Back to all BlogsBest HVAC Apps for Maintenance
Whether you’re a seasoned HVAC pro or just starting out, we could all do with a little helping hand every now and then. We’ve picked the best HVAC Apps for Maintenance, repairs, installations and general running of your business.
Whether you need some help for complex calculations, a few time saving shortcuts or troubleshooting advice from experts, these HVAC apps should be in your smartphone when you need them.
An App for everything
There’s an App for everything now and HVAC Maintenance is no exception. We’ve picked our favorite apps to support HVAC engineers and you can jump to each category you like by clicking on the links below:
- HVAC Support and Troubleshooting Apps
- HVAC Business Improvement Apps
- HVAC Calculator Apps
- HVAC System Performance Apps
- Learning and Development
These HVAC Apps will help you save countless hours and perhaps avoid some costly errors. Most of them are free to download and all of them are designed to make your life easier.
Now you know what to expect from the list let’s begin…
Bluon – HVAC Support and Troubleshooting
If you’re looking to save time when you need to find information around a specific HVAC model or you need a little tech support on the road – Bluon is the first HVAC App you need.
The Bluon App has been downloaded by nearly 130,000 HVAC technicians.
In terms of Apps for HVAC Maintenance this is a great option if you’re out on the road and you don’t have a huge team to support you. It’s like having a support team on your smartphone.
It’s on our list of best HVAC Apps because they have a system library of around 300,000 models, manuals and parts lists. When you need to speak to a real person you can have one on the end of the phone in under 5 minutes.
They can help you locate the right part and order directly from your local supplier and if they don’t have that particular item it will recommend compatible parts. It’s a HVAC technician’s favorite for a reason.
Our favorite feature: Fast Support.
Ref Tools – HVAC Support and Troubleshooting
Every 6 seconds someone uses Ref Tools.
Ref Tools is one of the best Apps for HVAC Maintenance if you’re looking for guidance and support on the job. It’s a free app that contains everything you need to know about air conditioning and refrigeration.
It contains a refrigeration slider to help you with your calculations, retro fitting compatibility assistance and a troubleshooting guide for general enquiries.
They describe it as an all-in-one pocket assistant and we think that’s a very good description.
Our favorite feature: Apart from the funky demo video below… The podcasts are very cool ❄️
Klipboard – HVAC Business Improvement
Free 14-day trial / iOS and Android
Klipboard will save you hours every week. We help you schedule your jobs with our excellent drag and drop scheduler, capture data in the field such as details from checklists, photos of installations or repairs and customer signatures with our Mobile forms and speed up your invoicing.
By digitizing your paperwork with our HVAC App for Job Management you can quickly send your team their job details, the client information, job routing, maps and floorplans. Then when the work is complete, your team simply sync the information with your back office.
Save hours on admin, effortlessly manage your customers HVAC assets and get paid faster for your jobs.
Klipboard is the best all-in-one, feature rich, HVAC App for Job Management and streamlined business operations.
Our favorite feature: Book a demo and you can tell us! Click here.
Quickbooks – HVAC Business Improvement
Quickbooks helps you simplify how you manage the finances of your HVAC business. One of the main reasons it’s on our list of Best HVAC Apps is because of how easy it is to use. Finance Management can be complicated and Quickbooks makes it easy.
Create invoices, Manage your cash flow, track sales, mileage and expenses on the go. For HVAC businesses it’s almost essential that’s why we partnered with Quickbooks to integrate our Job Management Software with their Accounting features, so you can create and assign jobs on Klipboard and when the work is done, instantly consolidate the details to an invoice, saving you hours every week.
Our favorite feature: ‘Very easy to use’ a quick look at the reviews online and you’ll see that phrase over and over again for Quickbooks.
Xero – HVAC Business Improvement
Keep track of unpaid and overdue invoices, purchase orders, profit and loss with Xero. This accountancy App is excellent and we were so impressed with it we partnered with Xero to link our Job Management Software with their accountancy app, saving HVAC businesses a lot of time and duplicated admin.
Xero allows you to run your business with confidence knowing you have full visibility of your finances. It’s great for doing your tax accounting on the go and the app design is slick and easy to use.
Our favorite feature: It’s not really a feature but Xero has been reviewed nearly 10k times on the Apple Store with a 4.7 our of 5 star rating. Really impressive.
