Utilisphere vs LocateOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Utilisphere
This platform provides actionable insights for damage prevention, risk analysis, and asset protection for energy, utility, and telecom companies. It digitizes critical information and automates field, plant, and office operations, including managing 811 tickets and visualizing assets.
- Damage prevention insights
- Risk analysis
- Network infrastructure asset protection
- 811 ticket management
- Asset visualization with mapping
- Offline operation capability
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The top Fortune 500 energy, utility, telecom, and fiber companies rely on actionable insights from our next-generation damage prevention, risk analysis, and network infrastructure asset protection platform. This app digitizes critical information and automates complex field, plant, and office operations. Irth offers a large set of features and technical capabilities for: - Managing 811 tickets from creation to closure - Visualizing assets and the activities around the assets with enhanced mapping - Identifying high-risk activities to prevent damages - Capturing data for any complex field, plant, and office process for critical assets - Working offline in remote areas
LocateOS
This platform streamlines utility locating operations for field technicians. It allows users to manage tickets, submit responses, capture site photos with GPS and timestamps, and access historical data. Supervisors can review submissions, track quality, and manage team time.
- Manage daily locate tickets
- Submit official locate responses
- Capture GPS-stamped site photos
- Work offline with automatic syncing
- Review and approve responses (supervisors)
- Track locate assurance scores
- Manage team time tracking
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LocateOS is a ticket management platform for utility locating operations, built for the field technicians — locators — who mark underground utilities before excavation. Manage your daily locate tickets from anywhere. View assigned tickets with priority and due-date indicators, open full ticket details, and submit official locate responses directly from the field. Capture GPS-stamped, timestamped site photos for compliance and verification. FOR LOCATORS - See your assigned tickets with urgency indicators - Submit locate responses with facility types, locate time, and remarks - Capture site photos with automatic GPS and timestamp watermarks - Add notes and view previous tickets at the same address - Get turn-by-turn directions to any dig site - Work offline — actions sync automatically when you reconnect FOR SUPERVISORS & MANAGERS - Review and approve locate responses before submission - Run quality inspections and track locate assurance scores - Approve timesheets and manage team time tracking - Configure screening rules, location notes, and retention policies Every response, note, photo, and time entry syncs in real time so your whole operation stays on the same page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LocateOS at 5.0 against Utilisphere's 1.7. LocateOS also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Utilisphere's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 1). 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.
LocateOS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Utilisphere has 40 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Utilisphere ships an update every 3 weeks, LocateOS every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Utilisphere | LocateOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 278 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | irth Solutions, Inc. | LOCATEOS INC |
Customer experience
Utilisphere
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In-app purchases
Utilisphere
No in-app purchases
LocateOS
No in-app purchases
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