Viewpoint Field View™ vs Site Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Viewpoint Field View™
This app allows field teams to capture, share, and report on all job site data, including daily logs, inspections, and safety observations. It offers configurable forms and offline capabilities to improve workflows and project quality.
- Capture all field data
- Configurable field forms
- Work offline
- Team collaboration
- Advanced process management
- Automate drawings and locations
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Capture, share and report all field data with a single tool Viewpoint Field View™ is a cloud based and off-line mobile forms solution that captures daily logs, punch lists, safety observations, inspections, defect management, commissioning and much more. With Field View, you can choose from a menu of pre-configured forms and/or create forms on your own that reflect your processes — essentially there is no need for IT or system administrator support. By giving field users an easy-to-use mobile application to capture their field observations from anywhere on the job site — even locations without an internet connection — they’re able to resolve issues more quickly, improve workflows, reduce risk and deliver higher quality projects. Field View benefits include: • Capture all field data • Configurable field forms • Work offline • Team collaboration • Advanced process management • Project location set up • Automate drawings and locations
Site Diary
Streamline construction daily reporting with this app. It replaces paper logs with digital entries, integrates task management, and automatically includes weather data and photos. Supports offline use and various export formats for seamless project tracking.
- Digital daily reports
- Integrated task management
- Real-time progress monitoring
- Automatic local weather reports
- Image attachments
- Offline support
- PDF, Excel, CSV export
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Site Diary app replaces the existing paper construction daily reports, site journal or daily logs, where field workers make a report of things that occurred on their projects. With Site Diary app, we make the whole process quick, fun and simple so you both have a detailed daily report and time left to focus on building more. We developed Site Diary to address the needs of site engineers, foremen and site managers working in construction organizations, contractors and installation teams both large and small. "Site Diary allowed me to keep track of construction progress and emerging issues in real time” - Christopher Pletcher, Municipal Engineering Manager, Ayres Associates Task management/allocations feature The first product to integrate daily reports and task management. Users can create a task, add information about the task (manpower, equipment & materials to be used) and the persons it assigned to. Report progress on a task by creating a work log. The diary form will be automatically filled with all the task info which will make it a lot quicker for users to fill their daily reports. Site Diary Features include - Real-time site progress and monitoring, whereby users have visibility of work being done by site staff. Submitted reports are immediately available for review and approval by off-site personnel. - Share information. The app will allow field workers to send an email after they create an event. (This is optional) - Local weather report automatically included - every report entry is automatically linked with the prevailing weather conditions for that site at the time, which is important information to include in a daily construction report app. - Added images - photos and other images can be attached to reports. - Offline support - Sites with limited connectivity are not a problem as the app continues to perform seamlessly off-line. Data captured is saved on the device and synchronized to the cloud as soon as a connection becomes available. - User management - Add and remove users in your team - Set up site resources (labour, equipment, materials, contractors, tags) that you will use on your construction site. Tags are used to determine the type of event that is recorded, example: Safety. - Export Reports - This can be used as shift updates or project summaries and shared with staff, contractors and clients. These are done in either PDF, Excel or CSV format.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Site Diary at 88% against Viewpoint Field View™'s 0%. Site Diary also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Viewpoint Field View™'s advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Site Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Site Diary has 45 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Viewpoint Field View™'s written reviews are positive against 88% of Site Diary's.
Viewpoint Field View™ ships an update every 3 weeks, Site Diary weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Viewpoint Field View™ | Site Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) | 4.4 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 250 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trimble Inc. | Script&Go |
Customer experience
Viewpoint Field View™
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In-app purchases
Viewpoint Field View™
No in-app purchases
Site Diary
No in-app purchases
Questions
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