Roadnet MobileCast vs Edison XRef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roadnet MobileCast
This business platform provides real-time insights into mobile workforce efficiency, productivity, and customer service. It helps manage deliveries, pickups, and communication, enabling businesses to track performance and drive revenue.
- Real-time efficiency and productivity measurement
- Seamless communication with managers and dispatchers
- Delivery and pickup tracking with signature capture
- Mobile forms for capturing customer and route information
- Performance monitoring for delivery/pickup time windows
- Optimized travel and route planning
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MobileCast, by Omnitracs, is a mobile platform that provides business owners, staff and drivers the ability to, in real-time, measure the efficiency and productivity of servicing customers, completing deliveries and pickups while having the ability to seamlessly communicate to managers and dispatchers. Through this robust tool you are able to measure the performance standards that have been set for your mobile delivery staff, ensuring that customer meetings, deliveries and pickups occur as planned. In today’s competitive market, impeccable customer service and the “face time” your team spends with customers can make all of the difference to your bottom line. MobileCast can work seamlessly with your current routing, scheduling, and host systems, or with Roadnet Anywhere Routing & Dispatching to help measure delivery activity and customer service with the main purposes of helping to drive revenue. MobileCast helps provide accountability of your mobile staff, as well as options to manage by exception, rather than constant monitoring. Mobile staff have the ability to: • Start and end their day • Follow planned routes • Log customer arrivals, departures and breaks • Optimize travel—find the closest customers based on location • Seamlessly call customers • Find the best route without entering address information • Capture delivery and pickup information • Verify quantities of delivery and pickup items • Confirm delivery/ pickup completion with signature capture • Capture customer and route information through mobile forms • Receive updates on daily activities, including on-time performance With MobileCast managers and dispatchers have the necessary tools at their fingertips to monitor key benchmarks that help drive and improve the service and profitability of your mobile team by tracking: • Delivery/ pickup time windows • Face time quotas • Actual arrival and departure times • Leisure mileage vs. work mileage • Merchandising service times • Route variations REQUIREMENTS: You must be a Roadnet Transportation Suite (RTS) customer with MobileCast Server and MobileCast Smartphone. iOS Version: 7 or greater Note, continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Edison XRef
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Edison Fuse's XRef tool is an ideal tool for electricians, electrical wholesalers, purchasing professionals, equipment specifiers and electrical engineers. With over 200,000 parts within the database, competitor parts can be cross-referenced anytime, anywhere for free! Edison product details and data sheets can be downloaded directly on to your mobile device. It also has Distributor locator, which uses geo-coordinates to locate the closest store in our vast network of authorized electrical distributors..
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Roadnet MobileCast at every 3 months against Edison XRef's every 75 months. Edison XRef's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Roadnet MobileCast ships an update every 3 months, Edison XRef every 75 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roadnet MobileCast | Edison XRef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 75 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Omnitracs LLC | Cooper Bussmann, LLC |
In-app purchases
Roadnet MobileCast
No in-app purchases
Edison XRef
No in-app purchases
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