Comparison

Manager Mobile vs Relay | Communicator

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

Head to head
About

Manager Mobile

Manage employee attendance and time cards remotely. Receive real-time notifications for absences and issues, and handle requests and schedules directly from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Real-time absence notifications
  • Review and adjust time cards
  • Approve employee time cards
  • Manage leave requests
  • Manage employee schedules
  • Contact employees directly
Features
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Manager Mobile leverages your employer’s Attendance on Demand system to allow supervisory functions quickly and easily from your mobile device. Real-time notifications inform you of critical absences and other key attendance issues, such call-in’s and no-shows. You can handle employee attendance issues as they occur, even when you’re not at your desk. With Manager Mobile you can review, adjust, and approve employee time cards; manage leave requests and schedules; and contact employees directly via mobile, voice, or text options. Contact your payroll administrator or Attendance on Demand service provider for additional details. Note: Manager Mobile uses location services to obtain your location during app usage. Continued use of the app or background GPS tracking can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Relay | Communicator

This app provides two-way communication and location tracking for teams. It includes features like a panic button and work tracking to enhance team performance and operational efficiency.

Highlights
  • Two-way communication
  • Panic button
  • GPS tracking
  • Work tracking
  • Radio replacement
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Relay turns the phone in your pocket into the most capable radio your team has ever carried. Built for frontline teams who don't work at desks, Relay puts push-to-talk, worker safety, and real-time location on one screen. Nationwide range. No line of sight. No dead channels. PUSH TO TALK, ANYWHERE Push to talk and your voice reaches your whole channel instantly, whether they're across the building or across the country. Switch channels in a tap and catch what you missed. Live Audio keeps the conversation running in the background while you work. CHAT AND PHOTOS WHEN VOICE ISN'T RIGHT Send text to a channel or directly to a teammate, right alongside the voice traffic in the same conversation. And now you can send photos, too — snap the broken fixture, the spill, the delivery, the whiteboard, and share it in seconds. Some things are so much faster to show than to describe. EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS EVERYONE Language shouldn't slow a team down. TeamTranslate translations appear right in the conversation, so a multilingual crew works as one. PANIC, WITH SOMEONE ON THE OTHER END Slide to confirm and Relay broadcasts a panic alert with your live location to the people who can actually respond. Responders acknowledge, follow your location as you move, and resolve the incident once you're safe. It's the difference between an alarm and a lifeline. INCIDENTS, DISPATCHED AND DOCUMENTED Dispatch an incident with a single button, mapped to the workflows your organization has already built. Track it as it unfolds, add details along the way, review the full message history, and close it out with a resolution. Every incident is kept in history for the review that comes later. FIND ANYONE, INSIDE OR OUT Outdoor maps place your team across a site or a city. Indoor positioning takes it further — the right building, the right floor, the right room — so "where are you?" stops being a question. Geofence alerts let you know the moment someone crosses a boundary that matters. YOUR ATTENTION, ON YOUR TERMS Availability Modes put you in control of what reaches you and when. Choose Available to hear everything as it comes in, Critical Alerts to let only the urgent stuff through while you focus, or Silenced for quiet when you need it. One tap to switch, so you're never fumbling with settings mid-shift. BUILT FOR THE WORK YOU DO Manufacturing floors, hotels, casinos, hospitals, campuses, golf courses, and large venues. Wherever your team moves, Relay moves with them. Relay is made for organizations running on the Relay platform. An active Relay account is required to sign in — check with your administrator, or visit relaypro.com to learn more.

Screenshots

Manager Mobile1 screens
Relay | Communicator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Relay | Communicator at 4.8 against Manager Mobile's 3.3. Relay | Communicator also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (438 vs 7). Manager Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Relay | Communicator holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Relay | Communicator has 438 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Manager Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Relay | Communicator every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Manager Mobile versus Relay | Communicator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterManager MobileRelay | Communicator
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (7 ratings)4.8 (438 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings7438 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAttendance on Demand, Inc.Relay, Inc

Customer experience

Manager Mobile

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

Relay | Communicator

All ratings438 ratings
Positive98.2%
Neutral0.7%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

None

Manager Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

Relay | Communicator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Manager Mobile free?
Manager Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Relay | Communicator free?
Relay | Communicator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Manager Mobile or Relay | Communicator?
Relay | Communicator is rated higher. Manager Mobile averages 3.3 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Relay | Communicator averages 4.8 from 438 ratings.
Do Manager Mobile or Relay | Communicator have ads?
Neither Manager Mobile nor Relay | Communicator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Manager Mobile or Relay | Communicator?
Manager Mobile ships an update every 3 months, and Relay | Communicator every 2 weeks. Most recently, Manager Mobile was updated on October 1, 2026 and Relay | Communicator on October 9, 2026.

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