on launch with splash screen
  • Packages fail to register after scanning
  • Event type dropdown not displaying options
  • Sync failures with 'Last sync 12/31/69' error
  • Green add button disappears after scanning
Show 15 more
  • Wrong date display on work orders
  • Forced logout after syncing attempts
  • App opens resident version instead of staff version
  • Search functionality disabled in event type list
  • Copy-paste functionality disabled
  • On-open notifications completely disabled
  • Data not saving after input
  • App incompatible with 5G networks
  • Inconsistent syncing between app and desktop
  • Duplicate maintenance request entries
  • Half screen blacked out in portrait mode
  • Unable to close events or packages
  • Shift notes slow to refresh
  • Geo location sync failures
  • Incompatibility with iOS updates

Requested features

18 requests
  • Dark mode for app and icon
  • Calendar and reservation management
  • Incident report creation from mobile
  • Directory access with phone numbers
  • Copy and paste functionality
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  • Event type search capability
  • Full event type options restoration
  • Picture and video upload to reports
  • Maintenance request status filtering
  • Individual email notifications to units
  • Barcode scanner integration
  • Camera-based package scanning
  • Front desk instructions management
  • Parking management access
  • Customizable layout and event log organization
  • Date display on events
  • On-open notifications
  • 5G network compatibility

Relay | Admin

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

GEO Staff App by BuildingLink

No in-app purchases

None

Relay | Admin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GEO Staff App by BuildingLink free?
GEO Staff App by BuildingLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Relay | Admin free?
Relay | Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GEO Staff App by BuildingLink or Relay | Admin?
Relay | Admin is rated higher. GEO Staff App by BuildingLink averages 4.4 out of 5 from 828 ratings, while Relay | Admin averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do GEO Staff App by BuildingLink or Relay | Admin have ads?
Neither GEO Staff App by BuildingLink nor Relay | Admin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GEO Staff App by BuildingLink or Relay | Admin?
GEO Staff App by BuildingLink ships an update every 3 weeks, and Relay | Admin fortnightly. Most recently, GEO Staff App by BuildingLink was updated on November 5, 2026 and Relay | Admin on November 6, 2026.

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