BIM 360 Field vs Structural Navigator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BIM 360 Field
This app provides field management software for construction projects, combining mobile technology with cloud collaboration. It helps improve quality, safety, and commissioning by putting critical information directly into the hands of field teams.
- Issue and checklist management
- Mobile access to project data
- Offline data access
- Drawing and photo markup
- Daily jobsite performance tracking
- Weather condition logging
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Autodesk® BIM 360™ Field is field management software for 2D and 3D environments that combines mobile technologies at the point of construction with cloud-based collaboration and reporting. BIM 360 Field puts critical information into the hands of those in the field, helping to measurably improve quality, safety, and commissioning for construction and capital projects of all types. ______________________ Issue and Checklist Management ◆ Create and manage issues and checklists on an iPad in the field ◆ Compile quality, safety, or commissioning checklist results for trades, scope, and/or time periods ◆ Preconfigured checklists help make inspections faster, and more consistent User Interface and Navigation ◆ Paper-like forms are familiar and easy to access and complete ◆ Link your BIM 360 Glue models to the BIM 360 Field equipment database to track progress ◆ Mark-up drawings and photos to illustrate issues and/or fortify checklists Accessibility and Collaboration ◆ Access the latest field data—whether you’re online or offline ◆ Share document changes with field and office teams instantly ◆ Store and distribute 2D construction drawings, BIM Models, plans, images, specs, and company policies Manage Daily Jobsite Performance ◆ Enter notes and upload pictures taken on the iPad to give a complete picture of what happened ◆ Daily Update feature provides a digital record/proof of jobsite conditions to share with stakeholder’s ◆ Track construction labor and manpower: Who is doing what, when and where ◆ Daily Update feature automatically collects and displays the current jobsite weather conditions ______________________ Autodesk BIM 360 Field mobile app is licensed under the following License and Services Agreement. Your download and/or use of the Autodesk BIM 360 Field mobile app shall serve as your acknowledgement to the terms of this License and Services Agreement with respect to your use of the Autodesk BIM 360 Field mobile app. Requirements: Requires iPad running iPadOS 13 or later.
Structural Navigator
View, query, and annotate 3D structural models on your mobile device. Navigate complex designs with intuitive controls, filter elements by properties, and check for clashes. Ideal for on-site reviews and collaboration.
- 3D model navigation (zoom, rotate, pan)
- Color-coding by element properties
- Filtering models by member attributes
- Clash detection between objects
- Adding markups with status and due dates
- Interactive querying of member properties
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Structural Navigator is the ideal app for the mobile review of 3D structural models. Structural Navigator allows designers to view, query, and red line structural models in 3D from anywhere using a mobile device. With Structural Navigator users can: * Navigate through 3D models using zoom, rotate, pan, walkthrough, and flyover commands * Color code elements within the model according to specific properties (for example, slab thickness, pipe diameter, etc.) * Filter models based on members with common member attributes * Check for clashes between different types of objects * Add markups with status, due date, responsible party, and additional information * Interactively query members for all property values Structural Navigator reads Bentley's i-model format, to which any ISM repository can be easily converted with a single operation. The process is simple. Build a data-rich ISM repository using any Bentley ISM-compliant applications desired, convert the ISM repository to i-model, and then review in Structural Navigator. Structural Navigator can read models from any of the following sources once published to i-model: - STAAD - RAM - SACS - AECOsim - Revit - Tekla - ProStructures - Dlubal RFEM
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Structural Navigator at 5.0 against BIM 360 Field's 2.4. Structural Navigator also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 27%) and device support (3 vs 1). BIM 360 Field's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (29 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Structural Navigator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BIM 360 Field has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of BIM 360 Field's written reviews are positive against 50% of Structural Navigator's.
BIM 360 Field ships an update every 6 weeks, Structural Navigator every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BIM 360 Field | Structural Navigator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 9.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Autodesk Inc. | Bentley Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
BIM 360 Field
Structural Navigator
In-app purchases
BIM 360 Field
No in-app purchases
Structural Navigator
No in-app purchases
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