Maintenance Manager vs Synco
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maintenance Manager
Streamline maintenance operations by tracking technicians, assigning work orders, and managing tasks on a tablet. Visualize technician locations on a map and schedule work orders with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
- Track technician locations
- Assign work orders
- Manage maintenance tasks
- Schedule work orders via drag and drop
- Map technician locations
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Maintenance managers can easily track technicians, assign work orders and manage their maintenance tasks from their tablet. Tech locations can be displayed on a map when technicians are utilizing Yardi Maintenance Mobile. WO’s can be scheduled via a drag and drop process. Maintenance Manager Mobile requires that clients install Yardi Maintenance Plug-in 11.0 (for Voyager™ 60) or Yardi Maintenance Plug-in 3.0 (for Voyager™ 7S) or greater. In addition users must be licensed for Advanced Maintenance.
Synco
This platform facilitates seamless real-time communication for property management teams. It consolidates conversations into a single workspace, organized by groups and tags, replacing scattered emails and texts for enhanced team collaboration.
- Real-time communication
- Team collaboration
- Customized workspace
- Group conversations
- Tag-based organization
- Cross-departmental communication
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Synco is the real-time communications platform that keeps property management teams up to date and in the know, powering effortless collaboration and replacing endless emails and disorganized text messages. How it works: Synco connects your entire team - whether they’re on a computer or mobile device - and brings conversations together in a single customized workspace. Groups power communication around properties, projects, and topics. They are easy to create and simple to use. Tags organize and label communications in a standardized way. When one team member tags a conversation with a property, unit, project, etc., it’s labeled for everyone. Synco empowers your team to quickly communicate across departments, properties, and projects to get work done.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Synco at 4.5 against Maintenance Manager's 3.0. Synco also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). Maintenance Manager's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Synco holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Synco has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Maintenance Manager ships an update every 3 months, Synco monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Maintenance Manager | Synco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yardi Systems, Inc. | CAKETECH INC. |
Customer experience
Maintenance Manager
Synco
In-app purchases
Maintenance Manager
No in-app purchases
Synco
No in-app purchases
