DotActiv has a free plan — why use POG Snap?

DotActiv's free tier is metered in credits and capped at roughly ten planograms a month, and it is built for category management. POG Snap's free path is not metered and is built for making one fixture look real enough to present. Different tools, both free to try.

Does POG Snap do compliance checking?

No. DotActiv's TrueView checks what is actually on a shelf from photographs. POG Snap is concerned with the shelf you are proposing, not the one already built.

Enterprise space planning

POG Snap vs DotActiv

The most accessible of the category management platforms, and the one with a real free tier. It is still a category management product; POG Snap is a sell-in product.

Choose DotActiv if

You want category management with AI assistance and compliance checking, and a free tier to start on.

Choose POG Snap if

The thing standing between you and a good deck is the packaging artwork, not the category strategy.

Where they sit

AI-assisted category management for retailers and suppliers, with planogram generation, reporting and shelf-image recognition.

Our read of the landscape, not a benchmark — nobody measured these axes and this chart does not pretend otherwise. Gray dots are the other tools compared across these pages.

At a glance

POG Snap compared with DotActiv across five capabilities
Capability	POG Snap	DotActiv
Dimensionally accurate to the inch	Yes	Yes
A whole fixture, many facings at once	Yes	Yes
Photoreal packaging built from your artwork files	Yes	No
Aimed at the supplier's sales team	Yes	No
Runs a chain of stores	No	Yes

What DotActiv does better

A genuinely free tier, which is rare at this end of the market.
Shelf image recognition for checking what is actually on the shelf in store.
Category strategy tooling and consultants behind it.

Where POG Snap differs

Photoreal packaging generated from your artwork files rather than from a product database.
No credit metering — a facing costs nothing to place.
One job, done end to end: artwork in, buyer deck out.

Pricing

DotActiv

Published per-licence tiers including a free tier, then $800/year and $2,000/year, metered by credits.

POG Snap

The editor opens with no account and no payment. Paid plans are not priced yet, so this page does not quote a number it would have to take back.

Questions

DotActiv has a free plan — why use POG Snap?: DotActiv's free tier is metered in credits and capped at roughly ten planograms a month, and it is built for category management. POG Snap's free path is not metered and is built for making one fixture look real enough to present. Different tools, both free to try.
Does POG Snap do compliance checking?: No. DotActiv's TrueView checks what is actually on a shelf from photographs. POG Snap is concerned with the shelf you are proposing, not the one already built.

Ten minutes is enough to tell.

Put a fixture on the screen, drop in a dieline and see what comes out. No account, nothing to install.

Other comparisons

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