Funnel vs FR8 Messenger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Funnel
Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.
- Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
- Send notes and photos to PKM apps
- Capture sketches and calendar events
- Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
- Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
- Built-in document scanner
- Song capture via Shazam integration
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
FR8 Messenger
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FR8 Messenger brings the communication of your FR8 transport management system (TMS) straight to your phone. Dispatchers, customers and contractors with FR8 portal access stay connected on the go – without opening the laptop and logging into the web TMS. INTERNAL MESSENGER Chat directly with your team: one-to-one and group chats, channels, attachments (photos and files), read/unread and per-chat mute. Messages can be searched, copied and forwarded. DRIVER MESSENGER Stay in touch with your drivers – across language barriers thanks to automatic AI translation. Start a chat with a vehicle or with the person driving it, listen to voice messages from the driver app and reply by voice yourself. Filter driver chats by your dispatch groups, see the last known GPS position with a 48-hour history, and keep an eye on driving and rest times. RESPONSEDESK Answer customer enquiries on the go: view requests, reply directly, forward them or turn them into a to-do – with AI support for drafting. INCIDENTS Don't just look at reported incidents – work through them: set the status (new, in progress, postponed, done), filter your own and open cases, show completed ones. FR8 ASSISTANT Your AI assistant on the go: ask about orders, vehicles or tours in natural language and get things done right away. Upload a PDF while you're out and say, for example, "Create an order from this and add a to-do due Monday" – the assistant only carries out actions after your confirmation. Past conversations are kept and answers can be copied. (Available if enabled for your account.) TO-DOS Create, assign and search tasks – for colleagues, drivers or vehicles. Watched to-dos and counters in the navigation keep you up to date; any message becomes a task with one tap. ON THE GO • See your vehicles' GPS location at a glance • Raise support requests, view and answer your own – with attachments • Push notifications – on or off per channel • Quick switching between linked accounts • A dedicated contractor area for subcontractors PUSH WHEN IT MATTERS Get notified about new messages, enquiries and due tasks – so you never miss anything important on the weekend or on the road. BILINGUAL & PLATFORM-NATIVE Fully switchable between German and English. The app feels like a true iOS app on iPhone, follows the platform's interaction patterns and supports light and dark mode. NOTE FR8 Messenger is a business app for existing FR8 customers and contractors with portal access. There is no public sign-up in the app – you sign in with your existing FR8 account. FR8 is the transport management system for forwarders and haulage companies. Learn more at fr8.cloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FR8 Messenger at none against Funnel's 4. FR8 Messenger also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. FR8 Messenger asks for nothing beyond the download.
Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, FR8 Messenger every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Funnel | FR8 Messenger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (47 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NoteSight Labs ApS | Kevin Reymann |
In-app purchases
Funnel
- Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
- Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
- Lifetime$49.99
FR8 Messenger
No in-app purchases









