Comparison

ArcGIS Indoors vs Aimo Pointer

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

Head to head
About

ArcGIS Indoors

Navigate and manage indoor spaces with this comprehensive system. Find people, reserve workspaces, and get turn-by-turn directions within complex buildings. Enhance occupant experience and streamline operations.

Highlights
  • Indoor wayfinding and navigation
  • Workspace and meeting room reservations
  • Find people, spaces, and assets
  • Save favorite locations
  • Share locations with directions
  • Integrates with indoor positioning systems
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ArcGIS Indoors is Esri’s complete indoor mapping system that provides foundational data management capabilities and focused apps to gain insights, improve operations, maintenance, and safety of indoor spaces. Enhance occupant and visitor experience at your organization with ArcGIS Indoors mobile application. Quickly find and route to people, spaces, assets, and work orders. Easily reserve workspaces and meeting rooms. Explore and Search Explore, search, and quickly find people, appointments and events, offices and classrooms, and other points of interest at your organization, so you don’t have to wonder where they are located. Wayfinding and Navigation Whether you’re an occupant or a visitor, ArcGIS Indoors makes navigating complex buildings easier. Know where people, spaces, assets, work orders and calendar appointments are. If the building is equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi indoor positioning systems, ArcGIS Indoors can interface with them to show exactly where you are on an indoor map. Workspace Reservations Whether you need a meeting room, a quiet spot for focused work, or a collaborative workspace for your team, the Indoors mobile app makes it easy to reserve workspaces. Search for workspaces based on time, duration, capacity, location, and available equipment, locate and view them on an interactive indoor map. Save Favorites Save the locations of people, events, and other points of interest to My Places. Quickly find them again whenever you need to. Share Whether you’re making others aware of a location or helping them find a work order location or a point of interest, sharing that location helps them get quick directions and start navigating to their destination. The location can be shared as a hyperlink using common mobile device apps, such as email, text, or instant messaging. App Launch Smart launch other apps directly from the Indoors mobile app. You can also launch the Indoors mobile app from other configurable mobile apps. For example, mobile workers using a work order app can launch the Indoors mobile app automatically to a specific work order. Employees using a company-specific events app can launch the Indoors mobile app automatically to the location of an event or meeting to quickly get directions without the need to search in the Indoors app.

About

Aimo Pointer

Features
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Aimo turns your iPhone into a wireless laser pointer and presentation remote for your computer. Move your hand, and a glowing red dot follows on the big screen — just like a real laser pointer. Hold to draw highlights over your slides, flip pages, and zoom, all from the phone in your hand. Wearing an Apple Watch? Point and control your presentation right from your wrist. HOW IT WORKS Open the free Aimo companion app on your Mac or Windows PC, open your document, and scan the QR code with your iPhone. That's it — no accounts, no setup, no cables. POINT NATURALLY Aimo uses your phone's motion sensors to move the pointer the way you'd point a finger. Smooth, responsive, and precise — it feels like the laser is coming out of your phone. HIGHLIGHT AS YOU TALK Hold the highlight pad to draw over your slides in real time. Circle a number, underline a sentence, mark what matters. Your marks stay on each page as you navigate, and clear with a tap. WORKS WITH YOUR DOCUMENTS Present PDF files, plus Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (using the free LibreOffice helper on your computer). Open a document on the desktop companion and present it fullscreen with your pointer on top. APPLE WATCH INCLUDED Leave your phone in your pocket. The Aimo watch app lets you point with your wrist, change slides, and highlight — a presentation remote you literally wear. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything happens on your local Wi-Fi network. No cloud, no servers, no accounts, no data collected — your documents never leave your computer. PERFECT FOR Presentations and pitches Lectures and classrooms Team meetings and reviews Any time you'd reach for a laser pointer Aimo requires the free desktop companion app for Mac and Windows, available at aimo-app-pointer.web.app

Screenshots

ArcGIS Indoors4 screens
Aimo Pointer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Aimo Pointer at 13.0 against ArcGIS Indoors's 18.0. 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ArcGIS Indoors versus Aimo Pointer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArcGIS IndoorsAimo Pointer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperESRIMoath Asfour

In-app purchases

None

ArcGIS Indoors

No in-app purchases

None

Aimo Pointer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ArcGIS Indoors free?
ArcGIS Indoors is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aimo Pointer free?
Aimo Pointer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ArcGIS Indoors or Aimo Pointer have ads?
Neither ArcGIS Indoors nor Aimo Pointer shows ads.

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