ScanSeries vs Cornerstone Mobile Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScanSeries
Streamline inspections of fire and life safety devices with this comprehensive mobile tool. Quickly gather data, generate verifiable reports, and ensure compliance with code requirements. This app is designed for users of the BuildingReports Web-based inspection reporting system.
- Fire and life safety device inspections
- Quick data gathering
- Verifiable inspection reports
- Code compliance checks
- FireScan, SafetyScan, SprinklerScan, SuppressionScan, SecurityScan, HVACScan modules
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BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to quickly gather data on fire and life safety devices to ensure they are working properly and meet code requirements, or identify actions needed to meet compliance through easily verifiable inspection reports. BuildingReports has the solutions, inspected device data and the qualified network to cement its reputation as the most trusted name in compliance reporting. *Note: This application is for customers who use the BuildingReports Web-based inspection reporting system only. It is an all-in-one application and contains: FireScan, SafetyScan, SprinklerScan, SuppressionScan, SecurityScan, and HVACScan. The app is supported on iPhone 4S (or newer) and iPod Touch 5th Gen. (or newer) devices.
Cornerstone Mobile Connect
This app helps field technicians manage their daily tasks and jobs from start to finish. It offers in-field access to customer data, job updates, payment processing, and time tracking, all integrated with cloud-based management software.
- Calendar and event management
- On-the-spot payment processing
- Customer signature capture
- Timecard tracking
- Customer account management
- Quote creation and emailing
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Cornerstone Mobile Connect: Making Life Easy for Field Technicians A phone-based web app built specifically for field technicians. It’s designed so technicians can quickly access and complete their daily tasks and manage jobs/events from start to finish. Cornerstone Mobile Connect is integrated with Cornerstone’s powerful cloud-based customer management software. Go paperless and help your team be more productive with in-field access. The app will provide real-time job updates, keeping administrators in the office aware of current job statuses! Your technicians will love how easy it is to use their iPhone/iPad to manage their workflow, and that all data syncs back instantly to Cornerstone’s software. Features Overview CALENDAR & EVENT MANAGEMENT - View appointments and tickets in a list, day, week, and month view - Manage service performed, inventory added, dispatch status, and get customer signature - Track time for each appointment and ticket, and for each day - Track inventory by truck or technician location - Filter appointments on town, service code, ticket type, technician, date, and status - Quickly review unassigned or unscheduled events, and assign yourself or another tech to them TAKE PAYMENT & SIGNATURES - Create invoices and process payments on the spot - Process credit card or ACH payments using our PCI-compliant site, Alarmpayments.com - Payment processing links directly to invoices and accounts for easy payment posting - Obtain customer signatures on the spot TIMECARDS - Our innovative structure allows tracking of both job activity and daily tech time worked - Track time related to sick days, vacation, jobs, or non-job-related events - Track billable or non-billable hours, and standard, overtime, and/or travel rates DASHBOARD - View your daily schedule and quickly clock out of any open timecards - Easily clock in and out of your daily timecard CUSTOMER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT - View customer data and documents related to contracts and proposals/quotes - Get to locations quickly, using address mapping - Use the app to either text or call the customer to give them status updates (e.g. running late) - Quickly add critical notes related to an appointment, so your office team can follow up - View customer zones, equipment list, and service history QUOTES - Email quotes to customers - Accept quotes to create a ticket for scheduling or invoice customer for payment - Add new inventory items or edit existing parts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cornerstone Mobile Connect at 100% against ScanSeries's 43%. Cornerstone Mobile Connect also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.8). ScanSeries's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (48 vs 6). 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.
Cornerstone Mobile Connect holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ScanSeries has 48 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of ScanSeries's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cornerstone Mobile Connect's.
ScanSeries ships an update every 3 weeks, Cornerstone Mobile Connect every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScanSeries | Cornerstone Mobile Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (48 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BuildingReports.com, Inc | Cornerstone Funding Inc |
Customer experience
ScanSeries
Cornerstone Mobile Connect
In-app purchases
ScanSeries
No in-app purchases
Cornerstone Mobile Connect
No in-app purchases
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