AuditBricks vs Penned
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AuditBricks
This app streamlines site reporting and audit management. Create detailed inspection reports, punch lists, and safety checklists with ease. Capture and annotate photos, generate professional PDF and Excel reports, and share them instantly.
- Unlimited projects and issues
- Photo capture and annotation
- Predefined data lists
- PDF and Excel report generation
- Instant sharing and cloud export
- Offline work capability
- Issue assignment and status tracking
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AuditBricks turns site walkthroughs into professional inspection reports. Capture punch list items, defects, and safety issues with photos, mark them up, assign them to subcontractors, and send a branded PDF or Excel report before you leave the site. No internet needed. Built for general contractors, superintendents, inspectors, engineers, property managers, and facility teams. CAPTURE FAST • Quick Capture: keep the camera open, shoot every item on your walkthrough, and add them all as issues at once • Voice-to-issue: describe the problem out loud and AuditBricks fills in the title, description, and fix-by date • Attach multiple photos to each issue, or import photos from your library as bulk issues • Import issues from a CSV file • "Save & Add New" for fast, continuous logging PHOTO MARKUP • Arrows, lines, rectangles, circles, pen, highlighter, and text • Tick, cross, warning, and numbered markers to call out each item • Blur faces, license plates, and other sensitive details • Choose colors and line thickness so every markup is easy to read TRACK TO CLOSEOUT • Assign items to subcontractors, trades, or team members • Set status, priority, and fix-by dates, and get reminders when items are due • Filter issues by status, assignee, and more • Pick lists for titles, descriptions, assignees, and statuses keep entries consistent across every job PROFESSIONAL REPORTS • Generate PDF and Excel reports in seconds • Add your company logo, inspector name, and signature • Choose your date format, photo size, and the fields to include • Large reports are split into smaller files so they're easy to email SHARE & TEAMWORK • Send reports by email, Messages, AirDrop, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or any app in the share sheet • Share a whole project with your team and combine their findings into one report • Back up and restore all your data WORKS ANYWHERE • Fully offline, so it works in basements, new construction, and remote sites • Unlimited projects and unlimited issues • Available in 50 languages USE IT FOR • Punch lists and construction closeout • Building and home inspections • Quality control and QA/QC walkthroughs • Safety inspections and hazard logs • Defect tracking and warranty items • Property condition surveys and maintenance checks Questions or feedback? Email support@appculus.com or visit www.auditbricks.com.
Penned
A minimalist handwriting app designed for privacy, keeping all your notes securely on your device. It features natural writing with Apple Pencil, on-device AI text recognition, and smart tagging for easy searching. Export your notes as PDFs in a clean, distraction-free interface.
- Natural Apple Pencil writing
- On-device AI text recognition
- 100% private, no cloud
- Export beautiful PDFs
- Smart tagging and search
- Distraction-free interface
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Your thoughts deserve privacy. Penned Notes is a minimalist handwriting app that keeps everything on your device. - Natural Apple Pencil writing - AI text recognition (on-device) - 100% private - zero cloud required - Export beautiful PDFs - Smart tagging & search - Clean, distraction-free interface Unlike other note apps, Penned Notes uses Apple's Neural Engine to recognize your handwriting locally and nothing leaves your device. No accounts, no tracking, no subscriptions to complex features you don't need. Perfect for: - Daily journaling - Class notes & studying - Meeting notes - Sketches & brainstorming - Sensitive work documents Privacy-first architecture means your notes stay truly yours. Download Penned Notes. Where your thoughts are penned, not surveilled.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Penned at $4.99 against AuditBricks's $9.99. Penned also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). AuditBricks's advantage is review sentiment (63% vs 50%). On rating, 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
AuditBricks costs $9.99 and Penned $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for AuditBricks against 4.6 for Penned. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 164 and 87 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of AuditBricks's written reviews are positive against 50% of Penned's.
AuditBricks ships an update every 4 months, Penned every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AuditBricks | Penned |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (164 ratings) — better | 4.6 (87 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | 87 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raghvendra Bhargava | Edwing H Santos Mena |
Customer experience
AuditBricks
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In-app purchases
AuditBricks
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









