Comparison

TrackAbout vs TapTag Howard

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

Head to head
About

TrackAbout

This business-focused application provides cloud-based asset tracking and management for companies. It allows users to scan barcodes and optionally record GPS locations to optimize the use of physical, portable, and reusable assets.

Highlights
  • Cloud-based asset tracking
  • Barcode scanning via smartphone camera
  • Optional GPS location collection
  • Management of various asset types
  • Offline and online truck loading
  • Customizable dynamic forms
Features
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TrackAbout is a cloud-based asset tracking and management system. We help companies around the world optimize the use of millions of physical, portable, returnable and reusable fixed assets. PLEASE NOTE: This is a B2B app and is intended only for customers of the TrackAbout asset tracking ecosystem. You will need a TrackAbout account to log in. TrackAbout provides physical asset tracking, including specialties such as: • compressed gas cylinder tracking • durable medical equipment and home medical equipment tracking • chemical container tracking • keg tracking • IBC tote tracking • roll-off container or dumpster tracking • small tool tracking TrackAbout’s customers include Fortune 500 companies as well as small, independent operators. This app enables users to perform asset tracking operations by scanning barcodes using the smartphone's camera and, optionally, collecting the assets' GPS location using the smartphone's location services.   Internal users can use the following actions and features: • Add New/Register Asset • Add New/Register Container/Pallet • Add New/Register Bulk Tank • Analysis • Branch Transfer Send/Receive • Close Lot • Collect Many Signatures/Sign Later • Condemn/Junk Asset • Create Order • Customer Audit • Delivery (simple and POD) • Empty Container/Pallet • Fill • Fill for Customer • Find Inventory • Inspection Scan/Sort Assets • Load/Unload Truck (offline and online) • Locate • Maintenance • Make Pack • Material Consolidation • Physical Inventory • Print Lot Labels • Recent Deliveries • Recent Payments • Reclassify Assets • Register Bundle • Remove from Lot • Replace Barcode • Reserve for Order • Return Assets • Send to Maintenance • Sort Container/Build Pallet (for Filling, Delivery, Maintenance and Interbranch Transfer) • Sort Trip • Truck Load Inventory • Unmake Pack • Vendor Receive • Search for assets by tag and view asset details and history • Dynamic Forms • Generic actions - action that can be customized just for you   Follow-On Tracking® users can use the following actions and features: • Move Asset • Set Volume • Search for assets by tag and view asset details and history • Dynamic Forms • Generic actions   Compatibility: • This app requires iOS 15.8.1 or higher.

About

TapTag Howard

Features
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Identification of sampling location – Using the GPS from the mobile device, the application can automatically narrow station search results to include only those stations within the current area of the mobile device. Other selections allow for filtering stations by company, station name, station number, or a combination thereof. This reduces the time required to look up correct station numbers and names, while vastly increasing the accuracy of station identification.

Screenshots

TrackAbout4 screens
TapTag Howard4 screens

Verdict

The call

TrackAbout and TapTag Howard 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

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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TrackAbout versus TapTag Howard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrackAboutTapTag Howard
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.716.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrackAboutDavid Parks

In-app purchases

None

TrackAbout

No in-app purchases

None

TapTag Howard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrackAbout free?
TrackAbout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TapTag Howard free?
TapTag Howard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TrackAbout or TapTag Howard have ads?
Neither TrackAbout nor TapTag Howard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TrackAbout or TapTag Howard?
TrackAbout ships an update monthly, and TapTag Howard monthly. Most recently, TrackAbout was updated on August 29, 2026 and TapTag Howard on September 11, 2026.

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