Comparison

Canvass vs GroundForce

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

Head to head
About

Canvass

This mobile sales tool helps outside sales teams track leads, manage their pipeline, and monitor performance. It provides visibility into sales activities and metrics for both individual reps and managers, aiming to boost team productivity.

Highlights
  • Field sales tracking
  • Lead and prospecting visibility
  • Pipeline management
  • Lead follow-up
  • Sales performance tracking
  • Territory management
Features
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Canvass is a mobile sales software used by outside sales teams, for field sales tracking and by direct sales and door-to-door sales teams. Canvass seamlessly allows visibility into sales leads and prospecting, pipeline management, lead follow up, sales team and individual sales rep performance and territory management. Canvass keeps the sales rep from having to dive into the CRM while giving them and sales managers complete visibility into deal flow and the metrics behind it to help drive more productive sales teams. CANVASS MOBILE SALES APP "Canvass teaches our reps how to improve their numbers while they're selling.” We'll never use another sales app." Doug Robinson, CEO LGCY Power

About

GroundForce

Enhance neighborhood marketing with real-time analytics and efficient territory deployment. Focus on homeowner experience and reduce data entry errors. Gain insights into conversion rates with interactive mapping.

Highlights
  • Real-time analytics
  • Territory deployment
  • Homeowner experience focus
  • Interactive map
  • Conversion rate insights
  • Reduced data entry errors
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GroundForce is built to improve aspects of your neighborhood marketing program allowing your team to devote more time to improving through real time analytics, ease in deploying territory and a focus on a positive homeowner experience. This will remove opportunity for data entry errors, increase production out of specific targeted areas with an interactive map and gain a deeper understanding of conversion rates. Invite only. You must have login to access For more information on Renewal by Andersen, please visit www.renewalbyandersen.com

Screenshots

Canvass4 screens
GroundForce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Canvass at 80% against GroundForce's 0%. Canvass also leads on rating (4.2 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 27 months). GroundForce's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Canvass holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Canvass has 146 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Canvass's written reviews are positive against 0% of GroundForce's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Canvass ships an update every 2 weeks, GroundForce every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Canvass versus GroundForce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCanvassGroundForce
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (146 ratings) — better2.9 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews80.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings146 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 27 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDVLOPRenewal By Andersen LLC

Customer experience

Canvass

All ratings146 ratings
Positive80.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative17.8%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive80.3%
Neutral2.8%
Negative16.9%

GroundForce

All ratings19 ratings
Positive42.1%
Neutral10.5%
Negative47.4%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Canvass

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App not fully updated at times
  • Zoom feature not zooming as much as before
  • GPS and Pins are misplaced and inaccurate
  • Phones getting extremely hot
  • Location setting drains battery quickly
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  • Leaderboard feature prompts a restart (iOS 15.4.1)
  • Blank screen on app launch
  • Lost years of data input for former users
  • App doesn't recognize company names for login
  • Recent update halted opportunity address self-population
  • Super glitchy app
  • Unable to get started due to company name recognition issue

Requested features

9 requests
  • Integrate Project Sunroof button for sunlight hours
  • Make pins from other users disappear after 6 months
  • Update location setting once a new house is clicked
  • Prioritize 'Not interested', 'Not home', and 'Callbacks' as primary buttons
  • Add a tab to track numbers
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  • Include a reset homes feature
  • Allow seamless upload of large lead data volumes
  • Improve zoom functionality
  • Make pins from other users disappear after a certain period

GroundForce

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Canvass

No in-app purchases

None

GroundForce

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Canvass free?
Canvass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GroundForce free?
GroundForce is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Canvass or GroundForce?
Canvass is rated higher. Canvass averages 4.2 out of 5 from 146 ratings, while GroundForce averages 2.9 from 20 ratings.
Do Canvass or GroundForce have ads?
Neither Canvass nor GroundForce shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Canvass or GroundForce?
Canvass ships an update every 2 weeks, and GroundForce every 27 months. Most recently, Canvass was updated on September 25, 2026 and GroundForce on September 12, 2026.

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