Silvertrac vs Celayix Time Xpress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silvertrac
This mobile client connects to a security guard management platform. It enables guards to perform daily rounds, verify their presence at locations, and generate client reports detailing their activities. Continued GPS use may impact battery life.
- Daily work rounds
- Proof of presence
- Client reporting
- Security guard management
- Activity tracking
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This is the front end client for use with the security guard management platform Silvertrac. It is used by security guards to complete daily work rounds and provide proof of their presence on their assigned properties and work activities to their clients with an easily consumable report. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Celayix Time Xpress
This app empowers supervisors with real-time tools for tracking employee time, monitoring attendance, and communicating with teams. It streamlines clock-in/out processes, helps prevent time theft, and facilitates finding qualified replacements for shifts.
- Real-time time collection management
- Employee clock-in/clock-out with breaks
- Attendance monitoring with alerts
- Location-based tracking
- Find qualified shift replacements
- In-app real-time messaging
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Celayix Time Xpress provides supervisors with a suite of powerful tools to track time collection, monitor attendance, and communicate with team members, all in real-time and on the go. TIME COLLECTION Supervisors can manage and reconcile time collected from multiple sources including web apps, timesheets, and physical devices. CLOCK-IN/CLOCK-OUT Supervisors can clock employees in/out of shifts, and record meal breaks and safety checks directly from the app ensuring accurate time records are kept. ATTENDANCE MONITORING Time Xpress via alerts, reduces time theft by ensuring employees not only clock into the correct shift, but clock-in on time and at the right location. The Map view displays a visual tracking of all sites, while also allowing a supervisor to take action. FIND REPLACEMENTS Time Xpress gives supervisors an easy and quick way to find replacements, ensuring replacements are not only qualified and available but also fit into your business rules and avoid overtime conflicts. MESSAGING Communicate with employees in real time through in-app messaging, eliminating the need to use other methods such as email, text, or phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Celayix Time Xpress at 100% against Silvertrac's 20%. Celayix Time Xpress also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.5). Silvertrac's advantage is ratings volume (135 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Celayix Time Xpress holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Silvertrac has 135 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Silvertrac's written reviews are positive against 100% of Celayix Time Xpress's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Silvertrac | Celayix Time Xpress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (135 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 135 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SilverTrac Software, Inc. | Celayix Software |
Customer experience
Silvertrac
Celayix Time Xpress
Bugs and requests
Silvertrac
Reported bugs
50 issues- App crashes when taking photos
- App keeps saying it is loading
- App not working properly since updated
- Logging in issues
- App goes to login screen and spins
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- System crashing multiple times
- Photos, notes, everything erased when app crashes
- App randomly crashes
- App keeps having trouble
- Cannot access app due to technical difficulties
- Hourly reports and uploads not received by supervisors/dispatchers
- App crashes all the time
- Issues don't show up
- App is always buggy
- App doesn't let you login
- App randomly won't let you take pictures
- App crashes and gives error message about too many attempts
- App hasn't downloaded complete Daily Activity report
- Entire company cannot log in after update
- App keeps showing "Downloading Route Data"
- No report is uploaded
- App shuts down by itself
- App doesn't work (stopped itself)
- Unable to reset password
- App keeps logging out by itself
- Cannot zoom in on photos on Android
- Photo quality with Android phones is horrible
- App is faulty in many ways
- No setting to automatically select QR codes or NFC
- Repeatedly crashes and fails to login
- App is very prone to crash and consistent bugs
- App crashes in between scans
- Scans don't come through to the office right away
- App deletes pictures after taking them
- App says rerouting data and deletes posts
- Have to take a picture of one post, send it, sign out, and re-sign back in for every single picture
- Pictures and written post notes sent in are not received by dispatch
- New update 4.3.3 is terrible
- App doesn't submit anything after taking a photo
- Scanning a bar takes user back to home screen
- App logged out more than 20 times over a 14-hour shift
- Pictures taken during patrol get lost when logged out
- App needs to be updated
- App only works on 'always' but gives option of 'only when using app'
- No explanation of where stored information goes
- App is a tad glitchy
- App automatically logs out on iOS
- Lost photos and report after being logged out on iOS
- App is not compatible with iOS 8 update
- App worked great prior to upgrading to iOS 8
Requested features
7 requests- Show hours clocked in/out to users
- Face recognition to sign in
- Feature to automatically select QR codes or NFC
- Previous scan/report log for guards
- Ability to see daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly entries
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- Apple Watch app support
- General Entry selection
Celayix Time Xpress
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Silvertrac
No in-app purchases
Celayix Time Xpress
No in-app purchases
Questions
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