Building Start vs Griswold Controls
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Building Start
This platform digitizes field testing for construction and engineering projects. It allows for centralized test plan creation and offline execution on field devices, synchronizing data back to the cloud upon completion.
- Centralized test plan authoring
- Push test plans to field devices
- Offline field testing capabilities
- Data synchronization to cloud
- Digital capture of construction projects
- Support for TAB, Building Startup, Commissioning, Energy Audits
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Building Start is a field services platform used in construction and engineering to perform centralized test plan authoring and management and push the test plan from the cloud to field devices to perform on-site field testing digitally. Once a field technician has been assigned a project, they can receive the project on their field device and perform the test plan and responses offline and synchronize them back into the cloud when they complete their work for the day. Building Start is widely used in the construction industry with over 30,000 construction projects digitally captured in such efforts as Test, Adjust & Balance (TAB), Building Startup, Building Commissioning (LEED, Green Building,etc) and Energy Audits.
Griswold Controls
This application assists users in selecting and sizing specific valves for HVAC systems. It supports Griswold QuickSet® Manual Balance Valves, as well as Unimizer® and Automizer® actuated ball valves.
- Valve sizing
- Product selection
- QuickSet® Manual Balance Valves
- Actuated Ball Valves
- Unimizer® support
- Automizer® support
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The Griswold Controls Product Selection App allows the user to size and select Cvs for the Griswold QuickSet® Manual Balance Valves and the Griswold Actuated Ball Valves, Unimizer® and Automizer®
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Griswold Controls at 100% against Building Start's 50%. Griswold Controls also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Building Start's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Griswold Controls holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Building Start's written reviews are positive against 100% of Griswold Controls's.
Building Start ships an update monthly, Griswold Controls every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Building Start | Griswold Controls |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Building Start | Griswold Controls |
Customer experience
Building Start
Griswold Controls
In-app purchases
Building Start
No in-app purchases
Griswold Controls
No in-app purchases
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