Painter's Log vs PaintLogic

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.

PaintLogic is a web business-management platform built exclusively for painting contractors. It combines room-by-room estimating, proposals with electronic signatures, project work, crew scheduling, lead follow-up, invoicing and payments. Estimates can use production rates, material bills of materials and three pricing modes. AI parses Sherwin-Williams and JC Licht receipts, matches materials to jobs and creates paint schedules with product specifications and QR codes. Project tools include task tracking, photo documentation, subcontractor coordination, compliance alerts, punch lists and change orders. Scheduling detects conflicts and syncs with Google Calendar; GPS-verified time tracking indicates which workers are onsite. The CRM can answer and qualify leads continuously and trigger follow-up from lead stages, estimate views and project milestones. Invoicing supports Stripe payments, deposit, progress and final billing schedules, plus reminders. The free trial is free, with three projects, full Pro features, no time limit and no card. Starter costs $49 a month, Pro $129 a month and Business $249 a month.