Inspections can quickly become complex and time-consuming processes with increasing paperwork, which is why it’s becoming common practice to digitize them through software.
Lumiform and Testify are two inspection software platforms from the DACH region that have expanded globally. Both offer streamlined checklists, mobile apps with offline access, and detailed analytics. But once you actually start using them, the inspection experience differs significantly.
The comparison guide below breaks down what sets each product apart, from ease of use to automation capabilities and pricing, so you can assess which software suits your team’s needs best.
What is Lumiform?
Lumiform is a specialized inspection, audit, and checklist platform that gives organizations instant visibility and control over their operations. Developed in Germany and now used by companies worldwide, it serves a wide range of industries, from manufacturing to retail and hospitality.
Lumiform allows you to create inspection forms with advanced logic and assign corrective actions automatically, with customizable analytics dashboards. AI-powered tools are included for different parts of the inspection process. It combines these features with an intuitive interface for frontline use.
What is Testify?
Testify is a digital checklist and quality management software that helps businesses conduct tests and inspections more efficiently by replacing paper-based workflows. Built in Austria, it was originally created in collaboration with a mechanical engineering company as a no-code tool, and it has since expanded to industries such as manufacturing and food production, with international customers.
With Testify, you can set up and manage checklists, document results, and track defects throughout the inspection process. The platform also includes a test object system for mapping physical assets and supports integrations with ERP systems and IoT sensors.
Comparison summary
This table highlights the differences between Lumiform’s Professional plan and Testify’s Standard plan:
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|---|---|---|
| Pricing (per month) | Starts at €100 / 5 users, with quantity discount | Starts at €1395 / 50 users + onboarding fee of €3360 |
| Ease of use | Clean, self-explanatory interface | Complex navigation with technical language |
| Form builder | Drag-and-drop, with AI form creation | Multi-step process, limited logic |
| Ready-to-use templates | X | |
| Logic and automation | Integrated in form builder, with question-level triggers | Separate automation module using events and actions |
| AI features | Paid upgrade | |
| Asset management | Flexible setup with adaptive checklists | Detailed asset tracking and history |
| Direct sensor inputs | Third-party integration | |
| Approvals | Dedicated approval dashboard (Enterprise add-on) | No dedicated module, assign directly to reviewer |
| Third-party collaboration | X | |
| Analytics | Highly customizable, with AI chat | Includes Pareto charts and defect management |
| Number of inspections and report dashboards | Unlimited | Limited |
| Integrations | Cloud storage and data integrations (API and webhooks via Enterprise) | Broad system connections with ERP, sensor, and API integrations |
| Customer reviews | 4.7★ G2, praised for ease of use | Few public reviews |
Overall experience and value
Both Lumiform and Testify are inspection platforms that share many core features, such as:
- Digital form creation for inspections and quality control
- Automation tools to schedule inspections and trigger follow-up actions
- Action management for assigning and tracking corrective measures
- Custom reports and analytics dashboards based on real-time data
- Mobile apps with offline functionality for on-the-go use
However, once you try out either platform, they provide very distinct experiences and styles in their workflows. Let’s take a broader look first at what each software has to offer before doing a deep dive into their specific features:
Ease of use
Ease of use is among the most important considerations for an inspection software. The more intuitive it is for both managers and frontline teams, the faster it can be implemented, and errors are less likely.
Testify is adaptable across different industries, although its design reflects its manufacturing and quality assurance roots, with feature names such as “test objects” and “PDF protocols” that are not immediately intuitive to the average user. Its features are separated across different sections, so you often need to move between tabs. The interface is not drag-and-drop, which slows down form creation, and automations are mostly configured outside of the form builder.
Because of this, going through a tutorial and looking through documentation are necessary. In fact, Testify comes with a required setup and implementation fee.
Lumiform includes similar core modules for inspections, but organizes them in a straightforward interface. Users consistently describe it as detailed but self-explanatory. You can create a checklist without a tutorial and configure automation directly within the form. Tools like an AI form builder and a streamlined approval module speed up the process. The dashboard consolidates features with the user’s workflow in mind, from actions to analytics, reducing the need to go back and forth.
