Comparison

EZ Inspect vs Overhead Long Beach

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

Head to head
About

EZ Inspect

Conduct virtual inspections remotely using video calls on a smartphone or tablet. This app allows users to review permits, schedule inspections, and perform them on-site, offering a more efficient alternative to in-person visits.

Highlights
  • Review permits
  • Schedule inspections
  • Perform remote inspections via video
  • Review inspection history
  • Efficient alternative to in-person inspections
Features
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Virtual inspections, an efficient alternative to in-person inspections, enable prompt service, productive follow-ups, and more specific scheduling. Virtual inspections are conducted between a customer (Contractor or homeowner) and a County inspector by using a video call on a smartphone or tablet. Features: • Review all permits ready for inspection • Schedule inspection • Perform inspection remotely on your site using video on a smartphone or tablet • Review inspection history

About

Overhead Long Beach

Features
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Quieter skies, signed by you. Overhead is a free, neighborhood-built app for residents who live under the Long Beach Airport flight path. One tap captures an overhead plane, the time, your location, your altitude estimate, and the actual decibel level of the noise. Then — when you're ready — Overhead opens your own Mail app with a pre-filled report addressed to the right people. You review it. You hit Send. The complaint goes out from your account, in your name, as constituent correspondence. That last part matters. In January 2026, a court tossed out a neighborhood lawsuit demanding stricter enforcement of LGB's noise ordinance. The judge ruled the city only has to act on noise it can individually prove. One resident, one email, one signed concern is exactly that. Anything an app sent on your behalf would land as "just an app" and get filtered out — yours can't. WHO THIS IS FOR California Heights, Bixby Knolls, Los Cerritos, and the rest of the neighborhoods that hear flight schools doing touch-and-go loops over their backyards from 6:30 AM to 11:45 PM. If that's you, this app was built for you. WHAT YOU GET • Tap to capture: photo or up to 8 seconds of video • Live decibel meter measures the actual noise level on capture • ADS-B + registry lookup pulls the aircraft's tail number, type, and owner/operator when available • Time, location, altitude, and ordinance status are recorded automatically • One-tap dispatch: opens your Mail app with the report pre-addressed • Real map of every report you've sent, color-coded by ordinance status • Compile any month into a single PDF for AAC public comment • Works offline — reports queue locally and send when you're back online PRIVACY THAT'S ACTUALLY PRIVATE Overhead has no visible account, no ads, and no analytics SDKs. Your full reports, photos, videos, decibel readings, coordinates, and notes live on your phone unless you choose to send a report through Mail. The app also sends a tiny anonymous tally row to our Supabase backend so the public observatory can count neighborhood activity. No tracking, no advertising IDs, no third-party analytics. NOT AFFILIATED with the City of Long Beach, Long Beach Airport, the FAA, or any government body. Overhead is an independent civic-tech project built by neighbors who got tired of waiting.

Screenshots

EZ Inspect4 screens
Overhead Long Beach3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Overhead Long Beach at every 2 days against EZ Inspect's every 2 months. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EZ Inspect ships an update every 2 months, Overhead Long Beach every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
EZ Inspect versus Overhead Long Beach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEZ InspectOverhead Long Beach
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSan Bernardino CountyAlexander Saldivar

In-app purchases

None

EZ Inspect

No in-app purchases

None

Overhead Long Beach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EZ Inspect free?
EZ Inspect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overhead Long Beach free?
Overhead Long Beach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EZ Inspect or Overhead Long Beach have ads?
Neither EZ Inspect nor Overhead Long Beach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EZ Inspect or Overhead Long Beach?
EZ Inspect ships an update every 2 months, and Overhead Long Beach every 2 days. Most recently, EZ Inspect was updated on November 3, 2026 and Overhead Long Beach on October 31, 2026.

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