The best punch list apps, checked in November 2026

The best punch list app is the one that matches who closes the items. If subcontractors log in and mark their own work done, you want a crew platform with assignment and status: Fieldwire, Procore or PlanRadar. If one person walks the job and hands a list to everyone else, you want something that turns the walk into a document fast, and that is the job Sitewise does.

Everything below was checked against each product's own website on November 12, 2026. Prices move, so treat the numbers as a starting point. Sitewise publishes this page and is one of the four. It got the same checks as the others, including a list of what it leaves out.

Decide who closes the items before you compare features

A punch list has two halves. Someone finds the items, and someone else fixes them. The apps split on the second half.

In a crew platform, each item is a record with an owner, a due date and a status. The sub opens the app, sees their items, fixes them and marks them done. Someone with the right role checks and closes them. That works when every trade on the job will actually use the app.

In a report tool, the list is a document. You walk, capture and send. The trade works from the PDF, and you walk again to check. That works when the subs will not log into anything, which on small jobs is most of them.

Decide which of the two you need before comparing anything else.

Fieldwire puts each item on the drawing, with a free tier

Fieldwire, now owned by Hilti, ties each punch item to a location on the blueprints. Items carry photos, checklists, categories, hashtags and due dates, and you assign them to the responsible person with instructions for the trade. Completion runs on what Fieldwire calls a two-step verification system: a general contractor can mark an item complete, and only a Fieldwire Admin can verify it. You can export tasks by category or status to a PDF report, or schedule reports to go out automatically. Its punch list page names iPhone, iPad and Android apps.

Pricing as of November 12, 2026, from their pricing page: Basic is free for up to five users, three projects and 100 sheets, and includes task management. Pro is $39, Business $64 and Business Plus $89 per user per month, billed annually.

The free tier is enough for a small team to run real jobs on, and a pin on the sheet tells a trade where to go on a big floor plate better than any caption. The cost is that someone has to keep the plan set current, and the paid tiers add up quickly per seat.

Procore folds the punch list into a full project platform

Procore's punch list tool creates, assigns and tracks items with an owner, a due date and a status, and lets you drop items straight onto a drawing. Its page lists photos, documents, cost codes and locations on each item, short video capture, speaking item titles, QR code capture that works offline, reminders for overdue items, report sharing and templates. It says you can work online or offline, and it links iOS and Android apps.

Procore does not publish a price. Its pricing page says it charges an upfront annual fee by product, based on your annual construction volume, and that it never charges for adding users. You contact them for an estimate.

If your company already runs Procore, the punch list sits next to the drawings, RFIs and cost data, and unlimited users means every sub can be in it without a seat count. It is also a platform decision priced on construction volume, so nobody adopts it for the punch list alone.

PlanRadar gives subcontractors free accounts

PlanRadar creates punch items on the plan or in a list. Each one can hold photos, video, voice recordings, location data and text, and gets assigned to a subcontractor or team member with a deadline. Subcontractor accounts are free and unlimited on every package, subs can update their own items, and read receipts show when they received and acted on a work order. Entries are date and time stamped. It runs on desktop, mobile and tablet, with iOS and Android apps.

Pricing as of November 12, 2026, from their pricing page in US dollars: Basic at $32 a month for one user and 10 digital plans, Starter at $107 per user per month for up to ten users, Pro at $159 per user per month, and Enterprise on a custom quote. All plans include unlimited projects. There is a 30-day free trial with no credit card, and annual billing saves more than ten percent.

Free sub accounts settle the usual argument about who pays for the trades' seats, and voice recordings on each item help when your hands are full. Past one user, though, its per-user price is the highest of the published prices here.

Sitewise turns one person's walk into the list you send

Sitewise is the report tool on this page. You walk the job and capture each item as a photo with a voice note, a sketch drawn on the photo or a typed note. Each capture gets a timestamp, and a GPS pin if location is on. Voice notes are transcribed by Apple's speech recognition. It works with no signal and syncs when the phone is back on cell or Wi-Fi. At the end you export the project as a PDF or DOCX and email it before you leave the site. On a Pro iPhone or Pro iPad with a LiDAR scanner, two taps in the camera put a measured dimension on the photo.

It is free on the App Store.

What it leaves out is most of what the other three do. There are no subcontractor logins, no item assignment, no status tracking and no drawings. It runs on iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 or later, with no Android app and no web version, and it does not do scheduling, budgeting, CAD or drafting, or e-signature. If you need a sub to mark item 23 done from their own phone, this is the wrong tool.

It suits an inspector, architect or small contractor who walks alone and wants the finished list in the client's inbox before leaving the site.

The wording of each item matters more than the app

Every one of these apps will store a bad item as faithfully as a good one. "Fix paint, kitchen" fails in Procore exactly as it fails on paper.

An item a trade can act on names one defect, a location someone else can walk to, the fix, and has a photo taken that day. The punch list template has the columns and a filled example, and what a punch list is covers how it differs from a snag list and why vague items drag close-out out for weeks.