Text2Drive vs Affinitiv MPI
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.
Affinitiv MPI
This app helps businesses identify potential repairs and upsell opportunities through customizable multi-point inspections. It streamlines communication with customers and provides real-time status updates for workshop operations.
- Customizable multi-point inspections
- Workflow definition
- Service description management
- Customer approval requests
- Real-time RO status updates
- Streamlined workshop communication
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Identify every potential repair to maximize upsell with Affinitiv MPI. Affinitiv MPI pinpoints every repair need and upsell possibility, while performing quick, consistent and completely transparent multi-point inspections. MULTI-POINT CUSTOMIZATION No longer be bound by the predefined settings of the average MPI tool. You now have one that can adapt to the needs of your service department. With Affinitiv MPI, you can determine these needs. Define your workflow – Create, remove, rename or switch the steps in your workflow as needed. Or, use our pre-determined workflow. The choice is yours. Define your inspections – Determine which inspection items are needed in your service department. You can even define the display name of each item. Service Description Management – Don’t like the wording of the service description for an inspection item? Change it! You can decide what sounds best when communicating any recommended services to your customers. QUICK TURN-AROUND – Using Affinitiv MPI, you can quickly send an approval request to your customers via email or phone. As soon as they approve a service, the system is instantly updated. REAL-TIME RO STATUS UPDATES Streamline communications and manage end-to-end workshop flow with automatic vehicle status updates that are instantly visible to advisors, technicians and your parts department.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Text2Drive at 99 against Affinitiv MPI's 9. Text2Drive also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 2.0 for Affinitiv MPI. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text2Drive has 99 ratings behind it against 9, 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 18% of Affinitiv MPI's.
Text2Drive ships an update monthly, Affinitiv MPI every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | Affinitiv MPI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (99 ratings) | 2.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews — better | 17.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 9 |
| 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 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | Loop, LLC |
Customer experience
Text2Drive
Affinitiv MPI
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
Affinitiv MPI
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
Affinitiv MPI
No in-app purchases
