PanelVue vs Panel Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PanelVue
Create, manage, and maintain electrical equipment with this intuitive builder. Generate shareable and printable schedules, and access a centralized dashboard for all your panel schedules. Streamline your workflow and save valuable time.
- Intuitive panel builder
- Schedule creation
- Printable schedules
- Shareable schedules
- Centralized dashboard
- Equipment management
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PanelVue is the most powerful tool on the market to build, manage, and maintain electrical equipment. Save unnecessary time building panels, and use our intuitive builder to create schedules that can be shared and printed to any printer. PanelVue provides a dashboard to manage all your panel schedules in one convenient location. Try it out today!
Panel Manager
Streamline electrical panel scheduling directly from your mobile device. Quickly add circuit details, automatically calculate loads, and generate professional PDF reports for permits and inspections. Collaborate with your crew in real-time without needing individual accounts.
- Real-time load calculation
- Automatic space assignment
- 1-phase and 3-phase support
- Crew project sharing
- PDF export for permits
- Compact door label generation
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Panel Manager — Electrical Panel Schedules The fastest way to build and manage electrical panel schedules on the jobsite. No laptop. No paper. Just your phone. PANEL SCHEDULES Add circuits with breaker size, poles, phase, and load. Panel Manager auto-assigns spaces, calculates phase loads, and flags overloads in real time. Supports 1-phase and 3-phase panels. CREW SHARING Create a free account and share any project with your crew using a 6-character code. They download the schedule instantly — no account required to join. PDF EXPORT Export a full-size panel schedule PDF for permits and inspections, or a compact door label for the panel pocket. PANEL MANAGER PRO One-time purchase. Unlimited projects and panels, crew sharing, PDF export with company branding. No subscription. No ads. panelmngr.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PanelVue at none against Panel Manager's 1. PanelVue also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). Panel Manager's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Panel Manager sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PanelVue asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PanelVue against 5.0 for Panel Manager. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
PanelVue ships an update every 5 months, Panel Manager every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PanelVue | Panel Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PanelVue | MICHAEL ANTHONY SLOCUM JR |
Customer experience
PanelVue
Panel Manager
In-app purchases
PanelVue
No in-app purchases
Panel Manager
- Panel Manager Pro$9.99
