Detroit, 1969
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I tried the Next Gen Spectora…once. Sticking with the legacy product. Maybe it was just my comfort level but like some others have stated…between the lag and it crashed on me a couple of times. I gave them a list of things to look at/fix after using it and hopefully it’ll get better. For now…Legacy.
I’ve used nextgen for the last 20 inspections or so. iPhone XR / Samsung tablet
It’s laggy at times
Seem like it’s getting worse with each update
Website has been lagging this week
At least one time per inspection will reload when I take a picture causing me to have to take another picture.
Will not show full report on tablet
It didn’t built report on tablet one time, I found out on sight with no service and had to use iPhone.
With that being said
I still like it better than the light blue version but you should test it before an actual paid inspection. You have to download TestFlight to get it to work.
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What is TestFlight? I didn’t download it when I tried Next Gen.
When I first tried to use dark blue. It would not work at all. I messaged Spectora. They said I have to download TestFlight. It’s in the App Store. It’sa program on your device, you wouldn’t even know it’s there.
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Light Blue VS Dark Blue. I like that, lol.
LoL
That’s how the Spectora rep explained it
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I just performed a small mock inspection on Next Gen for the first time and immediately found a major bug for my use. I only use one defect category and that is my template setting. When I created a report, it listed 3 category defect icons at the top of the summary and my defects / narratives were categorized with whatever category it was originally set to in the template. At least on Legacy, I could change that on the app during an inspection or if I caught it when editing. On Next Gen, there is NOWHERE to change the category…not in the app and not in the template (edit: when your defect category is set to ONE in template settings). They created a trouble ticket and said for me to stick with Legacy for now 
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Do you have a screenshot of what you are describing? I went and looked at the one I did and it all appears normal. I use two defect categories.
There were 8 defects in my mock report and all should be orange. You’ll see 3 icons at the top. Notice the blue says “0” but two of the defects were listed in blue.
Interesting. What does it look like on desktop? I can’t go back and view mine on mobile because I uninstalled the Next Gen app. I guess I could go reinstall it to see if mine is doing the same. But can’t say I noticed that at the time.
I already deleted everything and reverted back. Didn’t get a screenshot of that. Already spent way too much time today on an issue that wasn’t on the to do list today 
Edit: I’m on iPhone 13 Pro
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David, I had the same bug. I had switched template styles to go from 3 categories to 1. Apparently the software can fix it. The only fix I found was to go through the template and change every comment manually. Took about a half hour but now all my comments on nextgen show up orange and in the same category
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Good info Dylan…
And, welcome to our forum. 
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Hi Dylan, welcome to the forum! I understand although my situation was different. I have many templates and I also purchased a template that I pull from on occasion that has thousands of narratives. It would have taken me weeks to make those changes. Fortunately, Spectora took care of those changes for me on all templates, except the Master copy I made of the purchased one.
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Hey Ryan, revisiting this 1 year later…are you still using Legacy or have you made the jump to V10/Next Gen?
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I’m still on Legacy. Next Gen didn’t play well with my old phone (I tried it three different times). I have a newer phone now with more horsepower and have been planning to try Next Gen again, just haven’t gotten around to it yet. How about you?
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I haven’t yet either. Spectora just had a great webinar about efficient report writing and the Spectora guest was Chris Cochran and he’s using V10 so that’s what prompted me to ask.
This webinar was a major aha! catalyst for me along with some recent posts on this forum but not for the app version. I’ve been using a template setup mostly room by room but finally got clued in and realized why my report writing has never felt right or efficient. I just spent the last day reorganizing my template to a System by System format and I’m really looking forward to saving a lot of time and having easier to navigate reports and faster on-site report writing.
I’ll probably give V10 another shot soon but with my template change, I’d better stick with legacy for at least the first few inspections 
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I watched it over the weekend. I pretty much already do just about everything that was discussed, with the exception of taking report photos outside of the app and then importing them into the narrative.
There are plenty of photos I take outside the app and add to the report at my desktop, but that isn’t what Chris was talking about. He was saying he searches for the narrative, then takes a picture outside of the app, then imports it into the narrative. I’m not sure why he doesn’t just take a picture of it inside the app after searching for the narrative.
The only thing I could think is that he mentioned he inspects a room and then adds everything from that room to the report at once when he is done inspecting the room. So maybe he takes a picture as he is inspecting, and then stops at the doorway to import the pictures into each narrative?
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That’s great! For whatever reason, I never studied Spectora’s webinars or proper techniques and stuck with the way I started using the software. I forgot or didn’t realize there was even a way to take CYA/external gallery pics in the app so I’ve always used the external camera app. Having the camera app open does take more battery power so I will start playing around with taking them in the app.
I caught that too and the way I will be going about inspecting to save time which is why I think he mentioned this technique. It makes so much sense to me from my manufacturing and construction experience. In machining, we learned a similar “technique” known as Lean Manufacturing. Less tool changes equates to faster production time.
Normally, I grab my flashlight, enter the password to open my phone, put on my glasses, add a comment and take a picture and then move on to the next defect in the same room, rinse & repeat. That’s a lot of tool changes for one defect but will save time when you can enter 3 or more defects at the same time.
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