One is an app. One is your whole operation.
IndySoft Scales is a capable calibration app built on the IndySoft metrology platform. ScaleForms is the complete system a scale service company runs on — office, field, forms, PDFs, and customer portal. Here's the honest comparison.
| ScaleForms | IndySoft Scales | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | ✓A complete scale service company platform: office app, field app, form builder, PDF and email delivery, customer portal | ✗A mobile calibration app — requires the IndySoft calibration management platform¹ |
| Track record | ✓In daily production since 2014 at a national scale company; rebuilt on modern .NET in 2026 | ✗App launched March 2025; second generation April 2026² |
| Report forms | ✓Unlimited. Browser form builder plus a library of state placed-in-service and test forms for 30 states and USDA P&S reports | ✗Seven purpose-built test types with procedures for truck, platform, and tank scales and balances¹ |
| State placed-in-service forms | ✓30 states on day one, more built during onboarding — see the list | ✗Not published |
| HB-44 tolerance math | ✓Yes — Class I through IIIL, pass/fail as readings are entered | ✓Yes — built-in tolerances with pass/fail logic¹ |
| Works offline | ✓Yes — offline first, syncs automatically | ✓Yes — offline first² |
| Customer portal | ✓Included — equipment, certs, photos, error history; unlimited free customer logins | ✗Not published |
| Back office | ✓Included — customers, equipment, dispatch-ready report grids, users, offices, email templates | ✗Requires the IndySoft platform, a general metrology system¹ |
| Pricing | ✓Published: from $39/user/mo, volume discounts at 50 and 100 users — see pricing | ✗Quote-based; third-party listings show the IndySoft platform from about $99/user/mo³ |
| Built by | ✓People inside a working scale company — every screen exists because a dispatcher, tech, or office manager needed it | ✗A calibration software vendor serving general metrology labs |
¹ IndySoft Scales product page, indysoft.com/scalescalibrationapp, retrieved September 2026. ² IndySoft press releases, March 19, 2025 and April 15, 2026 (PR Newswire). ³ Third-party software listings (SourceForge, Capterra), September 2026; IndySoft does not publish pricing. IndySoft is a trademark of its owner; ScaleForms is not affiliated with IndySoft. Corrections welcome via the demo form.
Buy an app, or run your company on one system.
If you already run IndySoft for a metrology lab, their scales app is a sensible add-on. If you're a scale service company looking for an IndySoft Scales alternative — or replacing paper and Excel outright — ScaleForms is the whole answer: the test report your tech fills out, the PDF your customer receives, the portal they log into, and the office that sees all of it. One login, one price.
Any report, not seven
Your state forms, your custom reports, your equations. If you can draw it on paper, the builder can publish it to every device.
12 years of production
ScaleForms wasn't launched at a trade show. It's been running a multi-office national scale operation since 2014.
On the website
From $39 per user per month, everything included. No quote call required to learn what it costs.
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