GoAudits alternatives for cleaning inspections

We build one of the products on this page, so read the comparison with that in mind. Every competitor figure here was read off the vendor’s own website on 21 September 2026 and the sources are listed at the bottom. Where a vendor does not publish something, this page says so rather than guessing.

What GoAudits actually gives you

Worth being fair about, because plenty of companies should just keep using it. GoAudits runs customisable digital checklists with objective scoring, photo capture, geo-tagging and time stamping, works offline, and generates a report at the end of every inspection that carries the overall score, a breakdown by section, photo evidence of issues, corrective actions assigned and the inspector’s sign-off. It has a dedicated page for cleaning and janitorial work and another for housekeeping. Starter is $10 per user per month. For a company whose inspections are currently on clipboards, that is a real step up for very little money.

Where companies hit the wall

The Starter plan caps you at 1 company or department, 25 locations and 10 checklist templates, and it excludes roles and permissions, scheduling and assigning inspections, advanced reporting and API access. A janitorial company with 40 buildings and a mix of inspectors and supervisors needs the Enterprise plan at $30 per user per month, or $24 on annual billing, so the comparison most people run in their head against the $10 figure is the wrong comparison.

The second wall is who has to be a user. Per-seat pricing pushes companies to keep the frontline off the system entirely and route every finding through a supervisor, which means the person who has to walk back to the fixture and clean it never receives the finding directly. That workaround is common across this whole category and it is the single biggest reason a deficiency sits open for five days.

The six alternatives, in one line each

• KleanProof: for cleaning companies whose gap is after the inspection, where every fail is forced to carry a photo, deficiencies group into one ticket per inspection, and cleaners fix and prove work through a link without a seat or a login.
• Otuvy (formerly CleanTelligent): the longest-running name in janitorial QC, with pricing it publishes and work order handling on its higher tier.
• OrangeQC: janitorial inspections specifically, with free ticket and view-only users, which is unusual in this category.
• Mitti by SafetyCulture: the right answer when inspections across your whole company matter more than cleaning-specific structure.
• Swept: aimed at a different problem entirely, scheduling, time tracking and crew communication, with inspections alongside.
• Janitorial Manager: bidding, work loading and timekeeping in the same system as inspections.

Compared on the axes that matter

1. KleanProof

Built for commercial cleaning and nothing else, with a mobile inspector app on the App Store and Google Play and a web side for facility managers. Inspections are Pass, Fail or N/A per line with no middle rating, and a photo is required on every fail, which the app enforces rather than encourages. Failed items group into one ticket per inspection with an owner, a due date and an acknowledgement step, and nothing closes on a cleaner’s word: a supervisor reviews the fix photo first. Inspections work offline and sync when the phone has signal again, which matters in a parkade.

The part that separates it from everything else on this page is the cleaner. Front line staff never get a seat, an app or a login. They get a link by email or text, they see the deficiency and its photo, they fix it, they photograph the fix, and it goes back to the supervisor. That is the loop the per-seat pricing model breaks everywhere else. There is also an AI step that reads a cleaning contract or task list and drafts the inspection checklist for you to review, which is the slowest part of setting up a new site.

Honest limits: we are a newer product, we are cleaning-only so there is no general safety or food audit use case here, and we do not do bidding, time tracking or payroll. Android push notifications and a few mobile flows are still catching up with the web side.

2. GoAudits

Strongest at the thing it is named for. Templates are quick to build, the app works offline, geo-tagging and time stamps travel with the record, and the automatic report at the end of an inspection is genuinely well put together. The free checklist setup by their team, listed against the trial, takes real work off a first-time buyer.

Watch the plan boundary rather than the headline price. Scheduling and assigning inspections, roles and permissions, advanced reporting and trends and API access are Enterprise features, and Starter stops at 25 locations. If you are multi-site with supervisors, price the $30 tier and compare from there.

3. Otuvy, formerly CleanTelligent

The oldest name in janitorial quality control, rebranded to Otuvy, and one of the few vendors in the category that publishes tier pricing at all. Inspections, work orders on the higher tier, and a long track record with larger janitorial contractors. Frontline access is a paid add-on rather than included, so run the same seat arithmetic here that you would run on GoAudits.

4. OrangeQC

Janitorial inspections specifically, and notable for free ticket and view-only users, which is rare in a category that mostly charges per head. If your objection to GoAudits is purely that everyone who touches it costs money, OrangeQC is the most direct answer to that objection. Compare the ticket features by tier, because ticket tasks sit on Standard rather than the entry plan.

5. Mitti by SafetyCulture

Formerly iAuditor. A general inspection platform with enormous reach across industries, a free plan capped at 10 members, and a template library covering far more than cleaning. Choose it when cleaning is one of several things your company inspects and a single platform across all of them is worth more than janitorial-specific structure. The trade-off operators report is that a general tool has to be forced into cleaning work, and inspections take longer than they should.

6. Swept and Janitorial Manager

Both solve a different problem from GoAudits. Swept is janitorial workforce software first: scheduling, time tracking, crew messaging, supply requests, with inspections riding along. Janitorial Manager bundles bidding, work loading, timekeeping and inspections. If your real pain is not knowing who worked where, an inspection app of any kind is the wrong purchase and one of these two is closer.

How to choose without a three month trial

Take one recent failed item at one of your buildings and trace it through each product you are considering. Who found it. Whether a photo was mandatory. Who received it, by name, and whether that person needs a paid account. How long it stayed open. Who confirmed the fix, and whether the customer could see any of it. Most platforms in this category look similar in the first two steps and separate completely in the last three.

Then price it with your real headcount, including supervisors and the site staff you would want on it, on the tier that actually has the features you need. That number is usually quite different from the one on the front of the pricing page.