# Buildertrend > Construction project management for home builders and remodelers Buildertrend is construction project management software for home builders, remodelers and specialty contractors. It serves builders running multi-phase projects more than service trades that dispatch technicians to calls, with scheduling, daily logs, selections, estimates and takeoffs, budgets, change orders, invoicing and client and subcontractor portals. Pricing is quoted after a call, with unlimited users. - **Category:** Field Service Software - **Made by:** Buildertrend Solutions, Inc. (since 2006) - **Website:** https://buildertrend.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Buildertrend's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Schedules, daily logs and to-dos:** Project schedules, to-dos and daily logs keep the crew and office on one record, with unlimited document and photo storage and photo and PDF markup. - **Takeoffs, estimates and bids:** Measure takeoffs, build estimates, collect subcontractor bids and send proposals that clients sign electronically. - **Budgets and change orders:** Track budgets, bills and purchase orders against each project, manage change orders, and run financial reports. - **Client and subcontractor portals:** Clients approve selections and change orders and follow progress in a portal; subcontractors get their own portal, and warranty claims are tracked. - **Invoicing and online payments:** Invoice clients and take online payments from clients and to subcontractors, with accounting integrations for the books. - **Time clock with geofencing:** The iOS and Android apps include a time clock that uses geofencing, along with requests for information and on-site photo capture. ## Good for - Custom home builders and remodelers running several projects a year - Builders who want clients to make selections and approve changes online - Companies with many staff, since users are unlimited ## Worth knowing - No prices are published; Buildertrend quotes after a few questions and a call, and its site refused our reader on 2026-10-18. - It is built for multi-phase construction projects rather than service calls, dispatching or recurring maintenance visits. - A February 2026 copy of its pricing page said it suits builders with 5 or more projects a year, and that online payments are US only. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Buildertrend is a full project system for home builders and remodelers, with schedules, daily logs, selections, budgets, change orders and client and subcontractor portals, and users are unlimited. It's not made for service calls, though, and there's no published price or trial. - **Value for money: C.** No prices are published; Buildertrend quotes after a few questions and a call, so there's no figure for a crew of three. An archived copy of its pricing page said it suits builders with 5 or more projects a year. No published price is a C by our rule. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or free trial is on record, and buying starts with a call. Nothing to try on your own. - **Features: C.** Schedules, daily logs, takeoffs, estimates, bids, budgets, change orders, selections, client and subcontractor portals, warranty claims and a geofenced time clock. Complete for builders, but the listing names the gap here: no service calls, dispatching or recurring visits. - **Ease of use: B.** 4.5 from 5,116 App Store ratings. The phone app covers the time clock, photos and requests for information from the site. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with QuickBooks, Xero, Gusto and The Home Depot Pro Xtra. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read on 18 October 2026 from Buildertrend's App Store and Google Play pages and a February 2026 archived copy of its pricing page, as its own site turned our reader away, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among field service apps - Buildertrend's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 2 of the 15 other field service apps we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 7 of 15) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/field-service ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Buildertrend you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 12 of the 15 other field service apps grade higher. - You could make: Job scheduling, quotes and estimates, invoicing and sales pipeline: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.5 out of 5 from 5,116 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id504370616 ## Works with QuickBooks, Xero, Gusto, The Home Depot Pro Xtra **Tags:** Job scheduling, Quotes and estimates, Invoicing, Time clock, Sales pipeline, Email campaigns ## Alternatives - [Contractor Foreman](https://toolgpa.com/tools/contractor-foreman): Construction management for contractors, priced by team size. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buildertrend-vs-contractor-foreman) - [Houzz Pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/houzz-pro): Project, design and billing software for remodelers and designers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buildertrend-vs-houzz-pro) - [JobNimbus](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jobnimbus): CRM and project management for roofing and exterior contractors. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buildertrend-vs-jobnimbus) - [Joist](https://toolgpa.com/tools/joist): Estimates, invoices and payments app for solo contractors. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buildertrend-vs-joist) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/buildertrend/id504370616 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BuilderTREND.btMobileApp&hl=en_US&gl=US - https://web.archive.org/web/20260228115945/https://buildertrend.com/pricing/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/buildertrend Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).