Fulcrum vs Lumiform

Fulcrum is a field operations management platform for running, recording, and closing out fieldwork. Teams build digital workflows with drag-and-drop forms, conditional logic, and required fields. Mobile capture handles photos, audio, video, barcodes, QR codes, and signatures, including offline use. Geospatial collection supports points, lines, polygons, offline basemaps, and layers. Audio FastFill turns spoken observations into structured data, while Insights answers plain-language questions with reports, maps, or risk trends. Fulcrum highlights Esri ArcGIS, Microsoft Power Automate, and IBM Maximo integrations, plus REST and Query APIs, webhooks, and Zapier. It runs on AWS and states SOC 2 Type 2 certification, TLS encryption in transit, and AES-256 encryption for stored data. Professional costs $43 a month billed annually; Elite costs $55 a month billed annually. All plans require annual billing and at least five users.

Lumiform is a cloud-based platform for digitizing inspections, audits and checklists to support operational quality, safety and efficiency. Teams can build forms from scratch, select from more than 12,000 templates, generate forms with AI, or convert PDF, Word, Excel and image files. Workflows can trigger forms, actions, reminders, notifications and report sharing based on responses, submissions or schedules. Reports are customizable and export to PDF, Word, Excel and CSV. The iOS and Android apps allow offline form completion and synchronize data after reconnection. Integrations include Power BI, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, SharePoint, OneDrive, Zapier, Make, n8n and Power Automate. Lumiform also offers a REST API, webhooks, SAML SSO and two-way synchronization with enterprise systems. Enterprise data is hosted in Germany on AWS in Frankfurt or STACKIT, with encryption at rest and in transit. It runs on Android, iOS, macOS and web. Pricing is on request; trial accounts are limited to five users.