InstaScan vs Deltek Costpoint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
InstaScan
This app enables venues and event organizers to scan tickets using an iPhone camera for real-time validation and attendance tracking. It prevents duplicate ticket usage and allows for manual guest entry for lost tickets. Multiple devices can scan simultaneously.
- Real-time ticket validation
- Attendance tracking
- Scan 1D or 2D codes
- Manual guest entry
- Simultaneous scanning
- Sound alerts for scan results
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The InstantSeats Ticket Scanner lets venues, event organizers and promoters scan tickets using an iPhone camera at point of entry. The application synchronizes with the InstantSeats system to validate tickets in real-time, track attendance and prevent a ticket from being used twice. More than one device can scan tickets simultaneously at multiple points of entry. To sell tickets with InstantSeats for your next event, go to http://www.instantseats.com/selltix Features include: - Industry leading scanning technology - Scan 1D or 2D codes from printed tickets or phone screen tickets - See colorful images and hear sound alerts after each scan confirming a valid or invalid ticket - Check out guests who need to leave and re-enter - Enter guests in manually who lost their ticket. Search by name, confirmation number or last four digits of the credit card used to purchase - Track how many guests attended an event - Real-time counter shows how many scanned tickets and how many attendees have yet to check-in - Works with iPhone 4 and 5 and iTouch (4th and 5th generation)
Deltek Costpoint
Access core business functions like time entry, approvals, and employee management from your mobile device. It mirrors browser functionality with robust security and adapts to various screen sizes. Stay updated with your company's Costpoint version automatically.
- Enter and approve time
- Voucher approval
- Employee management
- Biometric authentication
- Mobile responsive UI
- Supports Costpoint extensions
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Deltek Costpoint mobile app offers access to all of the same functions/applications in Costpoint that a user would otherwise have access to through the browser – Enter/Approve Time, Voucher Approval, adding an employee, or any other domain/function within Costpoint. All security/authentication options available in Costpoint on a laptop are supported, including built-in device biometric authentication. Any extensions built for Costpoint, including UI extensions with new fields or new screens, are supported out of the box as well. The user interface, based on mobile responsive design, automatically adjusts to the size of the phone/tablet/foldable device and also provides different views of the data depending on portrait or landscape orientation. Under the hood, this application is built based on the latest Trusted Web Activity (TWA) framework offered by Google which allows this application to always be in sync with the version of Costpoint deployed by your company i.e. after your first login, this application will always follow your company’s IT upgrade policy automatically. Also, this innovative technology allows to build much smaller mobile apps resulting in fast downloads even on slower networks. This app requires Costpoint 8.1.12+ or Costpoint 8.2+
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: InstaScan at 2.0 against Deltek Costpoint's 1.3. InstaScan also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.4). Deltek Costpoint's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (125 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
InstaScan holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deltek Costpoint has 125 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
InstaScan ships an update every 17 months, Deltek Costpoint every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | InstaScan | Deltek Costpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (5 ratings) — better | 1.3 (125 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 3.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 125 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | InstantSeats | Deltek, Inc. |
Customer experience
InstaScan
Deltek Costpoint
In-app purchases
InstaScan
No in-app purchases
Deltek Costpoint
No in-app purchases
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