Comparison

Roadnet MobileCast vs Edison XRef

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Edison XRef

Features
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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..

Screenshots

Roadnet MobileCast4 screens
Edison XRef4 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Roadnet MobileCast versus Edison XRef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoadnet MobileCastEdison XRef
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 75 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB49 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOmnitracs LLCCooper Bussmann, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Roadnet MobileCast

No in-app purchases

None

Edison XRef

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roadnet MobileCast free?
Roadnet MobileCast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Edison XRef free?
Edison XRef is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Roadnet MobileCast or Edison XRef have ads?
Neither Roadnet MobileCast nor Edison XRef shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roadnet MobileCast or Edison XRef?
Roadnet MobileCast ships an update every 3 months, and Edison XRef every 75 months. Most recently, Roadnet MobileCast was updated on October 7, 2026 and Edison XRef on October 10, 2026.

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