Construction daily report software, compared
Construction daily report software replaces the paper daily log: the foreman records crew and hours, equipment, weather, work done, deliveries, delays and photos, signs it, and a PDF reaches the office, GC or owner the same day. Raken is the specialist most contractors compare against, at $23 a user a month with a three-user minimum. Procore, HCSS HeavyJob and Buildertrend put daily logs inside bigger platforms, and SafetyCulture and Dozer can be used free.
The short list
- Best dedicated daily report app: Raken, from $23 a user a month, three users minimum.
- Best when the GC already runs it: Procore, quoted by construction volume, unlimited users.
- Best for heavy civil foremen who keep time cards: HCSS HeavyJob, quote only.
- Best for home builders and remodelers: Buildertrend, quote only, unlimited users.
- Best for crews who live in the drawings: Fieldwire, daily report forms from $64 a user a month.
- Best free checklist-style report: SafetyCulture (now Mitti), free for up to 10 people.
- Best low-cost all-in-one: Contractor Foreman, from $49 a month for one user.
- Best plain per-user log app: CDR (Construction Daily Reports), $30 a user a month.
- Best flat price for a whole crew: DailyBuild, $49 a month per active project, any number of users.
- Best free pick for one job site: Dozer, free for one site; it writes the report from what the foreman says. Web app only for now.
Side by side
| Tool | Price | Counted by | Free option | Daily report highlights | Runs on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raken | Basic $23, Performance $59 /user/mo, billed yearly | User, 3 minimum | No (demo on request) | Branded PDF, photos, voice-to-text; auto-sending and sub reports on Performance | Web, iOS, Android |
| Procore | Quote | Product and annual construction volume; unlimited users | No | About 20 entry types, weather filled in, sub entries, AI summaries | Web, iOS, Android |
| HCSS HeavyJob | Quote | Quote | No (demo on request) | Diary beside the time card, voice-to-text, delay tags | Field app and office |
| Buildertrend | Quote | Builder type and revenue; unlimited users | No | Daily logs beside schedules and a client portal | Web, iOS, Android |
| Fieldwire | $0; Pro $39, Business $64, Business Plus $89 /user/mo, billed yearly | User | Partial 5 users, 3 projects, no forms, reports or exports | Daily report form on Business ($64) and up; scheduled PDF reports with photos from Pro | Web, iOS, Android |
| SafetyCulture (Mitti) | $0; Premium $24 /seat/mo billed yearly ($29 monthly) | Seat | Yes up to 10 people, 5 templates | Checklist-style daily report templates with photos and sign-off | Web, iOS, Android |
| Contractor Foreman | $49/mo (1 user) to $332/mo (unlimited), billed yearly | Plan by user count | Trial 30 days | Daily logs inside a full small-contractor suite | Phone, tablet, computer |
| CDR | $30 /user/mo, or $300 /user/yr | User | Trial 15 days | Custom templates, speech to text, weather, auto-email on signing | Web, iOS, Android |
| DailyBuild | $49/mo (1 project) to $399/mo (30 projects) | Active project; unlimited users | Trial 14 days | Drafts the report from a spoken update (English or Spanish), weather filled in, photos, offline, signed PDFs | Web, iOS, Android |
| Dozer | $0 (1 site); Site $99 /site/mo; Company $199/mo for 5 sites | Site; the crew never pays | Yes 1 site, 1 camera | Drafts the report from the day's tickets, camera alerts, site weather and typed or spoken notes; PDF with a line to sign on paper, no photos; emailing it to the GC is paid | Web; iOS and Android listed as coming soon |
The ten tools
Raken
Best dedicated daily report app
Raken is the daily report specialist: work logs, notes, photos and video, time and materials, with voice-to-text, turned into a branded PDF. Basic is $23 a user a month and Performance $59, billed yearly with a three-user minimum, so the smallest account is $69 a month.
Basic covers branded reports, photos and tasks. Automatic report sending, collaborator reports from subs, integrations and time tracking are Performance features. Pick Raken when daily reports are the main job and three or more people file them. More in Raken pricing, plan by plan.
Procore
Best when the GC already runs it
Procore's Daily Log is one tool in the platform many large GCs already use, with separate entries for manpower, weather (filled in automatically), equipment, visitors, inspections, deliveries, accidents, delays, photos and more. Subs invited as collaborators submit their own entries for the GC to approve, and a Daily Log Agent drafts summaries from field notes.
