Comparison

Pico vs loadmate

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

Head to head
About

Pico

This app connects to a smart paint matching device to help you find paint colors. It allows you to scan colors and find their closest matches from popular paint brands. Save your scanned colors and create palettes for your projects.

Highlights
  • Scan colors with smart device
  • Find closest paint matches
  • Supports popular paint brands
  • Save scanned colors
  • Create custom palettes
Features
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The official companion app for the Pico smart paint matching device by Palette.

About

loadmate

This app helps caravan owners calculate towing weights to ensure safe and legal journeys. It offers smart load adjustments, weight distribution insights, and professional compliance checks for peace of mind on the road.

Highlights
  • Caravan & towing weight calculator
  • Smart load adjustments
  • Road trip planning
  • Weight distribution insights
  • Professional compliance checks
  • Intuitive design
Features
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Every trip starts with the same quiet question: are we under our ratings, and how do we actually know? loadmate answers it with one number. RigScore checks your whole rig, truck, trailer and everything you load, against your weight ratings and shows a 0–100 score with the working shown. Green means your numbers sit inside every rating. Anything less shows you what's over and what moves it, in plain language. Built on the numbers that matter in North America: GVWR, GCWR, GAWR, payload, tongue weight and pin weight, the same terms as your door placard and your scale ticket. WHAT'S IN THE APP Can I Tow It? Free for everyone. Shopping for a travel trailer, fifth wheel or tow vehicle? Enter the specs and see whether the combination works before you sign anything. No account needed. Your rig, profiled once. Truck and trailer specs, dry weights and ratings, hitch position, storage zones. Set it up once and the system runs underneath every screen. Cargo, where it actually rides. Assign gear to storage zones in the trailer and the truck. loadmate works out tongue weight and axle loads from where things sit, not just what they weigh. See the change before you make it. Shift 50 lb from the truck bed to the front compartment and watch tongue weight, axle loads and your RigScore move, before you touch a thing. Weigh-ins that stick. Pull onto a truck-stop scale once, enter the figures, and your baselines update. The score's confidence reflects how current your data is. Tire intelligence. Pressures, age and load margins are watched in the background and raised only when they matter. Maintenance, warranty and trips. Service items, warranty coverage and trip planning stay connected to the same rig profile, so nothing is tracked twice. Exceeding your ratings can complicate warranty claims, loadmate keeps your numbers where you can see them. More than one rig. A travel trailer and a boat, or two tow vehicles, switch setups and everything re-scopes. DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO TOW Plain language, big touch targets, nothing buried two menus deep. If you currently run your weights on a spreadsheet, this will feel like an upgrade, not a learning curve. FREE AND PRO Free: the full Can I Tow It? research tool, plus a complete demo rig so you can explore every feature with realistic numbers. Pro: your own rig, live RigScore, cargo tracking, weigh-ins, simulation, tires, maintenance, warranty and trips. One annual subscription, no tiers. Current pricing is always shown on this page and in the app. Auto-renews unless canceled in your App Store account settings at least 24 hours before the period ends. SUPPORT Questions to hello@loadmate.io Privacy policy: https://loadmate.io/privacy Terms of use: https://loadmate.io/terms

Screenshots

Pico4 screens
loadmate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: loadmate at freemium against Pico's subscription. loadmate also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). Pico's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Pico sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and loadmate sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pico ships an update monthly, loadmate every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pico versus loadmate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicoloadmate
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB107 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPalette4Thought RV Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Pico

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral7.7%
Negative15.4%

loadmate

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pico

Subscriptions2
  • NCS Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • NCS Yearly14 Days trial$79.991 Year
1 purchases

loadmate

Subscriptions1
  • loadmate Pro Annual$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Pico free?
Pico is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is loadmate free?
loadmate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pico or loadmate have ads?
Neither Pico nor loadmate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pico or loadmate?
Pico ships an update monthly, and loadmate every 3 days. Most recently, Pico was updated on October 7, 2026 and loadmate on October 8, 2026.

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