The all-in-one tool for home inspectors
Kensa is one app for the field and one office for the desk: inspections that write the report as you walk, online booking checked against your real day, clients and lead tracking, a team room, invoices your clients pay online, and analytics across all of it.
In beta on real inspections. Android today; iOS pending a developer account. Built with Zinc Home Inspections in North Vancouver.
In beta now, on real inspections — built alongside Zinc Home Inspections in North Vancouver.
The field and the desk in one product, so nothing is typed twice and nothing lives in another app. Pick a part to see it.
The phone app opens on your sections in the order you walk them. Photos file into the section you are standing in, a batch becomes a finding in the report's own shape, and the PDF leaves from the driveway. The office watches it fill in.
The app, as it ships
Every screen here is a capture from the beta build on a real phone, not a mock-up. Runs on 64-bit Android phones, Android 8 and up.
Sections as tabs
Shooting, tray filling
A batch, into a finding
Say what you see
Your own components
A finding, written
The day, drive included
Limitations, tapped
The same walk, in light
Finished, on the phone
Today
What gets committed to in the field is already the finding. “Panel is Federal Pacific, double-tapped breaker on the left” is a report line that has been said out loud and then thrown away. Kensa catches it where it is spoken, in the shape the report actually needs, so the work at home is confirming and signing off rather than writing.
Home inspectors spend a large share of every job writing the report, not inspecting. The software most of them use is dated and slow, and the real work — turning rough field observations into clean, professional report language — still happens by hand, usually at a desk hours later.
An inspection opens on its sections as tabs, in the order you walk them. Photos land in the section you are standing in, gather in a tray, and become findings when you sort them. Nothing stops to ask you a question mid-shot.
Open
An inspection opens on its sections as tabs — in the order you walk a house, not the order a report prints. Move them with arrows, because a drag handle is a poor target in gloves. On a fresh inspection it asks once for a cover photo of the front of the house, and that is the only time it interrupts you.
Saved per inspection, per phone
Shoot
Every shot is filed into the section you are standing in the moment you take it, and joins a batch tray at the same time. Keep shooting. Nothing blocks the next photo, and nothing is waiting to be named.
Regular camera or FLIR ONE
Sort
Open the tray and every photo in it is already selected; tap to leave one out. New finding with all of them, or add them to one you have already written. What you never sort stays a loose section photo — which is exactly how the report groups it anyway.
All selected by default
Write
By voice or by hand: component, condition, implications, location, and task and time. Task and time are pick-lists drawn from the values the company's own past reports actually use, so the common ones are one tap and free text is the escape hatch.
Task and time in one tap
Limitations
Mark the last section done and the limitations run-through opens by itself, walking the sections in order. Every field is a pick-list built from the company's own reports, so it never sits there waiting for you to type.
Opens when the walk is finished
Deliver
Export the report on the phone — sections in order, description, findings, photo grids — and hand it to the share sheet. The office has already watched it fill in.
Rendered on the phone
The report always assembles in this order. The walk does not have to — you set the order of the tabs on the phone, and each section tracks its own status.
Roofing
not started
Exterior
not started
Structure
not started
Electrical
not started
Heating
not started
Cooling & Heat Pump
not started
Insulation & Ventilation
not started
Plumbing
not started
Interior
not started
Dark and light
The same walk in both themes. Graphite for a crawl space and a roof at dusk; off-white for a bright afternoon, set like the report itself. Pick one in settings, or follow the phone.
The camera
Video, photo or FLIR thermal: tap the bar or swipe along it, and every shot files into the section you are standing in. With a FLIR ONE attached, the frame turns thermal, with the hottest, coldest and centre temperatures on it.
Scroll to change modes — or tap or drag the bar, and press the shutter.
The camera
Scroll to change modes — or tap or drag the bar, and press the shutter.
The thermal frame is illustrative: simulated from an ordinary photo until a real FLIR pair is shot.
