HVAC Load Plus vs IC Forms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HVAC Load Plus
Perform detailed heating and cooling load calculations for buildings in the field using your iPhone. Access a vast weather database and construction data to generate comprehensive reports that can be emailed or exported to spreadsheets.
- Detailed heating and cooling load calculations
- 1000+ city weather database
- Extensive construction type data
- Unlimited project creation and storage
- Comprehensive load breakdown reports
- Emailable HTML reports with spreadsheet attachments
- Company information display on reports
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The HVAC Load+ iPhone app allows you to perform detailed heating and cooling block loads for small commercial and residential buildings out in the field by taking advantage of the simplicity and power of the iPhone. It performs heating and cooling block load calculations based upon industry standard calculation methods. The following is just a small sample of the features included in this app: 1. Includes a 1000+ world-wide city weather database 2. Includes data for 100s of construction types for walls, roofs, floors, doors, windows, skylights, ceilings, and more 3. Allows you to create and store an unlimited number of projects. You can also copy existing projects to new projects for easy reuse of data 4. Allows you to specify an unlimited # of opaque types (ie – doors, walls, roofs, floors, ceilings), window types, and skylight types for each building 5. Allows you to view comprehensive cooling and heating load breakdown reports including breakdown by opaque load, window load, skylight load, infiltration load, ventilation load and internal load contributions 6. Opaque inputs include opaque type, opaque construction number, dimensions, and opening areas 7. Window inputs include window type, internal and external shading type, overhang dimensions, window area, and more.. 8. Skylight inputs include skylight type, dimensions, orientation, and more.. 9. Additional input types include # of people, # of bedrooms, ventilation airflow, and more.. 10. Includes the ability to display a comprehensive HTML report that you can email to yourself or others, and it also includes a spreadsheet attachment that you can open in Excel to further massage data on your desktop 11. Includes ability to input your company information to display on the emailed report 12. Includes ability to display units in either English (IP) or Metric (SI). 13. Equipment location services It also includes 2 bonus modules: 1. The "HVAC Equipment Locator" has the same functionality as our stand-alone Locator app. It allows you to input information about all of your HVAC equipment, upload it to a remote web server (at www.carmelsoft.com/EL), and SAFELY share information about it with other technicians within your company. The equipment's GPS coordinates become its globally unique identifier, allowing you to input and retrieve information about it just by standing next to it. 2. The “HVAC Quick Load” module allows you to quickly perform rule-of-thumb heating and cooling load calcs based upon just inputting the building type, square area, and # of people. Please see the description located under the stand-alone "HVAC Quick Load" app for more details about it. The benefits of using this app are: 1. Great for use out in the field. Quickly size heating and cooling equipment, show the client, then email the results back to your office for further analysis. 2. Show off your advanced on-screen reports to clients convincing them you are using cutting-edge technology 3. Save time by inputting information in the field and then returning to your office to perform more in-depth analysis This app was designed by Carmel Software Corporation, a 20-year old software design firm specializing in engineering analysis software applications geared toward engineers, architects, technicians, and home owners. In fact, our software powers the analysis capabilities of major Autodesk software tools such as Revit (The makers of AutoCAD). We will continue to update this app based upon user feedback. Please email us at info@carmelsoft.com for any comments. We also offer training and tutorial videos at: www.carmelsoft.com/HVACLoadPlus.
IC Forms
Streamline safety assessments with this app, enabling quick data collection from checklists, inspections, and audits. Centralize information for management, enhance safety culture, and document findings with photos and GPS.
- Digital data collection
- Centralized information hub
- Photo and GPS documentation
- Real-time email communication
- Secure data storage
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Accurately evaluating the current state of your organization’s safety culture requires quick and easy access to the information that resides in your organization’s checklists, inspections, observations and audits. The IC Forms app delivers a simple approach to collecting data and centralizing it a meaningful, “single point of truth” for your management team. The result is a powerful information source that also delivers the evidence, knowledge and awareness required to improve your safety culture and support the investment in your organization. Each audit can include digital photos, GPS coordinates and date/time stamps to accurately document the information that has been captured. Then these results are communicated via email to your team so they can quickly follow up, investigate and take action in real time. All of your information is stored in a secure data center for absolute privacy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: IC Forms at Free against HVAC Load Plus's $24.99. IC Forms also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). HVAC Load Plus's advantage is chart position (#199 vs unranked). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
IC Forms is free to download; HVAC Load Plus costs $24.99 up front. HVAC Load Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. IC Forms asks for nothing beyond the download.
IC Forms holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.
HVAC Load Plus ships an update every 9 months, IC Forms every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HVAC Load Plus | IC Forms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carmel Software Corporation | ICertainty |
Customer experience
HVAC Load Plus
IC Forms
In-app purchases
HVAC Load Plus
- HVAC Equipment Locator$9.99
IC Forms
No in-app purchases









