Ask Stockton vs MakeSpec
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ask Stockton
Report city issues like potholes and graffiti directly to your local government. Submit service requests quickly and easily to help improve your neighborhood.
- Report potholes
- Report graffiti
- Submit service requests
- Direct city contact
- Neighborhood improvement
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See a pothole that needs filling? Graffiti making a mess of your neighborhood? Tap right into your city and report the issue fast with Ask Stockton!
MakeSpec
This app streamlines the US home improvement market for contractors and homeowners. It facilitates real-time, non-face-to-face management of project specifications, pricing, contracting, payments, subcontractor searches, and communication.
- Create project specifications
- Access project information
- Calculate pricing
- Contract construction
- Manage payment process
- Search for subcontractors
- Dedicated chat room
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The structure of the US home improvement market is unsystematic and inefficient, resulting in many complaints and disputes. To address this, we offer new approaches and methods useful to contractors. This app supports all things related to home improvement to contractors and homeowners. Creating specifications, accessing project information, calculating pricing, contracting construction, payment process, searching for subcontractors, and communicating in a dedicated chat room are all possible in real-time and non-face-to-face.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MakeSpec at 5.0 against Ask Stockton's 2.1. MakeSpec also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Ask Stockton's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
MakeSpec holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ask Stockton has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ask Stockton ships an update every 2 months, MakeSpec every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ask Stockton | MakeSpec |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | California City of Stockton | Home Wikii |
Customer experience
Ask Stockton
MakeSpec
In-app purchases
Ask Stockton
No in-app purchases
MakeSpec
No in-app purchases
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