InspectCamFor home inspectors · InspectCam Pro, coming soon
The home inspection app that goes from crawl space to report
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InspectCam Pro follows a home inspection the way you walk it: front of the house, roof, panel, water heater, attic, crawl space. Each photo files into the job by area, takes numbered arrows on the spot, and goes into a written finding with a severity, what you saw, what it means and what to do about it. The report prints in an inspection layout under your company name. Pro is coming soon to InspectCam on Android. The camera, with the light already on, is free on Google Play today.
Most of an inspection report gets written after the inspection, at a desk that evening, scrolling through a few hundred photos to find the one of the double-tapped breaker. Pro moves that work back into the house. You file, mark and describe each photo while you're standing at the defect, so the evening goes on reading the findings over, not rebuilding them from a camera roll.
Jump to
- Start from the Home inspection template
- Every photo files by area
- Mark the defect before you climb out
- Write findings the way a report reads
- The inspection-layout report
- Photos and findings for you, not the client
- Date, time and address on every shot
- Two inspectors, one report
- Today: the free camera in the crawl space
- Questions inspectors ask
Start from the Home inspection template
When you start a job, pick the ready-made Home inspection template. It asks for the client, the address and your notes, switches on the findings report, and lays out a shot list in roughly the order you walk a house, from the curb to under the sinks.
| Shot | What inspectors usually capture there |
|---|---|
| Front of property | The house and its number, so the report opens on the right address |
| Roof | Covering, flashing, gutters and penetrations, from the ground, a ladder or a drone |
| Electrical panel | The panel, its labeling, the breakers and the wiring you can see |
| Water heater | Data plate, venting, the relief valve and its discharge line |
| Heating and cooling | Furnace and outdoor unit, with their data plates |
| Attic | Insulation, ventilation, framing and the underside of the roof deck |
| Basement or crawlspace | Moisture, vapor barrier, foundation, framing and insulation |
| Under sinks | Supply lines, traps, shut-offs and signs of past leaks |
None of it is fixed. Once you add the template, it's yours: rename shots, add the ones your inspections always need (garage, grading, fireplace), make any detail or photo required and give each shot a short tip. Mark the water heater required, and the job page keeps it under Still needed until you've taken it.
Every photo files by area, not by camera roll
With the job open, every photo and video you take lands in it. Give each one a category or several as you go, such as Electrical, Attic, Crawl space and Roof, one photo at a time or a whole selection at once. Back on the job page, tap Attic and you see only the attic photos.
- Two inspections before lunch? If a few shots of the second house landed in the first job, select them and move them across, and their times, notes and marks go with them.
- Flew the roof with a drone? Bring its photos in from the phone's gallery. They're marked as gallery photos and carry no stamp.
Mark the defect before you climb out
The moment you take a photo into the job, a small EDIT thumbnail waits in the corner of the camera for a few seconds. Tap it and you're drawing on that photo with the light still on: a numbered arrow at the water on the vapor barrier, a circle around the liner coming off the wall, and a line of words for each number. Ignore it and keep shooting.
Arrows, circles and text labels come in five colors, and arrows and circles in one size. The report draws the marks on the photo and prints what each number means underneath it. Your original photo stays as it was.
Write findings the way a report reads
A finding is where photos turn into something the buyer can act on. Group one or more photos into a finding, then give it a title, a severity such as Repair or Monitor, a location, what you observed, what it means and what you recommend. Findings sit under sections you name, such as Roof, Electrical, Plumbing or Crawl space, and one photo can belong to more than one finding.
| Part | Example |
|---|---|
| Title | Standing water on the vapor barrier |
| Severity | Repair |
| Section | 4 · Crawl space |
| Location | North wall, below the kitchen |
| Photos | Figures 4-1 and 4-2, with their marks |
| Observed | Water pooled on the liner over about a third of the floor. |
| Implication | Ongoing moisture can lead to wood decay and mold growth. |
| Recommendation | Have a qualified contractor find the source and correct it. |
Each section can also say what was inspected and carry a status: Inspected, Not inspected or Not present. A crawl space you couldn't get into becomes a section marked Not inspected, and the job's areas not accessed print with the general information near the front of the report.
The inspection-layout report, under your name
Once a job has a finding with a title, its PDF switches to an inspection layout: a cover with the property and inspection details, a summary of findings with each severity, a table of contents, a card per finding with its photos as numbered figures, and a closing page of scope and limitations. Findings are numbered by section (4.1, 4.2), so the buyer, the agent and whoever does the repair can all point to the same item.
