Comparison

Poimapper Plus vs Observo

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

Head to head
About

Poimapper Plus

This app allows organizations to build custom forms for offline data collection, including images, audio, and GPS. It supports task assignment, progress monitoring, and data visualization through a web portal. The solution is used globally for various inspection, research, and mapping needs.

Highlights
  • Drag & drop form builder
  • Offline data collection
  • Task assignment and monitoring
  • Data visualization and reporting
  • Export to Excel, CSV, SPSS
  • Custom background maps
  • Integrations via REST API
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Poimapper Plus is an enterprise-grade data and collection and sharing app. Build your own forms and use them to collect and update any type of data offline. Set up user groups and organizational hierarchies. Assign tasks, send push notifications of new tasks and monitor progress of tasks. and validate data with status monitoring. The Poimapper portal enables you to visualize & analyze the collected data, create reports and improve your decision-making. You can manage data across all of the devices and users of your organization. Poimapper is an award winning solution used and supported across the globe, with deployments in America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Poimapper supports for instance: • Manufacturing inspections and audits • Supplier audits and inspections • Works safety inspections and audits • Building and constructions inspection work • Facility management • Health care – collecting patient information, quality reporting, • Market and social research • Registration of product sales • Customer premises mapping • Monitoring and evaluation of international development programs • Environmental mapping • Disaster risk assessment and post-disaster relief mapping • Water and sanitation mapping • Forestry data collection • Monitoring agricultural development programs • Educational surveys and school mapping Key features: • Drag & drop interactive form builder including creation of multiple views to the same form • Save, sync and share forms • Collect data offline including images, audio, video, GPS, QR codes, tables, digital signatures etc. • Intelligent forms: skip logic, calculated values, data validation rules • Use custom background maps e.g. floorplans, blueprints, drone imagery. • Download and update existing enterprise data • Assign tasks with deadlines, receive notifications of assigned tasks, monitor progress of tasks • Schedule data collection tasks and receive notifications of scheduled tasks • Shared collected data with other users automatically • Merge results from multiple users collecting data into one form • Generate interactive summaries from collected data • Visualize data on maps, tables, charts and image gallery • Generate reports in various formats • Export data and forms to Excel, Word, CSV, SPSS, KML • Integrate with other systems using REST API, Webhooks and support for SSO Poimapper is free for personal use.

About

Observo

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Observo is an App allowing you to create observations and events (like natural phenomenon, damage assessment, surveillance, inventory, etc.). Your observations can be made freely or can be based on existing objects. All records are localized on a map. In addition to generic observations (photos, voice record, text) multiple and customizable forms can be defined according to your daily tasks. A simple tap on a button will allow you to send your data per email to a configured location for a further processing. Your data will be formatted and displayed within a resulting report (incl. photo and map extract). Available features: - Mandants - Integration of WFS and WMS for additional map materials - Import from configurable objects - Free and based-on object observations - Integration of multiple forms and lists of choices - Customizable reports as output (pdf, word, excel) Observo accelerates and coordinates processes which are requiring data collection on site. Observo is easy to integrate with existing applications and workflows.

Screenshots

Poimapper Plus4 screens
Observo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Observo at every 3 weeks against Poimapper Plus's every 3 months. Observo also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Poimapper Plus ships an update every 3 months, Observo every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Poimapper Plus versus Observo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPoimapper PlusObservo
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.59.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB174 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPajat SolutionsUnit Solutions AG

In-app purchases

None

Poimapper Plus

No in-app purchases

None

Observo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Poimapper Plus free?
Poimapper Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Observo free?
Observo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Poimapper Plus or Observo have ads?
Neither Poimapper Plus nor Observo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Poimapper Plus or Observo?
Poimapper Plus ships an update every 3 months, and Observo every 3 weeks. Most recently, Poimapper Plus was updated on June 1, 2026 and Observo on September 14, 2026.

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