Thermal
Thermal is not a separate app or a separate camera roll. With a FLIR ONE Edge Pro attached, the viewfinder toggles to the thermal stream and the same shutter captures it. Pick a palette, read the centre spot, and add your own points — drag them, delete them — with the hottest and coldest already marked for you.
One press saves both frames: the thermal image and the ordinary photo, carrying the same spots, so the report can show what the eye saw beside what it could not.
Thermal is a paid add-on and needs Android 13 or newer. Without the camera, everything else works exactly the same.
A delivered inspection report is not prose — it is a stack of finding records under category headers. The editor writes that structure directly, so nothing has to be translated later.
ROOF DRAINAGE\Gutters and Downspouts
The header the finding files under
The defect itself
What it leads to
Where — the inspector's call
Pick-list: Repair, Replace, Correct…
Pick-list: Immediately, Upon Possession…
Task and time are pick-lists rather than free text because the real vocabularies are small and heavily reused, so the common values are one tap. Free text stays available as the escape hatch, because free text is how typos reach clients.
Nine sections, in the order the delivered report puts them in. Each carries its own notes, photos and findings, and a status of not started, in progress, or complete.
Export report PDF lays the whole inspection out in the real report's structure — sections in order, finding records, photo grids — and hands it to the share sheet.
The published report and a page of its PDF, as the client gets them. Demo data.
Every inspection syncs to your office site while you work. The office opens a browser — at the desk or anywhere else — and watches the house fill in: sections, findings in the report's record shape, every photo with its markup.
Click the highlighted controls: they are the office’s real ones and go where they really go — try Finished, then the Marine Dr job, then Report. Captures of a demo company.
Booking requests wait to be confirmed, and a walk in progress shows its sections filling in — two of nine done, a finding, six photos — while the inspector is still in the house.
Offline in a basement only means the office lags. The walk never waits for a connection, and syncs from any job site once there is one.
The business side
Booking, the inbox and the words themselves — the parts of the job that are not the walk, built into the same app and office.
Voice dictation
Dictate on the camera screen, into a finding, into notes, or through the limitations run-through. Fillers drop out, acronyms come out as acronyms, numbers as digits, and the sentence is punctuated — on the phone.
Works offline with the optional on-device recogniser, a one-time download of about 700 MB.
Smart booking
Working hours, the jobs already booked, the drive to and from each, a buffer between, and busy time in a connected Google Calendar. Each request comes back Fits, Tight — under fifteen minutes to spare — or Doesn't fit, with the reason.
Drive times are estimates unless the office has a Google Maps key.
Online booking
Your company's own booking page, no account needed: the client picks a service, then a time from the slots you offer, then leaves their details. Confirm each request yourself, or let it book automatically — your choice.
The public booking page, at phone width, on a demo company. Prices are the inspector's own.
Pro AI · coming soon
It reads new client mail in the office's Gmail, drafts a reply — with your booking link when someone asks for a time — and writes booked inspections into Google Calendar. It never moves, labels or deletes mail, and nothing is sent until you press Send. It switches on once Google approves its access to Gmail.
Security
Turn on two-factor with any authenticator app, and every sign-in asks for its code as well as the password.
A sign-in from a device the account has not seen before needs a code sent by email — or the authenticator code, when two-factor is on.
The cloud database checks every read row by row, so an account only ever reaches its own company's inspections, clients and photos.
Data is encrypted in the cloud database, and the system is stress-tested. Photos are never handed out by a public link, and a lost phone's key can be revoked from the office.
US dollars, before tax. Everything the app and the office do is in the base plan — the walk, the schedule, the invoice, the report.
$80a month
Everything the app and the office do, for one inspector running the whole job — walked, scheduled, invoiced, paid.
One inspector. $40 a month for each one after that.
$140a month
For a firm rather than one inspector. Everything in Pro, plus the team room, leads and outreach.
Three inspectors. $40 a month for each one after that.
$100a month
Everything in Pro, and an assistant in the office that reads the inbox, drafts the replies and keeps the calendar straight.
One inspector. Nothing is sent without you. The assistant switches on once Google approves its Gmail access.
