pdvConnect vs ShipIntel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
pdvConnect
This app helps manage mobile teams by allowing field workers to log jobs, time, and issues with photos and GPS data. Office staff gain visibility into team locations and activities, streamlining operations and improving communication.
- Field event logging with media
- GPS tracking
- Geofencing
- Mobile forms
- Signature capture
- Reporting
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pdvConnect’s mobile app is a key component of its easy to use, productivity solution for locating, communicating and managing mobile teams easily. With this free application, users with a current paid license for pdvConnect can easily interact with the pdvConnect.com cloud portal. Current pdvConnect customers can use the app to record completed jobs, time card punches, preexisting damage, overages or exceptions such as COD problems and customers not home quickly and easily. Events are captured and sent in seconds with important details such as a pre-defined subject, time and date, photos, audio, and GPS-based location. Drivers also use the customized, paperless forms and signature capture to speed up their daily procedures. Working in conjunction with the application is the pdvConnect.com cloud-based portal, purchased separately, which gives office workers full visibility of the drivers’ locations and activities throughout the day. They can locate mobile workers, view incoming messages regarding events on a map, or send a text message to mobile workers with next job details. All events/messages are archived for review and reporting to mitigate potential disputes, document additional charges and raise company standards for productivity and cost saving. From the map view, dispatchers can locate a driver closest to a critical job or if another worker needs a part. Mangers can set up geofences for each worker and receive alerts based on customer visits or workers entering and leaving their assigned area. When drivers use paperless forms, it streamlines the process for getting forms filled out in the field and back to the office. pdvConnect Key Features •Field event logging with photos, location, audio, pre-defined text description, date and time •GPS tracking of your mobile workers •Geofencing with easy import of your customer list for service verification •Mobile Forms •Signature Capture •Powerful Reporting pdvConnect Advantages •Ease of use, no need to dedicate or train office staff to manage a complicated solution. •Generate new revenue for overages, change orders and additional effort that is often not recovered. •Provide proof of delivery or service to eliminate costly return trips back to the customer’s site. •Protect assets by knowing when drivers have left their service area or route unexpectedly. •Stay in communication with mobile workers safely, without driver distraction or wasting time and fuel with truck idling due to multiple callbacks, texts, or waiting on hold. •Increase the number of jobs or deliveries each day with increased productivity. •Allow large ratios of workers in the field to administration with prioritized call handling and office workload balancing. •Get the data needed from the field in a report format to review and find ways to reduce fuel costs, return visits, unnecessary overtime and inefficiencies. •Improve response time to customer requests with prompt answers and faster worker dispatching. •Avoid potential conflicts with customers by recording preexisting conditions before starting work. •Review and compare routes to find the most efficient options. •Document completed work or issues in seconds with photos, time, date and location. •Reduce lost paperwork, illegibility problems and forgotten information by using paperless forms. •Get a fast return on investment with cloud-based administration and mobile phone-based field solutions make it easy to set up, and it’s familiar, intuitive design makes it easy to use. GPS Location: Requires GPS enabled device. GPS reliability varies by environment. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life Copyright © 2018 pdvWireless, Inc. All rights reserved.
ShipIntel
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ShipIntel - Better decisions today with tomorrow's maritime solution! A must-have AIS based solution for teams involved in maritime business. For tracking, monitoring and analyzing vessel movements and port traffic. Enable companies to plug in enriched AIS data, sea route estimations, and AI models — into their own proprietary data. For better, data-driven maritime decisions and efficient team collaboration. Built by shipping professionals for any type of company involved in maritime business. ShipIntel is a cross-platform software, giving you access to features on web and mobile. Plan the work remotely and with the people in the office, report the work done from the site. Use the mobile app to: - Stay connected with your team through real-time notifications and shared notes, photos and documents. - Add notes and photos to vessels and ports from your mobile device and find that they are instantly available for your colleagues in the office. - Access updated maritime data from anywhere at any time. Get support in-app via our chat when you need help. The chat is operated by people with shipping experience. Popular features in the mobile app: Live and historical AIS positions, reported destinations and ETAs - Track the whole merchant fleet in real-time with global coverage. - View their real-time AIS positions, their last port of call, and the port they are heading to. - Get the ETA, current speed, estimated ballast/laden condition and more. - The vessels are divided into types and sizes (segments and sub-segments). - Search and find vessel by name, IMO, MMSI, or expand your search using LOA, beam, draft, year built, etc. Vessel and port lists (unlimited) - Create an unlimited number of vessel lists and port lists and add them as layers to your map. Custom notifications for vessels and ports - Be notified when vessels set a destination (reported or predicted), arrive in a port/region or at anchorage, pass a line, or depart from a port/region. View port traffic - Find vessels in ports, recent departures, and vessels waiting at anchorages listed with name, segment, and arrival/departure times. Find bunker grades and prices in ports - Access daily updated bunker prices and fixed forward prices in each port. Sea route calculator - Create sea routes from any vessel's live position to any port. - Find the shortest sea routes and compare alternative routes. Get distances, ETAs, calculated carbon emissions (EU ETS) and bunker consumption. Team resources (notes, photos, documents and contacts) - Add notes and photos to vessels and ports, or a list of vessels or ports directly from your mobile device. - Access documents and contacts attached to vessels and ports. Map information layers - Customize your map with information layers such as: - Sea Ice, Piracy, and Marine weather are updated every 24 hours. - War zones, - ECA/SECA, - Economical Zone, - Load Lines, INL and Polar Codes - Wind farms. - Click on the layers for information on constraints. - Choose between map styles and satellite. Visit our website if you want to learn more: https://maritimeoptima.com/shipintel
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: pdvConnect at 12.0 against ShipIntel's 16.4. 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | pdvConnect | ShipIntel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TeamConnect, LLC. | Maritime Optima AS |
In-app purchases
pdvConnect
No in-app purchases
ShipIntel
No in-app purchases