While Testify offers extensive documentation with onboarding help, setting up takes longer, even for basic checklists. On Lumiform, there are fewer steps involved, from creating a checklist to adding automation, with accessible language. This reduces time spent learning and using the software.
Pricing
Lumiform and Testify both have tiered subscription plans.
Testify offers three plans (rates are listed here per month):
- Starter for SMEs: €279
- Standard for 50 users: €1395
- Advanced for 100 users: €2897
All of these come with a one-time setup and implementation fee of €3360, regardless of which plan you have. Checklists and defects also have a capped limit.
On the other hand, Lumiform’s pricing plans are:
- Professional – starts at €100 per month for 5 users, with quantity discount
- Enterprise – includes additional features like approvals, integrations, and onboarding training
These come with unlimited checklists and corrective actions.
Here’s a side-by-side pricing comparison of Testify’s Standard plan and Lumiform’s Professional plan:
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| Pricing per month | Starts at €1395 / 50 users + €199 / 10 users | Starts at €100 / 5 users |
| Quantity discount | X | |
| Implementation fee | Required, €3360 | Optional add-on, no separate fee if Enterprise plan |
Cost per person for minimum bundle | 50 users: €27.9 / user + implementation fee = €95.1 / user | 5 users: €20 / user |
| Checks and inspections | 10,000 checks and 500 defects per month + €199 to upgrade | Unlimited |
| User bundle size | 50 users minimum + €199 for 10 more users | 5 users minimum |
| Dashboards for reports | Limited to 3 + €99 to upgrade | Unlimited |
| API usage for interface | X |
Testify’s cost per user is higher, especially with scaling. Lumiform’s pricing applies quantity discounts, so the price per user drops with larger teams:
- For 50 users, Lumiform is 15% to 35% cheaper than Testify.
- For 100 users, it is 30% to 48% cheaper.
Testify’s required implementation fee adds to initial costs, especially for smaller teams, suggesting that setting up the software requires significant resources and training. It also limits some key inspection features, like dashboards and checklists, so scaling may involve purchasing more upgrades.
Both platforms offer add-ons:
- Lumiform’s add-ons are already part of its Enterprise plan, like having a customer success manager, single sign-on, and integrations. If you have the Professional plan, you can purchase these individually instead.
- Testify’s add-ons are not included in their Advanced plan. These include:
- AI package – €249
- Upgrades for reports, users, and amount of checks
- Additional services per hour – €150
Many of these are built into Lumiform by default, like AI tools and unlimited reports. Depending on your needs, Lumiform’s Enterprise plan often ends up more cost-effective than combining similar add-ons from Testify.
Product development
Given the pace of improvement in technology, it’s critical for inspection software to adapt quickly, respond to user feedback, and show continuous product development.
Lumiform and Testify have both been in operation for at least eight years and come from the DACH region, with both web and mobile apps. Their release histories and customer visibility provide insight into their development pace. As of October 2025:
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| iOS app version history | 15 updates in the past 3 months | 15 updates since launch in 2016 |
| iOS app update frequency | Updates every 1-2 weeks | 3 updates in 2025, none in 2024 |
| Google Play installs | 10K+ downloads | 5K+ downloads |
| G2 reviews | 4.7★ (40+ reviews) | No G2 profile |
| Capterra reviews | 4.5★ (10+ reviews) | 1 review |
Lumiform maintains an update cycle of every 1-2 weeks, showing that the team often makes improvements to its app. This includes constantly developing their AI features–for example, they introduced four in one release, such as AI analytics and automatic image description.
Lumiform’s visibility and high ratings on major review platforms suggest broader adoption, with customers in DACH as well as internationally. The success stories on its website span multiple industries, from manufacturing to safety.
Testify follows a less frequent release schedule. According to its website, it releases updates around every six months. Public release notes show fewer updates overall, and not many reviews are available online. However, Testify’s website features several detailed success stories as well, with clients in sectors like infrastructure and machinery construction.
