Comparison

Tricity vs Plugnotes

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

Plugnotes

Features
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Plugnotes allows you to automate and digitize the operational flows of your SME. Thanks to our mobile application coupled with our web platform, create digital forms to capture information on the field. Our application integrates with all types of tools you already have in-house (Excel, ERP, CRM,...) without a single line of code. - Your teams still rely on inefficient processes, including paperwork and transcription. - It is very tough to find, consult or analyze your information, documents and files. - You are tired of spending thousands of dollars on IT development - You don't want to rely on your IT teams and external consultants when you want to improve a process within your company. Plugnotes is the solution to your problems. It has been designed as a toolbox to automate and optimize the workflows of your SME. 1. Improve and organize your business processes. 2. Capture your data via online and offline digital forms. 3. Create your forms with 30+ advanced formats (electronic signature, geolocation, forms, etc.) 4. Attach any file to your forms (photo, video, notes, voice message, etc.) 5. Collaborate and share your digital forms with external parties and internal collaborators via QR-code scanning. 6. Retrieve and export your data in different formats (pdf, excel, etc.) 7. Integrate and automate your forms with your existing tools (ERP, CRM, Google Sheets, Excel,...). Our interface has been built to be extremely easy to use and brings together the best features of your existing tools by offering six main advantages: 1. Lighten your IT teams Free up their schedule by digitizing some processes yourself in a few minutes, without technical skills. 2. Collaborate efficiently Make it available to all your field and office staff and other stakeholders for an immediate launch, with no training required. 3. Stay up-to-date Collect all business-related data and files for easy analysis and process improvement, wherever you are. 4. Reduce costs Avoid development, consulting, and license integration expenses by discovering a flexible solution at a great price. 5. Save a lot of time Organize and digitize your processes to save your teams the work of transcription, centralization, and research. 6. Increase your revenues Improve existing processes and make data-driven decisions to increase your company's daily ROI. Download Plugnotes now, create your first digital forms, and join the user community to take your small business operations to the next level.

Screenshots

Plugnotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Plugnotes at Free against Tricity's $89.99. Plugnotes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 7, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tricity versus Plugnotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTricityPlugnotes
Price$89.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNetwalkPlugnotes

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

Plugnotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tricity free?
Tricity costs $89.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Plugnotes free?
Plugnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tricity or Plugnotes have ads?
Neither Tricity nor Plugnotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tricity or Plugnotes?
Tricity ships an update every 4 weeks, and Plugnotes every 4 weeks. Most recently, Tricity was updated on August 7, 2026 and Plugnotes on September 16, 2026.

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