SafetyCulture can do construction checklists. Why use RTI?

It can, and for general audits it is a strong tool. The difference is what the record has to withstand. RTI is built for the moment someone disputes whether the work was done: the photo minimum is enforced in the database, the records are hash chained, and the export is a turnover package rather than a stack of individual reports.

What does SafetyCulture cost next to RTI?

SafetyCulture publishes a free plan and Premium at $24 per seat per month billed annually, so the bill grows with headcount. RTI charges per company ($79 or $299 a month with unlimited people), which matters when the people doing the scanning are subs who come and go.

Compare / RTI vs SafetyCulture

Ready To Inspect vs SafetyCulture

A general-purpose inspection and audit app, formerly iAuditor, used across every industry rather than construction specifically. RTI does one thing instead: it will not let an inspection be submitted until the photos that prove it exist, and it chains every record so the result holds up months later.

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At a glance

Ready To Inspect and SafetyCulture at a glance: published price and three capabilities.
Row	RTI	SafetyCulture
Published price	$79 or $299 / mo, unlimited people	Free, then $24 / seat / mo
QR to the checklist	Published capability: Yes	Published capability: Yes
Photo gate on submit	Published capability: Yes	Partly, differently: Partly
Tamper evident record	Published capability: Yes	Partly, differently: Partly

SafetyCulture details from safetyculture.com/pricing and its product pages, read on September 3, 2026.

What each one costs

Ready To Inspect

$79 or $299 / mo, unlimited people

Crew at $79 a month and Company at $299 a month, both with unlimited people, a 30-day trial and no sales call before you can use it.

SafetyCulture

Free, then $24 / seat / mo

SafetyCulture publishes a free plan and a Premium plan listed at $24 per seat per month billed annually, or $29 per seat per month billed monthly, with Enterprise pricing on request.

safetyculture.com/pricing

Where SafetyCulture is strong

A very large public template library and a flexible template builder, so almost any checklist can be built quickly.
Mature mobile capture, including QR and barcode launch of a template from an asset.
Broad reach beyond construction: one app for safety, quality and operations audits across an organisation.

Where RTI works differently

RTI's checklists are construction QA/QC out of the box, with a construction template library, a review board and turnover built into the product.
RTI enforces the photo minimum on the server, not as a required question in the app, so a device or an API call cannot get around it.
RTI's records chain to each other, and the workspace's verification package can be checked independently with the open rti-verify tool.

Capability by capability

Ready To Inspect compared with SafetyCulture across seven inspection capabilities.
Capability	Ready To Inspect	SafetyCulture
Photo gate on submit	Submit is blocked server side until mandatory items are answered and the minimum photos exist.	Partly, differently: A template question can be marked required, including a photo question, and enforced in the app. A server side submit gate independent of the client is not published.
Tamper evident record	Every submission, decision, markup, NCR step and client sign-off is written to a SHA-256 hash chain, so a later edit breaks the chain visibly.	Partly, differently: Completed inspections are timestamped and retained; a published hash chain with independent verification is not part of it.
QR to the checklist	Scan the sticker on a room, unit, riser or panel to open its assigned checklist, one tap from the first item.	Published capability: QR and barcode scanning can launch a template or open an asset.
Offline capture	Answers and photos queue on the device and sync when a connection returns.	Published capability: Offline capture with sync is documented.
Review board	Board lanes for submitted, in review, approved and sent back; a send-back carries its reason on the record.	Partly, differently: Actions and issues are assigned and tracked; the approval flow is not a construction review board with reject reasons on the record.
Turnover package	Approved work exports as a branded PDF with answers, photos, signatures and each record's audit trail, plus CSV data files.	Partly, differently: Branded inspection report PDFs are produced per inspection; a project-level turnover package is not the product.
Client signoff portal	On the Company plan, a read-only sign-off portal for owners and their reps, separate from your internal workspace.	Partly, differently: Reports are shared by link or export rather than through a standing read-only client portal.

Photo gate on submit

Ready To Inspect

Submit is blocked server side until mandatory items are answered and the minimum photos exist.

SafetyCulture

A template question can be marked required, including a photo question, and enforced in the app. A server side submit gate independent of the client is not published.

Tamper evident record

Ready To Inspect

Every submission, decision, markup, NCR step and client sign-off is written to a SHA-256 hash chain, so a later edit breaks the chain visibly.

SafetyCulture

Completed inspections are timestamped and retained; a published hash chain with independent verification is not part of it.

QR to the checklist

Ready To Inspect

Scan the sticker on a room, unit, riser or panel to open its assigned checklist, one tap from the first item.

SafetyCulture

QR and barcode scanning can launch a template or open an asset.

Offline capture

Ready To Inspect

Answers and photos queue on the device and sync when a connection returns.

SafetyCulture

Offline capture with sync is documented.

Review board

Ready To Inspect

Board lanes for submitted, in review, approved and sent back; a send-back carries its reason on the record.

SafetyCulture

Actions and issues are assigned and tracked; the approval flow is not a construction review board with reject reasons on the record.

Turnover package

Ready To Inspect

Approved work exports as a branded PDF with answers, photos, signatures and each record's audit trail, plus CSV data files.

SafetyCulture

Branded inspection report PDFs are produced per inspection; a project-level turnover package is not the product.

Client signoff portal

Ready To Inspect

On the Company plan, a read-only sign-off portal for owners and their reps, separate from your internal workspace.

SafetyCulture

Reports are shared by link or export rather than through a standing read-only client portal.

SafetyCulture details above come from its own published pricing and product pages, read on September 3, 2026, and they change. Check safetyculture.com/pricing before you decide. A row marked as not published means we could not find it documented, not that the product cannot do it. SafetyCulture is a trademark of its owner; RTI is not affiliated with it.

Questions people ask

2 answers

SafetyCulture can do construction checklists. Why use RTI?: It can, and for general audits it is a strong tool. The difference is what the record has to withstand. RTI is built for the moment someone disputes whether the work was done: the photo minimum is enforced in the database, the records are hash chained, and the export is a turnover package rather than a stack of individual reports.
What does SafetyCulture cost next to RTI?: SafetyCulture publishes a free plan and Premium at $24 per seat per month billed annually, so the bill grows with headcount. RTI charges per company ($79 or $299 a month with unlimited people), which matters when the people doing the scanning are subs who come and go.

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