Your own app for trade contractors

The app for contractors — the clipboard clocks out.

Friday, 4 PM: chasing time sheets, pulling photos off three phones, retyping material lists? Your own app finished all of that hours ago — the afternoon belongs to you again.

30-second check · free, no strings attached · answer usually the same day

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Sawyer Electric
Today's jobWed, 8:00–9:30 AM
Steps on this job3/4 done
Close out the jobHours, photos and material are all logged
Up next today9:30 AM

Tap around — this is roughly how your future app will feel.

Free estimate

What should your contractor app do?

5 questions · 30 seconds · then a concrete proposal with a fixed price.

Step 1 of 5

What should your app be able to do?

Pick what would kill the most paperwork.pick as many as you like, every feature shows what it adds.

Always included: an iPhone and Android app in the stores, a web version, release under your own name, hosting, updates and support.

Part of the base packagetake as many as you like — it stays at $4,000
Extensions — extra modulesaround +$900 per module
Deeply wired — integrations & AIaround +$2,500 per integration

Pick a feature — we will explain right here what it does day to day.

$4,000$6,500Base package · fixed price after our call
01One job, one chain

From the request to the invoice — without a single slip of paper.

Tap through the five stops of one real job:

The customer sends the problem and photos

Request · Mr. Mason

“The bathroom outlet sparks”

2 photos attached

→ You see what it's about right away

02Feature by feature

What the app for your shop can do.

From a one-truck shop to a crew of 20 — tap through, and on the right you see the matching app screen.

Sawyer ElectricJobs for the crew
My jobsCrew
Wednesday3 jobs
Bathroom outletMr. Mason · Fairview8:00 AM
Kitchen hookupMain Street site9:30 AM
Panel upgradeThe Harpers · Elmwood1:00 PM
Material sits with the jobMain Street kitchen: 4 items listed, 2 of them still to pick up.
Word back from the crewWednesday
Bathroom outlet done6 photos · 1.6 h booked9:38 AM
Floor leveler still curingbase trim pushed back7:50 AM
03The most honest comparison

Friday, 4:00 PM. How does your afternoon go from here?

On paperWith your app
4:00 PMCollect the week's time sheets
4:40 PMHunt down photos on three different phones
5:20 PMRetype material off paper slips
6:05 PMStart on estimates and invoices
7:30 PMDone — eventually
3.5 hours of paperwork — every single week.
Your desk, Fridayfull
Time sheets12 of them, some unreadable
Job-site photos47 — spread over 3 phones
Material slips9 — two are missing again for sure
Packing slips6 — one lost somewhere in the truck

All of it has to be picked up one more time tonight.

The work was finished at four — now the paperwork is too.

Woodworker in a canvas apron at a sunlit bench, chisels and shavings around a block of wood
Scene: the shop, Friday afternoon4:00 PM

The work has been finished for hours. Only the paperwork still pretends it isn't.

Job, photos, hours, invoice — one chain instead of a pile of paper. Friday belongs to you again.

From the field

What an app really changes on the job — and what it doesn't.

Contractor apps get sold as a cure for disorder. In practice the effect is narrower and still bigger than the brochures claim: nothing gets lost between the job site and the office anymore. Everything else follows from that — the money too.

≈ 130 hof office time back each year — more than three work weeks
147.5 hof crew time in one week, every hour on its own job
2 weeksuntil the full app is running on your crew's phones

Friday is only the symptom

The three or four hours of paperwork after quitting time hurt, no question. What costs more is the job that is still open afterwards: a time sheet is missing, nobody remembers whether the second roll of wire went to this house or the other one, and the invoice waits until somebody has time to sort it out. Until then you have financed the work yourself — material, wages and your own time.

When hours get logged where they happen, that middle step disappears. What the journeyman stops on site stays with the job and flows into the invoice without anyone retyping it. Not because the app does better math than you — but because nobody has to move something a second time that was already written down once.

It isn't the paper that costs you money — it's the jobs that stay open.

One channel instead of a glovebox

The usual setup: work orders on paper in the glovebox, changes by phone call, photos in three separate text threads, the material list in the foreman's head. Each of those lines works on its own — together they make a system where nobody can say for certain what is current. So people call. And so the crew sits in the truck until somebody picks up.

An app changes exactly one thing about that, and it changes it thoroughly: there is one place for the job. Whoever reschedules, reschedules for everybody. Whoever takes a photo drops it on the right job — the daily log writes itself along the way, with a date and one line about it, instead of being reconstructed at night. And whatever gets logged in a basement with no bars rides up with you the moment there is signal again.

What the customer sees — and why it brings the next job

The part most people underestimate: your customer finally gets to see what you actually did. Before and after photos, the work report with hours and material, signed at the door instead of mailed two weeks later. That ends most arguments about an invoice before they start — and it is exactly what gets repeated when the neighbor asks whether anyone knows a good contractor.