The FLIR ONE camera in the app — live thermal view, thermal photos, and those photos in the report. The camera itself is bought once from FLIR.
While Kensa is in beta a plan is set up by hand rather than bought from this page, and it takes effect on the phone’s next sync. Monthly, in US dollars, before tax. There is no annual plan and no free trial.
See the full pricing pageIn development — not in the shipping app yet. Kensa on the phone today is a field tool that does what it says; this arrives when it has earned its place.
Point the camera at a defect and the app names the component and offers its likely conditions, drawn from that component's own defect list — a shortlist to tap, not a paragraph to correct.
It suggests; the inspector decides. Anything it is unsure of stays a shortlist, a component it does not recognise is flagged for review rather than guessed at, and task and time remain the inspector's call.
Kensa is built with Zinc Home Inspections in North Vancouver, and the output is matched to the structure of the reports that company actually delivers — the same section order, the same finding records, and task and time vocabularies drawn from its own past reports.
That is the whole design constraint. This is a tool for inspectors who already have a report format their clients expect, and who would rather spend the evening not writing it.
If you inspect for a franchise with a mandated reporting platform, this isn't for you yet. If the report is yours and the evening is the problem, it is.
Short answers, in roughly the order they come up on a first call.
Kensa Pro is $80 a month for one inspector, Kensa Teams $140 for three, and Kensa Pro AI $100 — in US dollars, before tax, with $40 a month for each inspector beyond a plan's own. Thermal imaging is $15 a month on top of any plan. There is no annual plan and no free trial; during the beta a plan is set up by hand.
Not yet. Kensa is Android today. iOS is pending a developer account and is planned, but there is no date and this site won't invent one.
Yes. The camera, photo markup, the finding editor and the PDF export all run on the phone, and dictation does too with the optional on-device recogniser (the phone's default speech service may need a connection). The only networked part is the sync to your office, and it simply catches up when you have a connection again.
On your phone — a walk works with no signal at all — and in your company's office site, which only your accounts can open. Photos are served only to someone signed in, or to the client holding their report's link. Data is encrypted in the cloud database and fenced to your company row by row, and a lost phone's key can be revoked from the office.
No. Thermal is a paid add-on. With a FLIR ONE or FLIR ONE Edge Pro attached on Android 13 or newer, the viewfinder toggles to the thermal stream, the same shutter captures it, and one press saves the thermal image and the ordinary photo together. Without the camera, everything else works exactly the same.
Yes, and most inspectors will at first. Kensa produces a finished PDF in the report structure your clients already recognise — it replaces the evening's typing, not your whole back office.
Nothing is lost. Everything you've captured is written to the phone's storage as you go, and it's all there when the app reopens.
In two places, both kept on a short lead. Pro AI adds an assistant that drafts replies to client mail — nothing is sent until you press Send — and it switches on once Google approves its access to Gmail. And a camera that suggests the component and its likely conditions is in development, not in the shipping app yet. Dictation today is cleaned up by rules on the phone.
Not here? Ask us directly — a person who builds it answers.
It is on real inspections now, with the company it was built alongside. The next step is hands that did not help design it, and whatever the walk turns out to need once it meets them.
Android today. iOS is pending a developer account and a second pass at the parts that touch the camera. There is no date and this site will not invent one.
Online booking with a public page and a request queue, a two-way Google Calendar, invoicing and a report that can wait until its invoice is paid. Booking and the calendar are live; invoicing runs from the office. The agreement is built and not switched on yet.
Speech already becomes report language on the phone, by rules: fillers out, acronyms and numbers right, sentences punctuated. A trained rewriter that does better is in the app now, switched off and under test, and will arrive as a suggestion you can undo.
The model flow returns from its branch when the round trip is worth it. It shares the same record, the same editor and the same settings, so the seams are already in place.
Kensa
It is in beta now, on real inspections. If you inspect for a living and want to carry it through a house of your own — especially if you are willing to say exactly what is wrong with it afterwards — say so.
Or sign up for the office now.