KingKabs vs Chester Taxi Services
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KingKabs
Book rides easily with a personalized experience. Track your vehicle, save favorite journeys, and get upfront cost information. Offers a variety of vehicle options, including accessible ones.
- Personalized booking experience
- Vehicle tracking
- Save favorite journeys
- Upfront journey cost
- Wide vehicle selection
- Wheelchair accessible options
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The KingKabs App offers a slick and convenient mobile booking experience, perfect for people on the move. The app ensures efficiency and continuity of service as well as providing a personalised booking experience that can be tailored to individual customer preferences. The app works seamlessly with the new improved KingKabs online web-booker (https://book.kingkabs.taxi/portal) and has numerous features allowing users to track their vehicles, switch between passenger preferences and save favourite journeys. Our Northwest hub process more than 15,000 trips per day in the UK alone, and is owned by Addison Lee Limited, one of the largest ground transport providers in the UK Why choose KingKabs? - A wide selection of vehicles from saloon, MPV, traditional taxi cabs and executive vehicles. - All traditional taxis (Hackney Carriage Vehicles) are wheelchair accessible traditional cabs from TX4, LEVC, FORD and Mercedes Vito - Features of the improved app include vehicle tracking, booking history and the ability to set favourite addresses and journeys - Up front journey cost information - Journey time and distance estimates - Driver and Vehicle details once your booking has been allocated - Book now or up to three months in advance - View your trip history and see how many trips you have left - Select from multiple trip options including wheelchair accessibility - Operational and support infrastructure built over more than 40 years ensuring customer experience is at the forefront - App seamlessly interfaces with the KingKabs’s online web-booker and dedicated contact centre.
Chester Taxi Services
Book a taxi quickly and easily with this official service. Features include passwordless registration, business account integration for expense automation, fare estimation, real-time driver tracking, and the ability to schedule future rides.
- Passwordless registration
- Business account integration
- Automate expenses
- Price estimator
- Driver and vehicle details
- Real-time driver tracking
- Schedule future trips
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The official taxi app of Chester Taxi Services Book a taxi in under 10 seconds and experience exclusive priority service from Chester Taxi Services - Passwordless registration flow - Login & book with your business account and automate expenses - Know an average of how much will cost your trip with the price estimator - See your driver’s and vehicle details and track their arrival on the map. - Schedule future trips
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chester Taxi Services at 100% against KingKabs's 54%. Chester Taxi Services also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ads (none vs shown). KingKabs's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
Chester Taxi Services holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of KingKabs's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chester Taxi Services's.
KingKabs ships an update every 3 months, Chester Taxi Services every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KingKabs | Chester Taxi Services |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vedamain Ltd. | Chester Taxi Services |
Customer experience
KingKabs
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In-app purchases
KingKabs
No in-app purchases
Chester Taxi Services
No in-app purchases
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