Text2Drive vs Digital Transactions
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.
Digital Transactions
Facilitates digital vehicle sales by enabling seamless interaction between dealerships and consumers, both in-store and remotely. Offers a contactless experience for the sales department, allowing for the sharing of transaction details and F&I menu displays.
- Digital vehicle sales
- Dealer-consumer interaction
- Contactless sales experience
- Share transaction details
- Display F&I menus
- Receive approvals
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Digital vehicle sales is the new normal in automotive retail. Tekion’s ARC digital transactions app promotes interaction between dealer and consumer in-store and remotely. Provide a contactless experience in your sales department. Share important transaction details, display F&I menus, receive approvals and so much more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Digital Transactions at 100% against Text2Drive's 22%. Digital Transactions also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.9) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). Text2Drive's advantage is ratings volume (99 vs 12) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
Digital Transactions holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text2Drive has 99 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Text2Drive's written reviews are positive against 100% of Digital Transactions's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and July 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | Digital Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (99 ratings) | 3.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | Tekion Corp |
Customer experience
Text2Drive
Digital Transactions
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
Digital Transactions
No in-app purchases
Questions
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