Comparison

ECI ScanIT vs CareAR

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

Head to head
About

ECI ScanIT

This mobile inventory management system simplifies and enhances the accuracy of inventory processes, from receiving to shipping. It allows users to scan barcodes on inventory, parts, and equipment using any mobile device, or manually enter quantities. The system seamlessly integrates with specific ERP software for efficient data collection and updates.

Highlights
  • Barcode scanning for inventory, parts, and equipment
  • Manual quantity entry
  • Integration with ECI e-automate and DDMSPLUS ERP
  • Streamlined shipping and receiving workflows
  • Reduced manual inventory tasks
  • Supports mobile device cameras and Bluetooth scanners
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ScanIT™ is a mobile inventory management system that streamlines and improves accuracy for inventory processes, from shipping to receiving. Whether in the warehouse or the field, ScanIT enables you to scan bar codes on inventory, parts, and equipment, using any mobile device. Or, simply enter the quantity on hand, no scanning required. ScanIT integrates with ECI's e-automate and DDMSPLUS ERP software allowing you an easy and accurate way of collecting data and seamlessly updating backend ERP systems. ScanIT streamlines inventory management workflows by reducing the time to count physical inventory, receive shipments from a vendor, send shipments to customers, and stage items in the warehouse. - Easy to learn and use - Increased productivity by reducing time-consuming, manual inventory management tasks - Streamlined processes created by eliminating redundant tasks across business functions - A better understanding of when variable inventory levels are necessary due to cycle counts, fluctuating demands, product promotions, and business cycles The ScanIT mobile application supports mobile devices with a built-in camera scanner, or pair with a handheld Socket Mobile Bluetooth® scanner. Quantity on hand can also be entered, no scanning required.

About

CareAR

This augmented reality platform offers visual support for customer service, field service, and IT staff. It enables self-solve content and remote AR guidance to reduce dispatches and speed up resolutions, enhancing safety and improving customer experiences.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality guidance
  • Live video collaboration
  • Annotation tools
  • Session recording
  • Multiparty support sessions
  • Rich analytics and dashboards
Features
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CareAR, a ResolveGrid brand, provides a smart augmented reality support platform visually enabling your customer service, field service, and IT service staff to drive greater outcomes and experiences. Deflect costly dispatches and reduce time-sensitive resolutions through self-solve content and remote AR guidance while enhancing safety. Your customers, employees, and field staff now have the next generation support tool to deflect and reduce downtime fast. CareAR provides enhanced augmented reality tools with immersive visual self-solve content, live video collaboration, live captions with real-time translation, transcription, screen sharing, measurement tool, and capturing pictures and video from support sessions into systems of record together as part of an end-to-end service management workflow, extending value to support teams. Features Multiparty: With CareAR's multiparty feature, you can invite as many collaborators as you like to work together in a live, high definition, remote solve session. Annotation Tools: With one of the industry's deepest AR toolboxes, CareAR users can annotate live video feeds as well as shared images, providing detailed visual guidance to quickly resolve problems. Session Recording: Hosts can enable session recording to capture video, audio, and AR annotations for post-session playback. Great for critiquing new hires, creating audit artifacts, building up knowledge base content, and more. Groups: For enterprises, organizing support teams into groups helps to better manage users and study team member performance. You can create groups based on job function, location, corporate organization, language spoken, skillset, or any other attribute. Reporting can be filtered based on group assignment. Rich Analytics and Dashboards: Administrators, managers, and team leaders get deeper insights in how teams are successfully resolving field issues by using the detailed dashboards provided by CareAR's admin portal. KPI Builder: Instrument those Key Performance Indicators that matter to your organization using CareAR’s custom KPI builder. Get your customer's perspective on how you're doing. Collect information in a structured manner for rapid feedback, rapid iteration. True ROI: Using the data made available from CareAR, you can determine the ROI improvements in performance, increased dispatch deflection, reduced resolution times, reduced truck rolls/onsite visits, and improved first-time fix rates.

Screenshots

ECI ScanIT4 screens
CareAR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CareAR at 100% against ECI ScanIT's 0%. CareAR also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.4). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

CareAR holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of ECI ScanIT's written reviews are positive against 100% of CareAR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ECI ScanIT versus CareAR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterECI ScanITCareAR
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (7 ratings)4.7 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings720 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB317 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperECi Software SolutionsResolve Grid AI Technologies Corp

Customer experience

ECI ScanIT

All ratings7 ratings
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

CareAR

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ECI ScanIT

No in-app purchases

None

CareAR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ECI ScanIT free?
ECI ScanIT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CareAR free?
CareAR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ECI ScanIT or CareAR?
CareAR is rated higher. ECI ScanIT averages 2.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while CareAR averages 4.7 from 20 ratings.
Do ECI ScanIT or CareAR have ads?
Neither ECI ScanIT nor CareAR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ECI ScanIT or CareAR?
ECI ScanIT ships an update every 2 months, and CareAR every 2 months. Most recently, ECI ScanIT was updated on October 6, 2026 and CareAR on October 21, 2026.

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