Comparison

Instore Excellence vs Colect

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

Head to head
About

Instore Excellence

Streamline store operations with customizable audits, checklists, and surveys. Manage campaigns, communicate results, and track staff tasks. Features automated reporting and workflow setup for efficient business management.

Highlights
  • Create store audits, checklists, and surveys
  • Manage targeted campaigns
  • Communicate results to partners
  • Staff task registration and execution
  • Automated, targeted reporting
  • Setup automated business workflows
  • Export data for analysis
Features
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Easily create and execute store audits, checklists and survey. Manage targeted campaigns and easily communicate results to external partners. Communicate with staff and have store staff register store issues and execute on tasks and TODOs. View and get automated, targeted and actionable reporting (real-time or delivered to inbox). Setup automated business workflows. Export data for ad-hoc reporting and analysis. Apply your company branding to the app. Translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Swedish, Czech, Norwegian, Danish and Portuguese

About

Colect

Features
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The Colect Sales App is a B2B sales tool for fashion, footwear, sports apparel, outdoor, home interior and bodywear brands to showcase and sell their collections digitally. Sales agents and clients have access to digital lookbooks with collection imagery, videos, information, live pricing and delivery details. Orders can be placed directly in the Sales App and are processed instantly by the back-office system. Colect Sales App is fully integrated with many back office systems like Dynamics NAV, Dynamics AX, SAP, K3 PebbleStone, M3, itSuitsFashion, C5, Softwear, XL-ENZ, NetFashion and many more. Functionalities: Digital lookbooks to replace physical lookbooks saving resources and increasing sustainability. Key Looks & Shop-the-look designed to encourage clients to buy a complete look in just one mouse click. Intuitive order flow to quickly find items, easily submit orders and check order history whenever wherever. Direct link to ERP to manage and place orders for multiple customers. Real-time stock levels, the most recent product information and back-office data all accessible online and offline.

Screenshots

Instore Excellence4 screens
Colect2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Colect at every 2 weeks against Instore Excellence's every 6 weeks. Instore Excellence's advantage is iOS requirement (12.2 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Instore Excellence ships an update every 6 weeks, Colect every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Instore Excellence versus Colect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInstore ExcellenceColect
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.2 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInstore ExcellenceApptitude BV

In-app purchases

None

Instore Excellence

No in-app purchases

None

Colect

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Instore Excellence free?
Instore Excellence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Colect free?
Colect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Instore Excellence or Colect have ads?
Neither Instore Excellence nor Colect shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Instore Excellence or Colect?
Instore Excellence ships an update every 6 weeks, and Colect every 2 weeks. Most recently, Instore Excellence was updated on September 12, 2026 and Colect on September 18, 2026.

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