Dalux vs IFC View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dalux
Streamline construction project management with tools for supervision, quality assurance, and safety inspections. Document issues with photos, red-lining, and GPS-located notes on drawings. Collaborate with team members and generate elegant reports with your own logo.
- Supervision, quality assurance, and safety inspections
- Document issues with photos and GPS-located notes
- Offline functionality
- Create checklists and reports easily
- Unlimited users per project
- Elegant reports with custom logo
- BIM and CAD drawing support
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Dalux is supervision, quality assurance, safety inspection and snagging from land development to delivery. Supervision and project notes are documented with photos, red-lining, own standard texts and list values and located on drawings with GPS and user input. You will automatically receive an e-mail when the task status changes. Dalux is your tool to assess the construction situation. Get an overview of pending issues, progress and status per floor, construction or inspection area. The managed user permissions and rights removes any doubt about who is currently liable for each existing note or deficiency. Share tasks with your substitutes and collaborate. Also in case of illness or vacation. Also use Dalux for 1 and 5 year reviews. Mobile quality assurance during construction. - Supervision notes, snagging, site safety and receive checks. - Works offline - such as in a basement. - Ease of use saves time! Create checklists and reports in a simple and straightforward manner. - Unlimited number of users per project. - Elegant reports with your own logo. - Statistics and project overview on PC with many search options. - Used on large construction projects. - Used for renovation projects and building registration. - Full history assures nothing is deleted. Not even by accident. - Full support for iPad/iPhone and other mobile devices. - BIM, CAD, scanned drawings. Revit, IFC, DWG, JPG etc. - All discipline models are assembled from e.g. Revit.
IFC View
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The BIM model, wherever the decision is made. IFC View opens any IFC file on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, checks it, and shows you what is wrong before the site finds out. No account. No cloud. No subscription. Try every Pro feature free for 14 days. ON SITE, IN THE MEETING, AT YOUR DESK Walk the model with the contractor on an iPad. Pin a note with a photo to the window that does not fit. Check a dimension on your iPhone between two meetings. Then open the same file on your Mac and send the issues to the team as BCF. CATCH PROBLEMS EARLY • Clash detection between structure and MEP, across federated models, with every clash named and ready to send as a BCF topic • IDS checking: the elements that miss your information requirements, highlighted in red, with PDF, CSV and Excel reports • Revision comparison: added, changed and removed elements, in color, between two versions of the model UNDERSTAND ANY MODEL, FREE • Opens .ifc and .ifczip from Revit, ArchiCAD, Tekla, Vectorworks, Allplan and every other BIM tool • The full object tree, every property set and quantity, search, filters and levels • A section plane and distance measurement with object snaps, in meters or feet and inches • Site notes with photos, circles and freehand markup, saved with the model • Read your team's BCF topics and look up classifications in buildingSMART bSDD DELIVER WITH PRO • Architecture, structure and MEP federated in one scene • Quantity takeoff, 4D construction schedule, and smart views that color by any property • Export BCF, PDF reports, 3D PDF, USDZ for AR, OBJ, STL, GLB, Excel and COBie • Edit property values and save the IFC • Share a view as a link or QR code, or the whole model with its notes as one package • Several models side by side, in tabs and windows ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE Pro is a single purchase that unlocks your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Try all of it free for 14 days first: no payment details, nothing renews, and your notes and markups stay when the trial ends. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Models are processed on your device and never uploaded. The app collects no data. In English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Italian. Sample models to try everything: byn.pt/ifc-view/samples The translations of IFC View into other languages were prepared with the help of AI. If you spot a mistake, please tell us at hello@byn.pt. 3D models in the screenshots: FZK-Haus (KIT Karlsruhe) and Medical-Dental Clinic and Duplex Apartment (buildingSMART International, CC BY 4.0).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dalux at none against IFC View's 1. Dalux also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. IFC View sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dalux asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dalux ships an update fortnightly, IFC View every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.
| Parameter | Dalux | IFC View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 337 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dalux | Filipe Goncalves |
In-app purchases
Dalux
No in-app purchases
IFC View
- IFC View Pro$8.99





