Hail Trace vs Hail Drive
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
Hail Drive
Access interactive storm maps, property storm history, and generate address reports. Receive native storm alerts for hail, wind, and tornadoes. Includes Knock Mode for managing property visits and follow-ups.
- Interactive storm map
- Property storm history
- Address report generation
- Native storm alerts
- Knock Mode for property visits
- Personal and company workspaces
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Take Hail Drive into the field to review storm activity, check properties faster, generate address reports, and stay on top of hail and wind alerts. Take Hail Drive into the field to review storm activity, search properties, generate address reports, and stay on top of hail and wind alerts. Hail Drive is the mobile app for Hail Drive customers. Sign in with your existing account to access interactive storm maps, storm-date history, address-level storm context, alerts, and field workflow tools from your phone. Features may vary by plan, workspace role, and account configuration. Use Hail Drive to review radar-derived hail swaths, recent storm reports, and hail, wind, tornado, and related storm context across supported storm days. Supported accounts can search addresses, review property-level storm history, and generate shareable PDF address reports. Hail Drive also supports native storm alerts so your device can receive hail, wind, tornado, and related storm notifications as new activity is processed. Hail Drive includes Knock Mode in the in-app map experience. Knock Mode lets users save properties from the map, log visit outcomes, schedule follow-ups, review daily activity, and work in personal or company workspaces. Eligible company accounts may also have access to teammate management, templates, photos, signatures, and supported third-party workflow integrations. Hail Drive is for existing accounts. Account setup and subscription management are handled through the Hail Drive website. Features • Sign in with Apple, Google, or email using an existing Hail Drive account • Interactive storm map with hail and wind views • Storm-date browsing for current and historical supported storm days • Radar-derived hail swaths with recent storm report context • Wind, tornado, and storm context overlays • Optional location access to center the map and improve nearby workflows • Address search and property-level storm context • Shareable PDF address reports • Native hail, wind, tornado, and storm alerts • In-app access to support, privacy policy, terms, and account deletion • Knock Mode: save properties, log outcomes, manage follow-ups, and review daily activity • Personal and company workspaces with role-based access for eligible accounts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hail Drive at 5.0 against Hail Trace's 3.3. Hail Drive also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Hail Trace's advantage is ratings volume (122 vs 3) and chart position (#205 vs unranked). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hail Drive 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Hail Trace's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hail Drive's.
| Parameter | Hail Trace | Hail Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (122 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #205 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Derik Kline | Denys Pentsak |
Customer experience
Hail Trace
Hail Drive
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
Hail Drive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hail Trace
No in-app purchases
Hail Drive
No in-app purchases