Staying honest: an app does not price your estimate, does not order material by itself and will not rescue a routine the shop never had. If nobody knows today who is responsible for the job folder, the app will not know tomorrow either. What it can do: capture once what you are doing anyway — and then show it everywhere it is needed. That is exactly what the Start version from $4,000 already delivers in full: the core features of your trade — job, photo log, hours, request with a picture — ready in two weeks, in the stores under your company's name. Not a trial version: “small” means fewer building blocks, not less care. What sits above it is not the better app, it is the more deeply wired one — automation, an admin area, and later the hookups to your office software and your supply house.

You know best where the paper piles up at your place. Tell us in 30 seconds — you get a proposal with a fixed price, not a sales call.

04No buzzwords — do the math

What does paperwork Friday cost, in numbers?

Move the sliders and the total follows.Worked example
Paperwork per week today4 h
Paperwork after quitting time4 h every week
With the app: hours, photos and material already logged→ 45 min

≈ 130 hours a year back — more than three full work weeks.

Time for jobs, for estimates — or simply for your evening. On top of that: no more lost time sheets.

Half a minute · you end up with a proposal and a fixed price

One project. Every device.

This is how the listing for your app will look once we submit it. Type in your name, pick a color — the preview on the right picks up both straight away.

Your brand color
iPhone appListed in the App Store, under your name
Android appOn Google Play, with your logo and your colors
Browser & adminAccess with nothing to install, plus your own admin area
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Today's jobWed, 8:00–9:30 AM
Bathroom with a glass walk-in shower and a floating oak vanityBathroom outletMr. Mason · Fairview
Photo logBefore / after6 photos
Cordless drill lying on a rough board covered in sawdustMaterial loggedGFCI breaker · masonry bit4 items
Time loggedMarcus · 8:02–9:38 AM1.6 h
PhotosStep 3 of 4
Close out the jobHours, photos and material are all logged
Up next today2 jobs
Kitchen with light oak cabinet fronts and two pendant lightsKitchen hookupMain Street site9:30 AM
Freshly primed wall corner, paint bucket and brush on the drop clothPanel upgradeThe Harpers · Elmwood1:00 PM
Sawyer Electric
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New requesttoday, 7:12 AM
Bathroom with a glass shower, outlet beside the vanityOutlet is sparkingMr. Mason · 2 photos
Photos from the customer2 shots of the bathroom · today, 7:12 AM — attached to the request.
The bathroom outlet sparks every time I plug something in. Can you make it this week?7:12 AM
Yes. Wednesday between 8:00 and 9:30 AM — I'll bring a new GFCI.7:20 AM
Propose a timethis week
Mon24Tue25Wed26Thu27Fri28
7:00 AM8:00 AM9:30 AM11:00 AM1:00 PM3:00 PM
Send the time — Wed 8:00 AMThe customer gets the confirmation from Sawyer Electric, you get the directions
Sawyer Electric
By job siteBy person
This week147.5 h
Kitchen with light oak cabinet fronts and two pendant lightsMain Street site3 people · kitchen96.0 h
The Harpers · Elmwood2 people48.3 h
Bathroom with a glass walk-in shower and a floating oak vanityMr. Mason · bathroomMarcus · Eli3.2 h
Week · whole crew147.5 of 160 h
Hours · Wednesday4 people
Marcus ReedMr. Mason · bathroom1.6 h8:02–9:38 AM
Eli SawyerMr. Mason · bathroom1.6 h8:02–9:38 AM
Jake BarrettMain Street site2.0 hsince 7:45 AM
Every hour is booked to its jobReady to bill.

Customers send their problem with a photo and then follow the time slot and the status of their job. The crew sees on the board who is on which site this week and carries jobs, photo log, material and hours on the phone — logged on the job site, even with no signal in a basement. By Friday everything the invoice needs is already together. more

Ratings & ReviewsSee All
4.819 Ratings
Sent a photo, got a time2 weeks ago
D. Whitaker

Took a picture of the dead outlet in the evening and sent it through the app. By morning the appointment was in there with a time on it. I wish everything worked like that.

Report right on my phone1 month ago
dave_1969

The before and after photos and the report with the hours came straight to my phone, and I signed on the screen. Only the request-with-a-photo part was a little hidden the first time.

What’s NewVersion History

Version 1.2

The job chain: request, time slot, photo log, hours and close-out now hang on one single job. The week view shows 147.5 of 160 h — at 4:00 PM on Friday there is nothing left to write up.

Just a preview — your name, your logo, your colors. Screenshots come from the app on this page; figures and reviews are placeholders.

Built once, available everywhere: your customers download the app from the store, you run everything from a browser.

05Proof, not promises

What we build is out in the app stores.

Six apps of our own, used by real people every day. What you see here are the untouched store screenshots and preview videos — exactly what anyone downloading them gets. Click through the shelf.

