Mars Electric OE Touch vs Visual Installer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mars Electric OE Touch
This app allows distributors to create orders, view real-time pricing, and check company-wide availability from anywhere. Users can also access account information, scan product barcodes, and locate branches.
- Real-time pricing and availability
- Order creation and management
- Barcode scanning
- Branch location mapping
- Account information viewing
- Product spec sheets
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Mars Electric's OE Touch connects you to your distributor anywhere, anytime. Create orders based on realtime pricing and company-wide availability, view your account information, take photos of requested product, and more… - View customer specific pricing and company-wide availability - Create orders - Quickly add Product Groups to your shopping cart - Scan barcode labels in the Quick Pad - Contact a branch for special order items - Map branch locations - View bids, open orders, and order history - Advanced search for finding items on order - View product spec sheets
Visual Installer
This app simplifies lighting control installation and documentation. It uses project floor plans to scan devices, record installation status, and track design changes in real-time. It also facilitates collaboration among project stakeholders.
- Scan lighting control devices
- Capture real-time installation status
- Record exact device locations
- Track design changes
- Real-time collaboration tool
- Utilize project floor plans
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The Visual Installer mobile app streamlines lighting control installation and as-built workflows. Using project floor plans and risers that are made available in the app, users scan lighting control devices to capture real-time installation status, exact device locations, and design changes. In addition, the Visual Installer app also serves as a real-time collaboration tool for other project stakeholders, such as construction managers, project owners, and installers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visual Installer at 100% against Mars Electric OE Touch's 0%. Visual Installer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.3). Mars Electric OE Touch's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Visual Installer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Mars Electric OE Touch's written reviews are positive against 100% of Visual Installer's.
Mars Electric OE Touch ships an update every 4 months, Visual Installer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mars Electric OE Touch | Visual Installer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Innovo, LLC | Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc |
Customer experience
Mars Electric OE Touch
Visual Installer
In-app purchases
Mars Electric OE Touch
No in-app purchases
Visual Installer
No in-app purchases
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