IDS Mobile vs Kenect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IDS Mobile
This app allows dealership staff to manage daily tasks like unit check-ins, inventory counts, and customer communication from anywhere. It streamlines service operations, improves parts ordering, and speeds up the customer experience with mobile documentation and signatures.
- Mobile unit check-in with 360 walk-arounds
- Voice-to-text for job entry
- Customer signature capture
- Photo documentation for parts and issues
- Mobile inventory counts
- View unit details and pricing on the go
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Integrated Dealer Systems (IDS) is proud to introduce a mobile app that will allow your service writer, technicians, salespeople, and parts department to perform key daily tasks from anywhere in your dealership. Fast & Easy Unit Check-in: • Conduct a 360 degree walk around of the unit with a customer, add jobs using the voice to text feature, and take pictures to properly document any customer wants, needs, questions or concerns. • Offer customers additional service opportunities while you inspect the unit. • Eliminate paperwork and speed up the customer experience by collecting your customer’s signature without the need to return to the service desk. Improved Communications: • Take pictures of the parts required and attach them to the work order to eliminate confusion in your parts department on which part to order. • Take pictures of an issue and upload to a manufacturer’s website for expedited warranty submission. Streamlined Inventory Management • Save time and improve efficiency by conducting year end and cycle inventory counts with your mobile device. • Sell more by showing all unit details (including pictures and price) to a customer while away from your desk. “The concept of checking-in a unit using a mobile app is truly ground breaking. Any service we can provide to our customers right on the spot, without having to go back and forth to a computer, is a huge plus.” Jeremy Ketelsen, Ketelsen RV "One of the features we like about the mobile app is the ability to take pictures of boats, engines, and parts and attach them to specific jobs and warranty claims. This feature allows us to increase the efficiency of our warranty process and gives visual history of a unit or part when it enters the dealership removing any possibility of future discrepancies at the onset. " Carly Poole, Buckeye Marine
Kenect
Connect with customers through text messaging to boost leads, gather online reviews, and process payments. Initiate video calls directly from text conversations.
- Customer texting
- Lead generation
- Online review generation
- Payment capture
- Video chat via text
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Engage with your customers where they are - texting on their phone. Double your leads, generate online reviews, capture payments and start video chat conversations all via text message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kenect at 3.9 against IDS Mobile's 2.5. Kenect also leads on review sentiment (38% vs 17%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). IDS Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). 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.
Kenect holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kenect has 69 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of IDS Mobile's written reviews are positive against 38% of Kenect's.
IDS Mobile ships an update every 6 weeks, Kenect every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IDS Mobile | Kenect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (13 ratings) | 3.9 (69 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 37.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 69 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Integrated Dealer Systems Inc. | Kenect, LLC |
Customer experience
IDS Mobile
Kenect
In-app purchases
IDS Mobile
No in-app purchases
Kenect
No in-app purchases









