Skimmer Pro vs Pool Brain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skimmer Pro
This app provides comprehensive tools for pool service professionals to manage their business. It offers features for route optimization, customer management, work order creation, service history tracking, and invoicing. The app allows for online and offline use, ensuring data is always accessible and synced.
- Manage and optimize routes
- Track readings and dosages
- Create work orders
- Access customer service histories
- Generate invoices
- Work online or offline
- Provide proof of service photos
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Pool service software for the modern pool pro. Everything you need to run your pool service business, all in one app.™ Learn more: https://getskimmer.com Watch demo video: https://getskimmer.com/Demo Sign up: https://getskimmer.com/Account/Register • Manage & Optimize Routes • Manage Multiple Properties & Multiple Bodies of Water • Create Work Orders (Both Repairs & Recurring Jobs) • Work Online or Offline via Mobile App • Easily Track & Enter Readings & Dosages • Access Customer Service Histories • Manage Customer Equipment • Create General & Customized Checklists • Manage Parts & Purchasing via Shopping List • Provide Proof of Service Photos • Deliver Beautiful Completed Service Emails • Easily Generate Invoices and Bill Your Customers • Produce Reports for Usage, Profit, Labor, Installed Items, and Dosages • Send Bulk Emails to All or Some of the Customer Base WORK ONLINE OR OFFLINE Skimmer works the same whether you have an internet connection or not. You shouldn't have to think about it, and now you don't. Plus, it automatically syncs to the Cloud, so your data is always safe. CUSTOMER INFO With Skimmer, you always have the most up-to-date customer information with you. Track all your customers, each with the ability to have multiple locations and bodies of water. Always have up-to-date contact information, wherever you go. ROUTE MANAGEMENT & OPTIMIZATION Everything you need to customize and optimize routes, along with tracking all your service stop data. See your route on a map, along with distance and time to complete. Easily move stops to a different day or from one tech to another. KNOW WHERE YOUR TECHS ARE With just a glance you know where each and every tech is, when they started, and when they should finish for the day. With a simple tap, you can see their entire day’s route and service stop details, so you can manage and grow your business with more information than ever before. SERVICE HISTORY Easily see a pool’s entire service history. Color coding shows when a pool’s chemistry was out of range. Quickly find when parts were installed or the last time a checklist item was performed. TRACK READINGS AND DOSAGES Skimmer is the fastest way to enter all your readings and dosages. Review chemical history to identify issues before they happen. Track your chemical usage and costs by customer, location, or tech to ensure you’re charging enough. SHOPPING LIST Ever forget to buy a part, or install it, or even bill for it? Skimmer tracks a part from the moment it's needed until the time it's billed for. So nothing ever gets forgotten. SERVICE EMAILS Email your customers beautiful service reports automatically when you finish each route stop. Include proof of service photos along with chemical readings and dosages. WORK ORDERS Easily manage repairs, service calls, and even recurring items like filter cleans. Add customized checklists and tasks to different work order types. Then when you’re done, send an email report to your customers with photos and captions showing them what you did. INVOICING Say goodbye to spending hours processing invoices. No more wasting hours just to get paid. With Skimmer's invoice generation, you can do an entire month's billing in just five minutes! REPORTING Skimmer generates reports on all aspects of your service such as invoicing, profitability, labor, chemical dosages, and installed parts and products. Skimmer reports make it easy to forecast chemical needs and make rate adjustments for unprofitable customers. BROADCAST EMAILS Communicate to some or all of your customers with ease! Target customers by tag, service date, or route assignment to send messages, alerts, and promotions. Advise customers of incoming storms, service date changes, or service reminders for equipment in just a few clicks. Get the Skimmer pool service app today!
Pool Brain
Streamline pool service operations with automated job data analysis and alerts. Manage routes, track equipment, and monitor costs efficiently, even without a signal. Ensures thorough service with guided workflows and unskippable checklists.
- Automated job data analysis
- Route optimization
- Chemical dosing instructions
- Equipment tracking
- Guided workflow
- Cost tracking
- Offline functionality
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Automatically analyzes job data and alerts you to things you need to see. No Alerts? No problems. No time wasted on random follow-ups in 100+ degrees. -No Signal Needed To Function -Chemical Dosing Instructions -View Route on Map -Optimize route or drag and drop -Track Equipment -Checklists Can't Be Skipped or Cheated -Guided Workflow -Cost Tracking -Customizable
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skimmer Pro at 4.6 against Pool Brain's 4.0. Skimmer Pro also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (3.5K vs 258). Pool Brain's advantage is review sentiment (65% vs 47%). 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.
Skimmer Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skimmer Pro has 3.5K ratings behind it against 258, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Skimmer Pro's written reviews are positive against 65% of Pool Brain's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Skimmer Pro ships an update every 10 days, Pool Brain weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skimmer Pro | Pool Brain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.5K ratings) — better | 4.0 (258 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.0% of reviews | 64.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 258 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 243 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skimmer LLC | Pool Brain LLC |
Customer experience
Skimmer Pro
Pool Brain
Bugs and requests
Skimmer Pro
Reported bugs
6 issues- Disappearing functionality
- Buggy photo uploads
- Freezing and crashing
- Rerouting issues
- Syncing problems
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- Unreliable data entry
Requested features
6 requests- Add photo upload from device
- Enable invoicing from app
- Add Waze integration
- Allow editing of time in/out
- Add pool chemical calculator
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- Enable advance billing
Pool Brain
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Skimmer Pro
No in-app purchases
Pool Brain
No in-app purchases
Questions
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