Comparison

Visual Installer vs autoLOTO

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Scan lighting control devices
  • Capture real-time installation status
  • Record exact device locations
  • Track design changes
  • Real-time collaboration tool
  • Utilize project floor plans
Features
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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.

About

autoLOTO

This electrical safety app digitizes electrical drawings to streamline Lockout/Tag Out (LOTO) procedures. It computes isolation and live-dead-live points, ensuring procedural compliance and reducing human error with a 100% audit trail.

Highlights
  • Digitizes electrical drawings
  • Computes isolation points
  • Computes live-dead-live points
  • Ensures procedural compliance
  • 100% audit trail
  • Real-time project visibility
Features
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autoLOTO is dedicated to making worker more efficient, while providing the safest possible working environment. autoLOTO is an Electrical Safety mobile application. The mobile application works in conjunction with a web-based interface/database that is custom built to duplicate a client’s electrical engineering drawings. The data input from these drawings is used for the correct execution of Lockout/Tag Out (LOTO) operations by computing Isolation points, and Live-Dead-Live points for equipment in the autoLOTO electrical data set. autoLOTO leverages this mobile application to provide a linear LOTO process, with a series of confirming phase gates, to ensure procedural compliance with existing LOTO standards and regulations. It tracks User interactions with the electrical data set of all equipment and stores all tracked data for future retrieval in an encrypted cloud-based server. The Worksite Manager Interface allows remote visibility and activity notifications for approved Users from a laptop or computer. It also allows for User onboarding, User management, and upkeep of the electrical data base. autoLOTO requires a Wi-Fi or cellular data connection to operate and a relatively modern mobile device (Smart phone, or Tablet with up-to date OS) to successfully use the mobile application. autoLOTO can use physical barcodes installed on the client’s electrical infrastructure, or in a barcode-less environment if your site does not have the time or need to install physical barcodes, or a mixture of barcoded and not barcoded equipment to function in the field. Benefits of using autoLOTO: - It seamlessly integrates with your existing Energy Isolation Program(s) - It significantly reduces the likelihood of human error - It reads electrical pathways by Digitizing your One-Line drawings - Instantly generates Isolation Points - Instantly generates Live-Dead-Live Points - It reduces compliance errors - It enforces the usage of calibrated voltmeters - It has a 100% audit trail maintained for the life of your project - It provides real time visibility of your project and active LOTOs

Screenshots

Visual Installer3 screens
autoLOTO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visual Installer at 100% against autoLOTO's 0%. Visual Installer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3). autoLOTO's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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

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

Visual Installer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Visual Installer's written reviews are positive against 0% of autoLOTO's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Installer ships an update every 2 months, autoLOTO fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Visual Installer versus autoLOTO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual InstallerautoLOTO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings) — better4.3 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings617 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAcuity Brands Lighting, IncautoLOTO Inc

Customer experience

Visual Installer

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

autoLOTO

All ratings17 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Visual Installer

No in-app purchases

None

autoLOTO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Installer free?
Visual Installer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is autoLOTO free?
autoLOTO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Visual Installer or autoLOTO?
Visual Installer is rated higher. Visual Installer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while autoLOTO averages 4.3 from 17 ratings.
Do Visual Installer or autoLOTO have ads?
Neither Visual Installer nor autoLOTO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Installer or autoLOTO?
Visual Installer ships an update every 2 months, and autoLOTO fortnightly. Most recently, Visual Installer was updated on November 5, 2026 and autoLOTO on November 5, 2026.

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