# HowZat Project — site cost & production tracker

> site cost & production tracker (iPhone/iPad app by NIRANJITH MANALUMALIL.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/howzat-project/id6794470007 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [NIRANJITH MANALUMALIL](https://appshunter.io/developer/6794470009)
- Category: Business, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-04
- Data updated: 2026-09-19
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/howzat-project/id6794470007/reviews.md

## What is HowZat Project?

Your accounts system will tell you the margin next month. HowZat tells you which day it went wrong, and why — while you can still do something about it.

Log what got built and who was on it at the end of each shift. Two minutes on your phone. HowZat works out production, cost, overheads and profit for every day, and flags the ones that lost money with the note you left against them.

WHAT IT DOES

- Track cost and production day by day, on every job at once
- See profit per day, and the running total against the margin you tendered
- Forecast where the job finishes, from what it has cost so far
- Price the next job from your own rates, then send it to a live project when you win it
- Export a full report as a PDF or a spreadsheet, straight from your phone
- Track variations separately from the original contract
- Mark items as subcontracted so the subbie's cost books itself from the production you log

BUILT FOR HOW SITE WORK ACTUALLY RUNS

Your rates live in one library — people, plant, material, traffic, subcontractors — and everything draws from it. Give a person a role and every report shows what the engineer cost against what the crew cost.

Overhead and margin can be set per cost type, so material at four percent and labour at twelve isn't a fudge.

Set the target margin when you price the job and it stays put, so what you are measured against never quietly moves.

WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL

Everything is stored on your phone. No account, no login, no server. It works down a valley with no coverage, and nothing you enter ever leaves the device unless you export it yourself.

FREE TO TRY PROPERLY

Ten days of cost entry, free, with nothing held back. After that a single one-off purchase unlocks it for good — not a subscription, nothing recurring, and nothing you have already entered is ever locked or deleted.

Built by a civil engineer in New Zealand who got tired of finding out a job had gone backwards three weeks after it did.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HowZat Pro Unlock | $17.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.4 — 2026-09-17

This update tidies up quotes and reports so every line adds up exactly to the total, and figures, units and comments are laid out more clearly. It also adds a new unlock screen, update reminders, clearer margin and markup wording, and smoother screens with no flicker or jumping when you edit or delete.

### 2.0.2 — 2026-09-16

Sample projects now use a more generic resource list. Pricing items now show unit rate, direct cost and the price with overheads and margin. Pricing jobs show when they were last updated. Clearer status colours, softer light mode and small layout fixes.

### 2.0 — 2026-09-15

Change of layout to cost entry and pricing resource allocation. Made easier

### 1.9 — 2026-09-14

the project page now shows contract value alongside allowed budget, with margin and overhead moved to their own controls.

### 1.8 — 2026-09-10

Project and pricing lists now show profit to date against your target profit, so you can see how a job is tracking from the home screen.

A warning when production goes past an item's planned quantity, with a prompt to remeasure or raise a variation.

New items can be placed straight into a section instead of landing at the bottom.

Cost to Complete now itemises each adjustment by date and reason in the report, and the forecast tile updates immediately when you change it.

Various fixes to spacing, contrast and readability.

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