Viking Electric vs Visual Installer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Viking Electric
Manage your business account, view product details, and place orders on the go. This app helps you find products, check real-time pricing and availability, and track shipments to improve efficiency.
- Product information lookup
- Real-time price and availability
- Shipment tracking
- Order placement and status
- Create product lists
- Barcode scanning for quick orders
- Find local branches
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Use our app to view product information, manage your account and place orders anywhere your job takes you. Save time and become more efficient by using our app to: • Find products • View real-time price and availability • View active shipments • Place orders and track their status • Create lists of frequently ordered products • Find your local branch • Scan UPC barcodes • Quickly create orders using the quick scan • Register for an account • View open orders and quotes
Visual Installer
This app simplifies lighting control installation and documentation. It uses project floor plans to scan devices, record installation status, and track design changes in real-time. It also facilitates collaboration among project stakeholders.
- Scan lighting control devices
- Capture real-time installation status
- Record exact device locations
- Track design changes
- Real-time collaboration tool
- Utilize project floor plans
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The Visual Installer mobile app streamlines lighting control installation and as-built workflows. Using project floor plans and risers that are made available in the app, users scan lighting control devices to capture real-time installation status, exact device locations, and design changes. In addition, the Visual Installer app also serves as a real-time collaboration tool for other project stakeholders, such as construction managers, project owners, and installers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visual Installer at 100% against Viking Electric's 46%. Visual Installer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.8). Viking Electric's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Visual Installer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Viking Electric has 30 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Viking Electric's written reviews are positive against 100% of Visual Installer's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Viking Electric | Visual Installer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (30 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sonepar Management US, Inc | Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc |
Customer experience
Viking Electric
Visual Installer
In-app purchases
Viking Electric
No in-app purchases
Visual Installer
No in-app purchases
