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Field measurement app for construction crews
Nearly everything ranking for this is a form template your guy types numbers into. Here is the case for a capture that arrives as a quote instead, and the honest limits of it.
Captures by your own crew are not metered on any plan.
This page is about your own crew, not your customer
ScanToScope mostly exists to stop you driving. You send a homeowner a link, she captures her own room on her own phone, and you price the job without getting in the truck. That is the product and most of this site is about it.
This page is the other half, and it is a genuinely different job. Sometimes your own man is already on site. He is closing out a punch list, dropping material, or there for a warranty call, and while he is standing there you want the next room captured properly.
That use is not metered. A job one of your own people captures on site does not count against the scan allowance on any plan, which is what the seats on Crew and Shop are for. So the question on this page is not how many scans to buy. It is whether what your guy does on site ends up in the estimate or in a notebook.
What a field measurement app usually is
Search the phrase and the results are mostly form templates. A field measuring app, a field measurement survey app, a surveying tape correction app, a road leveling field book. They are one thing in different clothes: a phone form with labeled boxes that a man types tape readings into.
That is not nothing. A form beats a scrap of plywood with a pencil mark on it, because it is legible and it does not get left in the truck.
But look at where the numbers go. He reads a tape, he types a number into a box, the form saves, and later somebody opens the form and types the same numbers into the estimate. Two transcriptions of one measurement, both by hand, and a mistake in either is invisible until it arrives as the wrong cabinet.
The rest of page one is hardware, GPS area measurement apps for fields and land, and survey software from Leica and Hexagon. Nothing on it is written for a remodeling crew measuring a room that has to turn into a quote by Thursday.
A measurement form against a capture
| Typing into a form | Capturing the room | |
|---|---|---|
| What gets recorded | The numbers he thought to take. | The room, including the numbers he did not think to take. |
| Transcription | Twice. Tape to form, form to estimate. | Once, and not by hand. |
| Photos | Attached separately, if he remembers. | Part of the same capture, tied to the same room. |
| What lands back at the office | A list of numbers. | The room, the dimensions, and a scope brief priced off your cost book. |
| Time on site | Fifteen to twenty minutes for a bath, alone, with a tape. | A few minutes walking the room. |
| Works without a tape measure | No. | On a recent iPhone Pro, yes. Otherwise it falls back to photos plus typed sizes, which is a form again. |
Read the last row twice. Without a LiDAR sensor in the phone this is a form with photographs attached. The advantage is real but it depends on what is in your crew's pockets.
What it looks like on site
He opens the link
In the browser. Nothing to install on a company phone, nothing for anyone to approve, nothing to reinstall when the phone gets dropped off a roof and replaced.
He walks the room
A recent iPhone Pro measures as he goes with its LiDAR sensor. He photographs each wall, including the empty one.
Photos go up as he takes them
One at a time, so a house with one bar slows him down instead of losing the room.
It comes back as a scope, not a file
A vision model reads the photographs and writes the scope brief. The price is arithmetic against your own cost book, line by line, with every quantity traceable to where it came from.
You read it before anyone else does
It is a draft for you to correct, not an answer. Nobody should send a number they have not checked.
Three jobs where your own man should capture it
The second room
He is in the house for the bath and the customer mentions the kitchen. Five minutes now is a quote this week instead of another appointment in two.
The job you already sold
Capturing before demolition gives you a dated record of what was there, which settles the argument later about what the walls were like when you arrived.
The customer who will not do it herself
Plenty of people will not, and some should not. If you were sending somebody anyway, have him capture it properly rather than write four numbers on the back of a card.
What this is not
Not a takeoff tool. There is no plan import, no tracing and no material list built from a drawing. If you are pricing from a plan set you want something like Buildxact.
Not a forms app. You cannot build custom inspection forms, punch lists or safety checklists in it. If a configurable field form is the actual need, JotForm and the rest do that and do it cheaply.
Not a replacement for a tape when it matters. Before cabinets are ordered, somebody measures the opening with a tape. A capture is for pricing and scoping, not for fabrication.
What it is: the measure and quote step, done once, by whoever is standing in the room.
Common questions
Does every crew member need a seat?
Only the ones capturing. Solo is one user, Crew is five, Shop is unlimited. Captures your own people do on site are not metered.
Does it work on Android?
It opens in any phone browser. There is no LiDAR sensor on an Android phone, so it falls back to photos plus typed room dimensions. Your guy still needs a tape, but the numbers land in the estimate instead of in a notebook.
Which phones have the sensor?
The Pro and Pro Max models from the iPhone 12 generation onward, and the recent iPad Pro. Standard and Plus models do not have it. If your crew phones are hand me downs, plan on the fallback.
Can I use it for as built records?
Yes, and people do. Capturing a room before demolition puts dimensions and photographs in one dated place. Do not expect a drawing you can hand to an architect.
What if the site has no signal?
Photos upload one at a time as they are taken, so a weak connection slows the capture rather than losing it. With no connection at all the capture cannot reach us, and he should finish it where there is service.
Can it measure outside, or a whole building?
No. This is built for rooms. Exterior measurement from the air or the street is a different product category and HOVER is the usual answer there.
Put the room in the estimate, not the notebook
Two scans free with no card. Captures your own crew does on site are not metered on any plan.