A digital vehicle inspection is a photograph of the problem, sent to somebody who is not standing next to the car, with a price next to it. Everything else about the category follows from that sentence: if the customer cannot see the split boot, the deferred work stays deferred.
Which means the honest question is not who has an inspection feature. Twelve of the thirteen products on this page have something you could call one. The question is whether what they have is a vehicle inspection at all, and whether it is a product the vendor has actually built out or a checklist form with the fields renamed.
Fixty publishes this page and sits sixth on it. Five vendors above it run a dedicated inspection page of their own with its own explanation. Fixty includes photo inspections on every plan and has never sold them as a product line. That is a real difference and the criteria below are written so that it shows.
What is not on this list
This page does not rank standalone inspection apps, the kind that do nothing but inspections and hand you a report to send. Several exist, some are cheaper than any subscription here, and we hold no sourced data on them.
It does not rank on how good the inspection templates are, how many points they carry or what the reports look like, because none of that is stated on the vendors' own pages in a form anybody could quote. If templates decide it for you, ask for a sample report from each.
It also cannot tell you which plan carries the inspection module at most of the vendors. One of the twelve states it on its own page. For the rest, nothing we read said, and this page does not guess. That question is the first one to ask on a demo call.
Three of these inspections are not of vehicles, and one is not an inspection
Put the vehicle sentences next to each other first. Tekmetric: create digital vehicle inspections in the mobile app and share the vehicle findings by text or email. Trackara Pro: walk the vehicle, tap each point, photograph what matters, customer signs off in their text messages. AutoLeap: send vehicle inspection reports by text or email. ARI: customise your checklists, generate damage reports, attach pictures to your auto inspections. Shopmonkey: replace paper checklists with digital vehicle inspections. Deelo: photo documented reports with green, yellow and red severity ratings the customer approves on their phone. Fixty includes photo inspections on every plan.
Then the ones that are about something else. Jobber: customisable job forms and checklists for site inspections and assessments. Housecall Pro: dropdowns, checkboxes, pass and fail flags and required steps. ServiceTitan: fire alarm inspection report software delivering digital NFPA inspections under the standard.
And two that sit in between and are worth understanding separately. QuoteIQ publishes a custom inspection form builder, which will hold a vehicle checklist perfectly and does not know what a vehicle is. Orderry captures photographs and a signature during the visit and lists the structured checklist version on its own roadmap as not yet shipped.
The second group is not worse software. It is software for a different job, and every one of those three companies says so on their own page without any prompting from us. If a comparison anywhere tells you all twelve do digital vehicle inspections, that comparison did not open the pages.
Why Fixty is sixth on its own list
Fixty's inspection works: photos, on a phone, sent to the customer, on every plan including the cheapest one, with nothing gated behind an upgrade. For one mechanic that is a fair deal and it is the entire claim being made.
What Fixty does not have is what criterion two is measuring. Tekmetric, Shopmonkey and AutoLeap each run a dedicated inspection page with its own explanation and its own answers to the questions shops ask, and shops have been running inspections through them for years. Depth of that kind does not show up in a feature grid and it shows up immediately when something goes wrong on a Friday afternoon.
Two newer products also now sit above Fixty here and the reason is different in each case. Trackara Pro publishes a better written description of the inspection loop than Fixty does, ending in the customer signing off inside a text thread. ARI publishes customisable checklists and a damage report, neither of which Fixty has. Neither has the years the three shop systems have, and this page cannot measure that from the outside, so it says so rather than scoring it.
The narrow place Fixty genuinely wins is also worth naming precisely, because it is narrow and it got narrower in August 2026. One mechanic, working out of a van, doing the inspection and the selling from the same phone, on a published month to month price, with the inspection included on every plan rather than added. Outside that description, five products on this page are the better buy and this list puts them where they belong.
The question one vendor answers and eleven do not
For eleven of the twelve competitors, the same question came up and could not be closed from their own pages: which plan does the inspection come with. Vendors commonly place inspections above the entry tier, and nothing we read stated where the line is.
One vendor does answer it, and the answer is the useful kind rather than the flattering kind. QuoteIQ puts a tier badge on their own inspection page saying which plans carry it, and it is not the cheapest one. Publishing that costs them the impression of being cheaper than they are, and it is the only reason a reader can price this feature at QuoteIQ without a phone call. Every other vendor here, Fixty included on the plans above Starter, should be read as not having told you.
That matters more than the headline price. An entry plan without inspections is not an entry plan for this category, and the difference between the cheapest tier and the one that carries the feature can be larger than the gap between two vendors.
So the practical advice is unglamorous. Take the published entry price from each entry above as a floor rather than a quote, and make the first question on any call be which plan includes the digital vehicle inspection and what that plan costs on a month to month basis.
If Fixty is the one that fits
Fixty is a CRM for one mobile mechanic: estimates approved by text, photo inspections, scheduling and card payments, all from a phone. Starter is $99/mo and Growth is $149/mo, both with the same 14 day free trial, and if one of the products above suits your work better, buy that one instead.
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