IC Forms vs visualOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IC Forms
Streamline safety assessments with this app, enabling quick data collection from checklists, inspections, and audits. Centralize information for management, enhance safety culture, and document findings with photos and GPS.
- Digital data collection
- Centralized information hub
- Photo and GPS documentation
- Real-time email communication
- Secure data storage
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Accurately evaluating the current state of your organization’s safety culture requires quick and easy access to the information that resides in your organization’s checklists, inspections, observations and audits. The IC Forms app delivers a simple approach to collecting data and centralizing it a meaningful, “single point of truth” for your management team. The result is a powerful information source that also delivers the evidence, knowledge and awareness required to improve your safety culture and support the investment in your organization. Each audit can include digital photos, GPS coordinates and date/time stamps to accurately document the information that has been captured. Then these results are communicated via email to your team so they can quickly follow up, investigate and take action in real time. All of your information is stored in a secure data center for absolute privacy.
visualOS
This app offers an infinite canvas for visual thinkers, organizing notes, folders, images, and to-do lists. It works entirely offline, saving your data as real files in a folder on your device, which can then sync via your cloud service.
- Infinite canvas for visual thinking
- Offline access and real file saving
- Syncs with your own cloud storage
- Organize notes, images, and to-dos
- Hierarchical boards within boards
- Markdown file support
- Freehand drawing and magnetic arrows
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visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually. It is an infinite canvas for notes, folders, images, to-do’s and sketches. It works fully offline and saves to real files in a folder on your device. YOUR DATA IS A FOLDER YOU CAN OPEN Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your canvas into it — every folder on the canvas is a real folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever. OFFLINE ISN'T A MODE. IT'S THE ARCHITECTURE. On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. There is no server to reach, so there is no spinner, no sync wheel, no login wall. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here. BOARDS WITHIN BOARDS Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-tap takes you deeper. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Open it and work. There's nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours forever — one purchase unlocks every Apple device. FREE IN THE BROWSER BUT THE APP GOES FURTHER Try visualOS free in your browser at visualos.app. When you're ready for it everywhere, the app adds what a browser can't: true offline access on the train or a plane, native pan-and-zoom gestures, Apple Pencil drawing, and your boards saved as real files that sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud. EVERYTHING ELSE • Notes & rich text • Long-form documents stored as plain Markdown • Interactive to-do lists on the canvas • Images & PDFs — drag, paste or drop them in • Freehand drawing • Magnetic arrows that snap and bend • Search every board at once • Groups, locking and a snap grid Your ideas. Your files. ABOUT US As creatives, we’ve always relied on visual canvas tools to organize our thoughts, plan projects, and make sense of ideas. But one thing kept bothering us: our files and knowledge were always tied to cloud-based services. We wanted the freedom to access everything offline, without worrying about losing our work or giving up our privacy. So why can’t our own files on our device be visualized in the same intuitive way? And that’s how the idea for visualOS was born: a visual representation of your internal folder structure — offline, private, and secure. Your data stays on your device, where it belongs. We’re Sarah and Gerald, a husband-and-wife team who have been living, loving, and building things together for more than 20 years. Creating visualOS has been a ton of fun and thanks to AI we were able to push it further than we initially imagined. Now we’d love to hear what you think. If visualOS helps you work a little more creatively or makes your files easier to navigate, we’d be grateful if you shared it with others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: IC Forms at Free against visualOS's $12.99. IC Forms also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). visualOS's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 months) and chart position (#129 vs unranked). On ratings volume, 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
IC Forms is free to download; visualOS costs $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
IC Forms holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively.
IC Forms ships an update every 5 months, visualOS every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IC Forms | visualOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #129 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ICertainty | Dorweiler & Reimertz GbR |
Customer experience
IC Forms
visualOS
In-app purchases
IC Forms
No in-app purchases
visualOS
No in-app purchases