Instagram – HVAC Business Improvement
You probably weren’t expecting this one on a Best Apps for HVAC Maintenance list but it can be just as important as any other on this list.
Instagram is a must have for HVAC technicians, especially those running small to medium size businesses. It’s a great way to share examples of your installs and win new business.
Social Media can be used as great marketing tools for HVAC businesses. It gives you an opportunity to show a human side to your business and build trust with your potential customers.
Short videos work great for HVAC technicians as you’re able to show before and after installations or quick examples of the benefits of regularly servicing your HVAC equipment.
Our tip: Share ‘How to’ & ‘Did you know?’ Content on Reels, Posts and Stories on Instagram. People want to see experts at work, some HVAC accounts on the platform have 100’s of thousands of followers.
HVACR Check and Charge – Calculators
From Emerson Climate Technologies comes this HVAC Maintenance favorite among technicians. It’s a HVAC App that provides you with an on-site refrigeration calculator for air conditioning and refrigeration applications.
It can quickly provide you with the correct system charge for R-22, R-32, R-410A, R-134a and many other heating and cooling systems.
While visually the app is a little clunky, it delivers where it needs to. It’s easy to use and means you don’t need to worry about referencing charts or looking at spreadsheets. It provides plenty of options and little details like changing the range depending on the usage means you know it’s built by people who use it!
Our favorite feature: It works and It’s free.
HVAC Load Plus – Calculators
$6.99 / $24.99 / iOS and Android
This is the king of HVAC heating and cooling block calculators and one of the best HVAC apps you can download.
Let’s get the obvious out of the way – on your smartphone the app doesn’t look very appealing and it looks even worse on iPad!
So why is it on this list?
This app was built by Carmel Software who have been around the HVAC industry for around 20 years and they have specialized in engineering analysis software applications that whole time and it shows.
What you have is one of the most comprehensive heating and cooling load calculators ever put on a HVAC App. It contains information on over 1000+ city weather data bases, it allows you to build models based on 100s of construction types for walls, ceilings, roofs and floors.
On the surface it doesn’t look like much but underneath it is an ocean of data.
Our favorite feature: The depth of data – Oh my!
HYTools – Calculators
From Emerson Climate Technologies comes this HVAC Maintenance favorite among technicians. It’s a HVAC App that provides you with an on-site refrigeration calculator for air conditioning and refrigeration applications.
It can quickly provide you with the correct system charge for R-22, R-32, R-410A, R-134a and many other heating and cooling systems.
While visually the app is a little clunky, it delivers where it needs to. It’s easy to use and means you don’t need to worry about referencing charts or looking at spreadsheets. It provides plenty of options and little details like changing the range depending on the usage means you know it’s built by people who use it!
Our favorite feature: It works and It’s free.
iManifold – System Performance
A popular but less known option for HVAC/R system performance troubleshooting is the iManifold HVAC Maintenance App.
This has over 40 selectable refrigeration and equipment profiling options and can be easily tailored for your needs. The smart graphs and heat gauges on the app make it easy to use.
We may have picked this as one of the best HVAC Apps but the reviews are a little mixed. The developers are aware of a few issues but engineers and technicians are mostly impressed with this Troubleshooting app.
Our favorite feature: The make frequent updates and listen to feedback
HVAC Test Pro 2022 – Learning and Development
HVAC Test Pro 2022 is a study card app to help you prepare for tests and it’s completely free.
If you have a new hire and you want a more engaging way to bump up their knowledge this can be a ‘fun’ way to do that or maybe you just want to prove how much you know!
The App will track your performance and show you the areas you need to improve. The score reports can add a competitive element too if you’re that way inclined.
This is a great way to test critical learning and make sure your team is up to speed, it can reduce mistakes and helps build confidence in your team. There aren’t many free learning and development HVAC apps so this is certainly one to try out with your team – if for no other reason than to put on a quiz!
Our favorite feature: The scoreboards for in-team competition.
HVAC School – Learning and Development
Another great option for learning and developing HVAC Apps is HVAC School. It’s packed full of useful advice, tech tips and guides.
It’s one of the best HVAC Apps you could encourage new members of your Field Teams to install on their phone as it will test their knowledge and provide excellent, well explained examples of typical challenges your team will face.
Our favorite feature: The ‘How to’ diagrams are detailed and well explained.
