SnapCount vs Visual Installer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SnapCount
Streamline field and facility service operations with a cloud-based digital solution. This app enhances efficiency for site audits, surveys, proposals, costing, and project fulfillment across various trades like lighting and HVAC.
- Site audit and survey tools
- Proposal and costing generation
- Project fulfillment management
- Cloud-based digital operations
- Integration with accounting systems
- Eliminates paper and spreadsheets
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SnapCount is the key to maximizing your productivity in your field and facility service activities. Integrated with a comprehensive cloud-based digital operations solution, SnapCount enables site audit, survey, proposal, costing, project fulfillment and business office functions for a variety of facility trades including Lighting, Energy, HVAC and others. SnapCount digital operations solutions enable you to: • Improve speed, efficiency and effectiveness • Eliminate redundancy and error • Integrate with what’s working well (i.e. Accounting) • Differentiate from those stuck in yesterday’s world (paper & spreadsheets) • Elevate your sophistication to credibly compete for the most lucrative opportunities
Visual Installer
This app simplifies lighting control installation and documentation. It uses project floor plans to scan devices, record installation status, and track design changes in real-time. It also facilitates collaboration among project stakeholders.
- Scan lighting control devices
- Capture real-time installation status
- Record exact device locations
- Track design changes
- Real-time collaboration tool
- Utilize project floor plans
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The Visual Installer mobile app streamlines lighting control installation and as-built workflows. Using project floor plans and risers that are made available in the app, users scan lighting control devices to capture real-time installation status, exact device locations, and design changes. In addition, the Visual Installer app also serves as a real-time collaboration tool for other project stakeholders, such as construction managers, project owners, and installers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visual Installer at 100% against SnapCount's 50%. Visual Installer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (12.2 vs 15.0). SnapCount's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Visual Installer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of SnapCount's written reviews are positive against 100% of Visual Installer's.
SnapCount ships an update monthly, Visual Installer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SnapCount | Visual Installer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (15 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Streamlinx LLC | Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc |
Customer experience
SnapCount
Visual Installer
In-app purchases
SnapCount
No in-app purchases
Visual Installer
No in-app purchases
