Draft Paper vs 3D Mobile Inspector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Draft Paper
Create floor plans, layouts, and blueprints with ease using intuitive drawing tools. Support for multiple layers, iCloud, and Dropbox integration allows for seamless workflow. Export your designs to various formats for printing or further editing.
- Draw lines, rectangles, text, and more
- Support for multiple layers
- Export to PDF, JPEG, and DXF
- iCloud and Dropbox integration
- Mirror, translate, rotate, and scale operations
- Apple Pencil support
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Draft Paper is a simple and intuitive way to make floor plans, layouts or blueprints quickly and easily. Touch and drag to draw lines and rectangles on up to 10 independent layers, then export directly to PDF, JPEG or DXF ready for printing, emailing or editing in other software. Full feature list: + Drawing: Line, Dotted Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Ellipse, Segment, Text, Erase, Measure, Presentation + Multi file iCloud support + Export to JPEG / Vector PDF / DXF + Upload / download from DropBox or any other compatible app + Mirror / translate / rotate / scale operations + Smooth, fast and intuitive zooming / panning + Multiple layers and colors + Selectable right / left handed modes. + Unlimited undo + Unlimited size drawing area + Apple Pencil support (including double tap) + Metric / Imperial (USC) units support + Designed for iPhone and iPad For full instructions please visit our website, http://draftpaper-app.com
3D Mobile Inspector
This app streamlines property and marine inspections by allowing users to collect data and photos directly on their mobile devices. It wirelessly syncs with desktop software to generate professional inspection reports for clients.
- Efficient data collection with touch interface
- Immediate comment-to-paragraph building
- Direct photo capture and gallery import
- Customizable inspection content
- Virtual report preview and editing
- Inspection status tracking
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3D Mobile Inspector software integrates with the 3D Inspection System desktop software for use on your phone or tablet. 3D Inspection System inspection software provides the most powerful and easy to use inspection software available for home and real estate inspection, marine survey, pest or WDO inspections, environmental or mold reporting, 4-point insurance inspections, and other industries. Both 3D Mobile Inspector and regular 3D Inspection System software work for these kinds of inspections. With 3D Mobile Inspector software, quickly collect home and building or boat survey inspection data and photos in the filed on your phone or tablet, and then wirelessly send it back to the office to produce state-of-the-art inspection reports for online delivery to your clients. Phones and tablets are both supported with no additional licensing to use 3D Mobile Inspector on more than one phone or tablet for additional home or marine survey inspectors. 3D Inspection System 3D Mobile Inspector software features: - Efficient data collection, with EASY to use scrolling inspection report sections. - Tap to report sections with finger-friendly touch interface. - See report comments immediately build into paragraphs as selected. No annoying pop-ups to view or select comments. - Open the menu drawer to take a cover photo, preview the report, preview summaries, preview bookmarks, and preview Not-Inspected items. - Capture photos directly into your 3D Mobile Inspector from the device camera by tapping the camera icon or select an image from the gallery by holding down the camera icon. No set limit to the number of photos you may include for any area or a narrative inspection report. Photos in copied fields may be printed neatly together in a row for the final report. - Complete customization of your inspection content. Add or copy areas for repeated components by tapping and holding down on a Heading or Subheading. - Unused items automatically omit without any extra effort. - Virtual inspection report preview. Preview the entire report, summaries, bookmarks, and not inspected items. Tap images within preview to expand them for larger viewing. Tap a Heading or Subheading within a preview to navigate to that part of the actual report for easy editing. - Inspection status tracking and display of inspection scheduled information makes it easy to manage inspectors. - Produce stunning end-user inspection reports from your collected data. Anyone may install the 3D Mobile Inspector collection app to demo it with example Residential Checkstyle forms. Using 3D Mobile Inspector with your personal Cloud3D account is needed to access reports created using your own custom forms and send them to and from your computer. 3D Mobile Inspector is developed and supported by 3D Inspection Systems, Inc., the industry leader in the home inspection and marine surveying industries for over 30 years. Visit us at www.3dinspection.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Draft Paper at 4.4 against 3D Mobile Inspector's 2.8. Draft Paper also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (16K vs 17). 3D Mobile Inspector's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Draft Paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 3D Mobile Inspector asks for nothing beyond the download.
Draft Paper holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Draft Paper has 16K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Draft Paper's written reviews are positive against 33% of 3D Mobile Inspector's.
Draft Paper ships an update every 2 weeks, 3D Mobile Inspector every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Draft Paper | 3D Mobile Inspector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (16K ratings) — better | 2.8 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.8% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16K — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Giles Goddard | 3D Inspection Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
Draft Paper
3D Mobile Inspector
Bugs and requests
Draft Paper
Reported bugs
3 issues- Saved files disappearing or becoming corrupted
- Inconsistent behavior when zooming and panning
- Inability to import/export files as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add copy/paste functionality
- Improve text editing capabilities
- Provide more precise measurement tools
- Implement ability to save multiple versions of a project
3D Mobile Inspector
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Draft Paper
- All Features$9.99
3D Mobile Inspector
No in-app purchases
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