ProVia vs Buyam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ProVia
Design your home's exterior by visualizing doors, windows, siding, and stone. Explore product options, view galleries, and access installation guides. Dealers can also get pricing and place orders.
- Door Selector
- Window Selector
- Siding Options
- Manufactured Stone Options
- Browse galleries and brochures
- Access installation guides (Dealer Edition)
- Obtain product pricing (Dealer Edition)
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This powerful visualization engine can be used by homeowners to design doors and windows or select from ProVia’s wide variety of vinyl siding and manufactured stone options, view brochures, videos and photo galleries. Advanced features enable ProVia dealers to obtain pricing, order products via entryLINK and access installation guides. ProVia’s Exterior Home Design Tool is a unique, portable and easy-to-use tool that supports the sales process. For best results, use with iPad Air 2 or higher. App Features • Door Selector – Choose from four fiberglass and steel exterior door lines (Embarq™, Signet®, Heritage Fiberglass™, Legacy Steel™) and more than 30 door styles, plus a variety of stain and paint color choices and door glass options. • Window Selector – Choose from five window lines (Aeris™ Wx1000, Endure, Aspect and EcoLite) and many styles including bay windows, architectural windows, slider windows, casement windows and double hung windows, plus a multitude of glass options. • Siding Options – Choose from 9 different vinyl siding types, including our #1 Recommended CedarMAX™ and #1 Best Buy HeartTech™, and 32 siding colors. • Manufactured Stone Options - Choose from eight different stone styles and a variety of colors. • Browse videos, photo galleries and brochures. • Access product installation guides. (Dealer Edition) • Obtain product pricing. (Dealer Edition) • Direct-connect product ordering to entryLINK. (Dealer Edition) • Once downloaded, this free app can be used without an internet connection.
Buyam
This platform facilitates online buying and selling by enabling direct chat between buyers and vendors. Users can negotiate prices, replicating the in-person market experience. It aims to offer a more personal and interactive e-commerce environment.
- Direct buyer-vendor chat
- Price negotiation
- Face-to-face market experience
- Online buying and selling
- Interactive e-commerce
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Buyam is an online market with the sole objective of giving buyers that exact experience and feeling they get when buying directly (face-to-face) from a market or shop by allowing them to chat with the vendor thereby negotiating the price of the product and both parties coming to an agreement. This feature of allowing buyers negotiate price of items they normally do in a market is what makes Buyam different from all other existing e-commerce applications.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Buyam at 100% against ProVia's 21%. Buyam also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). ProVia's advantage is ratings volume (36 vs 10) and iOS requirement (12.2 vs 14.0). 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.
Buyam holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of ProVia's written reviews are positive against 100% of Buyam's.
ProVia ships an update every 6 weeks, Buyam every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ProVia | Buyam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (36 ratings) | 4.3 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3.5 GB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PROVIA LLC | AfroVisioN Group Ltd |
Customer experience
ProVia
Buyam
In-app purchases
ProVia
No in-app purchases
Buyam
No in-app purchases








