Text2Drive vs Xtime Mobile
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.
Xtime Mobile
Enhance dealership operations with a mobile suite of tools. Streamline customer messaging, expedite internal communications, and conduct vehicle inspections with multimedia attachments. Receive real-time alerts for key events.
- Customer messaging
- Internal communication
- Mobile vehicle inspections
- Photo/video/audio attachments
- Vehicle history access
- Push notifications
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A suite of tools that extend the Xtime platform to your mobile device: • Customer Messaging allows dealership staff to respond quickly, streamlining interactions with customers. • DealerChat expedites work in progress by facilitating communications with internal employees. • Mobile Inspect allows technicians to complete multipoint inspections from anywhere. Users can take photos, videos, and audio clips of inspected vehicles and attach to the recommended services. Vehicle history is available with each and every vehicle inspection. • Users will receive push notifications on their mobile device when Xtime alerts are triggered for events such as new customer messages or new RO assignments. Xtime Mobile App can be downloaded for free, but does require a monthly subscription and signed license agreement. If you log into the app and do not see any data, please verify with management that you have a license agreement to use the app. If you are an existing Xtime user and would like to utilize this app, please contact your Xtime sales representative.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Text2Drive at free against Xtime Mobile's subscription. Text2Drive also leads on review sentiment (22% vs 5%). Xtime Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (376 vs 99). On price, rating, 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.
Text2Drive holds the better App Store score, 1.9 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 376 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Text2Drive's written reviews are positive against 5% of Xtime Mobile's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | Xtime Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (99 ratings) — better | 1.7 (376 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews — better | 5.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99 | 376 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 190 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | Xtime |
Customer experience
Text2Drive
Xtime Mobile
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
Xtime Mobile
From 376 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and efficient
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Innovative features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 📤 Unreliable media uploads
- 🔍 Confusing navigation and UI
- 🕰️ Slow performance and loading times
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
Xtime Mobile
Reported bugs
4 issues- Camera focus issues
- Inconsistent video recording
- Unexpected app logout and login issues
- Repair order history not displaying properly
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to delete media in bulk
- Improved camera functionality and quality
- Customizable notification settings
- Seamless integration with desktop version
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
Xtime Mobile
No in-app purchases
