Best Construction Estimating Software - Page 26

Sawhorse

Sawhorse is AI quoting software for owner-operated trades businesses — remodelers, landscapers, custom builders, and other contractors who price custom work. Instead of a generic cost database, Sawhorse learns from YOUR pricing: upload your past quotes and bids (PDF, Excel, Word, even photos of paper) and it drafts new quotes from your own comparable jobs — with citations showing which past jobs the numbers came from. You review and own every number; the AI never sets your prices. The closer: attach AI renders of the finished space. Snap photos on the walkthrough, describe the scope (typing or talking), and send the client a quote that SHOWS the result. • Quote drafts from your own job history, with receipts • Photo → finished-space renders attached to bids • Dictate the scope from the truck; it structures everything • Pipeline tracking (quoting → sent → won/lost) with follow-up flags • Sub price-checks: send any line to your subs for one-tap confirm/counter • Excel in and out; printable client-ready quote PDFs Free 14-day trial, no card required. $99/month, everything included.

SimpleHVAC

SimpleHVAC is simple HVAC estimating software designed for commercial sheet metal contractors who need a dependable estimating tool, but also want it to be affordable and easy to use. SimpleHVAC makes it easy to keep track of projects, input ductwork and other materials, adjust options and pricing, and ultimately generate solid bids.

SiteCapture

SiteCapture is a leading field operations & jobsite documentation platform for solar, property management, construction, roofing, and other trade companies. An easy-to-use field mobile app and end-to-end work management portal seamlessly syncs photos, videos, and data from the field to the office via custom form templates. Best-in-class photo & video capturing, report building, and integration capabilities ensure all documentation is collected thoroughly and accurately every time. Streamlining field ops with SiteCapture saves customers thousands per month by reducing site visits and eliminating time wasted chasing down disorganized photos.

Average Rating: 4.5/5.0

Total Reviews: 1

Skoper

Skoper is construction estimating software that reads a set of plans and returns a complete estimate. Contractors upload their drawings as PDF and, about three minutes later, download an Excel workbook with the bid schedule, quantity takeoffs, and assumptions, plus a Word scope of work formatted to send with a proposal. Unlike takeoff tools that ask you to click and trace every quantity, Skoper reads every sheet as both an image and its text layer, so it sees the drawing and reads the schedules, notes, and dimensions on it. Every quantity in the workbook records the sheet it came from. Overhead, profit, insurance, bond, and contingency are separate formula rows you can change in Excel. Contractors load their own labor rates, unit prices, material prices, crew day rates, and subcontractor costs into a Price Book, and Skoper uses those rates wherever they match, marking each line "User Price Book." Anything unpriced gets a current market rate, marked as such. A browser editor lets you adjust any takeoff line after generation and rebuild both files at no extra charge. Skoper was built by Paul Maloney, a Florida general contractor (CBC #1266638), because commercial estimates were taking his team 8 to 10 hours each. It is used daily on his own company's bids across commercial, residential, restoration, and public works projects. Every account starts with 3 free estimates on plan sets up to 40 pages, with no credit card. Paid plans are $149 per month for 10 estimates or $349 per month for 30, with no per-user seats.

SlabCalc

Sleepless Tradesman

Sleepless Tradesman is an AI-powered app for tradesmen to create quotes, invoices, and job plans in seconds. Collect job details from clients remotely, analyze photos, and generate a professional quote ready to send.

SolidBuilder Framing Pro

SolidBuilder Framing Pro is the ideal software solution for anyone wanting to optimize material usage in their entire building including, Floors, Walls and Roofs. Framing Pro not only optimizes your material usage but it also provides the reports to tell and show you how to make every cut to minimize the material needed to save you money on every project. Framing Pro employs a different and more technically inclined user interface than the other products. This is because of the deep math required in the Optimization.