Your logo, contact details and license number go on it, and its report number never changes and doubles as the file name. Write your scope and limitations once, in Settings, and they close every report. Preview the report on the phone, then export it in full or as a summary-only version, on US Letter or A4. One small “Generated with InspectCam” line sits at the bottom of the last page; the rest carries your name. From a company job you can also send the buyer a link to the full report instead of a file: they open it in a web browser and can save the PDF from there, and Stop sharing takes the link down.
Photos you haven't put in a titled finding stay out of this layout, and the job page tells you how many before you export. A job with no findings prints the simpler photo report instead.
Photos and findings for you, not the client
Not everything you shoot belongs in the buyer's report: a wide attic shot for your own reference, a label you only needed to read, a reminder for the office that the client asked about a sewer scope. Mark a photo, video or finding Internal only. It stays in the job, but it never appears in either PDF, or in their counts and summaries. The job's own notes do print in the report, under Job notes, so put office reminders in an internal finding instead.
On a company account, colleagues on the job still see internal items, marked Internal. They're hidden from the client, not from your team.
Date, time and address on every shot
Come back for a re-inspection and the first question is often which visit a photo came from. Every photo and video you take into the job is stamped along the bottom with the date and time, and with the street address and GPS position the phone gives, so the first visit's shots and the re-inspection's are easy to tell apart. Without location permission, the stamp shows just the date and time.
An admin sets what the stamp includes for every inspector in the firm. Gallery photos and shots taken in both-cameras mode go unstamped. Keep in mind what the stamp is: the phone's own reading at the second you pressed the shutter. That makes it a useful record of your visit, but it isn't a certificate, and we never call it proof. The InspectCam Pro page covers the stamp in full.
Two inspectors, one report
On a big house, many firms split the work: one inspector takes the roof, exterior and attic while another works the interior and crawl space. On any Pro plan, both phones work the same company job. The roof findings you write turn up on your partner's phone, the crawl space findings they write turn up on yours, and if you both edit one finding, changes to different fields are both kept. At the end there is one report with one number.
The inspector who buys the plan owns the firm's company account and brings the others in with a short code. Duo has room for one more person, Team for up to 5 people and Business for up to 10. Your firm's report numbers all come from one company counter, so no two inspectors ever issue the same one, and the work is copied to your company's cloud storage, so a lost phone doesn't take an inspection with it.
| Plan | For |
|---|---|
| DuoUp to 2 people | An inspector working alone, or with a second inspector or a helper: the template, findings, the inspection-layout report, the stamp, internal items and cloud backup. All of Pro but the trade photo drop. |
| TeamUp to 5 people | All of Duo, and the trade photo drop. |
| BusinessUp to 10 people | All of Team, for a larger firm. |
There's no plan for one person, so an inspector working alone takes Duo, with a seat to spare for a helper or a trainee. Firms of 11 or more people can ask us about a custom plan. Pro runs in the Android app, so for now every inspector on the account needs an Android phone; the iPhone app is coming soon, with Pro included. The InspectCam Pro page covers roles, company settings, downloads from a computer and the rest of Pro.
Today: the free camera in the crawl space and attic
Pro is coming soon, but the camera it's built on is free on Google Play now, and it already helps at the two dark openings every inspection has. InspectCam opens with the phone's light on, so you can hold the phone through a crawl space access or an attic hatch, look around on the screen, pinch to zoom on a stain or a junction box, and record a short video with the light on. In our tests on a Pixel 6a, the light also stayed on through the moment a still photo was taken.
If your phone gets very hot, Android may switch the light off to protect it. That's a safeguard, not a fault. Filing, stamps and reports are what Pro adds. For the method, see how to check a crawl space with your phone.
Questions inspectors ask
What if I can't get into the crawl space?
Mark the Crawl space section Not inspected, and add it to the job's Areas not accessed, which print with the general information near the front of the report.
Does the report meet my association's standards of practice?
We don't claim it does. InspectCam doesn't check reports against any association's or state's standards of practice. You choose the sections, findings, wording, scope and limitations; Pro lays them out and numbers them.
Can my clients see what I mark internal?
No. Anything marked Internal only stays out of the full report, the summary and their counts. Colleagues on a company account still see it, marked Internal.
Can two inspectors work the same house?
Yes, on any plan: Duo covers two people, Team up to 5 and Business up to 10, and both phones work the same company job. For now every inspector needs an Android phone; the iPhone app is coming soon, with Pro included.
Does the stamp prove when I inspected the house?
No. It shows what the phone reported when each photo was taken, which helps you tell a first inspection's photos from a re-inspection's. It's a record you can point to, not a certificate or proof.
Pro for other trades: contractors, rental inspections, water damage, and who InspectCam is for.
InspectCam Pro is coming soon, and details on this page may change before it goes on sale. The camera with the light already on is free today; the template, findings, reports and shared jobs arrive with Pro.