There are no public prices: an annual fee per product based on the construction volume you run through it, with unlimited users. It's a lot to buy for daily reports alone. See how Procore's daily log works for GCs and subs.
HCSS HeavyJob
Best for heavy civil foremen who also keep time cards
HeavyJob is built for earthwork, utility and paving contractors. The foreman's diary sits next to the time card in the HCSS field app, so hours, equipment and quantities feed job costing. It takes typed or spoken notes, pulls weather from the device's location, and uses custom tags (material delay, breakdown) the office can count across jobs.
Pricing is by quote. It fits a heavy civil firm that also wants HCSS estimating and equipment tools, and is more system than a small crew needs for dailies.
Buildertrend
Best for home builders and remodelers
Buildertrend is project management for residential builders and remodelers. Daily logs sit next to scheduling, change orders, the time clock and a portal where homeowners follow progress. It is priced by quote from your builder type, revenue and needs, with unlimited users.
Fieldwire
Best for crews who live in the drawings
Fieldwire, owned by Hilti, is a plans and tasks app first. Its forms, a daily report among them, come with Business at $64 a user a month billed yearly; Pro ($39) has task and photo reports and exports but no forms, and the free Basic plan (five users, three projects) has neither.
Choose it when the crew already works from the plans in it. For daily reports alone, Raken Basic, CDR and DailyBuild cost less.
SafetyCulture (now Mitti)
Best free checklist-style report
SafetyCulture now goes by Mitti, and safetyculture.com redirects there. It's an inspection and checklist app: the foreman fills in a daily report template on a phone, with photos and a sign-off. The free plan covers teams of up to 10 with five active templates; Premium is $24 a seat a month billed yearly ($29 monthly).
It's the most generous free plan here for a small crew, but it's a general forms tool: manpower by sub, delay hours and the rest are whatever your template asks for.
Contractor Foreman
Best low-cost all-in-one
Contractor Foreman puts daily logs in a low-cost suite with scheduling, punch lists, permits, time cards and equipment logs. Plans go by user count, billed yearly: $49 a month for one user, $105 for three, $166 for eight, $221 for fifteen and $332 unlimited, with a 30-day free trial.
It's a low-cost way to get dailies and a small contractor's other paperwork under one login; the daily log is one module among many.
CDR (Construction Daily Reports)
Best plain per-user log app
CDR does daily reports and little else, which is the point. Each project gets a template, weather is filled in three times a day from the job's ZIP code, entries are stamped with user, date and time, and signing a report emails it to the project's list and copies it to Box, Dropbox or Google Drive.
It costs $30 a user a month or $300 a year, with a 15-day free trial. It suits a company that wants dailies at a fixed per-user price without a platform around them.
DailyBuild
Best flat price for a whole crew
DailyBuild charges by active project, not by person: $49 a month for one, $149 for five, $249 for fifteen and $399 for thirty, with unlimited users and every feature; a year costs ten months' price. Its Voice-to-Report drafts the daily report from a spoken update in English or Spanish, with the weather filled in; reports take captioned photos, work offline and come out as signed PDFs, with timesheets by cost code and QuickBooks Online sync.
It's the best value when many people file on a few jobs; the bill grows with the number of jobs running at once.
Dozer
Best free pick for one job site
Dozer is an AI foreman for job sites. When the foreman opens its daily log, Dozer drafts the day's report from what it has for the site: haul, scale, repair and pre-trip tickets filed that day, camera alerts, and the weather at the site's address, looked up from Open-Meteo or taken from the notes. The foreman adds what happened, typed or said ("6 guys plus me, laid 120 ft of 8-inch main, lost an hour waiting on the pipe truck"), and Dozer writes the crew, work done, equipment and issues from it; with nothing recorded and no notes, the draft is only the weather line. The PDF prints "Prepared by" with the foreman's name and a blank line to sign on paper; Dozer doesn't capture a signature. Writing and downloading are free on the free site.
Pricing is per site and the crew never pays: one site with one camera is free with no time limit, Site is $99 a site a month (7 days free, no card) and emails the PDFs to the GC, and Company is $199 a month for five sites. It is new: the web app is live, the iPhone and Android apps are listed as coming soon, the PDF has no photo section, there are no time cards, custom templates or sub reports, and no outside tool is linked yet: asking for Procore records a request, and Dozer lists it as needing Procore's approval.
How to choose
- Count who files. Per-user pricing (Raken, CDR, Fieldwire, SafetyCulture) is cheap for one superintendent and adds up when every foreman files. Per-project (DailyBuild) and per-site (Dozer) pricing don't grow with headcount. The sums for three crew sizes are in what daily report software costs.
