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A commercial building does not have one fire protection system. It has emergency lights and exit signs, egress and fire doors, an alarm panel, usually a sprinkler riser, extinguishers on every floor and often a generator. Whether you are the contractor servicing a portfolio or the team responsible for the buildings, life safety software earns its keep by putting all of those systems on one record per building, so nothing goes uninspected because it lived in a different tool.
How we compared them
Evaluation criteria
- NFPA 101 coverage: emergency lighting, exit signs and egress, per each vendor's own site.
- Breadth: how many other building systems the same tool covers.
- Portfolio view: multi-site, multi-branch or dashboard features the vendor advertises.
- Field work, pricing and contract: mobile and offline support, published or quoted price.
Competitor details reflect each vendor's own website as checked on October 27, 2026 (sources at the bottom of the page). "Not advertised" means we could not find it on the vendor's site, not that the product lacks it. Confirm features and pricing directly with each vendor. Fire Inspect Hub details are first-party.
Comparison table
| Tool | NFPA 101 (vendor's words) | Other systems on the same tool | Portfolio view | Mobile / offline | Pricing | Positioned for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspect Point | NFPA 101 question sets; bulk inspect emergency lights | NFPA 25, 72, 10, 80 | Branch roll-up for multi-branch companies | Apple devices; offline after sync | Quote, not published | Contractors through multi-branch and national accounts |
| OnSite LSI | Emergency lighting and firestop reports (NFPA 101) | Extinguishers, doors, dampers, special hazards | Life Safety Dashboard with multi-building roll-up | Phone, tablet, laptop; works offline | Not published | Inspection companies and facilities |
| BuildingReports | Emergency light and exit sign device types | Alarm, sprinkler, suppression, extinguishers, doors | Online reporting account | Handhelds; offline not advertised | Not published | Service companies |
| ServiceTrade | Not advertised | Extinguishers, alarms, sprinklers | Not advertised | Mobile app; offline not advertised | Quote by technician count | Fire and life safety contractors |
| ZenFire | Environment of Care checklists covering exits | NFPA 10, 13, 25, 72, 96 | Not advertised | Mobile; offline access | Per user, not published | Solo inspectors and small teams |
| Fire Inspect Hub | Emergency lighting, exit signs and doors: 49 items, low-light reading graded per unit | NFPA 10, 25, 72, 80, 110, dampers, kitchen, special hazards | Locations, regional admins, gap check per building | Phone and tablet; installs to the home screen | Published, $54/user/month, free tier | Contractors and in-house teams |
The tools, one by one
Inspect Point
Fire protection operations software for contractors with built-in question sets for NFPA 25, 72, 10, 80 and 101, a bulk inspect mode that covers alarm devices, extinguishers and emergency lights in one pass, and a branch roll-up for multi-branch and acquisition platforms.
Strength: broad coverage and multi-branch reporting in a mature platform. One limitation: the field app runs on Apple devices only (no Android), pricing is not published, and plans start at three technicians.
OnSite Software Life Safety Inspector (LSI)
A phone-first inspection app with separate pages for each system type, including emergency lighting and firestop reports under NFPA 101, notes for annual 90-minute tests, optional camera barcodes to identify a light, and a Life Safety Dashboard that rolls up many buildings. It runs on Apple, Android, laptops and rugged handhelds, on or offline.
Strength: a long-standing life safety focus and wide device support. One limitation: pricing is not published.
BuildingReports
A suite of barcode-based mobile apps; its ScanSeries data sheet lists emergency lights, exit signs and fire doors among its device types, alongside separate apps for alarm, sprinkler and suppression, with reports uploaded to an online account.
Strength: a scanned record of every device across a building's systems. One limitation: its workflow is built around scanning a barcode on each device, and pricing is not published.
ServiceTrade
A field service and inspection platform positioned for commercial fire protection and life safety contractors, with a mobile app that includes barcode scanning and guided checklists. Its inspection page names extinguishers, alarms and sprinklers.
Strength: service operations from inspection to repair across trades. One limitation: its inspection page names no NFPA standard and does not mention emergency lighting or exit signs, and pricing is quoted.
