AI-first home inspection software

Hive Inspect vs Tap Inspect: iPad-Only Since 2010, or AI-First on Every Device

Tap Inspect is a field-first iPhone and iPad report writer, founder-run since 2010, with a million inspections behind it — and no AI, no Android, no laptop editing, and “not yet” for Texas TREC and Florida wind mitigation, in its own help center. Hive Inspect runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, drafts the comment with AI in the house, generates the state forms, and includes a Realtor dashboard, CRM and pay splits.

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The short answer

Should you choose Hive Inspect or Tap Inspect?

Both work offline in the field, both schedule jobs, sign agreements, take payments and message clients automatically, and both have a client portal. Tap Inspect is cheaper — $7.50 a report or $90 a month — and we say so. What the difference buys: AI Comment Assist drafts the whole comment from your voice in your own template style where Tap Inspect has no AI at all and voice is Siri dictation into a text box, online only; Android, web and laptop editing, Texas and Florida forms generated from the report, Spanish and French delivery, a Realtor dashboard, CRM, analytics and pay splits — none of which are on Tap Inspect's published pages as of August 2026, and several of which their help center answers with “not yet” or “in the future”; and engineers on support seven days a week, where theirs is weekday tickets. Hive Inspect is used by 2,500+ inspectors; Tap Inspect is a two-founder company in Louisville, Kentucky.

At a glance

The whole comparison in one table

Side by side

Feature and price comparison of Hive Inspect and Tap Inspect for home inspectors
Category	Hive Inspect	Tap Inspect
AI comment writing	AI Comment Assist drafts the whole comment in the house from what you say or type, in your own template writing style — included in the $99.	As of August 2026, no AI feature of any kind is on Tap Inspect’s pages, help center or App Store listing. Comments come from a saved library of about 1,200 starters, or are typed or dictated.
Voice in the field	Say the finding; AI Comment Assist drafts it, online or offline.	Apple’s Siri dictation — “only if you use Tap Inspect on an Apple device that has a network connection.” Dictation into a text box, not drafting; and not offline.
Merging related defects	AI Comment Merge combines related findings into one clean comment, with photos and location tags carried across.	As of August 2026, not on Tap Inspect’s published pages.
Market context on defects	Context Layer shows your client how common each defect is nationally and in their state, so findings land in proportion.	As of August 2026, not on Tap Inspect’s published pages.
Platforms	iPhone, iPad, Android and the web — finish in the house or at a desk. Works offline.	iPhone and iPad only. Their help center: “It will not run on Windows or Mac laptops… For now, you can only edit a report on your phone or tablet,” and an Android version is planned “in the future.” Designed to work offline — a genuine strength.
State and industry forms	Texas, Florida and NPMA formats built in.	Their help center on Texas TREC, as of August 2026: “Not yet… Tap Inspect can not generate the format mandated by the state.” Same answer for Florida wind mitigation, with a suggestion to fill the OIR PDF in another app. NPMA-33 only as an attachment.
Multilingual reports (Spanish, French)	Write your report in English once, deliver it in the language your client prefers — Spanish, French, and more.	As of August 2026, not on Tap Inspect’s published pages; the App Store listing lists English only.
Repair request builder	Included. Buyers and agents build a repair list straight from the delivered report.	Not on their published pages as a native feature as of August 2026; the ISN repair request list worked with the legacy app only, and the ISN integration “is not compatible with the modern app experience.”
Back office	Online scheduling, agreements, payments, automations, CRM and a Realtor dashboard, all included.	Autopilot, included in paid plans: a jobs dashboard, a public web scheduler (December 2025), agreements with e-signature, Tap Inspect Payments through ProPay, invoicing, automated email and SMS, and a per-job client portal. Real, and credited.
Realtor dashboard, CRM and analytics	A Realtor dashboard, CRM with automated follow-up, and business metrics — included.	A contacts list with CSV export, and a CSV job-history export. An agent portal, a CRM and an analytics dashboard are not on their published pages as of August 2026.
Multi-inspector operations	Each inspector gets their own login, custom permissions and workspace; admin controls, centralized billing, team analytics, pay splits and tandem inspections in the base plan. $69 per additional inspector.	A Team plan with two roles — Team Owner and Inspector — multiple inspectors on one job, shared templates and comments, $45 per additional inspector. Office roles, pay splits and team analytics are not on their published pages as of August 2026.
Customer Support	Seven days a week, with unlimited video calls and screen sharing. Support is staffed by engineers who solve your problem directly instead of escalating it, so queries get resolved sooner.	Tickets from the app, email and SMS, “8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, excluding major and company holidays”; “out-of-hours responses are always courtesy.” A phone line and live chat are not on their published pages. A video academy and a Facebook user group.
Company	AI-first home inspection software, privately owned, built by a team with decades of software engineering and AI research experience. 2,500+ inspectors and growing.	Tap Inspect Inc., Louisville, Kentucky. Founder-owned since 2010 by Jason Adams and Michael Wirth, a retired inspector with over 10,000 inspections. “Trusted in Over 1 Million Home Inspections,” 4.8 stars from about 4,900 App Store ratings. Two employees, per third-party listings.
Price	$99/mo, or $999/yr (about $83/mo). $69/mo per additional inspector. $9.90 per report in a $99 pack of ten. Five free reports, no card. New inspectors: $39 → $59 → $79, then $99. AI included; onboarding calls free and unlimited.	Pay As You Go $7.50 per job in blocks of 20 for $150; Unlimited $90/mo; Team $90/mo plus $45 per inspector. First five inspections free. Monthly billing only, no annual plan published. Card processing 2.9% + 30¢ plus $5/mo; SMS texting an unpublished extra. Cheaper than Hive per report and on Unlimited.

