Smart Dray vs Vector Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Dray
This app facilitates communication between drivers and dispatch, enabling load management and activity data capture. It automates status updates using GPS and offers features like electronic signature capture for documentation.
- Driver-dispatch communication
- Load management
- Activity data capture
- Automated load status updates
- GPS-based notifications
- Electronic signature capture
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Smart Dray allows Drivers to communicate with dispatch, manage loads, capture activity data, and automatically convey load status. Automated events utilize GPS to notify respective parties of activity status and additional features, such as electronic signature capture, provide a hassle free way to instantly obtain external documentation at critical times. Please Note that Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Easy to use, the Dashboard automatically determines what information is needed next, helping to simplify data capture and eliminate errors.
Vector Mobile
Manage all your freight paperwork on the go. Scan and store documents like PODs, receipts, and more. Securely back up files and easily share them with dispatch, brokers, and customers.
- Scan and manage freight documents
- Secure cloud backup
- Share paperwork with dispatch and brokers
- Add and view comments on documents
- Web portal access
- Unlimited uploads
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Get started with Vector and have all your freight paperwork within reach from your smartphone or computer. The app is for OTR truck drivers to scan and manage all their documents. All your files will be backed up safely so you can't lose them. Easily invite others to view or leave comments for your POD's, receipts, weight tags, lumper receipts, OS&D paperwork, and more! * Unlimited uploads of paperwork and images * Quickly access previous documents * Easily share paperwork with dispatch, brokers, customers, and factoring companies * Add and view comments * View your documents on the web portal
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vector Mobile at 3.2 against Smart Dray's 2.7. Vector Mobile also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 17%) and ratings volume (125 vs 3). Smart Dray's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). 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.
Vector Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vector Mobile has 125 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Smart Dray's written reviews are positive against 43% of Vector Mobile's.
Smart Dray ships an update every 6 weeks, Vector Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Dray | Vector Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 3.2 (125 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 125 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Canadian Pacific Railway Limited | LoadDOCs |
Customer experience
Smart Dray
Vector Mobile
Bugs and requests
Smart Dray
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Vector Mobile
Reported bugs
39 issues- App quits working
- App freezes and gets stuck
- Submit button off-screen on new phones
- Cannot press options on iPhone 15 Pro Max screen
- Screen does not align well on iPhone 15 Pro Max
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- Workloads update inconsistently
- GPS stamp cannot be changed
- App keeps closing
- Cannot type information
- Crashes every time it opens
- Photos not uploading back to dispatch
- Notifications don't work on iPhone 12 Pro Max
- Crashes when taking pictures with flash
- Crashes after update
- Does not upload docs
- App crashes too much for photos
- Hit or miss document border detection
- Shows dark blotches in low light
- Manual cropping required
- Blurry photo errors
- Does not transmit all necessary information
- Slow to load
- Hard to tell if paperwork uploaded
- Drains data significantly
- Re-enter load information upon arrival
- No default settings for truck/team
- App won't send dispatch to teammate
- Add recipients is buggy
- Active info entry area not highlighted
- Confusing for new users
- No long loud notification tone
- Cannot delete old dispatches
- Dispatchers get behind, slow info
- Cannot clear completed trips
- Scans are very noisy
- No way to delete build-up in dispatches
- No notifications for incoming messages/dispatches
- Customer service not good
- Crashes phone, fried friend's phone
Requested features
11 requests- Add a torch/flashlight function
- Enable dark mode
- Allow multiple photo selection from library
- Add a long loud notification tone
- Allow deletion of old dispatches
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- Add user editable feature for corrections
- Option to take single or multiple pictures in a row
- Swap 'x' and 'delete' buttons on review screen
- Allow editing/cropping images in review screen
- Add matrix page for location codes
- Highlight active info entry area
In-app purchases
Smart Dray
No in-app purchases
Vector Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Smart Dray free?
Is Vector Mobile free?
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