# JobSignal: Building Permits — Permit Leads for Contractors > Permit Leads for Contractors (iPhone/iPad app by Michael Glazebrook.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jobsignal-building-permits/id6815667286 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Michael Glazebrook](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801587806) - Category: Business - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 50 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-13 - Data updated: 2026-10-24 ## What is JobSignal? Every remodel, heat pump swap, panel upgrade and solar install starts with a permit, and cities publish those permits as public records within days. JobSignal reads them for you and turns each one into a lead: the street address, the kind of work, the job value the applicant declared and the contractor already on it. WHO IT'S FOR Small contractors who win work by showing up early: HVAC, electrical, plumbing, solar, remodeling, windows and doors, decks, fences, pools and new builds. HOW IT WORKS • Pick your metro and your trades. That's the whole setup; there's no account to create. • Scroll the week's new permits as a list or on a map, newest first, filtered by trade and by job value. • Open a permit to see the scope of work, the permit number and a link to the city's own record. • Save the promising ones to your pipeline and move them from New to Contacted, Quoted, Won or Lost, with your own notes. JOBSIGNAL PRO • A push notification the moment a permit matching your trades, distance and minimum job value is filed. Being first to the door is the point. • 90 days of permit history instead of 7, in every metro JobSignal covers. • An unlimited pipeline. • Export your leads as a spreadsheet, or as "Current Resident" mailing labels for a postcard run. Pro is $39.99 a month, or $399.99 a year, and either plan opens with a free week. COVERAGE 58 metros and counties in the US, Canada and Australia, by region: • Northeast: New York City, Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Hartford, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Washington DC, Montgomery County (MD), Baltimore County (MD) • Southeast: Miami, Raleigh, Cary, Wake County, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, DeKalb County (GA), Alpharetta, Greenville (SC), New Orleans • Midwest: Chicago, Minneapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City, Sioux Falls, Bismarck • Texas and the Mountain West: Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Arlington, Denton, San Marcos, Denver, Boulder, Douglas County (CO), Fayetteville (AR) • West Coast: Los Angeles, LA County, Santa Monica, San Francisco, San Jose, Marin County, Sacramento County, Riverside County, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Pierce County, Bend • Canada: Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montréal (Montréal publishes no job values or contractor names, and Winnipeg updates its feed about once a month) • Australia: Sydney and the Central Coast, from the NSW approvals that let standard building work start More cities are added as their open-data feeds are verified. WHAT JOBSIGNAL WON'T SHOW Homeowners' names, phone numbers or emails. Owner fields are stripped out before anything is stored, and contact details written into a permit's description are removed too. Outreach starts with the address, which is what makes mail the right first touch. Permit data comes from each city's official open-data portal. JobSignal isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any city; the Data Sources screen lists each source and its license. A Pro plan keeps renewing on its own until you turn it off in your Apple account settings; turn it off a day or more before the renewal date to avoid the next charge. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://app-factory-privacy-policy.vercel.app ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | JobSignal Pro (Monthly) | $39.99 | per month | | JobSignal Pro (Yearly) | $399.99 | per year | ## Is JobSignal safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess JobSignal. ## Is JobSignal legit? JobSignal: Building Permits appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for JobSignal is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.7 — 2026-10-20 This update refreshes JobSignal's App Store search terms. The app itself is unchanged: new permits keep coming in for the cities you follow. ### 1.0.6 — 2026-10-17 A JobSignal Pro purchase that finishes while the app is closed now unlocks on its own the next time you open it, and Settings has a new row to rate JobSignal. ### 1.0.5 — 2026-10-14 - New metros in Canada and Australia: Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Sydney. JobSignal is now on the App Store in both countries, with a French listing for Québec. - JobSignal now notes which screen a free trial started from and whether you found the app through an App Store ad, so we can see what actually helps contractors sign up. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-10 - Try JobSignal Pro free for 7 days: permit alerts, 90 days of history and export. - Leads saved to your pipeline always open, even after the permit leaves the free 7-day window or you lose signal. - Switching trade filters quickly no longer mixes in permits from the old filter. - Job values near a round number read right, like $1.0M instead of $1000K. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-07 A new app icon: the orange permit placard you see at the top of your feed, with the job value front and center. ## More apps by Michael Glazebrook - [Ask Orb](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ask-orb/id6801587804) - [First Light: Hunting Times](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/first-light-hunting-times/id6801640034) - [Skycharted: Meteor Showers](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skycharted-meteor-showers/id6804420455) - [Duck Drake: Rock Skipper](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/duck-drake-rock-skipper/id6806378884) - [TailMark: Plane Spotting Log](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tailmark-plane-spotting-log/id6811068278) - [CatchJournal: Fishing Log](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/catchjournal-fishing-log/id6812594826) All apps by Michael Glazebrook: https://appshunter.io/developer/6801587806 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-24.*