Comparison

RetailNext vs TrueVUE

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

Head to head
About

RetailNext

This platform offers comprehensive in-store analytics for retail businesses. It connects shopper behavior to sales data, providing insights through heat maps, traffic measurements, and conversion rates for specific store areas. Access key metrics like traffic, sales, and POS transactions on the go.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive in-store analytics
  • Connects shopper behavior to sales
  • Heat maps of visitor traffic
  • Measures traffic over time
  • Micro-level conversion information
  • On-the-go access to key metrics
Features
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RetailNext is the only comprehensive in-store analytics platform that pulls together the full set of information you need to make intelligent business decisions for your retail locations and visualizes it all in a variety of automatic, intuitive views to help you find those key lessons to improve your stores. Our patent-pending technology gives you the ability to connect traffic, dwell times, and other shopper behaviors to actual sales at the register. View heat maps of visitor traffic, measure traffic over time in your stores or areas of your stores, and connect visitors and sales to specific outside events. RetailNext will even deliver micro-level conversion information for areas like departments, aisles, and specific displays, making it the most directly actionable in-store measurement and analysis solution available. RetailNext for iOS provides you with instant, on-the-go access to traffic, sales and conversion information as well as POS transactions, floorplans, and video for your entire store network.

About

TrueVUE

Features
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TrueVUE Cloud uses RAIN RFID technology to help retailers count their stock quickly and easily to achieve up to 99% inventory accuracy. Other functionality includes locating merchandise, restocking, writing tags and more.

Screenshots

RetailNext4 screens
TrueVUE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TrueVUE at fortnightly against RetailNext's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RetailNext ships an update every 2 months, TrueVUE fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
RetailNext versus TrueVUE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetailNextTrueVUE
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRetailNext, Inc.Tyco Retail Solutions

In-app purchases

None

RetailNext

No in-app purchases

None

TrueVUE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RetailNext free?
RetailNext is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TrueVUE free?
TrueVUE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RetailNext or TrueVUE have ads?
Neither RetailNext nor TrueVUE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RetailNext or TrueVUE?
RetailNext ships an update every 2 months, and TrueVUE fortnightly. Most recently, RetailNext was updated on October 9, 2026 and TrueVUE on October 6, 2026.

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