Text2Drive vs MyKaarma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text2Drive
Facilitates communication between dealership employees and customers. Enables sending messages and photos, particularly for repair updates. Requires an existing Text2Drive account to function.
- Employee-to-employee chat
- Customer chat
- Photo sharing
- Repair updates
- Dealership operations
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An extension of the Text2Drive communication platform, the Mobile Operations Module allows dealership employees to chat with each other or with customers and send them photos (typically of a required repair). This free app only works with a Text2Drive account.
MyKaarma
This app streamlines customer interactions for automotive dealerships. It facilitates communication with service customers via email, text, and voice calls, integrating with common Dealer Management Systems.
- Streamline customer interactions
- Service appointment management
- Vehicle servicing tracking
- Email, text, and voice call communication
- Dealer Management System integration
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The myKaarma application is a mobile application for Automotive Dealerships. It provides functionality and features to streamline the interaction with Service Customers who have appointments or vehicles being serviced at the Dealership. It interfaces with most common Dealer Management Systems and allows the dealer to Communicate with the customer via email, text messages and voice calls.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MyKaarma at every 5 days against Text2Drive's monthly. MyKaarma also leads on ratings volume (764 vs 99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Text2Drive's advantage is review sentiment (22% vs 9%). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.9 for Text2Drive against 1.8 for MyKaarma. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyKaarma has 764 ratings behind it against 99, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 22% of Text2Drive's written reviews are positive against 9% of MyKaarma's.
Text2Drive ships an update monthly, MyKaarma every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | MyKaarma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (99 ratings) — better | 1.8 (764 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews — better | 9.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99 | 764 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | MyKaarma.com |
Customer experience
Text2Drive
MyKaarma
User reviews
Text2Drive
From 99 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Communication with customers
- 👍 Useful for dealerships
- 👍 Group chat feature
- 👍 Mobile use of platform
- 👍 Picture and video messaging
Room to improve
- 🐛 App constantly takes up storage
- 🐛 Videos upload with no sound
- 🐛 Videos don't go through
- 🐛 App is slow and doesn't load
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
MyKaarma
From 764 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great tool for daily use
- 👍 Useful for customer communication
- 🚀 Mobility and efficiency
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constant crashes and glitches
- 🔋 Drains battery life
- 👎 Complicated and not user-friendly
- 🕰️ Slow performance and loading times
- 🔒 Frequent log-outs and need to re-login
Bugs and requests
Text2Drive
Reported bugs
44 issues- Removed reviews
- App takes up gigabytes of storage
- Selectivity of photo/video uploads
- Videos upload with no sound
- Videos don't go through
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- Need to restart phone to record video again
- Cancel button in place of send button
- Videos send but feedback says otherwise
- Videos are never clear
- App is laggy
- Notification interruption causes video loss
- Cannot log in
- Videos do not upload after recording
- Gray screen when finishing video
- Freezing when starting video
- Accidentally deleted videos due to cancel button placement
- App crashes a lot
- Camera never focuses
- Adding photos/videos from media library fails or duplicates
- White screen when recording
- No landscape mode
- Horrible compression
- App constantly uses more storage
- No cache clearing option
- Cannot record on newer phones (iPhone 14 Max)
- Photos are compressed gibberish
- Screen is white indefinitely when adding photo manually
- App is slow and sometimes doesn't load
- Desktop site shows out of order responses
- Screen going white when recording
- Won't upload despite showing uploaded
- Customers can't open videos
- App has issues with Bluetooth devices active
- Metrics produced are flawed
- Unable to upload photos from gallery (white screen)
- Crashes every time since update
- App keeps all videos with no way to delete
- Opens camera screen then freezes
- Face recognition cycles multiple times
- Upload video/picture doesn't go through if phone is closed
- App doesn't close if phone is left open
- Super slow, pictures don't load properly
- App freezes on login screen
- App shuts down when entering username
Requested features
16 requests- Allow deletion of saved videos/data
- Improve video/photo quality
- Fix camera focus issue
- Add landscape mode for iPads
- Add option to unsend videos
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- Fix UI update issues (cancel button placement)
- Show all messages, not just selected ones
- Allow editing of videos
- Fix Bluetooth device interference
- Improve face recognition reliability
- Allow app to close when phone screen is off
- Improve upload speed
- Add cache clearing option
- Fix issues with older phones (iPhone 5s)
- Filter notifications between advisors
- Improve app performance for notifications
MyKaarma
Reported bugs
4 issues- Videos not uploading properly
- Redo button too close to resume button
- Notifications for other users' cars
- Inconsistent behavior after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Landscape mode for videos
- Ability to preview videos before sending
- Option to save login credentials
- Improved video quality and stability
- Better integration with other systems
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
MyKaarma
No in-app purchases
