Scoop MAE vs OpenSolar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scoop MAE
This app streamlines work management and automation for new energy projects like solar and wind farm maintenance. It allows teams to collect field data, track tasks, and generate reports efficiently. Keep your team connected and projects moving forward with real-time communication and automated workflows.
- Mobile forms and checklists
- Task creation, assignment, and tracking
- Integrated calendar for work order scheduling
- Picture and video recording/reporting
- Real-time commenting and communication
- Customized PDF report generation
- Automated workflows for work assignment
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Scoop is simple, powerful work management and automation software for new energy projects including solar installation, solar O&M, solar project management and wind farm maintenance. Scoop enables your team to be at their peak performance with configurable industry best practice app templates right on their mobile devices. Make it easy for your team to collect and report a variety of field data while work is taking place, including form data such as site installation checklists, measurements, preventative maintenance inspection results, proof of work, and site pictures and videos. Keep everyone in the loop to resolve issues quickly and keep projects moving faster. Features: - Easily enable everyone to follow the correct steps with mobile forms and checklists - Create, assign and track tasks to simplify field work like solar construction project management - Easily schedule solar work orders with the integrated calendar - Make it easy for field personnel to record, report and access pictures, videos and documents from anywhere - Alert and collaborate to solve problems quickly with integrated real time commenting and field communications - Easily stay on top of time sensitive project or operations & maintenance work with alerts and reminders - Generate customized PDF reports with the click of a button - Simplify work assignment, notification & tracking with automated workflows - Simplify document upload and sharing with integrated document management - Easily push work orders to field techs on their mobile devices - Let personnel see exactly which work orders they need to work on with integrated calendar
OpenSolar
This free application provides a comprehensive solution for designing and selling solar energy systems. It offers end-to-end functionality for solar professionals.
- End-to-end solar design
- Sales application
- Free to use
- Comprehensive functionality
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OpenSolar is the world's first free, end-to-end, solar design and sales application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OpenSolar at 4.4 against Scoop MAE's 2.0. Scoop MAE's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
OpenSolar holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Scoop MAE's written reviews are positive against 45% of OpenSolar's.
Scoop MAE ships an update every 2 weeks, OpenSolar every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scoop MAE | OpenSolar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (8 ratings) | 4.4 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 45.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 15.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 216 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scoop Robotix Inc. | OpenSolar Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Scoop MAE
OpenSolar
In-app purchases
Scoop MAE
No in-app purchases
OpenSolar
No in-app purchases
