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Pin Drop vs Soarvo
Soarvo captures survey and inspection data inside a single account. Pin Drop gives field teams a living map of every place they work, kept open, easy to share and live from day one.
A map that stays useful
Every pin keeps its context and history, so the map gets more useful the longer your team works from it.
Open and portable
Your data stays in standard formats with an open API, so nothing is locked inside one platform.
Live from day one
No setup project and no annual commitment to begin. Start with one workflow and scale across teams when you are ready.
Built for the field, not the GIS desk
Offline mobile capture, a clear audit trail and no specialist needed to run it.
When your field data needs to stay open and keep working for you.
Soarvo is a capable field platform. It grew out of survey and drone work, handles point clouds, 3D models and inspection records well, and arrives bundled with the Trimble hardware many utilities and estate teams already use.
For teams whose work begins and ends with capturing survey data, that is a strong fit.
The limits tend to show up later. The record lives inside a single account, the API sits behind the Enterprise tier, field mobile is reserved for higher plans and every plan is an annual contract bought through a hardware channel. The data your team captures is harder to reuse, share or build on than it should be.
Pin Drop takes the opposite approach. Open formats, an open API, offline mobile capture on every plan and a map that keeps getting more useful the more your team works from it.
Side by side
How Pin Drop compares with Soarvo
The capabilities that matter when you move your map across.
Capability
Pin Drop
Soarvo
How it works
From heavyweight GIS to a map the field will actually use.
01
Import what you already have
Bring locations across from a spreadsheet, CSV or export. No licences to assign, no data model to design first.
02
Shape it around how you work
Tag, group and add the fields you need in minutes, not a mapping project. The people using it can change it.
03
Put it in everyone's hands
A fast, simple map on the phone your team already carries, not a desktop tool only the GIS analyst can drive.
Why teams switch from full GIS
A map the whole team can use, without the specialist cost and complexity of GIS.
Usable by everyone
No specialist training. Anyone in the field can add and find places on day one.
Set up in minutes
No projection, schema or licence setup before you see value.
Built for the field
Capture and reference locations on site, not just analyse them at a desk.
Less overhead
No seats sitting idle and no analyst bottleneck for a simple change.
Move from Soarvo to Pin Drop.
Start freeTrusted at scale
Used by 10,000+ organisations.
10,000+
Verified organisations
613
At $1B+ revenue
360
10,000+ employees
17+
Sectors represented
Amazon
Nike
Adobe
Oracle
Pfizer
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Mars
Walmart
Whole Foods
M&S
Mastercard
Capital One
Barclays
AT&T
Toyota
Volvo
Bosch
Bayer
BASF
Philips
UPS
Kuehne+Nagel
BT Group
NHS
Abbott
ADP
Cargill
Veolia
Paramount
Made to fit
Built for the field, not just the desk.
Shaped to your team
Some need the whole region at a glance, some record what happened at each point. The pieces are the same, how you assemble them is yours.
No big bang
Import what you have and invite who needs it. No implementation project and nothing to migrate off first.
FAQS
Questions you might have
Is Pin Drop a direct alternative to Soarvo?
Yes. Both replace paper, spreadsheets and the gap between the field and the office. Pin Drop covers the same field workflow and keeps the data your team captures open, portable and easy to share well beyond a single account.
Can we move our existing data into Pin Drop?
Yes. Pin Drop reads standard formats such as SHP, GeoJSON, KML and GeoTIFF, and the open API supports migration from existing tools so you are not starting from scratch.
Does Pin Drop work offline in the field?
Yes. Mobile capture works fully offline and syncs when you reconnect. It is included on every plan rather than reserved for higher tiers.
Do we need a GIS specialist to run Pin Drop?
No. The field and web apps are built for operators who do not have GIS in their job title. More advanced tooling sits behind the API for the people who want it.
What about Trimble or other survey hardware?
Pin Drop is not tied to any single hardware vendor. It accepts capture from any GNSS source through standard formats, so your software choice is never locked to one supplier.