- Ask what the GC uses. If your GC runs Procore and invites you as a collaborator, you can file in its Daily Log without buying anything.
- Decide whether hours belong in the report. HCSS HeavyJob, Raken Performance and DailyBuild carry crew hours on to payroll or job cost; SafetyCulture and Dozer don't pass hours on to payroll.
- Make it hold up later. A report written the same day by someone who was there, as a regular habit, is what the federal business-records exception to the hearsay rule looks for. Look for entries stamped with who and when, a signature and weather filled in by the software. More in paper log book or app.
- Test it on a bad day. Fill in a real rain delay with a no-show sub and a broken machine on the free plan or trial, then read the PDF the way an owner's lawyer would.
Where Dozer wins, and where it doesn't
Dozer is the better choice when
- You run one site and want it free, with no seat count and no time limit.
- The foreman would rather talk than fill in a form, and one free site is enough. (DailyBuild also drafts the report from speech, from $49 a month, with photos, phone apps and offline entry.)
Pick something else when
- You need iPhone and Android apps today: Raken, DailyBuild or CDR; or offline entry: DailyBuild.
- Subs must file into your report: Procore or Raken Performance.
- Hours should flow to payroll: HCSS HeavyJob, DailyBuild or Raken Performance.
- You want photos in the PDF or your own template: Raken, CDR or Fieldwire.
Also looked at
- BusyBusy is time tracking first; daily project reports come with Premium, $14.99 a user a month billed yearly plus a $40 admin license. BusyBusy pricing
- SmartBarrel pre-fills the daily log with headcount and hours from its face-verified time clocks. No public price. SmartBarrel daily log
- Snappii sells a ready-made construction daily log app on its form builder: $21 a user a month, or $0.99 a submission after two free each month. Snappii pricing
- CompanyCam is photo documentation rather than a daily log, from $63 a month billed yearly. Compared in construction photo documentation apps.
Questions
What should be in a construction daily report?
The date and report number, the weather morning and afternoon, crew by company and trade with headcount and hours, equipment with hours or downtime, work done by location with quantities, deliveries with ticket numbers, inspections and visitors, delays with the cause and hours lost, safety (the toolbox talk, incidents, near misses), photos, and the signature of whoever wrote it. See a filled-in construction daily report example.
What is the best app for construction daily reports?
If daily reports are the main job and three or more people file them, Raken is the one to compare against. If your GC runs Procore, file in its Daily Log. For free, SafetyCulture (Mitti) covers a crew of up to 10 and Dozer one job site.
How much does construction daily report software cost?
For three people filing, on November 13, 2026 prices: Raken Basic $69 a month, CDR $90 ($75 paid yearly), Contractor Foreman $105 and Fieldwire Business (where its forms start) $192, billed yearly. DailyBuild is $49 a month for one active project, SafetyCulture is free for up to 10 people, and Dozer is free for one site or $99 a site a month. Procore, HCSS and Buildertrend quote.
Is there free construction daily report software?
Yes, with limits. SafetyCulture (Mitti) is free for teams of up to 10 with five active templates. Dozer is free for one job site; emailing the PDF to the GC is paid. Fieldwire's free plan leaves out reports and exports. Details in free construction daily report apps.
Is a daily report the same as a daily log?
Mostly, yes: both name the day-by-day record of who was on site, what got done and what went wrong. Some firms call the running notes the log and the signed summary the report. In the UK and Australia it's a site diary.
Can subcontractors file daily reports in the GC's software?
In Procore, yes: subs invited as collaborators submit Daily Log entries for the GC to approve, and Procore doesn't charge per user. Raken's collaborator reports do the same on the GC's Performance plan. Otherwise subs email a signed PDF.
What is the most used construction software?
Procore says more than 3 million people use it, the largest count any vendor here publishes; HCSS says 128,000 people use HeavyJob. Both are the companies' own numbers.
Guides
- Construction daily report example One day on a water main job, filled in line by line.
- Construction daily log: paper log book or app? What makes a log hold up in a delay claim.
- Raken pricing, plan by plan Basic against Performance, and the three-user minimum.
- Free construction daily report apps What each free plan leaves out.
- What construction daily report software costs A year of each tool for three crew sizes, sums shown.
- Procore daily log for GCs and subs How it works, who pays, and what subs use.
- Construction photo documentation apps CompanyCam and the alternatives.
- Construction field report apps Form builders against construction tools.
How this page was checked
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