Core capabilities: Lumiform vs. Testify
Next, we’ll do a closer feature comparison, focusing on the different inspection capabilities of the two platforms:
Form builder
The form builder is one of the most frequently used components of an inspection software. Ideally, it should be quick to use, efficient, and capable of covering all relevant inspection data.
Both Lumiform and Testify allow you to:
- Create digital forms with various field types
- Attach photos or documents and record signatures
- Convert paper forms into digital versions instantly
Testify’s form builder covers essential inspection question types, as well as auto-calculated fields and even data from sensors and RFID inputs. These work well for inspections on the shop floor.
At the same time, form creation in Testify can take longer because of the interface, with fewer logic options. Adding a question can take as many as five steps, and the interface is not drag-and-drop, so more manual adjustments are needed.
Some functions are hidden behind submenus that vary per question, which isn’t obvious at first. On top of this, more advanced automation needs to be configured in another module. While it is clearly specialized for inspections, getting used to the form builder needs time and training.
On the other hand, Lumiform’s form builder features a drag-and-drop interface where you can link logic and automation directly to questions. With a few clicks, you can set up a question and connect it to an action, like launching a follow-up form. Despite its advanced features, many user reviews describe the form builder as “easy to use and edit.”
You can also generate checklists instantly using AI, or choose from a library of 12,000+ pre-made templates across industries. For international teams, checklists can adapt automatically to each user’s device language.
Overall, Testify is designed so that creating a form is spread out across several steps, with limited logic controls within the form. Lumiform’s form builder includes more in-depth logic with a clean, visually friendly interface, which makes form creation faster.
Workflow automation and action management
Automation makes a significant difference during inspections by reducing manual follow-ups and helping teams respond faster when issues come up. As an inspection software, Lumiform and Testify both enable scheduling inspections, setting notifications, automatically creating follow-up tasks after an issue, and more.
Automation setup
One major difference between the two is accessibility and flexibility of automation features:
- Lumiform lets you define most automations directly in the form builder or using an intuitive interface with clear icons and visual logic. This means you don’t need a technical background to create complex workflows with it.
- Testify supports many types of automations too, but setup happens in a separate module where you have to define the rules and triggers manually.
Testify’s automation module works by prompting you to set up an event followed by an action (e.g. “Checklist completed → send notification” or “Issue created → generate report”). This uses a text-based dropdown with no visual overview, which makes it trickier to configure.
The module has plenty of functions, including making direct webhook connections and adding sensor data to forms.
Since automation is not integrated within the form builder, users cannot set triggers based on specific responses within a form.
For example, if an inspector selects “Temperature exceeds 7°C,” Testify cannot automatically create a follow-up task or targeted alert from that answer alone. In Lumiform, you could set it up to instantly assign a corrective action such as scheduling equipment cooldown, or launch a related checklist.
AI features
AI features are also a major driver of automation, and they are becoming increasingly part of well-rounded inspection softwares.
Testify and Lumiform both offer AI functionalities:
- Testify has an AI package that you can purchase as an upgrade, although the scope of this is not covered in their documentation.
- Lumiform includes AI tools as standard features, such as instant descriptions for photos and AI chat about your analytics, reducing manual processes in inspections.
Action management
In terms of action management, you can use both tools to easily set up tasks and assign them to team members, with deadlines. Lumiform also enables assigning tasks and inspections to people who don’t use the app, such as contractors or temporary staff, which is a common setup during inspections.
As a whole, Lumiform and Testify continue to expand their automation and action management capabilities. Lumiform makes these more accessible through a visual setup that lets even non-technical users build precise automations, with AI features already included. Testify offers fewer automations at the form level, with a text-based setup that can take longer to configure, but it does offer advantages for sensor integrations.
The logics [in Lumiform] are a fantastic feature that makes our inspections much more efficient… Every production company could really use something like this excellently.
Team and asset management
Inspections can quickly become disorganized without a clear way to manage teams and permissions, as well as physical assets like equipment. Lumiform and Testify offer different systems for managing this.
