Text2Drive vs Tekion
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.
Tekion
This platform connects all core operations in the automotive retail industry, including variable and fixed operations, IoT, and ML/AI. It offers a highly scalable, secure, and intelligent solution with streamlined workflows and improved visibility for dealerships.
- End-to-end platform for automotive retail
- Connects variable and fixed operations
- Integrates IoT and ML/AI
- Highly scalable and configurable
- Streamlined workflows and improved visibility
- Mobile-capable for on-the-go business
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Tekion is the newest and only cloud-native, an end-to-end comprehensive platform in the automotive retail industry. Our application connects all core operations in one, seamless end-to-end platform – variable operations, fixed operations, IoT and ML/AI. Our cloud-native platform is built with the most modern technology available. Our dealer partners can expect: · A highly scalable application with easy setup options · Seamless and consistent feature upgrades · Little to no downtime – outages are often detected before the end-user experiences them · The highest levels of data security and resolution management Tekion simplifies daily operations through: · A configurable, intelligent platform – we modify the application to your business · Streamlined workflows – do more in fewer “clicks” · Improved visibility – comprehensive information in one screen · Reduced training time – easy to learn, easy to use and remarkably fast · Mobility – mobile capable so you can conduct business on the move · Digital capabilities – critical data points reveal operational insights
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Tekion at 414 against Text2Drive's 100. 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 1.9 for Tekion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 100 and 414 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 22% of Text2Drive's written reviews are positive against 18% of Tekion's.
Text2Drive ships an update monthly, Tekion every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | Tekion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (100 ratings) — better | 1.9 (414 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews — better | 17.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 100 | 414 — better |
| 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 | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 294 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | Tekion Cloud |
Customer experience
Text2Drive
Tekion
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
Tekion
From 414 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📱 Mobile accessibility for on-the-go work
- 📸 Photo and video capture functionality
- 🎨 Modern, sleek user interface design
- ⚡ Efficient for specific tasks like customer check-ins
- 🔄 Continuous app improvements and updates
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and system failures
- ⏱️ Slow performance and loading times
- 🔐 Constant forced re-authentication/logouts
- 🚫 Poor mobile app feature parity with desktop
- ❌ Unreliable data synchronization
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
Tekion
Reported bugs
25 issues- Video upload failures and crashes
- Driver's license and insurance scanning not working on iOS
- Customer data retrieval failures
- Pages failing to load
- Signature capture not saving
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- Photo upload failures
- Recall data not auto-populating
- Time logging forgetting clock-in status
- App freezing when uploading videos
- Login failures after updates
- Notification tap-through errors ('Oops! Something went wrong')
- VIN barcode scanning camera autofocus issues
- Vehicle history randomly unavailable
- Search functionality not working properly
- Filter options not functioning
- Appointment visibility issues
- Service history not displaying
- Printer functionality broken
- Part scanning with camera not working
- App incompatibility with iPhone 15 and iPhone 16
- Excessive delays after updates
- Redundant approval screens
- Saved information deletion after F&I push
- Leads not updating properly
- Task logging failures for calls, texts, emails
Requested features
15 requests- Push notifications to locked phone screen
- Persistent login/saved credentials
- In-app messaging and chat functionality
- Offline mode capability
- Improved notification system with better visibility
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- Centralized sales dashboard with task highlights
- Advanced filtering for repair orders and appointments
- Ability to edit repair orders through app
- Ability to add driver's license and insurance after deal creation
- Multi-tasking capability (phone calls while accessing profiles)
- Streamlined task tracking and search tools
- Web chat feature in mobile app
- Customizable dashboard for frequently used tools
- Improved camera autofocus for barcode scanning
- Simplified navigation to reduce clicks
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
Tekion
No in-app purchases
