Comparison

Inventory Control with Scanner vs BoardSnap

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

Head to head
About

Inventory Control with Scanner

Organize and track your inventory with a powerful barcode scanner. Quickly add, update, and manage item details, stock levels, and prices. Generate and print custom barcode labels for your products. Supports offline use and data syncing across devices with a subscription.

Highlights
  • Barcode scanning for items
  • Manual item entry
  • Customizable categories and storage
  • Barcode label generation
  • Offline mode
  • Data syncing across devices
  • Customizable reports
Features
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Inventory Control with Scanner is an inventory management, stock tracking, and barcode scanner app for professionals, small businesses, and personal inventory workflows. Track products, equipment, supplies, stock levels, prices, and item information from iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Scan barcodes to find items quickly, add inventory, adjust stock, and keep recently scanned products ready for follow-up. INVENTORY MANAGEMENT • Add, search, update, and organize inventory items. • Track stock, product information, and prices. • Add items manually or with the built-in barcode scanner. • Attach product images and organize categories, storage areas, suppliers, merchants, and currencies. BARCODE SCANNER • Scan barcodes to find, add, open, or adjust stock items. • Keep recently scanned items available while you continue scanning. • Use the built-in camera scanner or compatible Bluetooth barcode scanners. BARCODE & LABEL GENERATION • Create and print barcode labels for products and inventory. • Print on standard A4, US Letter, and roll formats. • Supports EAN-8, EAN-13, UPC, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, QR, and QR Mini. PRO FEATURES • Sign in with Apple. • Work offline without requiring Wi-Fi or a data connection. • Sync data between your devices with an eligible subscription. REPORTS & CUSTOMIZATION • Create, print, email, and share professional PDF reports. • Import and export CSV files. • Add custom attributes and personalize reports for your workflow. STARKODE PRO Part of the Starkode Pro series for professionals working across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Need help? Contact support@starkode.com. SUBSCRIPTION Starkode membership is month-to-month with no long-term contracts or cancellation fees. Cancel anytime from your device. Privacy Policy: https://starkode.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://starkode.com/terms/

About

BoardSnap

Capture whiteboard content and transform it into actionable notes, summaries, and conversational AI. Organize your notes by project and maintain context across all your captured boards. Works offline and syncs when you're back online.

Highlights
  • Whiteboard capture and digitization
  • AI-powered summarization
  • Action item extraction
  • Project-based organization
  • Brand-aware AI summaries
  • Context-aware chat
  • Offline capture
Features
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BoardSnap turns any whiteboard into something you can actually use. Snap a board with your iPhone. In ten seconds you get clean notes, action items with owners, and a project you can chat with — across every board you've ever captured. Lecture, conference room, coffee-shop napkin: same five-second loop. Built for: • Students who walk out of a lecture with the whiteboard locked in their pocket, then quiz themselves before the exam. • Professionals who leave every meeting with action items already assigned, not a phone full of photos they'll never open again. • Entrepreneurs and builders who think on whiteboards and want every spec, every sketch, every coffee-shop conversation to feed the same AI brain. Four things BoardSnap does that nothing else does: PROJECTS — every board lives in a project. A project is a class, a client, a product, a quarter. Switch projects, switch contexts; nothing leaks. BRAND-AWARE AI — give your project a website URL and BoardSnap reads it. Summaries and action items come back in your company's voice, your professor's framing, your product's terminology. Generic AI chat can't do this. CHAT THAT REMEMBERS — pin the notes that matter. Every future question across that project starts with that context, free. No more re-explaining your situation to a fresh chat thread. OFFLINE FIRST — basement lecture hall, plane mode, dead WiFi. Snap anyway. BoardSnap queues every capture and flushes the moment you're back online. Zero lost boards. How it works: 1. Tap snap. Native iPhone capture finds edges, straightens the board. 2. AI reads the entire board — handwriting, diagrams, sticky notes, all of it. 3. You get back: a 1-paragraph summary, a structured outline, action items with owners and dates, and a tap-to-quiz mode for any board. 4. Chat across every board in the project. Pin the takeaways. Walk away. Built native for iPhone. VisionKit edge detection. No Android, no web, no Office plugin — focused. Free to try with 5 boards. Pro at $9.99/month or $69.99/year unlocks unlimited boards, projects, chat, and quiz. Privacy: your boards live in your iCloud account. No training on your data. No ads, ever. Made in Detroit by DotcomJack.

Screenshots

Inventory Control with Scanner4 screens
BoardSnap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: BoardSnap at 100% against Inventory Control with Scanner's 46%. BoardSnap also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Inventory Control with Scanner's advantage is ratings volume (609 vs 5) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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. Inventory Control with Scanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and BoardSnap sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BoardSnap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inventory Control with Scanner has 609 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Inventory Control with Scanner's written reviews are positive against 100% of BoardSnap's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Inventory Control with Scanner ships an update every 3 weeks, BoardSnap fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Inventory Control with Scanner versus BoardSnap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInventory Control with ScannerBoardSnap
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (609 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings609 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStarkode Limited CompanyJack Brandt

Customer experience

Inventory Control with Scanner

All ratings609 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews328 reviews
Positive46.3%
Neutral13.4%
Negative40.2%

BoardSnap

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Inventory Control with Scanner

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Entire app disappeared and backup failed
  • Inventory data disappeared after updates
  • Duplicating entries
  • Crashing, freezing, or not working after updates
  • Camera not functioning
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  • Unable to enter or update stock levels
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Incorrect date/time on transactions

Requested features

17 requests
  • Order lists by sku or serial number, not just alphabetically
  • Generate serial numbers
  • Connect to a broader variety of printers
  • Delete all for items
  • Ability to upload a csv file that replaces current stock items
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  • Reset inventory to zero to do full count
  • Use third party bar scanner with app
  • Option to add serial numbers for products with color variations
  • Ability to move products between 2 warehouses
  • Generate reports of sales by day or monthly
  • Ability to share inventory with other users
  • Import data from Excel or other sources
  • Ability to calculate average consumption of products in stock
  • Search by barcode or QR code
  • Automatic deduction of stock when scanning items out
  • Ability to set taxes and see taxable/non-taxable totals
  • Show total profit

BoardSnap

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Inventory Control with Scanner

Subscriptions3
  • Inventory Management Premium Access3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Premium Suite7 Days trial$24.991 Month
  • Inventory Tracker Suite Annual$99.991 Year
3 purchases

BoardSnap

Subscriptions2
  • BoardSnap Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • BoardSnap Pro Annual$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • BoardSnap Pro — Lifetime$149.00

Questions

Is Inventory Control with Scanner free?
Inventory Control with Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BoardSnap free?
BoardSnap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Inventory Control with Scanner or BoardSnap?
BoardSnap is rated higher. Inventory Control with Scanner averages 4.4 out of 5 from 609 ratings, while BoardSnap averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Inventory Control with Scanner or BoardSnap have ads?
Neither Inventory Control with Scanner nor BoardSnap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Inventory Control with Scanner or BoardSnap?
Inventory Control with Scanner ships an update every 3 weeks, and BoardSnap fortnightly. Most recently, Inventory Control with Scanner was updated on October 22, 2026 and BoardSnap on October 18, 2026.

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