Formitize vs Loc8
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Formitize
Create paperless digital forms for businesses with a drag-and-drop builder. Collect data offline, capture signatures, and integrate with other business modules like CRM and job scheduling. Offers industry-specific solutions for various sectors.
- Drag-and-drop form builder
- Offline form functionality
- Time and date stamping
- GPS location capture
- Signature collection
- CRM and job scheduling modules
- Industry-specific solutions
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Formitize leads the world in smart forms and mobile business solutions used globally by organizations of all sizes from small, sole traders through to Government agencies and many of the world’s largest corporations. Create paperless forms that work with or without connectivity with the simple to use drag and drop form builder. Collect the form information quickly, accurately and error free with all of the advanced features of the smart forms including Time and Date stamping, GPS location, Bar and QR code reading, Photos, Voice to Text, Intelligent Routing, Mandatory Fields, Automated Calculations, Onscreen Signature Collection, Database Lookup & Integration, Advanced Drawing Tool and so much more. But smart forms are just the beginning!! Other modules include CRM Customer Database, Job Scheduling, Job Management, Health & Safety, Document Management, Asset Management, Quoting & Invoicing, Webforms and more. Industries: More than two hundred industry specific solutions with smart digital forms have been developed for industries such as Pest Control, Building Inspection, Food Safety, Health & Safety, Environmental Monitoring, Fire Protection, Commercial Landscaping, Risk Assessments, Labour Hire, Facility Management, Field Sales & Services, Councils and Government Types of Forms and Reports: The types of forms are limited only to your imagination but include Auditing, Certification, Competitor Analysis, Compliance, Expense Management, Field Intelligence, Field Sales, Field Services, Hot Work Permits, Health & Safety Inspections, Invoice Management, Log Books, Monitoring, Mystery Shopping, Purchase Ordering, Quality Assurance, Reception Solutions, Risk Assessments, Security, Staff Appraisals, Surveys, Time Sheets, Vehicle Management, Agreements, Applications, Job Records, Data Collection, Work Orders, Sales Records
Loc8
This field service app helps enterprise organizations manage jobs, activities, assets, and customer relationships. It allows users to create, assign, and complete tasks directly from the field. The app also provides tools for managing workforce and customer data.
- Job management
- Activity tracking
- Asset management
- Workforce management
- Customer relationship management (CRM)
- In-field task completion
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This is the modern Loc8 mobile app, suitable for all customers, users and contractors onboarded from 2025 onwards. IMPORTANT: This app requires a Loc8 account with Visits and Activities modules enabled. --- Loc8 is a field service app for enterprise organisations, including jobs, activities, forms, assets, workforce, and customer (CRM) management. Create, assign and complete your jobs and activities in-field. View and manage your assets in-field.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Formitize at 73% against Loc8's 0%. Formitize also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.0) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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.
Formitize holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Formitize's written reviews are positive against 0% of Loc8's.
Formitize ships an update every 3 weeks, Loc8 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Formitize | Loc8 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ATEBION PTY LTD | Loc8.com |
Customer experience
Formitize
Loc8
In-app purchases
Formitize
No in-app purchases
Loc8
No in-app purchases









