SkyTrac vs HouseRater
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkyTrac
Monitor the real-time and historical locations of your important assets, including vehicles and personal trackers. Share your location with friends, get directions, and receive important alerts. Access organizational documents directly from the app.
- Locate assets in real-time
- View historical asset locations
- Share location with friends
- Get directions to locations
- Receive important alerts
- Access organizational documents
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SkyTrac provides existing 2-Track customers with situational awareness on their important assets such as vehicles, personal trackers, asset trackers, and other smart phones. Features include: * Quickly locate assets in the field as well as their historical locations * Selectively share your location with your friends * Get directions to asset/friend locations * Find closest assests and nearby service * Receive important alerts * Quickly access the organization's web-based documents Please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
HouseRater
This app streamlines energy program management for utilities and raters. It collects extensive data on homes to generate consulting reports and aid in quality control inspections. The tool helps provide accurate energy simulations and monitor compliance with building codes and rating systems.
- Energy program management
- Data collection for homes
- Consulting report generation
- On-site quality control inspections
- Real-time data capture
- Energy efficiency suggestions
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HouseRater is modern energy program management software for utilities, raters, and providers. We capture and store over 1,200 data points for each house and use that information to generate timely consulting reports for builders. Use your iPad to collect data in realtime while performing on-site quality control inspections. This mobile app allows RFI's to collect HERS Rating information, and energy efficiency consulting suggestions faster and more accurately when in the field. Your rating company can provide more accurate energy simulations from the on-site data. HouseRater combines on-site information and energy modeling data to monitor building code compliance, utility company rebates and the RESNET HERS Rating. This mobile app requires an active HouseRater web app account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HouseRater at every 3 weeks against SkyTrac's every 2 months. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SkyTrac against 5.0 for HouseRater. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
SkyTrac ships an update every 2 months, HouseRater every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkyTrac | HouseRater |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 2-Track Solutions, LLC | HouseRater LLC |
Customer experience
SkyTrac
HouseRater
In-app purchases
SkyTrac
No in-app purchases
HouseRater
No in-app purchases
