Material Now vs InEight Explore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Material Now
This app helps contractors manage concrete and bulk material deliveries, track job site performance, and monitor project status in real time. Field crews can monitor truck movements and communicate with suppliers, while managers can oversee project progress, place orders, and review financials from any device.
- Real-time delivery tracking
- Job site performance monitoring
- Project status updates
- Truck tracking
- Messaging with suppliers
- Financial overview
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Material Now lets contractors track concrete and bulk material deliveries, job site performance, and project status in real time. If you have a smart phone or tablet, you’ll have the updates you need to make informed decisions. Crews in the field can track trucks, exchange messages with materials suppliers, get alerts and avoid problems. Managers can follow project and crew performance, request new orders and check financials – all from a mobile device or online.
InEight Explore
Access standard, custom, and shared dashboards, plus embedded content, from your mobile device. Stay updated with changes made in a browser for faster decision-making on the go.
- Access dashboards
- View embedded content
- Real-time updates
- Customizable views
- Shared content
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The InEight Explore mobile app provides access to standard, custom, and shared dashboards, as well as embedded content, on the go. Changes made in a browser are reflected in the app, allowing for faster decision-making.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: InEight Explore at 5.0 against Material Now's 3.6. Material Now's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). 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.
InEight Explore holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Material Now has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Material Now ships an update fortnightly, InEight Explore every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Material Now | InEight Explore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BCMI Corporation | InEight Inc |
Customer experience
Material Now
InEight Explore
In-app purchases
Material Now
No in-app purchases
InEight Explore
No in-app purchases
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