Taxi Data Manager vs Backline.me
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Taxi Data Manager
Manage your taxi or limo business with this comprehensive app. Schedule trips, dispatch to drivers, create invoices, track shifts, and log expenses. It offers modules for booking, invoicing, and business management, streamlining operations for drivers and owners.
- Schedule and dispatch trips
- Create PDF invoices and receipts
- Track shifts and working hours
- Log expenses and income
- Calculate fares based on routes
- Integrate with navigation apps
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TaxiDataManager is an easy app to schedule trips, dispatch them to other drivers, manage bookings and track your taxi business as driver or owner. 8 independent modules support scheduling of trips and reservations, create invoice, track shifts, write a trip log and record working hours. Modules could be used standalone. Best selling book keeping app for drivers worldwide: by Taximan39 (from US): "Small company booking system // 5 stars This is a brilliant and cost effective app for small taxi or private hire circuits. The developer has used every requirement for the small scale taxi business and is always open to suggestions for improvements. A big thank you to the developers from a small company." "Amazing" 5 stars by The_Nooonans (from UK) "Saved my hundreds of £'s for my private hire/chauffeur business. From input to sync with ICal and then TomTom. Just simply brilliant.So easy to forward job details on." Scheduling and dispatching module: - schedule trips for your customers. - bookings could also be scheduled in system calendars. - alarms are scheduled to start the trip intime. - data for writing invoices is collected. - invoices are written as PDFs and could be emailed or printed - supports invoicing ouf trips as well as goods and services - call customer and guest directly from app - templates for regular customers and common destinations - pickup sign can easily be generated from the reservation data - directly link to flight data, when pickup is an airport - forward orders to other users of TaxiDataManager if you can't fulfill - send an SMS to your customer to inform him, that you are waiting outside - dispatch orders to other users of Taxi Data Manager via SMS/E-Mail - track confirmations Shift tracking: - collect data from taxameter - collect data from odometer - track expenses for oil, gas and surcharges at takeover and handover time. - supports one or more cabs - supports one and employers or self employed drivers Invoicing: - create invoices and receipts from your iPhone/iPad - create your own design for invoices and receipts with your logo and company/personal information - create invoices in different currencies, taking exchange rates into account Trip log: - trip log gives you an overview about all trips Tracking of working hours: - enter start end end time of shift - enter breaks - calculates net working hours - check against applicable laws/rules if present (currently German law) Expense log - enter the amounts for parking, fuel, oil, toll, etc. - get overview per week, month etc. Cash book - introduction into accounting Calculate fares - depening on the start and destination address a route will calculated - tarifs could easily be entered to adapt to your local tarif - calculating charges for credit card payment Integration of navigation apps - destination addresses can be transferred to navgation apps like TomTom, Navigon, Google and Apple to start navigation directly from TaxiDataManager No more forms necessary to transfer the data from the cab. Supports PDF, CSV and Excel-XML as message format.
Backline.me
This app helps touring bands and live music venues manage events collaboratively. It ensures teams have updated information, allows management of multiple organizations, and simplifies show planning by indicating missing details. Users can easily share documents and information with relevant parties.
- Team communication and updates
- Manage multiple bands/venues
- Intuitive show planning progress indicator
- Collaborative show detail building
- Automated document and info sharing
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Backline.me is a tool for managing touring bands or live music venues. - Keep Your Team In The Loop On Backline, your crew will always have access to the most updated information. And with Backline's permission system, you can keep your sensitive information private. - Manage Multiple Organizations Backline makes it easy for users to manage multiple bands and/or venues. Your involvement can be anywhere from owning a band to subbing on just one show. - Plan All of Your Shows With Ease Backline's intuitive progress indicator helps make sure that you have all of the information you need for your upcoming shows. If you don't it will tell you what you're missing! - Build Shows Together When an artist and a venue connect on a show, a shared page is created to work out the details of the event. Everyone can contribute their piece of the advance in the same place. - Share Documents & Info Automatically share documents and information with the right people. Stage plots, riders, tech packs, guest lists, etc. are always available and easily accessible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Backline.me at Free against Taxi Data Manager's $6.99. Backline.me also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Taxi Data Manager's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Backline.me is free to download; Taxi Data Manager costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Backline.me holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Taxi Data Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of Backline.me's.
Taxi Data Manager ships an update every 5 weeks, Backline.me every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Taxi Data Manager | Backline.me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SB Apps | Jonathan Koh |
Customer experience
Taxi Data Manager
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In-app purchases
Taxi Data Manager
No in-app purchases
Backline.me
No in-app purchases
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