TOTAL for Mobile vs Sluice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TOTAL for Mobile
Streamline your real estate appraisal workflow by capturing field data, sketches, and photos directly on your mobile device. Seamlessly sync your work to the cloud and desktop for efficient report generation, eliminating the need for retyping and reformatting.
- Cloud syncing for reports
- Form filling with QuickLists
- Automatic photo form addition
- Intuitive sketch creation
- GPS mapping and directions
- Audio recording and notes
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TOTAL for Mobile is the perfect mobile companion app for TOTAL on the desktop. With TOTAL for Mobile, you’ll save the most time from field to office and shave minutes off of every report by not having to retype, resketch, and reformat, since all field data and sketches flow into your forms. It’s the best real estate appraisal app yet. YOUR REPORTS IN THE CLOUD Starting, editing, and sharing your reports between mobile and desktop is easier than ever before. Whether you start your appraisal reports in TOTAL or from your iPad or iPhone, the new design gives you instant access to your files from the cloud. And, the updated syncing process makes it easy to choose which files to send on your schedule, instead of sending everything at once. FORMFILLING Your QuickLists sync too, so you’ll fly through data gathering by simply tapping to fill in your canned comments instead of typing. PHOTOS With TOTAL for Mobile's photo tools, add as many subject photos as you want. Then, the correct photo forms are automatically added to your report in TOTAL when you sync. No more juggling extra devices or extra work organizing and relabeling the photos yourself. TOTAL for Mobile does all the work for you. SKETCHING Creating detailed sketches is as simple as swiping and tapping with your fingertips. Quickly define lengths, angles, arcs, and areas. Pinch to zoom and pan across the screen. And tap to drop symbols and labels in place so your sketches look complete and professional. MUCH MORE… Create audio recordings, notes, and freehand drawings on the fly. They’re added to TOTAL's Spectrum Workfile when you sync. TOTAL for Mobile also takes advantage of your device's GPS to create precise maps and give you turn-by-turn directions -- extremely helpful for navigating to your subject and comps. With TOTAL on your desktop and TOTAL for Mobile in the field, you’ll go paperless. Best of all, it’s absolutely free. Download it today. ABOUT A LA MODE Founded in 1985, a la mode’s mission-critical desktop, mobile and web tools are used by more than 100,000 real estate and mortgage lending professionals located in every county of every state in the U.S. a la mode has been deploying forms on handheld devices, en masse, and routing form-data via the Internet since the mid 1990s.
Sluice
Streamline your business workflows with this custom-built application. It integrates cloud services and client back-end systems to automate processes, accelerate report delivery, and manage a network of contract professionals. Assign work efficiently and submit completed orders even without internet access.
- Customizable workflow management
- Cloud service integration
- Automated process workflows
- Contractor network management
- Offline order submission
- Data logging and verification
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Workflow Made Easy (Designed for use with integrated vendor management systems) Sluice is a custom-built commercial workflow application that incorporates cloud services and integrated client back end systems, which are easily customizable to meet a diverse set of customer workflow and work tracking requirements. Sluice allows localized expertise and automated process workflows to accelerate the delivery of more accurate reports. Designed to manage a large, diverse network of contract professionals, Sluice allows for the assignment of work directly to the right contractor at the right time in the field. Once an order has been accepted into Sluice, the contractor can complete the order in the field, even if Cell or Wi-Fi services are unavailable. Completed orders can be submitted when back online without any loss of work. Not being dependent on cellular coverage or Wi-Fi speeds up the delivery of assignments and more accurate data input while on site. All data collected is logged and verified including photo location in order to minimize fraud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sluice at 3.8 against TOTAL for Mobile's 2.8. Sluice also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 26%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). TOTAL for Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sluice holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 80 and 44 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of TOTAL for Mobile's written reviews are positive against 60% of Sluice's.
TOTAL for Mobile ships an update every 5 weeks, Sluice every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TOTAL for Mobile | Sluice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (80 ratings) | 3.8 (44 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | 44 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | a la mode technologies, llc. | ClearValue Consulting Inc. |
Customer experience
TOTAL for Mobile
Sluice
Bugs and requests
TOTAL for Mobile
Reported bugs
61 issues- Scan to sketch not working properly
- LiDAR calculations inaccurate
- Sketch crashes frequently, especially with porches/patios
- Laggy navigation between sections
- Trace mode closes out automatically
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- Undo in trace mode exits trace mode
- Photos not saving location info
- Photos not loading or showing up after last update
- Split screen functionality removed
- App crashes constantly
- App crashes during sketches
- App crashes when adding pool icons
- App crashes when trying to recover sketch
- App crashes when tracing over two areas
- App crashes when tapping undo in trace mode
- App crashes constantly and adds time to inspections
- App crashes constantly and won't load reports
- App relies heavily on internet to reopen crashed reports
- App caches report files in the field instead of pulling from cloud
- App crashes constantly during sketches
- App closes when taking pictures
- Sketch having glitches
- App shutting down in sketch mode
- Not saving latest measurements
- Files corrupted in the field
- App freezes up
- Pictures don't get labeled correctly
- Erasers data and sketches
- Sketch function crashes constantly
- App crashes and makes user lose sketch
- Sketch extremely slow or doesn't open
- Photos often don't stick
- Crashing while using the app in the field
- Lost part of sketch when crashes
- Crashes almost every time
- Camera freezing and takes time to become operable
- App crashes constantly
- Does not communicate properly with apple camera
- Deletes sketches and pictures
- App crashes mid inspection
- App crashes in multiple instances on different devices
- App won't reload/update after crash
- Loses all inspection data after crash
- Crashes with big files
- App won't update/refresh and crashes
- Wipe app data and reinstall to continue
- App crashes constantly
- App crashes during photo taking
- App won't load, tries to load then crashes
- Stamp mode makes sketch messy
- App hangs when trying to open
- Black screen on iPhone 6s Plus
- App opens to a blank screen
- Uploading a report takes 5-9 minutes
- Going back from comp photo page to map page takes 2-3 seconds longer
- Sketch number buttons too small
- Photo page gets buggy when changing orientation
- Keyboard pops up automatically
- Crashes every time hitting the "back" button in photos
- Crashes while taking photos
- Crashes when you try to open a commercial form
Requested features
15 requests- Flexible pricing tiers for low-volume appraisers
- More forms (Land, 1007/216, Disaster, FHA, driveby)
- Put back split screen functionality
- Fix scan to sketch accuracy
- Improve LiDAR rounding for sketches
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- Fix trace mode bugs
- Add location info to photos
- Add Land forms, 1007/216, Disaster inspections, FHA final inspections, driveby forms support
- Make keyboard optional
- Add expand picture feature
- Add addendum/exhibit section
- Allow selection of only needed fields in critical items
- Seamless experience across devices without upload/download
- Improve desktop publishing experience
- Fix stamp mode in sketch
Sluice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TOTAL for Mobile
No in-app purchases
Sluice
No in-app purchases
Questions
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