Comparison

Value Cabs vs KingKabs

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

Head to head
About

Value Cabs

Easily book and track taxis with Belfast's leading taxi service. This user-friendly app allows you to order a ride, cancel bookings, and monitor your vehicle's arrival in real-time. Pay conveniently with cash or card and schedule rides for a specific time.

Highlights
  • Order a taxi
  • Cancel a booking
  • Track vehicle on map
  • Real-time status notifications
  • Pay by cash or card
  • Schedule exact pick-up times
  • Store favorite locations
Features
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Book and track your Taxi easily with Belfast’s No.1 Taxi Company. This app is simple and easy to use and gives the user the capability of booking a taxi with a few taps of your screen, Through this app you can: • Order a taxi • Cancel a booking • Track the vehicle on the map as it makes its way towards you! • Receive real-time notifications of the status of your taxi • Pay by cash or with card • Order a taxi for an exact pick-up time • Store your favourite pick up points for easy booking

About

KingKabs

Book rides easily with a personalized experience. Track your vehicle, save favorite journeys, and get upfront cost information. Offers a variety of vehicle options, including accessible ones.

Highlights
  • Personalized booking experience
  • Vehicle tracking
  • Save favorite journeys
  • Upfront journey cost
  • Wide vehicle selection
  • Wheelchair accessible options
Features
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The KingKabs App offers a slick and convenient mobile booking experience, perfect for people on the move. The app ensures efficiency and continuity of service as well as providing a personalised booking experience that can be tailored to individual customer preferences. The app works seamlessly with the new improved KingKabs online web-booker (https://book.kingkabs.taxi/portal) and has numerous features allowing users to track their vehicles, switch between passenger preferences and save favourite journeys. Our Northwest hub process more than 15,000 trips per day in the UK alone, and is owned by Addison Lee Limited, one of the largest ground transport providers in the UK Why choose KingKabs? - A wide selection of vehicles from saloon, MPV, traditional taxi cabs and executive vehicles. - All traditional taxis (Hackney Carriage Vehicles) are wheelchair accessible traditional cabs from TX4, LEVC, FORD and Mercedes Vito - Features of the improved app include vehicle tracking, booking history and the ability to set favourite addresses and journeys - Up front journey cost information - Journey time and distance estimates - Driver and Vehicle details once your booking has been allocated - Book now or up to three months in advance - View your trip history and see how many trips you have left - Select from multiple trip options including wheelchair accessibility - Operational and support infrastructure built over more than 40 years ensuring customer experience is at the forefront - App seamlessly interfaces with the KingKabs’s online web-booker and dedicated contact centre.

Screenshots

Value Cabs4 screens
KingKabs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Value Cabs at none against KingKabs's shown. Value Cabs also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (90 vs 9). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Value Cabs against 4.6 for KingKabs. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Value Cabs has 90 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 56% of Value Cabs's written reviews are positive against 54% of KingKabs's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Value Cabs ships an update every 6 weeks, KingKabs every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Value Cabs versus KingKabs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterValue CabsKingKabs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (90 ratings)4.6 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.1% of reviews — better54.2% of reviews
Number of ratings90 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperValue CabsVedamain Ltd.

Customer experience

Value Cabs

All ratings90 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral1.1%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive56.1%
Neutral0.9%
Negative43.0%

KingKabs

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive54.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative43.4%

In-app purchases

None

Value Cabs

No in-app purchases

None

KingKabs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Value Cabs free?
Value Cabs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is KingKabs free?
KingKabs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Value Cabs or KingKabs?
KingKabs is rated higher. Value Cabs averages 4.5 out of 5 from 90 ratings, while KingKabs averages 4.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Value Cabs or KingKabs have ads?
KingKabs shows ads; Value Cabs does not.
Which is updated more often, Value Cabs or KingKabs?
Value Cabs ships an update every 6 weeks, and KingKabs every 3 months. Most recently, Value Cabs was updated on November 6, 2026 and KingKabs on November 1, 2026.

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