Comparison

ShiftSeat vs APV DRIVER

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

Head to head
About

ShiftSeat

Features
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ShiftSeat connects small and mid-sized carriers with qualified commercial drivers for short-term driving engagements. When a driver goes down, a small carrier's truck sits. Larger fleets can reseat a driver the same week. ShiftSeat gives smaller operators that same ability. FOR CARRIERS Post an available truck with your lane, pay rate, and equipment details. Review applications from qualified drivers. Accept a driver or a team, sign the engagement agreement in the app, and fund the engagement before it starts. FOR DRIVERS Browse available trucks and apply to the ones that fit your qualifications and schedule. See the daily rate, the lane, the equipment, and the terms before you apply. Sign the agreement in the app. Drivers never pay a fee to use ShiftSeat. HOW ENGAGEMENTS WORK Every engagement is documented with a signed agreement recording the truck, the term, the daily rate, and the posted holdover and breakdown terms. Compensation is funded before the engagement begins and released on completion. Entry and exit inspections are recorded in the app with photos and timestamps, creating a shared condition record both parties can rely on. WHAT SHIFTSEAT DOES NOT DO ShiftSeat is not a motor carrier, a broker, or an employer. Loads are assigned by the motor carrier through its own systems. ShiftSeat provides matching, documentation, payment, and evidence infrastructure only. LIMITED BETA ShiftSeat is currently in limited beta in the United States. Access is restricted to carriers and drivers contracted with a single expedited-freight network. To be notified when access opens more broadly, visit shiftseat.ai.

About

APV DRIVER

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APV DRIVER is the work app for contracted expedite freight drivers. It replaces phone tag with one clear workflow, from the moment a load is offered to the moment a signed POD closes it out. RECEIVE LOADS YOU CAN ACTUALLY EVALUATE A new offer shows what matters before you commit: your driver pay, the pickup and delivery areas, loaded miles, commodity, weight, pieces, and both appointment windows. Exact addresses, facility names and contacts stay hidden until you accept, so shipment details are only ever exposed to the driver actually running the load. ONE TAP TO ACCEPT, AND EVERYTHING UNLOCKS Accepting starts location sharing and reveals the full stop details: facility names, exact street addresses, pickup numbers, and the dispatch instructions for that specific load. Open navigation to either stop directly from the app. TRACKING THAT REPLACES CHECK CALLS While a load is active, APV DRIVER shares your location with your dispatch team, including when the app is in the background, about every 15 minutes. Collection starts when you accept and stops automatically when the load is delivered or cancelled, when you sign out, or when you delete your account. Your location is never collected while you have no accepted active load. DOCUMENTS, GUIDED STEP BY STEP The Documents tab only ever shows the file needed at the current step, so nothing is missed and nothing is uploaded twice: the loaded BOL, a loaded freight photo, a secured freight photo at pickup, and a signed POD at delivery. Shoot with the camera or attach from your photo library. Uploaded files are locked to prevent duplicates, and dispatch can approve a file or ask for a retake. BUILT FOR REAL ROAD CONDITIONS Status updates and uploads are queued when you lose signal and sync automatically when the connection returns, so a dead zone never costs you a step. YOU CONTROL YOUR ACCOUNT Sign out from the phone at any time, or delete your account and its data from inside the app. APV DRIVER is issued by your carrier. You need an account from your dispatch team to sign in; the app is not a load board and does not offer freight to the general public.

Screenshots

ShiftSeat3 screens
APV DRIVER4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: ShiftSeat at 3 against APV DRIVER's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 4 level
ShiftSeat versus APV DRIVER: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiftSeatAPV DRIVER
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size76 MB41 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperShiftSeatArtem Prutkov

In-app purchases

None

ShiftSeat

No in-app purchases

None

APV DRIVER

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShiftSeat free?
ShiftSeat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is APV DRIVER free?
APV DRIVER is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShiftSeat or APV DRIVER have ads?
Neither ShiftSeat nor APV DRIVER shows ads.

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