Comparison

Tricity vs iBouw

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tricity

Create professional electrical schemas and floor plans quickly and easily. Generate situation sketches, wire diagrams, and support for home automation, solar panels, and charging stations. Includes AREI 2023 compliance checks.

Highlights
  • Create floor plans from scratch or existing images
  • Add electrical components and fuse box layouts
  • Generate situation sketches and wire diagrams
  • Support for home automation, solar panels, and charging stations
  • AREI 2023 compliance checks
  • Diagrams for official inspections in Belgium and Netherlands
Features
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Has your electricity been rejected due to a missing situation sketch or floor plan? Or have you renovated your house and do you still have to draw up schemas? Don't worry: now you can make this quick and easy on your iPac! Fantastic right? Are you a professional electrician? Tricity is also the ideal tool to generate schemas for you! How? You can very quickly create a floor plan in Tricity (or start from an existing floor plan in JPG or PDF). After this you add the electrical components in the correct place (sockets, switches, lighting), after which you enter the layout of the fuse box. Finally, indicate which components are located behind which fuse and you're done. With 1 push of a button, Tricity generates the situation sketches (for all floors!) as well as the wire diagrams (for 1 or more fuse boxes). Tricity also generates diagrams for home automation installations (Niko Home Control, Bticino MyHome, KNX, ..) and allows you to add additional information to the diagrams (addressing metadata, ..). Tricity also generates diagrams for solar panel installations and allows additional information (brand of solar panel, inverter, battery, ...) to be added to the diagrams. Support for diagrams and inspections of charging stations is also provided (as well as additional information about type, etc.). Tricity is compatible with AREI 2026 (latest version). Tricity checks for AREI violations (e.g. a socket connected to 1.5mm2 cabling) and displays warnings. The diagrams can be used for official electricity inspections in Belgium and the Netherland. Terms of use: https://www.tricity.be/terms

About

iBouw

Features
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iBouw is a cloud solution for project management. The prime principle of our solution is the operational management of projects from a web interface (usually via a desktop computer) and an easy and rational encoding system done via a mobile application by workers on their smartphones. Your information’s are automatically sent and stored on the cloud and accessed in real time by the authorized company’s users. It works everywhere. All you need is an internet connection.

Screenshots

iBouw4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iBouw at Free against Tricity's $89.99. iBouw also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). Tricity's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iBouw is free to download; Tricity costs $89.99 up front. Tricity sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per 7 days. iBouw asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tricity ships an update every 4 weeks, iBouw every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tricity versus iBouw: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTricityiBouw
Price$89.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNetwalkCODROX SPRL

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Tricity

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$2.497 Days
  • Monthly subscription7 Days trial$9.491 Month
  • Annual subscription1 Month trial$90.991 Year
One-time1
  • Extra Project$8.99
None

iBouw

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tricity free?
Tricity costs $89.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is iBouw free?
iBouw is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tricity or iBouw have ads?
Neither Tricity nor iBouw shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tricity or iBouw?
Tricity ships an update every 4 weeks, and iBouw every 3 months. Most recently, Tricity was updated on October 24, 2026 and iBouw on October 16, 2026.

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