Lightning Project Tracker vs Local 174 Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lightning Project Tracker
This app streamlines operations for roofing crews, enabling easy clock-in/clock-out, job management, and real-time approvals. It helps supervisors and foremen track crew activity and job status efficiently.
- Crew clock in/clock out
- Job and crew list management
- GPS tracking
- Real-time clock out approvals
- Transaction history maintenance
- Notifications for clock events
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Roofing Southwest application helps Roofing Southwest users (Superintendent/Foreman) to perform operations like crew clock in/clock out, receive notifications related to clock in/clock out, maintains list of jobs and crew associated etc. Roofing Southwest App is designed to ease the process of crew clock in/clock out, GPS tracking, job status, maintaining transaction history and real time clock out approvals.
Local 174 Journal
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174 Logbook is a mobile platform App for saving Daily Logbook information about hours worked, Companies worked for, Location, Dates worked and Notes about workday in a convenient location on your iPhone. it also keeps a running total of the hours worked and total days worked for each company in a PDF format for printing out when you need it (especially handy for checking your hours against quarterly reports from the hall and for filling out unemployment forms!) it also acts as a message delivery system for the 174 local in the form of push notifications. it is highly recommended you allow the push notifications after install to receive important updates and messages from your hall. it also has a link to the 174 website on the main page for contacting the Hall and for paying your dues. Thank You, Union Brothers Programming
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lightning Project Tracker at none against Local 174 Journal's shown. Local 174 Journal's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.4). On price, update cadence, 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lightning Project Tracker | Local 174 Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 88bulls | Donald Schmidt |
In-app purchases
Lightning Project Tracker
No in-app purchases
Local 174 Journal
No in-app purchases
Questions
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