Suggestions for improving Horizon Inspection Software.

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Allow multiple pictures to be taken

Allow us to take multiple pictures without having to click Use Photo each time. I'm in attics in Florida and having to touch the screen so much is wasteful while ...
Suggested by: DParmer (29 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 26 Feb Comments: 13
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet Photo Editing

SMS / Text capability

Text/SMS capability i.e. TextMagic.com
Suggested by: Jkwasnik (26 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 09 Jan, '23 Comments: 6

Add a button to mobil app that takes you to a list of the previously selected recommendations.

I want at way to return to an item I have already selected, like No GFCI, to add locations or more pictures. Then I could also make a template with items selected. ...
Suggested by: John Fleenor (30 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 20 Jan, '23 Comments: 3
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

Multiple photo selection

Add the ability to add multiple photos from the gallery via the horizon mobile app. Currently you can only add one photo at a time.
Suggested by: Tamill Acker (15 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 09 Apr, '23 Comments: 3
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

Hovering over small "camera" icon --> pulls up quick popup of photos connected

Hovering over the camera icon (in the web interface) on a given defect should temporarily pull up a pop-up of the pictures connected to that note.
Suggested by: Michael Conrad II (20 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 08 Aug, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet Photo Editing

Short cut bottom to Spare Photos

Maybe I’m spoiled, or lazy, but I would love to see a quick access of some sort, to drop Spare Photos. Similar to the Cover Photo button in the main menu.
Suggested by: Tom Lloyd (28 Jan, '20) Upvoted: 19 Jun, '23 Comments: 4

Client Summary Review button in Mobile

Having a Client Summary Review button on Horizon Mobile that pulls up all the items we selected for "Add to Summary" would be great to do the summary with clients ...
Suggested by: Derle Parmer (22 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 08 Aug, '22 Comments: 3
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

Forgetting to hit OK after taking a photo in mobile app.

Occasionally I am missing a photo in my report and on my phone that I know that I have taken. I have now figured out that if you don't hit the OK button in the app ...
Suggested by: Dan (27 Apr, '20) Upvoted: 17 May, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

Make company item from mobile

Would like to make a company item from mobile phone ,and when added like you do on laptop it has a asterisk for the first time so you make modify and finalize it on ...
Suggested by: Vince Cardone (13 May, '21) Upvoted: 25 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

See photos on the mobile app and delete/ change their order

I like to do all my editing on the mobile app back at my office, I can use talk to text and pull up photos from my gallery quickly that I maybe didn't get a chance to ...
Suggested by: Greg Hanberry (08 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 29 Oct, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet Photo Editing

Create a Scheduler book app

Ability to create a appt thru a scheduler app,since currently if we go thru google calendar it does not show on Horizon,creating one from Horizon would also then fill ...
Suggested by: Vince Cardone (06 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 08 Sep, '21 Comments: 1

Speed Write ignore/hide button

Include an ignore / hide button while navigating through required items in speed write for items not pertaining to the current inspection. This would be extra helpful ...
Suggested by: Mario Arcicovich (18 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 20 Jun, '23 Comments: 0

Add SECTIONS button on top of mobile app

Repeatedly hitting Menu then House Systems just to get to another systems screen is redundant (at least 2 extra touches). The top right corner has space for a ...
Suggested by: DParmer (17 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 09 Apr, '21 Comments: 4
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

Add support for HEIC images

HEIC is a newer image format that requires approximately half the amount of space of jpgs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format for ...
Suggested by: Ruth Ann (01 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 19 Aug, '21 Comments: 2

Add additional colors to mobile annotate

Add colors such as blue to indicate water leaks, keep red for safety, white for general. Sometimes white gets lost with a light background and the item is not a ...
Suggested by: Brian Walker (18 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 28 Aug, '20 Comments: 0
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

Shortcut to options in Horizon mobile search

An option to long click on a search result in Horizon mobile and go to the screen where you put in the location and action and all that. At the moment you can put ...
Suggested by: Paul Drayton (24 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 28 Mar, '21 Comments: 2
Under consideration Home Screen Mobile/Tablet

Quick links in the mobile app

Say you're looking at a chimney. You take a photo of the chimney in the DESC tab. But the chimney has defects that should be noted. Clicking back through to the ...
Suggested by: Robert Pecar (01 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 09 Apr, '21 Comments: 2
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

Change Mobile app to grouped dropped-down menus and alphabetic options

Granted, I am a new inspector and so don’t often use the correct term when searching for a defect, and therefore it takes a few times to get it found when searching. ...
Suggested by: Steven Walker (26 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 08 Aug, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet

Differentiate photos taken in Horizon vs outside Horizon

Spectora photos are not stored in the camera Photos. This allows cya and quick photos to be taken while in the camera but separately building the mobile report ...
Suggested by: Steven Walker (26 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 01 May, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet Photo Editing

Allow "copy" function for addresses in app

It would be great to be able to to tap and "copy" an address in the app. This way I can "paste" the address into my navigation system. At the very least I would like ...
Suggested by: Luke J Chmura (23 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 22 Apr, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration Home Screen Mobile/Tablet

Set photo app to “Photo” only

One of my biggest frustrations with phone photos and touch screens is that it seems every time I go to take a picture, the settings have accidentally switched, say to ...
Suggested by: Steven Walker (26 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 18 Aug, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet Photo Editing

Push gallery photos from mobile to report

I take about 100+ pics during visit. Not all are generated and placed in report via app. I suggest the ability to push the gallery from site visit pics directly to ...
Suggested by: Thomas Ray (16 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 16 Feb, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration Mobile/Tablet