SmartRock vs DroneDeploy Ground App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartRock
Monitor concrete projects in real-time with sensor data. Receive custom notifications, generate quality assurance reports, and manage team access. Seamlessly transmit data for advanced analysis and long-term storage.
- Real-time concrete data monitoring
- Customizable threshold notifications
- Quality assurance report generation
- Data transmission to Giatec 360
- Team access management
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Stay in control of your concrete projects with the SmartRock App, a powerful tool that connects to our SmartRock sensors, allowing you to manage your sensor data effortlessly. Access critical information at your fingertips and make data-driven decisions with precision, streamlining your workflow and ensuring the highest standards in concrete monitoring! With the SmartRock App, you can: • Monitor Concrete Data in Real-Time: Stay updated with real-time temperature, strength, and other critical metrics directly from your mobile device. • Receive Notifications: Set your own thresholds to receive notifications tailored to your project needs. Get alerts the moment thresholds are exceeded, so you can address issues promptly and avoid costly delays. • Generate Reports: Create reports for quality assurance and share them with your team. • Transmit data to Giatec 360: Seamlessly transmit your data to our cloud-based dashboard, Giatec 360, for advanced analysis and long-term storage, giving you deeper insights into your project's performance. • Manage Team Access with Ease: Customize project access levels for each team member, ensuring everyone has the right tools and insights for their role.
DroneDeploy Ground App
Capture ground-level data for construction and industrial projects. Log in, connect a 360 camera or use your device's camera to take photos, and sync to the platform for processing and analysis. Collaborate, inspect, and integrate with industry tools.
- 360° panorama and walkthrough capture
- Standard photo capture
- Sync to DroneDeploy platform
- Team collaboration
- Project data inspection and annotation
- Integration with industry tools
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The DroneDeploy Ground app empowers businesses in construction, engineering, and other industrial sectors to efficiently document and manage ground-level data, providing a powerful complement to drone-based insights. DroneDeploy Ground is the next-generation ground capture app for project teams, including former StructionSite users. Note: This app is intended for enterprise users with an active DroneDeploy license. Simplify Ground-Level Data Capture in 3 Easy Steps: 1. Log in to your DroneDeploy account (trial or active license required). 2. Connect your 360 camera to capture 360° panoramas and 360° Walkthroughs, or use your device's camera to capture standard photos. 3. Sync your captures to the DroneDeploy platform for processing, sharing, and analysis. Once uploaded, your captures are processed and accessible through the DroneDeploy platform, where you can: • Collaborate with your team and stakeholders. • Inspect, compare, and annotate project data over time. • Integrate seamlessly with leading industry tools like Procore, Autodesk Build, and more. Supported Hardware: • Insta360 X5 • Insta360 X4 • Insta360 RS 1-inch • Ricoh Theta X • Ricoh Theta Z1 Visit our website for a complete list of supported hardware and to learn more about the DroneDeploy ecosystem. For Business and Professional Use: The DroneDeploy Ground app is a free companion tool for licensed DroneDeploy enterprise customers. A valid enterprise account is required for uploading and processing captures
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Verdict
SmartRock and DroneDeploy Ground App both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of SmartRock's written reviews are positive against 41% of DroneDeploy Ground App's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for SmartRock against 4.5 for DroneDeploy Ground App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 37 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of SmartRock's written reviews are positive against 41% of DroneDeploy Ground App's.
SmartRock ships an update every 2 weeks, DroneDeploy Ground App weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartRock | DroneDeploy Ground App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (13 ratings) — better | 4.5 (37 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 41.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 435 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Giatec Scientific Inc. | DroneDeploy |
Customer experience
SmartRock
DroneDeploy Ground App
Bugs and requests
SmartRock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
DroneDeploy Ground App
Reported bugs
68 issues- Spam email
- Freezes, lags, slow
- Constantly have to fight to log in
- Processing walks takes forever and is unreliable
- Fails to process a walk
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- Extremely hard to login into
- Lots of errors
- Reset password and still 50/50 shot
- Massive pain to get back into the app
- Have to redownload the app
- Glichy
- App doesn’t work on the new iPhone
- Won’t even open
- Very difficult if not impossible to use at times
- Won’t select the correct icon
- Can’t zoom in anymore
- Selection something approx an inch up and left from where clicking
- App constantly crashes
- Won’t load selected items
- Still feels like a beta version
- App often crashes and becomes unusable
- Disconnects from the camera
- States universal link is not recognized
- Does not upload
- Footage is sped up and unusable
- Only works on apple devices
- Does not stay connected to camera
- Cannot get any walks to stay active
- Camera has disconnected from the app automatically
- Cannot sync walks unless iPad is connected to WiFi
- Drawings need more than two supported file formats
- Need to upload drawing in advance
- No photos of the drawing supported
- New interface is glitchy and does not work well
- Crashes constantly
- Will not let you upload photos
- Does not allow you to sync
- Error message saying there’s no space on the device
- Force closes
- Never works
- Fails constantly
- Can’t login half the time
- App crashes a lot
- Crosshairs misalign all the time
- When clicking an existing pin, crosshairs put you way below the pin and create a new pin
- Very high chance of having to do a 360 walk again because of an error
- Difficult to upload in the background
- App needs to be open to upload
- Takes a long time to upload
- App and website are always crashing
- App doesn’t stay connected to the camera
- Icons don’t show up after you’ve taken photos
- App crashes frequently
- Takes 30 + seconds between photos
- Takes a good 10+ seconds to take your next photo
- Persistent bugs
- Frustrating user interface
- Logging points takes almost twice as long
- Deleting images or removing false points is unnecessarily complicated
- App freezes while a photo uploads
- Missing folders on ground app
- Cannot upload any photos because folders are missing
- Issues with the app not uploading data
- Occasionally completely loses photos
- Cannot delete anything on the app
- Have to delete the app to redownload
- Won’t save good uploads
- Not optimized for iPad
Requested features
8 requests- New update for Insta X4 air compatibility
- Android app support
- Downloadable PDF with active 360 photos
- Support for Insta360 One R camera
- iPad optimization
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- Ability to add pins to drawings in the app without internet
- Support for more than two drawing file formats
- Background uploads
In-app purchases
SmartRock
No in-app purchases
DroneDeploy Ground App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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