Tap Inspect figures are quoted from Tap Inspect's own homepage, pricing and Autopilot pages, its help center (with each article's updated date), and its App Store listing, checked in August 2026. Their plans change and ours do too. If anything here has gone out of date, email [email protected] and we will correct it.

How the report gets written

Saved comments and Siri, or AI in your style

Two ways to write the same comment

Take a roof with three related defects — lifted shingles, exposed nail heads, a cracked pipe boot. Here is how the comment gets written on each platform, using only what each publishes about itself.

On Tap Inspect

Open the Roof section on the iPad and rate the item — Satisfactory, Marginal, Repair or Replace, Further Evaluation.
Search the saved-comments library or type; with a signal, tap the microphone and Siri dictates into the box.
Add and mark up the photo; repeat for the nail heads and the boot — three comments.
Set the report to publish; it sends when you are back in signal. No TREC or wind-mitigation form from this data.

Fast, deliberate, and built for the field since 2010 — and every word typed, dictated or selected by you. Nothing drafts it.

On Hive Inspect

Say what you see: “three lifted shingles south slope, exposed nail heads, cracked boot on the plumbing vent.”
AI Comment Assist drafts each comment in your template’s writing style, with title, description, category and service — offline too.
AI Comment Merge folds the three into one comment, photos and location tags carried across.
Context Layer adds how common this is in the state; you approve and deliver — in Spanish or French if needed, on iPhone, iPad, Android or the web.

Every word drafted in your style and signed by you, in the house. Included in the $99.

Tap Inspect solved the 2010 problem — writing the report on site instead of at a desk — and solved it well. Hive Inspect starts from that solution and adds the 2026 one: the software writes the first draft.

Beyond the iPad

Hive — AI, every platform, every state form

What does Hive Inspect have that Tap Inspect doesn't?

Hive Inspect includes what Tap Inspect's published pages and help center do not as of August 2026 — AI of any kind, Android and web, Texas and Florida forms, multilingual delivery, and a Realtor dashboard with CRM, analytics and pay splits.

AI, of any kind

AI Comment Assist is a Hive Inspect feature that drafts the whole comment in the house from what you say or type, in your own template writing style, and it is included in the $99. As of August 2026, no AI feature appears anywhere on Tap Inspect’s pages, help center or App Store listing; voice is Apple’s Siri dictation, online only.

How Comment Assist works

AI Comment Merge and Context Layer

AI Comment Merge combines related findings into one clean write-up with photos and location tags carried across; Context Layer shows your client how common each defect is nationally and in their state. Both are Hive Inspect features included in the $99, and as of August 2026 neither is on Tap Inspect’s published pages.

How Comment Merge works

Android, web and desktop

Hive Inspect runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, so you can finish the report in the house or at a desk, on whatever your team carries. Tap Inspect runs on iPhone and iPad only — their help center says it “will not run on Windows or Mac laptops” and an Android version is planned “in the future.”

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State and industry forms

Texas, Florida and NPMA formats are built into Hive Inspect, so the form your state requires is a selection, not a workaround. Tap Inspect’s own help center answers “Not yet” for Texas TREC and Florida wind mitigation — “Tap Inspect can not generate the format mandated by the state” — and suggests filling the OIR PDF in another app.