Speqly

Speqly turns site photos into a priced, itemised proposal in about ten minutes. The contractor photographs the job on the mobile app. Speqly reads the images for dimensions and materials, builds a costed scope of work, and produces a branded proposal. The client opens the proposal online and accepts it on any device. The contractor sees when it is viewed. The pricing engine learns each contractor's own rates over time, so quotes move closer to how that business actually prices work. Approved costings push to Xero or QuickBooks Online as a draft invoice with itemised lines. Speqly is built for UK trades: kitchens, bathrooms, extensions, landscaping, electrical and plumbing. It suits sole traders and small crews who quote from site, not from an office. Apps for iOS and Android are included on every plan. A free trial gives 14 days and five projects with no card required.

Square Foot Calculator

STACK

Statcon

Developed using the latest technology, Statcon Structure Post&Beam was created to make it easier to design Eurocode-compliant timber or steel post and beam structures.

Staxen

Staxen is AI-driven software for trade contractors that automates estimates, scheduling, invoicing, and payments using three specialized AI tools. Eddie creates priced, itemized estimates from voice or text input, learns from project plans, measures materials from blueprints, and generates material lists. It provides e-signature links for client approval and sends automated follow-ups. Josie handles scheduling, tracks project pipelines, organizes job photos, generates change orders, and sends reminders. Ivy builds invoices from estimates, processes payments via card or ACH, and follows up on unpaid invoices. The software integrates with QuickBooks Online, supports voice commands, learns business-specific pricing, handles multi-state taxes, and works with payment processors like Stripe. Accessible on mobile and desktop, it lets contractors manage operations from the field or office.

Suparate

Walk the job. Talk through the scope. Snap a few photos. Suparate turns your walkthrough into a line-itemed bid before you leave the driveway. Built for remodelers, handymen, and small contractors who lose weekends to paperwork and lose jobs to slow quotes. WHAT IT DOES Record yourself walking the job and point your camera at what needs work. Suparate transcribes the scope, pulls materials from your photos, and builds a line-by-line breakdown of materials and labor. No more typing bids at the kitchen table after dinner. YOUR PRICES, NOT RETAIL Most estimating apps price jobs from generic catalogs. Suparate learns your material costs and your labor rates. Update a price once from a supplier receipt, and every future estimate reflects it. Your margins stay yours. PROPOSALS CLIENTS SIGN ON THEIR PHONE Send a professional proposal by text or email. Homeowners review the scope, approve the price, and sign with a fingertip — no printing, no chasing. INVOICING + PROGRESS PAYMENTS Set deposits, milestone draws, and final payments on the schedule that fits the job. Invoices generate as you complete each phase. Your cash flow stops waiting on paperwork. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most estimating apps make you build bids at a desk from templates. Suparate flips it — you price jobs from the job site, from your own cost data. The next estimate is always faster than the last, because the app remembers. WHO IT'S FOR Contractors and small crews doing remodeling, renovation, and repair jobs. General contractors, carpenters, painters, handymen, and finish trades who need to quote fast and stop eating their weekends. Free to try. No credit card to start.

Surfacely

Surfacely is painting business software covering the job from first lead to final invoice. Contractors measure job sites, generate quotes and track profitability. It works offline, solving signal issues on site. Surfaces are priced by painting method and preparation by surface condition, and photo analysis flags unmeasured areas and defects. Clients can estimate their own job. The contractor sends a link and the client walks the property on their phone, photographing and measuring it area by area, inside and out. It comes back as a measured scope the contractor prices in one pass — qualifying the job and removing a site visit. Clients can also start one unprompted, sending a contractor a lead that arrives already measured. Once won, Surfacely generates crew briefs covering scope, safety and materials. Crews log labor and materials on site against a live budget. On completion it reports margins, win rates, scope creep and productivity.

Tactive

Tactive is an ERP software specially designed for the construction sector. It's the perfect solution for managing complex construction projects, allocating resources, and overseeing finances from start to finish. The platform brings together all project contributors, meeting the unique needs of owners, general contractors, and specialty contractors. With Tactive, teams can communicate seamlessly and access a secure central repository of information. Users have praised Tactive for its innovative approach to construction project management, making it an unparalleled solution for efficiency. Upgrade your projects with Tactive, where construction management is simple and efficient.

Average Rating: 4.8/5.0

Total Reviews: 6