Hail Trace vs TrueFax
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hail Trace
Discover properties with hail, wind, and tornado damage to identify sales leads for restoration services. Get notified of customer impacts, canvass effectively, and track potential clients to nurture them into sales.
- Find hail, wind, and tornado damage
- Customer impact notifications
- Canvass and track customers
- Identify quality sales leads
- Nurture leads into sales
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HailTrace App focuses on helping you get the data you need to sell your restoration product. Find quality leads, damaged buildings, and dented cars and nurture those leads into sales! 1. Find Hail, Wind, and Tornado Damage 2. Get notified when your customers are impacted 3. Canvass and track your customers 4. Find quality leads
TrueFax
This app provides detailed reports on potential storm damage to homes, similar to how vehicle history reports work. It accesses a nationwide database to identify the frequency and severity of weather events that could have impacted a property.
- Storm damage reports for homes
- Nationwide storm database
- Hail, high winds, and lightning data
- Damage frequency and severity
- Property damage history
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A TrueFax report shows possible damage to a house just like a CARFAX report shows possible damage to a vehicle. Using our nationwide database regarding hail, high winds and lightning; TrueFax lists the frequency and severity of storms that may have caused property damage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TrueFax at 5.0 against Hail Trace's 3.3. Hail Trace's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 57 months) and ratings volume (122 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
TrueFax holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hail Trace has 122 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hail Trace ships an update every 2 weeks, TrueFax every 57 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hail Trace | TrueFax |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (122 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 57 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #203 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Derik Kline | Home Data Experts, LLC |
Customer experience
Hail Trace
TrueFax
Bugs and requests
Hail Trace
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes and force closes frequently
- Freezing and locking up during use
- Filters require multiple attempts to work
- Slider controls unresponsive
- Maps fail to load on first attempt
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- Geolocation shows incorrect locations
- Phone number entry blocks submit button
- Saved data deleted after updates
- Login page with no signup option
- Radius search returns inconsistent results
- App performance degrades significantly after updates
- Touch interface jumps and is unresponsive
Requested features
8 requests- Improve mobile app stability and performance
- Simplify app navigation and interface
- Better notification system
- Fix geolocation accuracy
- Streamline filters and search functionality
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- Focus on core storm tracking features
- Reduce unnecessary features cluttering the app
- Improve map data currency and accuracy
TrueFax
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hail Trace
No in-app purchases
TrueFax
No in-app purchases
