Oregon ePermitting App vs Accela Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Oregon ePermitting App
This app enables contractors and homeowners to manage building inspections. Schedule, reschedule, or cancel inspections, upload photos, and participate in live video inspections. Communicate directly with inspectors via direct messaging and receive important push notifications.
- Schedule, reschedule, and cancel inspections
- Upload photos to inspections
- Participate in live video inspections
- Receive push notifications from inspectors
- Direct message with inspectors
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Allows Oregon contractors and homeowners to schedule/reschedule/cancel building, onsite, and public works inspections. As well as upload photos to inspections, participate in live video inspections, receive push notifications from inspectors, and direct message with inspectors about upcoming inspections.
Accela Mobile
This app allows field workers to manage tasks and inspections from their mobile device. It supports offline data updates, evidence capture, and record management. Users can view job locations on a map and sync data when a connection is available.
- Perform result inspections
- Update checklist items
- Capture photos, videos, and audio
- Manage record contacts
- Create, reschedule, and reassign records
- View and update record conditions
- Offline data updates and syncing
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Accela Mobile enables Accela Civic Platform users who work primarily in the field to complete their tasks from their iOS mobile device, including: • Result inspections • Update checklist items, individually or in batches • Capture evidence by attaching photos, videos, and audio recordings • Insert comments using comment controls that allow ad hoc as well as custom, favorite, and recent comments • View, edit, call (iPhone only), or email record contacts • Create, reschedule, and reassign records and inspections • View and update record and inspection conditions • Update record information, including status, custom forms and tables, and workflow steps • View jobs on a map and navigate to the job location • Download record and inspection data locally to the device • Update records and inspections without a data connection, save the updates locally, and sync when a data connection is available • Works with Accela Automation 9.x or higher. Requires mobile license and Accela Gateway. Contact Accela Support for more information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Accela Mobile at 4.0 against Oregon ePermitting App's 3.0. Accela Mobile also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). Oregon ePermitting App's advantage is review sentiment (25% vs 8%) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Accela Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oregon ePermitting App has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of Oregon ePermitting App's written reviews are positive against 8% of Accela Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Oregon ePermitting App ships an update every 5 months, Accela Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Oregon ePermitting App | Accela Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (13 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better | 8.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oregon DCBS/Building Codes Division | Accela, Inc. |
Customer experience
Oregon ePermitting App
Accela Mobile
In-app purchases
Oregon ePermitting App
No in-app purchases
Accela Mobile
No in-app purchases
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