An iPad and the right app is the entire inspection kit. No camera bag, no clipboard, no laptop waiting in the car.
The iPad and iPad mini turn out to be the entire kit required to perform foolproof inspections and produce professional, photo-packed reports. Nothing else has to travel with you, which matters when you are doing four properties in a morning.
On an iPad, inspection apps vary a lot in quality and user-friendliness. The tablet form factor is forgiving of bad design in a way a phone is not, so plenty of products get away with an interface that was never really adapted for it.
zInspector ensures a smooth experience across iPad models, and the larger screen accommodates custom scaling of app screens and buttons so that every user is comfortable. The point of that is simple: attention should be on the property, not on the method of recording it.
Inspection apps are plentiful; the ones that hold up are the ones with the tools and customisation to handle an unusual property without a workaround. zInspector can turn an iPad into the best inspection tool you have used, provided you take the time to shape the templates around how you actually work.
For why a tablet rather than a phone in the first place, see iPad property inspection.
Yes. The interface is adapted for tablet rather than stretched from a phone layout, and screens and buttons can be scaled further to individual preference.
No. Inspections can be captured offline and synced later, so a WiFi-only iPad is perfectly workable for properties with no connection.
No. It is the same application with the same capabilities; the difference is how much of it you can see at once.
Install it, scale the interface to suit you, and run a property end to end.
