Painter's Log vs PaintWiser

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.

PaintWiser brings estimating, booking, invoicing and customer follow-up tools together for painting contractors. For interior jobs, it uses room measurements and a contractor’s own rates, paint systems and target margin to calculate surface area, labor hours, paint gallons and job prices. Exterior estimates use area entered from a map measurement, linear feet for eaves and trim, and counts of doors and windows. Contractors can send branded PDF quotes with optional add-ons for approval online, then turn approved estimates into invoices and track deposits and partial payments against the job balance. A pipeline links customers, properties, quotes, jobs and invoices, records lead sources and supplies follow-up reminders. Customers can book available estimate slots through a branded link, with a code confirming each booking before it becomes a lead. The free plan allows 20 quotes per month; Solo is $19/mo and Crew is $49/mo. The app works on Android, iOS and the web, and supports offline updates after opening the app.