The app covers one job end to end: pick a checklist, walk the site answering Yes, No or N/A, raise findings as you go, then export a PDF. The checklist library holds 42 templates spanning workplace safety, fire safety, vehicles, apartment handover, construction, food hygiene and 5S, each one presented in the app language rather than translated on the fly.

Your own templates use nine question types, with required questions, weighted scoring and conditional questions that only appear when an earlier answer calls for them. A "No", or a measured value outside the limit you set, raises a finding automatically. Templates are versioned, so editing one never rewrites inspections already completed — the detail that separates a real inspection tool from a form builder.

Version 1.0 arrived on 19 October 2026, weighs 108 MB and needs iOS 15.0 or later, reaching 130 device models, including iPhone generations the alternatives below have dropped.

Every photo is stamped in the pixels themselves, not in metadata a copy would lose. The listing describes the order plainly:

The untouched original is kept beside the stamped copy, and both files carry a SHA-256 hash. SHA-256 is one of the seven algorithms specified in NIST FIPS 180-4, the Secure Hash Standard, whose digests run from 160 to 512 bits; the standard states that digests exist to detect whether messages have changed since they were generated. Recompute the hash, compare it with the stored one, and an altered pixel shows up.

Why that matters outside a laboratory: under Rule 901(b)(9) of the US Federal Rules of Evidence, one accepted way to authenticate an item is evidence describing a process or system and showing that it produces an accurate result. A stamped photo, a preserved original and a matching hash describe that kind of process. Tickfield Inspection Checklist cannot make a photo admissible by itself; it gives you something to describe.

Partly, and the honest answer depends on the regime. Take construction in the UK: regulation 24 of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 sets out what a report of inspection must contain — the name and address of the person it was carried out for, the location, a description of the place inspected including work equipment and materials, the date and time of the inspection, and details of any matter that could give rise to a risk. The proof camera and the PDF header capture all five between them.

Food hygiene is the same story. The FDA's HACCP principles number seven, and the last of them is to establish record-keeping and documentation procedures, with monitoring as principle four. A recurring checklist with a timestamped photo per critical point is a legitimate way to hold up those two principles. What the templates cannot do is tell you which regime applies to your site, or keep pace when one changes.

Reports come in three styles — Classic, Compact and a Photo report — carrying your company name, logo and colour, with a before-and-after comparison against the previous inspection. The report can be written in any of 44 languages independently of the app language, which is the feature a contractor inspecting for a foreign client will notice first.

Findings carry a priority, before and after photos, a place, a responsible person, a due date and a reminder. Import a floor plan from a PDF or a picture and you can drop numbered, colour-coded pins on it; the numbers stay put, so a finding cited in a report still points at the same spot a month later. Answers and findings also export as CSV, and a full backup can go to iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox, optionally behind a password. Tickfield Inspection Checklist is a free download on the App Store.

Three situations, plainly. If a team shares one template library and needs results in a dashboard, the app has no cloud workspace and Mitti (by SafetyCulture) is the better answer. If your inspectors carry Android phones, there is no build for them. If you want a decade of ratings before trusting a tool with a legal record, version 1.0 with no ratings is a fair reason to wait.

And the boundary the developer states in the listing itself: the checklists "do not replace a statutory inspection". A stamped photograph documents what a competent person saw; it does not make that person competent, and it does not stand in for an inspection the law says a qualified inspector must perform.

A free, offline inspection app for iPhone and iPad whose distinguishing feature is evidence handling: the date, the time with its time zone, the GPS position and its accuracy are burned into each photo, the untouched original is preserved beside the stamped copy, and both files carry a SHA-256 hash so a later edit can be detected. Around that sit 42 ready-made checklists, custom templates with nine question types and conditional logic, floor-plan pins, findings with owners and due dates, and PDF reports in three styles writable in any of 44 languages. Version 1.0 has no ratings yet, no Android build and no shared cloud workspace, which is what separates it from the established alternatives.