Scoop MAE vs Sunbase Solar Designer
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
Sunbase Solar Designer
Design 3D solar and roofing layouts with advanced tools. Measure roofs, add obstacles like trees, and generate detailed performance simulations with shading analysis for accurate reports.
- 3D solar and roofing design
- Roof measurement tools
- Obstacle placement (trees)
- Lidar data integration
- Performance simulations
- Shading analysis reports
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Create 3D Solar and Roofing Designs, measure roofs, apply setbacks, draw trees, pull lidar and run performance simulations with shading data to create accurate shading reports.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sunbase Solar Designer at 5.0 against Scoop MAE's 2.0. Sunbase Solar Designer also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Scoop MAE's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (8 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.
Sunbase Solar Designer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scoop MAE has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Scoop MAE ships an update every 11 days, Sunbase Solar Designer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scoop MAE | Sunbase Solar Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scoop Robotix Inc. | Jared Dubin |
Customer experience
Scoop MAE
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In-app purchases
Scoop MAE
No in-app purchases
Sunbase Solar Designer
No in-app purchases
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