EPA VSAT vs FARO Flatness Check
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EPA VSAT
This tool helps drinking water and wastewater systems assess risks from malevolent acts and natural hazards. It assists in evaluating improvements for enhanced security and resilience, aiding compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Risk assessment for water systems
- Resilience evaluation
- Security improvement assessment
- Compliance with Safe Drinking Water Act
- Assesses malevolent acts and natural hazards
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VSAT is a tool for assessing risk and resilience at drinking water and wastewater systems. It can be used to estimate risks from malevolent acts and natural hazards and to evaluate improvements for increased security and resilience. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) section 1433 requires that each community water system serving more than 3,300 people assess the risks to and resilience of its system from malevolent acts and natural hazards. EPA designed VSAT Web 3.0 to help water systems comply with SDWA section 1433.
FARO Flatness Check
Analyze and visualize floor flatness and levelness issues in real-time on an iPad. This app integrates with a specific laser scanner to provide instant feedback, mark issues, and facilitate on-site efficiency. Results can be easily documented and shared through cloud integration.
- Immediate analysis of floor flatness
- Visualization of levelness issues
- Augmented Reality for instant feedback
- On-site efficiency for data capture
- Direct FARO Sphere integration
- Convenient documentation and sharing
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FARO Flatness Check enables an immediate analysis and visualization of floor flatness and levelness issues on an iPad when using a FARO Focus (Premium, Core, M70, S70, S150, S350) laser scanner to capture real-time data. By leveraging Augmented Reality features, FARO Flatness Check enables instant issue marking and fixing by providing live feedback. FARO Flatness Check provides best on-site efficiency for data capture with the Focus Premium scanner in the concrete industry. Documenting and sharing analysis results becomes very convenient with FARO Flatness Check through its direct FARO Sphere integration.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EPA VSAT at 5.0 against FARO Flatness Check's 4.0. FARO Flatness Check's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
EPA VSAT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
EPA VSAT ships an update fortnightly, FARO Flatness Check every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EPA VSAT | FARO Flatness Check |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 320 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) | FARO Technologies Inc. |
Customer experience
EPA VSAT
FARO Flatness Check
In-app purchases
EPA VSAT
No in-app purchases
FARO Flatness Check
No in-app purchases
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