Comparison

ETM.next vs WorkLens

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

Head to head
About

ETM.next

Features
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BearingPoint together with SAP are working together to deliver a user friendly and easy to use mobile app to help companies from construction industry to manage their business. The app supports three important activities that are frequent between construction sites and yards that need to exchange resources and do business. Among these are Inspection, Safety and Compliance, Inventory and Handovers.

About

WorkLens

Features
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Your work photos and your personal life shouldn’t share the same camera roll. A photo of a fuse box ends up next to a beach selfie, a receipt hides between family snaps, and when a client asks for β€œthat photo from Tuesday,” you’re scrolling forever to find it. WorkLens solves this. Everything you capture for work β€” photos, videos, receipts and notes β€” gets its own place on your iPhone, completely separate from your personal gallery and stored only on your device. Here is what you can actually do with it: Keep work and personal apart. Photos and videos you take inside WorkLens stay inside WorkLens. They never land in your camera roll, so your personal pictures stay private and your work stays easy to find. Organise everything by project. Group photos, videos, notes and appointments per job, client or address, so a whole assignment lives in one place instead of scattered across your phone. Turn a photo into text. Snap a receipt, a label, a serial plate or a meter reading and WorkLens reads the text for you and saves it as a note, so you never have to squint and retype numbers by hand again. Export a clean PDF in one tap. WorkLens bundles a project’s photos, notes and details into a tidy report with a cover page, ready to email or hand to your client straight from your phone. Plan appointments with calendar sync. Schedule a site visit or a handover, and with one switch WorkLens adds it to your own iPhone Calendar, reminder included. Run quick calculations on the spot. The built-in smart calculator works out measurements or quantities and drops the result straight into your notes. Calculate directly from a photo. Take a photo of a room, wall, floor or work area and let WorkLens help calculate dimensions, areas and quantities, with results that can be saved straight into your project notes. Made for the way people really work: * Estate agents building a photo record for each property. * Cafe owners and freelancers keeping receipts together for the books. * Electricians, plumbers and other trades documenting every job. * Photographers and inspectors who need each assignment kept apart. And the part that matters most: it is all local. No account, no sign-up, no cloud, no ads and no tracking. Everything stays on your iPhone and works without a connection, whether you are in a basement, on a remote site or on a plane. If you use iCloud Backup, your WorkLens data is included automatically, under your own account. Download WorkLens and give your work the place it deserves. Available in English and Dutch, with light and dark themes.

Screenshots

ETM.next4 screens
WorkLens4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: WorkLens at every 2 days against ETM.next's every 9 days. ETM.next's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ETM.next ships an update every 9 days, WorkLens every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
ETM.next versus WorkLens: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterETM.nextWorkLens
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size47 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBearingPointLiam van t Hoff

In-app purchases

None

ETM.next

No in-app purchases

None

WorkLens

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ETM.next free?
ETM.next is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WorkLens free?
WorkLens is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ETM.next or WorkLens have ads?
Neither ETM.next nor WorkLens shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ETM.next or WorkLens?
ETM.next ships an update every 9 days, and WorkLens every 2 days. Most recently, ETM.next was updated on November 3, 2026 and WorkLens on November 5, 2026.

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