Palm vs UpdatePromise App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Palm
Create professional home inspection reports directly from your mobile device. This app streamlines the inspection process, allowing you to document findings, customize templates, and email reports to clients instantly, saving you time and enhancing your business.
- Create inspection reports in the field
- Customize templates on PC
- Email reports directly to clients
- Intuitive and fast interface
- Cut, copy, and paste options for edits
- Connects to business management portal
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This App is a companion to our PC based product and business management portal. Using the app, licensed Palm-Tech Version 9 users create home inspection reports in the field with the business management portal giving you even more tools to save you time and grow your business. Make the most of your time on-site and produce professional looking reports without spending extra time back at the office. Thousands of home inspectors have downloaded the Palm-Tech app and use it daily to quickly document inspection findings and create the best looking reports in the industry. Palm-Tech Plus delivers a brand new app designed to save even more time when creating reports and connects automatically to your business management portal. Palm-Tech gives you the ability to email your inspection reports to clients directly from your mobile device. This means you can start, finish and deliver your report all from your iPhone or iPad. This is exactly what you need and will save you time! Not All Apps Are Created Equal - The Palm-Tech Advantage Palm-Tech has been built from the ground up to be used in the field by home inspectors like you. It’s been around for 20 years and is constantly improved to make it easier for you to do your job. • The Fastest - An intuitive interface and multiple options for entering information add up to the fastest app for entering inspection information. • Most Flexible App - Fully customize your templates on your PC and send them over to your app. Make changes on the fly with cut, copy, paste options. • Easy to learn - Free training webinars, tons of step by step HOW TO documents and lots of video tutorials - you’ll be an expert in no time! • Customer Service - Call us Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm Eastern time and you get a live voice in the US ready to help. Call us today at 888-736-2462 and see for yourself.
UpdatePromise App
Document inspection results, capture photos and videos of items needing repair, and submit data directly to your desktop inspection form. This mobile tool extends the Digital Multi Point inspection capabilities for technicians.
- Document inspection results
- Capture photos and videos
- Submit data to desktop forms
- Digital Multi Point inspection extension
- Technician-focused tool
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By using your mobile device together with the UpdatePromise App, you can document inspection results, take photos and videos of items needing repair or maintenance, and submit data back to your desktop inspection form seamlessly. This app is intended to be used by existing subscribers of the UpdatePromise Consumer Experience suite and is an extension of the Digital Multi Point inspection tool for technicians only.
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Verdict
Palm and UpdatePromise App both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 73% of Palm's written reviews are positive against 0% of UpdatePromise App's. Palm also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 6) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Palm against 4.3 for UpdatePromise App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Palm's written reviews are positive against 0% of UpdatePromise App's.
Palm ships an update every 2 months, UpdatePromise App every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 2, 2026 and August 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Palm | UpdatePromise App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (19 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Porch.com, Inc. | Flash of Genius, Incorporated |
Customer experience
Palm
UpdatePromise App
In-app purchases
Palm
No in-app purchases
UpdatePromise App
No in-app purchases
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