Nearby Now vs SweetProcess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nearby Now
This app helps contractors expand their local presence and gather customer reviews. It uses AI to assist with job descriptions and displays real-time service area maps. Approximate location updates build social proof and encourage customer feedback.
- Extend local reach
- Get customer reviews
- AI-powered job descriptions
- Real-time service area maps
- Build social proof
- Send customer satisfaction surveys
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Nearby Now is the easiest way for contractors to extend their local reach, and get more customer reviews. Whenever your techs and sales people arrive at a customer’s house or business, they simply press a button on their iPhone, and Nearby Now will update their location on the Nearby Now map. And now, with the power of AI, we help you write amazing job descriptions so that you can maximize the value of the content you are creating. New customers who need your services can see that you’re working nearby, and also that you frequently work in their neighborhood. Your frequent visits to customer’s neighborhood automatically build social proof that you’re a reputable company who is already trusted by their neighbors. Make getting local reviews from happy customers part of your daily routine - each time you check in at a customer’s location, click a button and the Nearby Now app will send a customer satisfaction survey to your customer via email or sms. Nearby Now can embed custom real-time service area heat maps on your website, so you can show your website visitors an exciting, interactive, real-time map of your service area for each area you feature. Your privacy and your customer's privacy is always protected - Nearby Now only shows approximate geolocations for your safety.
SweetProcess
Manage your business's procedures, policies, and tasks on the go. Access critical information even without an internet connection, syncing automatically when you're back online. Receive timely reminders for upcoming or overdue tasks.
- Procedure and policy management
- Offline access to tasks
- Automatic data syncing
- Task due date reminders
- Overdue task notifications
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Take your procedures, policies and procedures with you into the field with the SweetProcess app for the iPhone. Work to complete tasks even without internet access and sync when you regain data connection. Also (optionally) receive timely reminders when tasks for you are due to begin or fall overdue.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SweetProcess at 100% against Nearby Now's 45%. SweetProcess also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.8). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
SweetProcess holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Nearby Now's written reviews are positive against 100% of SweetProcess's.
Nearby Now ships an update monthly, SweetProcess every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nearby Now | SweetProcess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (16 ratings) | 4.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nearby Now, LLC | SweetProcess, Inc. |
Customer experience
Nearby Now
SweetProcess
In-app purchases
Nearby Now
No in-app purchases
SweetProcess
No in-app purchases