ZenFire
An AI-oriented fire inspection product from ZenTrades with NFPA 10, 13, 25, 72 and 96 forms and Environment of Care checklists that cover exits, plus offline access, deficiency-to-quote and invoicing.
Strength: inspection through invoice for small teams. One limitation: NFPA 101 is not among its listed standards, and pricing is not published.
Fire Inspect Hub
Built for independent and small-to-mid contractors and for in-house fire protection teams. The NFPA 101 life safety module covers emergency lighting, exit signs and doors in 13 sections and 49 items, and each emergency light records a low-light reading graded against a pass mark you set, so a dim unit becomes a critical deficiency automatically instead of a judgment call.
The same building record carries NFPA 10 extinguishers, NFPA 25 water-based systems, NFPA 72 fire alarm, NFPA 80 fire doors (swinging and rolling steel), fire and smoke dampers, NFPA 110 emergency power, kitchen suppression and special hazards. Buildings are grouped by location, regional admins can be limited to their own locations, and a coverage check flags any registered system in a building that has no inspection scheduled. Clients pull their record from a customer portal.
Strength: every common building system on one record per building, at a published month-to-month price. One limitation: it is built for independent contractors and in-house teams, not national multi-trade service companies.
Which should you choose?
- A growing or multi-branch contractor that wants branch roll-ups → Inspect Point.
- A phone-first life safety app on any device, including rugged handhelds → OnSite LSI.
- A barcode on every device in the building → BuildingReports.
- Life safety as one part of a multi-trade service business → ServiceTrade.
- Every building system on one record, graded emergency lighting, published month-to-month pricing → Fire Inspect Hub.
What to look for in 2027
Coverage gaps by building
The most common life safety failure is a system nobody scheduled. Look for a tool that knows what is installed in each building and tells you when something has no inspection on the calendar.
Emergency lighting you can measure
A pass or fail on an emergency light is a judgment; a recorded light reading against a set threshold is evidence. If your AHJ or client asks how a light passed, a measured value answers the question.
Portfolio and campus views
Contractors servicing property managers, and in-house teams running hospitals or universities, need buildings grouped by site and people limited to the sites they cover. Ask how each tool handles both. See our commercial property, life safety and institutions pages.
Other contractors' reports
Owners rarely use one contractor for everything. A place to keep the reports other vendors deliver, with their findings tracked, keeps the building's compliance record complete.
FAQ
What does life safety inspection software cover?
At minimum the NFPA 101 items a building is held to: emergency lighting, exit signs and egress doors. Most commercial buildings also need fire alarm, sprinkler, extinguisher, fire door and emergency power inspections, so the useful question is how many of those systems one tool covers.
Which life safety software records emergency lighting test results?
OnSite LSI offers NFPA 101 emergency lighting reports with notes for annual 90-minute tests, and BuildingReports lists emergency lights as a device type. Fire Inspect Hub records a low-light reading per unit and grades it against a pass mark you set, creating a deficiency when a unit falls below it.
Can one platform cover every fire and life safety system in a building?
Several come close. Inspect Point lists question sets for NFPA 25, 72, 10, 80 and 101. Fire Inspect Hub covers those plus emergency power, kitchen suppression, dampers and special hazards on one record per building.
How is life safety inspection software priced?
Most vendors quote per user or per technician and do not publish prices. Fire Inspect Hub publishes one per-user price with a free tier. Confirm current pricing on each vendor's site.
Put a whole building on one record, free
Start on the free tier, add a building's systems and run your first life safety inspection. Free plan reports are marked as samples and aren't for compliance submission. Upgrade for client-ready reports.
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Checked October 27, 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners. This is an independent comparison; none of these vendors reviewed or endorsed it.
- Inspect Point: inspectpoint.com, compare, enterprise, plans
- OnSite Software: onsitesoftware.com, emergency and exit lights, Life Safety Dashboard, devices and offline
- BuildingReports: ScanSeries data sheet
- ServiceTrade: fire protection, fire inspection software, pricing
- ZenFire: zentrades.pro/zenfire