How it works
One inspection,
end to end.
No marketing abstraction here — this is the actual sequence, including the parts that are awkward.
Create the inspection
The inspector signs in and enters the property address and the homeowner’s name. A job reference is optional. InspectStream generates a six-character code using an alphabet with no I, L, O or U — because sooner or later somebody reads that code down the phone to a spouse, and ambiguous characters become support calls.
Send the link, then wait for them
The staging screen shows a QR code, the short code and the full link. Tap Text the link and your phone’s own share sheet opens, so the message goes out from your number in your own thread.
A status dot tells you the moment the homeowner opens it. Only then do you go live. Nobody should be narrating a roof to a room that is still empty.
Broadcast, photograph, talk
Tap Go live and the rear camera starts publishing. A red bar runs across the top of the screen for as long as you are recording. The photo button captures a full-resolution still straight off the video, so it costs nothing extra and it is the same frame the homeowner just watched.
The homeowner’s video starts muted and plays instantly, with a single Tap for sound button. The page is never gated behind a Join screen — you show the roof first and unlock audio second.
The link dies, the record stays
Ending the inspection stops the recording, closes the room and expires the homeowner’s link on the spot. The finished file lands in private storage a short while later — recordings finish writing after a room closes, so the system waits to be told rather than guessing.
From then on the inspection lives in your dashboard: full recording, every still, and a timestamped trail of what happened when.
The honest limitations.
Every tool has them. Here are ours, before you find them yourself.
iOS suspends the broadcast if the inspector leaves the app
Take a call or switch apps mid-inspection and Safari pauses the stream. This is a browser restriction, not a setting we can flip. The homeowner side is unaffected, and the fix on the inspector side is a native wrapper if it ever becomes a real problem for your crew.
Recordings are not instant
The file finishes writing seconds to minutes after the inspection ends. The dashboard shows it as pending until storage confirms it, rather than showing a broken player.
Genuinely dead cell service is genuinely dead
Weak signal degrades gracefully — the stream drops to a lower quality layer instead of freezing, and both sides see a warning. No signal at all means no live inspection. You can still record photos and run the walk conventionally.