ScanFood — original App Store screenshot 1ScanFood — original App Store screenshot 2ScanFood — original App Store screenshot 3
ScanFoodFood scanner

Scan a barcode and see at a glance what is actually inside: nutrition, additives, a clear verdict — and AI that recognizes whole meals from a photo.

Real listings — the buttons open the actual store pages.

Amazing how it turns my phone into a fully working security camera
Cam&Cam · plumblv · App Store
No frills, intuitive - does exactly what it should
ScanFood · Kassiwest · App Store
This app is far better than any baby monitor. Outstanding support!!!
LooLoo · Egkel · App Store

Reviews taken from the App Store, word for word.

Your app goes out the very same way: under your name, with your logo.

06Behind the studio

Who actually builds your app?

No off-the-shelf builder, no chain of anonymous contractors: an owner-run development studio that designs, codes and looks after apps for trade contractors itself.

20 yrs web · 8 yrs apps 6 apps of our own iOS · Android · web Fixed price in writing

Have a nice day — an owner-run development studio: the person you deal with is the developer himself.

We are in the stores ourselvesWe publish and operate our own apps — you can see which ones further up. Going through store review month after month teaches you what really matters.
Everything under one roofConcept, design, code, store submission and day-to-day operation — nothing is handed to subcontractors or shipped offshore. If it says Have a nice day, Have a nice day did the work.
You talk to the developerAt the other end sits the person who actually writes your app. No ticket system, no call center — in German, English or Russian.
More than 20 years of experienceOver 20 years of web development and 8 years of apps for iOS and Android — the ones in the stores above are the latest result of that work.
A fixed price before we startWhat the project costs is agreed in writing before the first line of code exists. No surprises from a timesheet.
Speed from modern toolingWe work with current technology and AI assistance. That is why we measure projects in weeks rather than quarters and stay below what agencies charge — every single line still gets reviewed by us.

Jobs, photos or hours — which one gives your shop room to breathe first?

5 questions, 30 seconds — then you get a concrete proposal with a fixed price for your shop.

Free, no strings attached · usually an answer the same day

07The road to your app

From a conversation to the app your crew carries.

1

Tell us about your shop

Your trade, your crew size, what still runs on paper — one conversation after hours is enough.

2

Proposal and fixed price

What the app does and what it costs — plain language, no jargon.

3

Preview on your own phone

You and your crew tap through it — whatever doesn't work on a job site gets cut.

4

Into the stores

We handle the App Store and Google Play — under your company's name.

5

We stay on it

A new trade, new ideas — a direct line, not a ticket system.

08Set packages, set prices

What does it all cost?

There is no hourly billing and nothing added on afterwards: you choose a package, you get a fixed price for it, and you know in advance what is included. Even Start is a complete app — the larger packages add features and deeper technology, not better quality.

Included everywhere: App Store, Google Play and the browser — along with hosting, updates and support. The only difference is the feature set.

Start

A complete app, not a stripped-down version

from $4,000

ready to submit in 2 weeks

  • In the App Store, on Google Play and in the browser
  • Published under your own name
  • Every core feature of your trade, fully built
  • Push messages to your customers
  • Hosting, updates and support included
The most common choice

Business

More features, more automation

from $10,000

usually 3–4 weeks

  • Everything in Start
  • Extra modules, cut to fit how you work
  • Admin area: edit content and offers yourself
  • Reminders and routines that run on their own

Complete

Woven tightly into your systems

from $20,000

from 4 weeks, depending on scope

  • Everything in Business
  • Connections to your point of sale, calendar, inventory system and more
  • AI features, custom interfaces, an area for your staff
  • Continuous further development

Rather not pay a large sum up front? Then subscribe.

from $199 / month

  • We build it, run it and maintain it; you pay monthly
  • Updates, new features and support are part of it
  • The source code stays with us at first and becomes yours once it is paid off in full

Depending on the feature set, projects land between $4,000 and roughly $30,000 — how far your app goes is your call. We name the fixed price after a short conversation, free and without obligation.

The three packages are typical sizes; anything in between is possible too. The math: base package $4,000, each additional module about +$900, each connection to an existing system about +$2,500. The shows what every single feature costs.

Where do the speed and the price come from? We work with current tooling, AI included — the time we save goes back into the price, the care stays handmade.

09What people ask us

Common questions about a contractor app

Next Friday you're done at 4:45.

A free first conversation — no sales pressure, just an honest proposal with a fixed price for your shop. Your app is built by an owner-run development studio: over 20 years of web development, 8 years of iPhone and Android apps, and six apps of our own in the stores.

Rather talk it through

We usually reply the same day · your fixed price comes in writing — then take your time to decide.

Tradesman in a work apron at the arched shop door in the evening light, the van beside him loaded with lumber and a coiled extension cord
Scene: quitting time, no paperwork4:05 PM

Your contractor app

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