SiteProof
Photo Documentation Without a Subscription
Team photo platforms like CompanyCam charge $30–40 per user, per month — $400+ a year, forever, for one person. If you’re a solo contractor or a small crew, here’s what you’re actually paying for, what you actually need, and the pay-once alternative.
What the subscription platforms are really selling
CompanyCam, QuoteIQ Cam, and similar tools are genuinely good at what they’re built for: multi-user team coordination. Cloud sync so the office sees field photos live, per-user permissions, integrations with CRMs and estimating suites. If you run five crews and an office manager, that’s worth a subscription.
But look at the feature a solo contractor actually opens the app for — before/after photos, aligned with a ghost overlay, timestamped and GPS-tagged, organized by project, exported as a report — and notice something: none of it requires a server. The subscription pays for the team layer you’re not using.
The math for a solo operator
- CompanyCam-class platform: $33–40/user/month → roughly $400–480 per year, every year. Five years ≈ $2,000–2,400.
- SiteProof: free for up to 3 jobs, then $9.99 once. Five years ≈ $9.99.
That difference buys a good cordless drill every year. Subscriptions also carry a quieter cost: stop paying and your workflow — sometimes your access — stops with it. A one-time purchase can’t be repossessed.
Feature-by-feature: what you keep, what you skip
- You keep: ghost-overlay before/after alignment, automatic timestamp + GPS + address, job/task organization, branded PDF reports, comparison images, slider reveal videos.
- You gain (rare even on team platforms): cryptographic tamper-evidence on every photo, on-device client sign-off, a verifiable evidence package export, and 100% offline operation with no account at all.
- You skip: multi-user cloud sync, office dashboards, CRM integrations. If you need those, you’re a team — subscribe to a team tool.
“But the cloud is my backup”
Fair concern — and worth answering precisely. SiteProof keeps photos and jobs on your device by design (privacy: client addresses and interiors never sit on a vendor’s server). For backup, your existing iPhone backup covers the app’s data, and every report, comparison, video, and evidence ZIP can be saved to Files/iCloud or emailed the moment you create it. The dispute-critical artifacts — the sealed evidence packages — are exactly the ones you’ll naturally export and archive.
Honest fit check: multi-crew company with office staff → a team platform earns its subscription. Solo contractor, handyman, small crew sharing one estimator, landlord, or property manager → you’re the person the $9.99-once model was built for.
Try the free tier on a real job
SiteProof’s free tier isn’t a trial — it’s the full capture-compare-report workflow for up to 3 active jobs, with no time limit and no card. Document one real job end to end, send the report with your invoice, and see whether the workflow fits before paying anything.