See every feature

Multilingual reports (Spanish, French)

Multilingual reports are a Hive Inspect feature: write the inspection in English and deliver it in the language your client reads — Spanish, French, and more. No translator, no third party, no delay. As of August 2026, Tap Inspect’s App Store listing lists English only.

Realtor dashboard, CRM, analytics and pay splits

The office around the report is built into Hive Inspect: a Realtor dashboard where agents see every inspection you have done together, CRM with automated follow-up, business and team analytics, pay splits and tandem inspections. Tap Inspect’s Autopilot covers scheduling, agreements, payments and messaging — credit where due — but as of August 2026 an agent portal, a CRM, analytics and pay splits are not on its published pages.

Hive for multi-inspector firms

Common ground

Tie, and Tap Inspect’s field design is real

Where the two are the same

The common ground is real and Tap Inspect's field design is genuinely good; it is listed so the gaps above read as gaps rather than as marketing.

Designed to work offline in the house, on both.

Online scheduling, agreements with e-signature, invoicing, card payments and automated messages, on both.

A client portal for report, agreement and invoice, on both.

Web reports with PDF download, unlimited photos, on both.

Teams of inspectors on one account, with shared templates and comments, on both.

Five free inspections to start, no card, on both.

A published promise not to sell or share client data for third-party marketing, on both.

Business model

Both keep your client yours; one opt-in referral

What else can end up on the bill?

Tap Inspect’s privacy policy says it does not use client phone numbers for its own marketing and “does not sell or share this information for unrelated third-party marketing,” and we credit that. Two things to know: their Secure24 alarm-referral integration, opt-in per report, forwards “the contact information for the client” to Secure24 “as a referral on your behalf” and pays you $200 per installation; and the terms of service grant Tap Inspect a licence to reproduce and adapt content you upload. Hive Inspect is privately owned and makes money one way, the subscription: no per-inspection charge, no referral programs that hand out your client’s details, and nothing marketed into your client’s portal.

We do not sell or share client data. Not to lead buyers, not to contractors, not to anyone.
No third-party ads, offers or referrals inside your reports or your client’s portal.
Your client’s contact details stay in your account.
We make money one way: the subscription you pay. That is the whole model.

Read our data privacy pledge

Worth asking any platform you are evaluating, and you should ask it of us too: besides my subscription, how do you make money, and who gets my client’s contact details?

“Hive also won’t sell your client’s data to 3rd party vendors unlike other platforms.”
richarddbrown · App Store review, 5★

Field-first since 2010

Tap Inspect, on mobile craft and price

Where Tap Inspect is genuinely strong

An honest page says this out loud: Tap Inspect was mobile-first before most of the industry, and it shows.

A million inspections, 4.8 stars

“Trusted in Over 1 Million Home Inspections,” with an App Store rating of 4.8 from roughly 4,900 reviews and a claim that “96% of home inspectors stick with Tap Inspect.” Sixteen years of field use is not nothing.

Built for the field, offline

“You can do an entire inspection, insert photos, create and insert comments, preview the PDF report and set the report to publish without a network connection.” Multiple devices can even edit the same report and merge when a signal returns.

Cheaper, two ways

Pay As You Go is $7.50 a report — under our $9.90 pack price — and Unlimited is $90 a month to our $99. Their own guidance: fewer than 12 jobs a month, pay per job. For a part-timer who never needs AI, forms or a team, that arithmetic favours Tap Inspect.

What the extra $9 and the extra $2.40 a report buy on Hive is everything Tap Inspect’s pages say “not yet” or nothing about: AI that writes the comment, merge, market context, Android and web, Texas and Florida forms, Spanish and French, a Realtor dashboard, CRM, analytics, pay splits, and engineers on support seven days a week.

Direction

A two-founder app rebuilding, or AI-first

What has each team been building?

Tap Inspect does not publish a changelog we can quote, so we will not guess at their cadence. What we can compare is what each product's own pages say it is made of.

Tap Inspect — from their announcements

Modern app experience rebuild (2021–2023), with a legacy app still documented
SMS texting add-on (October 2024)
Autopilot web scheduler (December 2025)
ISN job import in the modern app: “It is planned”
Android and laptop editing: “in the future”

Four feature announcements in three years from a two-founder team. Careful work; no AI on the list.

Hive — recent releases

AI Comment Merge
Context Layer
Multi-language report delivery

Different problems — because the product was designed around AI rather than extended toward it.

Every Sunday, you hear what changed

Features ship most days. A summary goes out every Sunday, in our Facebook group and by email. Inspectors tell us they look forward to it.