Asset management
Testify uses test objects to represent the assets being inspected, such as machines, production lines, and even locations. Every checklist in Testify can be linked to a test object. You can then review any test object to see its full inspection history or even subscribe to updates about it, which is especially useful for manufacturing.
While it’s possible to adapt test objects for any type of object, they are optimized for physical assets, with component breakdowns for recording defects.
Lumiform’s entities work similarly, but they are flexible in scope. Entities can represent anything: buildings, products, entire sites, or even people and teams. When you assign a checklist to an entity, it can automatically adjust to the properties of the entity.
For instance, in a retail chain, each store can be set up as an entity with properties like “has solar panels” or “operates for 24 hours.” Even when using the same checklist, only stores that actually have solar panels will see a solar roof inspection section, while stores that operate for 24 hours would get additional night shift questions. This makes it easier to scale inspections across different locations.
Permissions
Both Lumiform and Testify allow you to define various users and set very specific permission controls.
If you have a more complex organizational structure, Lumiform also gives you the option of managing permissions and visibility through entities, since entities can stand for people too and not just objects. For example, it’s possible to nest folders with entities so that permissions cascade:
This means regional managers instantly see reports from all sites in their area, while site supervisors only view inspections relevant to their location.
Approval workflows are also included in both platforms for inspections.
In Testify, approvals happen manually. After completing a checklist, users can send it to another person for review, where it appears among their regular tasks and checklists. Lumiform has a dedicated approval module (available as an enterprise add-on) with its own dashboard. Reviewers can approve, reject, or request for changes directly. This makes tracking approvals more efficient while maintaining accountability.
Given all of these asset management and permissions capabilities:
- The most intuitive application for Testify would be for manufacturing and production. It puts strong emphasis on physical assets, offering detailed traceability that also spans measuring equipment and sensors.
- Lumiform’s system covers physical assets, people, and processes flexibly, so it’s adaptable across every industry, from manufacturing and construction to hospitality. It also comes with additional collaboration tools, such as third-party assignments.
Analytics and reporting
Effective analytics and reporting are essential for improving inspection performance over time and meeting strict documentation requirements. Testify and Lumiform allow you to generate PDF reports immediately after inspections and view your data in a customizable dashboard.
Lumiform’s analytics is flexible and easy to personalize, with customizable widgets, multiple chart types, and detailed filtering options. A standout feature is its AI chat, which lets users ask questions about their data and receive instant insights. Reports can also be scheduled in advance—every week, for example—and sent directly to stakeholders. In addition, you can share dashboards with people who are not part of the platform, such as clients or external auditors.
Testify also provides a strong analytics suite that includes Pareto charts, defect analysis, and throughput time tracking. Users can review detailed inspection histories for test objects, with more options for designing PDF report templates. However, you can only set up three or five dashboards, depending on your plan, and dashboards sharing is restricted to internal users.
Both platforms provide comprehensive analytics capabilities:
- Testify’s performance tracking also comes with two-way ERP synchronization so inspection results automatically update in enterprise systems.
- With Lumiform, analytics are highly customizable, with AI insights. Dashboards are unlimited, and teams can continuously build personalized analytics views and maximize their data.
Which inspection platform should you choose?
Given all of the features above, both Lumiform and Testify have a robust set of features that tackle the entire inspection process.
Testify has a distinct test object system for mapping assets such as machines and components with detailed traceability. Combined with automatic sensor input and two-way ERP integrations, it streamlines quality tracking and makes data easier to manage.
Lumiform also offers the industrial reliability that production teams need, with flexible automation capabilities, more AI tools, and frequent product updates. Given its cleaner interface, it’s intuitive enough for use across diverse industries, and it’s fast to deploy and adopt across multiple sites. Overall, it has lower costs, especially as your organization scales, with many of Testify’s upgrades included in its standard plan.
To test out Lumiform’s features, you can book a free demo tailored to your own setup and explore how it adapts to your inspection workflow.