Text2Drive vs Dealerware
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.
Dealerware
Streamline fleet vehicle contracting and management with a mobile-first solution. Contract customers anywhere, manage your daily schedule efficiently, and quickly process payments for fuel, mileage, or damage at contract close.
- Mobile contracting
- Daily schedule planning
- Driver license scanning
- Credit card scanning
- Insurance information capture
- Instant billing for fuel, mileage, damage
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Transform the way you contract and manage fleet vehicles with the Dealerware+ mobile experience. Not only can you contract your customers from anywhere from any mobile device, but you can also easily plan for your day with a robust daily schedule to keep your service lane moving at record speed. Quickly scan customer driver license, credit card, and insurance information at contract start, and then instantly bill customers for fuel, mileage, or damage at contract close.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dealerware at 2.7 against Text2Drive's 1.9. Text2Drive's advantage is review sentiment (22% vs 14%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Dealerware holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 52 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of Text2Drive's written reviews are positive against 14% of Dealerware's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Text2Drive ships an update monthly, Dealerware every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | Dealerware |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (99 ratings) | 2.7 (52 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews — better | 13.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | Silvercar Retail Automotive, LLC |
Customer experience
Text2Drive
Dealerware
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
Dealerware
No in-app purchases