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The speed that matters is how fast your request becomes a feature. Our inspectors describe it best:

“It’s incredible to request quality of life features and see them implemented in a matter of hours.”
Michael Stushie · Home Inspector

“I’m so pleasantly surprised at how quickly these changes are being implemented, nice work!”
PJ Smith · Home Inspector

“They WANT our input and quickly integrate suggestions.”
DanBurkhead · App Store review, 5★

Support

Seven days, or weekdays 8 to 5 Eastern by ticket

Who picks up when something breaks

Tap Inspect publishes its support hours honestly — tickets from the app, email or SMS, “8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, excluding major and company holidays,” with out-of-hours replies “always courtesy” — plus a video academy and a user group. A phone line and live chat are not on their published pages. If your report breaks on a Saturday, you wait for Monday. Here, your message reaches an engineer seven days a week, and the person who answers is usually the person who can fix it.

Support on Hive Inspect

Seven days a week, including Saturday and Sunday — published hours you can hold us to.
Live chat, screen sharing and video calls, unlimited — not a ticket that auto-closes after three days.
Answered by the engineers who build the product, so most issues get fixed on the spot rather than logged.

“When there is an issue it is resolved very quickly because you actually talk to a human rather than an AI bubble… When needed, the Hive team will actually get on a video call with you to help resolve issues.”
Big Dawg Home Inspections · App Store review, 5★

Report quality

Test it yourself

Do not take our word on the AI

Tap Inspect has no AI to test against, so run this instead — it takes five minutes and both trials are free, five inspections each:

Pick a defect you have written a hundred times and pull your saved comment for it in Tap Inspect.
Describe the same defect to Hive Inspect, out loud, and let AI Comment Assist draft it in your template’s style.
Read the two side by side, then look at the clock.

If it does not read like you, do not buy it. That goes for us too.

The report itself is yours to shape, too — layout, sections and branding are customized to how you prefer to present. See sample reports.

Choose Hive Inspect if

You want AI that drafts the comment from your voice, in your own style — Tap Inspect has none.
You or your team use Android, or want to finish reports on a laptop.
You inspect in Texas or Florida and need the state form generated from the report.
You want to deliver reports in Spanish or French.
You want a Realtor dashboard, CRM, analytics and pay splits, not just scheduling and payments.
You would rather reach an engineer on a Saturday than wait for Monday.
You want features shipping every week, with a Sunday summary of what changed.

Choose Tap Inspect instead if you inspect on an iPad, want the fastest field-first workflow with no AI in the loop, and want to pay $7.50 a report or $90 a month — or if you value a founder-run app with sixteen years and a million inspections behind it. Those are real advantages, and an honest page says so.

If you switch, everything transfers free

Tap Inspect templates and comment libraries import directly into Hive Inspect, and our team moves the rest — agreements, contacts, services, business profile — no migration fee, no hourly onboarding. See what switching involves, then keep both subscriptions running until your Hive templates have been through a real inspection.

Templates
Comment libraries
Contacts
Agreements
Services, add-ons & modifiers
Automations
Discount codes
Location tags
Profile photo
Business hours
Team & signatures
Business & company info

Common questions

Hive Inspect and Tap Inspect: common questions

What is Hive Inspect?

Hive Inspect is AI-first home inspection software. It turns spoken findings, notes and photos into client-ready reports, and includes scheduling, agreements, payments, automations, CRM and a Realtor portal in one subscription. It runs on iOS, Android and web, works offline, and costs $99/month or $999/year with unlimited reports — every feature included, AI included.

What does Hive Inspect have that Tap Inspect doesn’t?

AI of any kind — AI Comment Assist drafts the comment from your voice in your template’s style, AI Comment Merge combines related defects, Context Layer adds market context; Android and web apps alongside iPhone and iPad; Texas, Florida and NPMA forms; multilingual delivery in Spanish and French; a Realtor dashboard, CRM, analytics and pay splits; and engineers on support seven days a week. As of August 2026, none of these are on Tap Inspect’s published pages or help center. What both have: offline field work, scheduling, agreements, payments, automated messaging, a client portal and teams.

How much does Tap Inspect cost compared to Hive Inspect?

Tap Inspect is cheaper. Pay As You Go is $7.50 per job in blocks of 20 for $150; Unlimited is $90 a month; the Team plan is $90 a month plus $45 per inspector; the first five inspections are free and there is no annual plan published. Card processing is 2.9% plus 30 cents with a $5 monthly account fee, and SMS texting is an extra monthly fee whose amount is not published. Hive Inspect is $99 a month or $999 a year (about $83 a month), $69 per additional inspector, with a $9.90-per-report pack of ten, five free reports and a $39/$59/$79 ramp for new inspectors — AI included.

