Materio vs Swatchbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Materio
Streamline interior design and construction projects with an all-in-one system. Visualize scope items on floor plans, manage client approvals, and track project fees. Facilitate team communication and decision-making for efficient project execution.
- Visual estimation on floor plans
- Automated selection list generation
- Project fee calculation
- Decision and discussion tracking
- Progress tracking
- Change order management
- Design selections management
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Bring your Materio projects to the job site. Check a plan, pull up a product detail, document an issue, or share installation instructions without heading back to your desk. Built for interior design and construction teams, Materio’s mobile app is the on-site companion to Materio on the web. Bring your project information with you and capture what happens on-site, even when there’s no reception. Find the details you need. View your project scope, floor plans, product information, boards, photos, and attachments. Locate an item on a plan with a tap, and move easily between plans and boards. Be ready, even without a signal. Download the projects you need before you leave. Product data, plans, board images, product photos, and attachments stay available offline. Comments and field notes you submit while offline sync automatically when you reconnect. Capture what’s happening on-site. Create a field note from a photo, mark it up, and add written details. Save a draft to finish later or send it when you’re ready. Leave comments as you walk the project, while the details are still fresh. Get information to the right people. Share photos from field notes and product attachments, including installation manuals, with your contacts. Send a floor plan to your contractor as an image, without annotations. Use Materio on the web to build and manage your projects. Take the details with you on mobile. New to Materio? Visit our website to learn more and get started. https://materio.co
Swatchbox
This app connects building professionals with material samples from leading brands. It streamlines the discovery and ordering process for architects and designers.
- Material sample discovery
- Order samples
- Top brand partnerships
- For building professionals
- Streamlined workflow
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Swatchbox brings architects, designers, and other building professionals material samples from the world's top brands.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Swatchbox at every 2 months against Materio's every 7 months. Swatchbox also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
Swatchbox holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Materio's written reviews are positive against 83% of Swatchbox's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Materio ships an update every 7 months, Swatchbox every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Materio | Swatchbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (9 ratings) | 4.7 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Materio, Inc. | Anguleris Technologies LLC. |
Customer experience
Materio
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In-app purchases
Materio
No in-app purchases
Swatchbox
No in-app purchases
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