Text2Drive vs Sunbeast
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.
Sunbeast
This app helps users offer a specific service and earn rewards. It provides tips and tricks to improve performance and allows users to track their progress against peers, making work more engaging.
- Offer service easily
- Earn rewards
- Level up with tips & tricks
- Track peer performance
- Make workday exciting
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The Sunbeast App makes offering Sunbit fun & easy. Earn & get rewards. Level up your game with tips & tricks. See where you stand among your peers. Make your workday more exciting. Download and join the Sunbeast community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sunbeast at 95% against Text2Drive's 22%. Sunbeast also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.9) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Sunbeast holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sunbeast has 802 ratings behind it against 99, 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 95% of Sunbeast's.
Text2Drive ships an update monthly, Sunbeast weekly. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | Sunbeast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (99 ratings) | 4.9 (802 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 99 | 802 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | Sunbit. Inc |
Customer experience
Text2Drive
Sunbeast
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
Sunbeast
From 802 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💰 Great incentives and rewards
- 🙌 Helpful for patients
- 🤝 Excellent customer service
- 📈 Useful tracking and performance features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Login and redemption issues
- 📱 Annoying permanent notification
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
Sunbeast
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen freezes
- Redemption not working
Requested features
2 requests- Home screen widget for easier tracking
- Improved redemption process
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
Sunbeast
No in-app purchases
