InspectNow vs emdee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
InspectNow
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InspectNow is your go-to app for seamless inspection audit activities, whether you’re using standard templates or creating your own custom ones. Designed to empower you from start to finish, InspectNow simplifies everything from template creation to comprehensive inspection reporting—all from your mobile device. Key Features: • Offline Access: Perform inspections anywhere, even without internet. • Custom Templates: Create, clone, edit, and manage templates with ease. • Inspection Management: Initiate, edit, and complete inspections efficiently. • Data Sync: Sync all your data effortlessly with the server. • Detailed Reports: Generate, view, and send professional inspection reports instantly. • Corrective Actions: Address issues by creating corrective actions directly from inspection items or questions. • Visual Documentation: Capture photos, add text, and annotate to highlight issues or direct attention to key points. • Industry-Standard Templates: Use ready-to-go templates designed by industry experts. • Section Grouping: Organize inspection items into sections for more streamlined workflows. • Inspection Summary: Add summaries to provide a final verdict on inspections. • Cloud Backup: Automatic cloud backup ensures your data is safe and accessible. • Collaborative Workspaces: Organizations can easily add users to collaborate in a unified space. • Unlimited Data & Storage: No limits on the number of inspections or templates you create. • Diverse Report Formats: Access and download various report formats through our web interface. InspectNow isn’t just about inspections—it’s about collecting actionable data, empowering decision-making, and delivering results. Whether you’re in the field or in the office, InspectNow ensures your inspections are fast, efficient, and thoroughly documented.
emdee
Edit Markdown files directly in a formatted view without switching modes. This app offers a true WYSIWYG experience for creating and modifying documents, including tables, lists, and images, while ensuring your files remain plain .md.
- True WYSIWYG Markdown editing
- Edit directly in formatted view
- Supports headings, bold, italic, lists, tables
- Image insertion and display
- Export to PDF, HTML, plain text
- Table of contents generation
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A .md file from an AI chat, full of # and **. A browser can show it to you. emdee lets you rewrite it — in that same clean, formatted view. You don't need to switch between a reading mode and an editing mode. You edit the document while it stays clean and properly formatted, exactly as a .md document should look. Headings stay heading-sized, tables stay tables, and you type directly into the document. Want bold? Select the text and tap the button. You never type the symbols, and you never see them. Save, and it's still a plain .md file. ■ When you'd use it You saved an AI answer as .md — now you want it in your own words, not just readable AI drafted your travel plan or checklist — now the dates and details need to be yours You want to keep notes and minutes in .md, without looking up syntax as you write ■ What you can actually edit "emdee" is not a viewer — it's a true WYSIWYG Markdown editor. All of this works right in the formatted view: Headings (six levels), bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code, links Bullet lists, numbered lists, and checklists you can tick with a tap Block quotes, code blocks, horizontal rules Tables: insert with one button, and add or delete rows and columns from that same button's menu. Line breaks inside cells are supported Find and replace — Replace All comes back with a single undo It all sits in the format bar along the bottom, which rises with the keyboard so you can change formatting mid-sentence ■ Images An image in the same folder as the document you have open is drawn right there in the text. So is one in a folder below it. PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP and SVG are drawn. So are images on the web (https://) HEIC — what an iPhone camera writes — is not drawn. Export it as JPEG and it is The first time, emdee asks permission to read that folder — one button, and it never asks again Anything it cannot draw shows its path in a frame instead The image button on the format bar puts one in. An image from outside the document's folder is copied into that folder first, and a file of the same name is never overwritten. What gets written is a relative path, so hand the images over along with the document. Exported HTML and PDF have the pictures embedded, so they travel on their own. The  in your file is not touched by any of this. ■ More features Table of contents — tap a heading to jump there. On iPad it opens as a column beside your text instead of covering it Print, and export to PDF, HTML, or plain text. Lines break on paper exactly where they break on screen, and tables never split mid-row across pages Light, dark, or follow the system Body text can follow the system text size or stay at a size you choose, and the line width is yours: fit the screen, or match A4 print ■ What you write stays a .md No proprietary format, no importing. The file you have open is the .md itself, opened in place where it lives — no copy is made. It saves back readable by GitHub, VS Code, Obsidian — anything. Even details like line breaks inside table cells are written the standard way, as an HTML br tag. Line endings (LF / CRLF / CR) and text encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, and legacy encodings such as Shift_JIS) are preserved exactly as the file was opened. Files made on Windows keep their format intact. ■ One purchase — iPhone, iPad, and Mac The same document, on the same page layout, wherever you open it. ■ What emdee doesn't do File management belongs to the Files app, and sync belongs to iCloud Drive. There is no proprietary notes database and no cloud service. The only thing open is your .md file. Images are looked for inside the folder your document is in, and nowhere else. A reference pointing outside it (../ or an absolute path) is not drawn, and neither are HEIC, AVIF or TIFF files, or images over roughly 8 MB (24 MB per document). Anything that cannot be drawn shows its path in a frame instead. Questions and bug reports are welcome — see the support page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: InspectNow at Free against emdee's $7.99. InspectNow also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). emdee's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On 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
InspectNow is free to download; emdee costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
InspectNow ships an update every 2 months, emdee every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | InspectNow | emdee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 157 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brute Squad Services | Keita Eto |
In-app purchases
InspectNow
No in-app purchases
emdee
No in-app purchases









