Text2Drive vs CDK ServiceView
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.
CDK ServiceView
This app allows users to record, upload, and share videos with clients or colleagues. It's designed for businesses to communicate visually with individuals who cannot be present. Various industries can benefit from its video communication capabilities.
- Create customer entries
- Record multiple videos
- Upload videos to cloud
- Email video links
- Text video links
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NOTE: This app must be used in conjunction with a CDK customer account. CDK is a video platform for recording, sending and tracking videos. The CDK 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 CDK 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 ratings volume: Text2Drive at 100 against CDK ServiceView's 11. Text2Drive also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.9 for Text2Drive against 1.7 for CDK ServiceView. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text2Drive has 100 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Text2Drive ships an update monthly, CDK ServiceView every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text2Drive | CDK ServiceView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (100 ratings) — better | 1.7 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 139 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Text2Drive | TruVideo, Inc. |
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
CDK ServiceView
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text2Drive
No in-app purchases
CDK ServiceView
No in-app purchases
