Text2Drive vs TruVideo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text2Drive
This mobile application facilitates communication for dealership employees, enabling them to chat with colleagues and customers. Users can share photos, typically of vehicle repairs, directly through the platform. It requires an existing Text2Drive account to function.
- Employee-to-employee chat
- Customer communication
- Photo sharing for repairs
- Mobile access to platform
- Group chat functionality
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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.
TruVideo
Record, send, and track customer videos with this platform. Share narrated video messages with individuals who can't be present, ideal for various service industries.
- Record videos
- Send video links via email
- Send video links via text
- Track video engagement
- Create customer entries
- Upload videos to cloud
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NOTE: This app must be used in conjunction with a TruVideo customer account. TruVideo is a video platform for recording, sending and tracking videos. The TruVideo iOS app allows users to: - Create a customer entry - Record one or multiple videos - Upload recorded videos to the cloud - Email a link to those videos - Text a link to those videos The TruVideo app is effective in sharing narrated video with individuals who are unable to be physically present. Markets for this app include automotive service, automotive sales, pest control, insurance claims, real estate, home inspections and many others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TruVideo at 2.6 against Text2Drive's 1.9. TruVideo also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 22%) and update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, 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.
TruVideo holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 100 and 82 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Text2Drive's written reviews are positive against 41% of TruVideo's.
Text2Drive ships an update monthly, TruVideo every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | TruVideo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (100 ratings) | 2.6 (82 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews | 41.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 82 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | TruVideo, Inc. |
Customer experience
Text2Drive
TruVideo
User reviews
Text2Drive
From 100 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
TruVideo
From 82 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🤝 Great for customer trust building
- 🚀 Speeds up authorization process
- 💡 Helps sell bigger jobs with visual proof
- 😊 Customers love seeing videos
Room to improve
- 🐛 Videos delete when screen shuts off/phone locks
- 🐛 Inconsistent orientation changes
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App freezes and closes
- 🐛 Login required every time
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
TruVideo
Reported bugs
19 issues- Cannot zoom
- Orientation changes inconsistently
- Deletes videos when screen shuts off
- App doesn't send/upload videos reliably
- Requires login every time
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- App is buggy and difficult to use
- App exits when phone locks
- Deletes videos when on pause
- App crashes frequently
- App freezes
- Phone goes dark and deletes video
- Mic cuts out
- Updates remove features
- Phone crashes during video upload
- App won't load after latest update
- Flipping camera while recording causes upside-down video
- Leaving app for more than a minute deletes progress
- Cannot access other apps without losing progress
- Version 1.2.14 has an error screen for Prospects
Requested features
4 requests- Re-implement zoom capability
- Add more text effects (twirl, moving text)
- Add more edit abilities (slow down frames, fade in/out)
- Allow merging different clips without pauses
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
TruVideo
No in-app purchases
