zInspector 3 vs CINC Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
zInspector 3
Streamline property inspections with a mobile app designed for property managers, real estate agents, and homeowners. Capture, tag, and organize property details with photos, generate reports, and collaborate with teams. Ideal for tracking leasing, management, and maintenance activities.
- Automated property photo management
- On-site property inspection tools
- Dynamic pictorial property timeline
- Secure cloud storage
- One-touch smart report generation
- 360 panoramic image embedding
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zInspector delivers responsive, reliable customer service. Before leaving negative feedback, please email us at support@zinspector.com. We strive to resolve any issue or add the features you need! Fall 2019: Brand new app & website experience—modern interface, greatly enhanced customization, fast camera, & background uploads! zInspector is the essential property inspection solution for property managers, real estate agents, home maintenance & repair specialists, homeowners, and tenants. Get started today. Capture and tag property photos with ease using only a smartphone or tablet. Get organized instantly. Define, detail, and visually document any property, room-by-room, for any type of inspection. Track every leasing, management, and maintenance activity, as you automatically build up a comprehensive pictorial timeline for each property. Bypass paperwork with calendar scheduling, and sidestep hassles with powerful one-touch report generation options. Collaborate with your team like never before—whether on-site or in the office. Find and deliver what you need quickly with enhanced search and share capabilities. Experience efficient, focused interaction with property managers and real estate professionals, property owners, vendors, and tenants. Eliminate surprises, reduce confusion, and resolve disagreements or disputes over property conditions—even avoid them altogether with high-quality, documentation, including timestamped photos and side-by-side reports. Key Features: –Enjoy automated property photo management. –Employ powerful on-site property inspection tools. –Build a dynamic pictorial timeline for each property. –Rest assured with secure, reliable, redundant cloud storage. –Enjoy safe and secure data upload, whether in or out of WiFi. –Customize your experience for any activity type. –Compare move-in to move-out conditions in real time. –Access full-resolution images for detailed reference. –One-touch smart report generation and delivery. -Automatically embed capture and view 360 panoramic images from supported 360 cameras. 360 images may be embedded automatically into your inspection reports. Pricing: Free for any user with 5 or fewer properties.
CINC Manager
Streamline property inspections and work order management with real-time data access and offline capabilities. Record, track, and update violation inspections and work orders directly from your device, eliminating the need for paper reports and manual data entry.
- Real-time violation inspection and work order tracking
- Attach photos to violations and work orders
- Email communication within the app
- Offline inspection capabilities
- Search functionality for associations and properties
- Dark and Light Mode support
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CINC Manager has been fully redesigned and rewritten from the ground-up to provide you the best experience for recording and tracking Violation Inspections and Work Orders. Our new app, which will replace the current CINC Manager+ app, was designed by feedback from our clients and User Experience Design experts. CINC Manager is a fully integrated application that works with CINC Systems for Violation Inspections, Work Orders, & ACC Requests. With CINC Manager, you are able to view, track, and update CINC Systems data in real-time. The CINC Manager is an all-in-one app that eliminates the need for you to take along printed reports, notepads, cameras, and pens. Since the data access is real-time, you do not need to type this information in later or upload it after you return to the office. All the information you need to make decisions are available to you on-site with CINC Manager. Existing Features: • View, update, or create new Violation Inspections and Work Orders on-site with real-time access to your CINC Systems data. • Email communication directly within the app for Board/homeowner/vendor correspondence to provide better visibility and eliminate phone calls. • Attach photos using your device camera or photo library to new or existing Violations and Work Orders. These photos can then be added to your violation letters or emailed to vendors for work orders to eliminate confusion and provide a better understanding of the service problem. • Escalate a Violation to the next level or close any Violations that have been resolved. • Close Work Orders that have been completed. • Access closed Violations and Work Orders as well as view the status of any ACC requests that help you make more informed decisions during your inspections. • Re-open closed Violations and continue the process where you left off. New Features include: • CINC Manager is now a universal app that can be installed on both the iPad and iPhone. • Search functionality throughout the app to provide you quick access to the information you need. This includes searching for associations, properties, violations, work orders, and more! • A redesigned Work Order experience that includes pre-approved vendors to streamline the vendor assignment process (for Portfolio Management users only). • Dark and Light Modes so you can pick the best app experience to fit your personal needs. • CINC Manager can now be taken offline, all from the same app! If the neighborhood you are inspecting has a weak or no signal, you can download all the information you need ahead of time directly to your device in order to perform your inspections, all without having to be connected to a network. Once back online, you can then sync your inspections back up to CINC Systems. Best of all, there is no need to download a separate app to go offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: zInspector 3 at 98% against CINC Manager's 14%. zInspector 3 also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.6) and ratings volume (771 vs 48). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
zInspector 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: zInspector 3 has 771 ratings behind it against 48, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of zInspector 3's written reviews are positive against 14% of CINC Manager's.
zInspector 3 ships an update every 2 weeks, CINC Manager every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | zInspector 3 | CINC Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (771 ratings) — better | 2.6 (48 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.2% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 771 — better | 48 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scaled Tech Inc. | CINC Systems |
Customer experience
zInspector 3
CINC Manager
Bugs and requests
zInspector 3
Reported bugs
2 issues- Torchlight not working
- Slow rendering of interface
Requested features
3 requests- Torchlight feature for camera
- Sync with work order systems
- More customization options
CINC Manager
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
zInspector 3
No in-app purchases
CINC Manager
No in-app purchases
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