Comparison

BE vs sweb.Validate Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BE

Manage property maintenance, work orders, inspections, and incidents directly from your mobile device. Attach photos and access all your data, even when offline.

Highlights
  • Work order management
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Inspections
  • Incident tracking
  • Photo attachments
  • Offline access
Features
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BE Mobile provides key property management features in the palm of your hand! Manage work orders, preventive maintenance tasks, inspections, incidents and much more. Attach photos to any record and view associated files on your iPhone. Work offline with access to all of your data.

About

sweb.Validate Pro

This app simplifies parking validation for businesses, eliminating hardware costs and improving accountability. It allows for quick and easy validation of customer parking through a mobile interface.

Highlights
  • License plate validation (LPR)
  • Improved design and navigation
  • View mobile validation activity
  • Re-register users on other devices
  • Scan barcodes and QR codes
  • Full web portal functionality
Features
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sweb.Validate by SKIDATA is the leading electronic validation solution for parking facilities. SKIDATA also offers an extensive portfolio of solutions for Car Access, Ski Access, and People Access. sweb.Validate reduces the cost and complexity of allowing business tenants to validate customer parking. No more expensive hardware and lack of accountability. sweb.Validate makes validating easy and fast! The all-new sweb.Validate companion mobile application, Validate Pro, features many updates and improvements, including: -Validating parking by license plate number is supported (when parking facility supports LPR)! -Improved design, navigation, and ease-of-use! -Ability to see mobile validation activity! -Easily re-register a user on a separate device! -Scan car-park tickets that have traditional printed bar-codes or QR codes. -Validate with the full set of options that have been available to users through the web portal. Note: Use of the app requires an existing sweb.Validate account in conjunction with SKIDATA parking equipment. Validate Pro is only compatible with customers using sweb.Validate 5.0 or newer.

Screenshots

BE4 screens
sweb.Validate Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: sweb.Validate Pro at 5.0 against BE's 2.3. BE's advantage is ratings volume (135 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

sweb.Validate Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BE has 135 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BE ships an update every 2 months, sweb.Validate Pro every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BE versus sweb.Validate Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBEsweb.Validate Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (135 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews21.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings135 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuilding EnginesSKIDATA GmbH

Customer experience

BE

All ratings135 ratings
Positive27.4%
Neutral7.4%
Negative65.2%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive21.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative74.5%

sweb.Validate Pro

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

BE

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Have to log out/in multiple times or reinstall to gain access
  • Work orders don't always load
  • Only able to upload one photo at a time
  • Everything gets stuck pending
  • App fails, all data lost
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  • Update screwed up app operation
  • Tech support never responds
  • App won't let you log in
  • App doesn't communicate with network
  • Entries do not link between app and desktop
  • Acknowledgement pending issues never resolved
  • New update changed 'work order by Building' to 'work order by location'
  • New version is slower and not user friendly
  • No access to PMs for weeks
  • Stuck on 'synchronization'
  • Work order creation from phone never appears in system
  • Timer starts when work order begins but pauses upon completion
  • Comment box moves off screen when typing
  • App crashes when typing comments

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add resource management
  • Add day view and approve/deny for resource management
  • Disable notifications when staff is off the clock
  • Edit frequency for PMs
  • Allow scheduling
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  • Swipe to go back gesture

sweb.Validate Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BE

No in-app purchases

None

sweb.Validate Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BE free?
BE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is sweb.Validate Pro free?
sweb.Validate Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BE or sweb.Validate Pro?
sweb.Validate Pro is rated higher. BE averages 2.3 out of 5 from 135 ratings, while sweb.Validate Pro averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do BE or sweb.Validate Pro have ads?
Neither BE nor sweb.Validate Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BE or sweb.Validate Pro?
BE ships an update every 2 months, and sweb.Validate Pro every 3 months. Most recently, BE was updated on September 14, 2026 and sweb.Validate Pro on June 1, 2026.

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