Does Tap Inspect have AI?

No, not on any published page, help-center article or App Store note as of August 2026. Comments come from a saved library of about 1,200 starter comments or are typed; voice is Apple’s Siri dictation into a text box, which their help center says works “only if you use Tap Inspect on an Apple device that has a network connection.” Their only mention of AI is a 2025 blog post describing it as an industry trend. Hive Inspect’s AI Comment Assist, AI Comment Merge and Context Layer are built in and included.

Does Tap Inspect work on Android or a computer?

No. Tap Inspect runs on iPhone and iPad (and Apple Vision). Their help center says it “will not run on Windows or Mac laptops… For now, you can only edit a report on your phone or tablet,” and that an Android version is planned “in the future.” The web account handles scheduling, settings and saved-comment editing, not report writing. Hive Inspect runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.

Does Tap Inspect have Texas TREC or Florida wind mitigation forms?

Not as of August 2026. Tap Inspect’s help center answers “Not yet… Tap Inspect can not generate the format mandated by the state” for Texas TREC, and gives the same answer for Florida wind mitigation, suggesting inspectors fill the OIR form as a PDF in another app; NPMA-33 can only be attached. Hive Inspect includes Texas, Florida and NPMA formats built in.

Does Tap Inspect have a back office?

Yes — Autopilot, included in paid plans: a jobs dashboard, a public web scheduler launched in December 2025, agreements with e-signature, Tap Inspect Payments through ProPay, invoicing, automated email and SMS messages, and a per-job client portal, plus Google Calendar one-way sync, Google Drive archiving, Mailchimp and HomeBinder. What is not on their published pages as of August 2026: an agent or Realtor portal, a CRM beyond a contacts export, an analytics dashboard, pay splits, QuickBooks or Zapier. Hive Inspect includes all of those in the $99 plan.

Does Tap Inspect support multi-inspector companies?

Partly. The Team plan is $90 a month plus $45 per inspector, with two roles — Team Owner and Inspector — multiple inspectors on one job with a lead, and shared templates, comments and branding. Office or scheduler roles, pay splits and team analytics are not on their published pages as of August 2026. Hive Inspect gives each inspector their own login, custom permissions and workspace, with admin controls, centralized billing, team analytics, pay splits and tandem inspections in the base plan, at $69 per additional inspector.

Who answers support at Hive Inspect and at Tap Inspect?

Tap Inspect support is by ticket from the app, email or SMS, “8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, excluding major and company holidays,” with out-of-hours replies described as courtesy and tickets auto-closing after three days without a reply; a phone line and live chat are not on their published pages. On Hive Inspect, your message reaches the engineers who build the product, seven days a week, with unlimited video calls and screen sharing.

Does Hive Inspect support Spanish and French inspection reports?

Yes. Write the report in English and deliver it in the language your client prefers — Spanish, French, and more — with no translator, no third party and no delay. As of August 2026, Tap Inspect’s App Store listing lists English only and multilingual delivery is not on its pages.

Can I move my Tap Inspect templates and saved comments to Hive Inspect?

Yes. Tap Inspect templates and saved-comment libraries import directly, and the Hive team moves the rest — contacts, agreements, services, business settings — at no cost, with unlimited onboarding calls until your first inspection. Tap Inspect’s web account exports contacts and job history as CSV, and archived PDFs and photos through Google Drive. Do not cancel first: keep both running until your Hive templates have been through a real inspection.

Who owns Tap Inspect, and who owns Hive Inspect?

Tap Inspect Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky is founder-owned since 2010 by Jason Adams, its system architect, and Michael Wirth, a retired home inspector with over 10,000 inspections; third-party listings put the company at two employees. Hive Inspect is privately owned, AI-first home inspection software built by a team with decades of software engineering and AI research experience, used by 2,500+ inspectors.

Where is Tap Inspect the better choice?

Three places. If you inspect on an iPad and want the fastest field-first workflow with no AI in the loop, Tap Inspect was built for exactly that and has a million inspections behind it. If price decides it, $7.50 a report or $90 a month beats Hive’s $9.90 and $99. And if you value a founder-run app with sixteen years of history, it is one. If those matter more than AI that writes the comment, Android and web, state forms, Spanish and French, a Realtor dashboard and seven-day support, Tap Inspect is the better buy.

Last reviewed: August 2026. We revisit this page when our own capabilities change and when Tap Inspect updates theirs. Verify competitor details directly with them too, since their plans move on their schedule, not ours.

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