Updated 15 September 2026
Powerfleet Inspect alternatives
and the offline question nobody answered
Fleet Complete → Powerfleet (1 Oct 2024) · FC Inspect → Unity Inspect (30 May 2025)
This product has been renamed twice in under a year, which makes it unusually hard to research — and in the course of doing so we could not find a single statement about what it does without a signal. For a DVIR tool used in yards, that is the gap worth naming.
Why people are looking
Offline is undocumented, and that is conspicuous here
We checked the product page, the hours-of-service page and both store listings. There is no offline statement anywhere.
That is not the same as saying it does not work offline, and we will not say that. But a driver vehicle inspection report is produced in a yard, a depot or a layby — the places signal is worst — and the absence of any claim at all is more notable in this category than it would be in most.
Three names for one product
Fleet Complete was acquired by Powerfleet on 1 October 2024. FC Inspect became Unity Inspect on 30 May 2025. The legacy app has been dormant since September 2022.
Practically: support articles, reviews and documentation are scattered across three brands, and working out which applies to the version you are being sold takes longer than it should.
No published pricing at all
No figures, no minimums and no free tier are published. Every evaluation starts with a sales conversation.
The other side of it
What Powerfleet offers
DVIR joined to hours-of-service and telematics from a single vendor, which is what a regulated trucking operation actually needs. If the inspection has to sit alongside ELD data in one compliance record, a standalone app does not do that.
It is also available in English, French and Spanish across iOS, Android, tablets and web — broader language coverage than most of this list.
What users actually wrote
Verbatim, with reviewer, source and date
“Not reliable at all so far. Doesn't even work. Glitches and has issues when entering pre and post trips, they just disappear after doing them.”
Treat this as a weak signal: the Unity Inspect listing carries only two ratings in total, so one review is not a pattern. We publish it because the failure described — completed pre- and post-trips disappearing — is exactly what an undocumented offline model would look like from a driver's seat.
The alternatives
Every price below is the published list price for a single user at the time of writing. Where offline behaviour is undocumented by the vendor, it says so rather than guessing.
Fleetio
Offline, with limits~$20–25/mo for 5 vehicles
$4/vehicle/mo annual; Pro and Premium are annual-only
- Best for
- A fleet that needs inspections joined up to maintenance, parts, fuel and vehicle history.
- Offline
- Narrower than the marketing: the help documentation says “Offline functionality in Fleetio Go is currently only available for Inspection Submissions”, and that “Pending Inspections will NOT upload when the app is closed or minimized.”
- Watch out for
- Offline covers inspection submissions and nothing else, and backgrounding the app stops pending inspections uploading.
- Platforms
- iOS · Android · web
Driveroo (now ROO.AI)
Undocumented$5/asset/mo
Pro $7; annual contracts required and minimums apply, unpublished
- Best for
- A fleet that wants unlimited users and per-asset rather than per-seat pricing.
- Offline
- Stated but undetailed — the vendor advertises “online or offline operation” and documents no sync model behind it.
- Watch out for
- Minimums apply and are not published, and the brand is mid-migration to ROO.AI with no rebrand date announced.
- Platforms
- iOS 16.1+ · Android · web
Simply Fleet
Works offlineFree under 5 vehicles
3 users on the free tier; Essential $2/vehicle/mo; Advanced $4
- Best for
- A fleet under five vehicles that wants maintenance, fuel and inspections for nothing.
- Offline
- Claimed for the inspection itself — “Complete inspections where cell service is unavailable.” One reviewer counters that uploading fill-ups and services still needs a connection.
- Watch out for
- The voice capture is scoped to fill-ups, expenses, mileage and issues and does not appear on the DVIR page at all.
- Platforms
- iOS · Android · web
FleetGO
Needs a connection£2/vehicle/mo
“no sign-up fees, extra charges”; minimums not stated
- Best for
- UK and Benelux transport operators wanting DVSA-shaped checks alongside tachograph and telematics data.
- Offline
- None, stated plainly in their own FAQ: “You need a working internet connection to use the FleetGO Driver App.”
- Watch out for
- The driver app does not work without a connection, which is the condition a yard walkaround is most likely to be in.
- Platforms
- iOS · Android · web
ReportWalk
Works offlineFree to start
monthly plans for higher volumes
- Best for
- One person who needs the report finished before they leave the site.
- Offline
- Photos, voice notes and answers are written to the phone first and sync when signal returns. A whole inspection can run in a basement with no bars.
- Watch out for
- iPhone only, and it is deliberately not a business platform — no scheduling, no invoicing, no CRM.
- Platforms
- iPhone · web forms in any browser
Disclosure — this is our site
Where ReportWalk fits
We are not a telematics platform and cannot join your inspection to hours-of-service data.
What we can state precisely is the thing this vendor has not: photographs, voice and answers are written to the phone's own database before anything is sent to a server, so a completed walkaround exists on the device whether or not the yard has signal.
Photos carry GPS, time and the weather at that moment, and the PDF is produced on the phone.
Where we lose
If you need DVIR inside an ELD and telematics compliance record, that is a real requirement we do not meet. A separate app means a separate record.
The bit that actually stops people
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Questions
Does Powerfleet Inspect work offline?
The vendor does not say. We checked the product page, the hours-of-service page and both app store listings and found no offline statement. That is an absence of documentation rather than a documented no.
Is Unity Inspect the same as FC Inspect?
Yes. Fleet Complete was acquired by Powerfleet on 1 October 2024, and FC Inspect was renamed Unity Inspect on 30 May 2025. The older Fleet Complete app has been dormant since September 2022.
How much does Powerfleet Inspect cost?
Not published. There are no figures, minimums or free tier on the site.
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How this page was made
Prices come from vendor pricing pages, offline behaviour from vendor help documentation, and quotes from G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, GetApp and the App Store, each carrying its reviewer, source and date. Where a claim comes from a customer rather than the vendor, the page says so. Where something is undocumented, it says that too. Software pricing changes — check the vendor before you decide, and tell us if you find something here that has gone stale.