How Much Does a Custom Inspection App Cost in South Africa
There's no single honest answer to this without knowing your process — but here's what actually drives the price up or down.
Number of forms and fields
A single inspection checklist is a much smaller build than a system covering ten different form types across several departments.
Whether it needs to work offline
Offline-first capture — storing data on the device and syncing later — is more involved to build properly than a tool that only needs to work with a live connection.
Number of users and how they're managed
A tool for one team is simpler than one that needs different access levels for supervisors, field staff, and office admin.
What happens to the data afterwards
A tool that just captures and stores information is simpler than one that also needs to generate reports, trigger alerts, or feed into another system.
Why there's no fixed price on this page
Practical Software work at Horn Dev — including field & operational tools — is priced per project once the scope is actually understood, the same way every other custom build is quoted. That's not evasiveness — a single fixed number would be misleading either way it's wrong.