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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.
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/pricingWhere 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 ITPs, three-phase control and turnover built into the product rather than assembled from a template.
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. A turnover package can be verified independently with the open rti-verify tool.
Capability by capability
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 action 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 and land on its first checklist 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
Kanban lanes for submitted, in review, approved and rejected; a rejection 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 or CSV with answers, photos, signatures and the audit trail attached.
SafetyCulture
Branded inspection report PDFs are produced per inspection; a project-level turnover package is not the product.
Client sign-off portal
Ready To Inspect
A read-only portal for owners and inspectors, 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
- 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.
See the difference on your own job.
Tag one area, run one walk, and compare the record it leaves with what you have today.
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