BuildBook vs Materio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BuildBook
This app streamlines residential construction projects for builders, remodelers, and designers. It offers features like project management, scheduling with Gantt charts, team communication, budgeting, and a client dashboard to enhance client satisfaction.
- Unlimited projects
- Lightning-fast scheduling (Gantt charts)
- Team and client chat
- Budget management
- Change order tracking
- Client dashboard
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BuildBook helps home builders, remodelers, and interior designers keep residential construction projects on track and delight their clients. Unlimited projects, lightning-fast scheduling (with Gantt charts), team and client chat, budget, change orders, plus a sleek, beautiful client dashboard that puts your brand front and center. And much, much more.
Materio
Streamline interior design and construction projects with an all-in-one system. Visualize scope items on floor plans, manage client approvals, and track project fees. Facilitate team communication and decision-making for efficient project execution.
- Visual estimation on floor plans
- Automated selection list generation
- Project fee calculation
- Decision and discussion tracking
- Progress tracking
- Change order management
- Design selections management
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Bring your Materio projects to the job site. Check a plan, pull up a product detail, document an issue, or share installation instructions without heading back to your desk. Built for interior design and construction teams, Materio’s mobile app is the on-site companion to Materio on the web. Bring your project information with you and capture what happens on-site, even when there’s no reception. Find the details you need. View your project scope, floor plans, product information, boards, photos, and attachments. Locate an item on a plan with a tap, and move easily between plans and boards. Be ready, even without a signal. Download the projects you need before you leave. Product data, plans, board images, product photos, and attachments stay available offline. Comments and field notes you submit while offline sync automatically when you reconnect. Capture what’s happening on-site. Create a field note from a photo, mark it up, and add written details. Save a draft to finish later or send it when you’re ready. Leave comments as you walk the project, while the details are still fresh. Get information to the right people. Share photos from field notes and product attachments, including installation manuals, with your contacts. Send a floor plan to your contractor as an image, without annotations. Use Materio on the web to build and manage your projects. Take the details with you on mobile. New to Materio? Visit our website to learn more and get started. https://materio.co
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Materio at 86% against BuildBook's 0%. Materio also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.1). BuildBook's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Materio holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of BuildBook's written reviews are positive against 86% of Materio's.
BuildBook ships an update every 2 weeks, Materio every 7 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | BuildBook | Materio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) | 4.4 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BuildBook Inc. | Materio, Inc. |
Customer experience
BuildBook
Materio
In-app purchases
BuildBook
No in-app purchases
Materio
No in-app purchases
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