Native Apple iPad and iPhone App for Government Field Inspections
Offline, and Built for Government Field Work Since 2013
GovOwl is a native Apple app for government field staff, built for iPad and iPhone, not a website squeezed onto a tablet. It works fully offline with no connection and no signal, then syncs the moment it finds one. The app holds your forms, records, and photos on the device and keeps working in a basement or a rural county with no coverage. Most vendors went browser based and call it device agnostic, which means a web page that loses your work when the signal drops.
Why iPad, Why Apple, Why Offline
Our customers settled this for us. Over more than a decade we offered iPad, iPhone, Android, and Windows apps, and agencies chose Apple on their own. Our clients already use Apple devices in their personal lives, so training is easy, and Apple’s development tools make our job easy too. Offline is the other half: rural territory and dead zones are exactly where the work happens and where a browser tool quits. We have built native offline apps for government inspectors since 2013, and we distribute them privately to your agency through the Apple Volume Purchase Program and Apple Business Manager, so the app is not sitting in a public app store.
Every Program on One App
If it is a government inspection, it runs on GovOwl. The engine stays the same whatever the program: a form built to your codes, tied to a property, completed on site with photos and GPS, and synced when the inspector is back in range. Agencies run food, septic, pool, body art, daycare, hotel and lodging, housing, lead, code enforcement, and building inspections this way, all on one record.
The same engine fits work we have not run before. Electrical and plumbing inspections, rental registration, parking enforcement, and fire and life-safety checks all run on it, as do public works infrastructure inspections, parks and playground checks, and water and sewer field work.
And emergency damage assessment, when the towers are down and the signal is gone exactly when the assessment has to happen.
Related Programs
Government Inspection | Permitting and Inspection | Environmental Health | Code Enforcement | Building | Small Agency
Tell Us What Your Field Staff Do
Tell us what your staff do in the field. We will show you how they can do it on iPad and iPhone.