PaintClarity vs Painter's Log

PaintClarity is job and business management software for professional painters and painting contractors, from solo operators to businesses with multiple crews. It supports estimates and quotes, crew scheduling, customer and project management, production-rate tracking, card payments, and job-profit reporting. Quotes can include painting-specific scopes, inclusions and exclusions, itemized or lump-sum pricing, PDF output, online acceptance, and e-signatures. A free visualizer previews paint colors on selected surfaces in a photo; Pro adds an AI visualizer, with results downloadable as an image or PDF. The schedule can be subscribed to from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook. PaintClarity requires a self-hosted WordPress site running WordPress 6.0 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer. Customer, job, schedule, photo, invoice, and financial data is stored in the customer’s WordPress database and hosting account. Previously opened jobs and today’s scheduled jobs can be read offline, but creating quotes requires a connection. The free plan has no time limit and includes unlimited jobs and quotes. Pro costs $45 a month per site.

Painter's Log is back-office software for painting contractors, combining estimating, timekeeping, field capture, job management, job costing, invoicing, and close-out. Estimates support sections, line items, markup, tax, and discounts; customers can approve them online with an e-signature, and approved estimates can become jobs and invoices. Crews can split clock-ins across job sites using geofences, with timecards exportable to CSV. The app turns photographed receipts into job materials and tracks paint brand, color, finish, and quantity by room and surface. Job-costing reports compare estimated and actual labor and materials costs and show profitability and budget variance while work is underway. An AI assistant takes voice or text questions, creates log entries, retrieves job details, and summarizes the day. The service runs on Android, iOS, and the web, and is described as bilingual in English and Spanish, including estimates. The Free plan is free; Pro is $149 a year, billed $149/mo billed annually, with $1,788 billed yearly.