Comparison

ProjectsForce vs QELM

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ProjectsForce

This business management app helps service-based companies streamline operations from start to finish. It offers tools for team communication, customer relationship management, and project tracking, with offline capabilities for field teams.

Highlights
  • End-to-end business operations management
  • Team, partner, and customer relationship management
  • Automated communication (text, calls, email)
  • Digital signature capture
  • Unlimited reporting
  • Offline mode for field teams
  • Integrations with major retailers and software
Features
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ProjectsForce is the central hub for all things your business does. ProjectsForce was designed for the home improvement, construction, and services industries with a goal of providing everything you need in one software solution to manage every aspect of your operations from start to finish. Whether you are an independent contractor, construction company, or service-based business that manages your own private work or supports one the National Big Box Retailers, ProjectsForce has the integrations you need to seamlessly manage all your work in one place. Flooring Millwork Plumbing Window Treatments Kitchens Baths Electrical Roofing Siding Decking Fencing And more Managing relationships between your team, your partners, and customers is critical to driving business through word-of-mouth referrals as well as growing your relationship with your business partners. ProjectsForce has many services that help your team continue to move forward by ensuring the right communication is sent exactly when it is needed. Automated situational and responsive text messaging Interactive phone system with automated phone calls Emails Digital signature capture on your own documents Unlimited Reporting options Robust integrations to manage all your work in one platform Lowe’s IMS Home Depot iConx Lumber Liquidators IME QuickBooks FloorSoft MeasureSquare Amazon And more! Offline Mode gives your field teams the confidence that they will have a consistent experience while on a jobsite whether they have an active internet connection. Capture signatures, review their schedule, access documents, and more.

About

QELM

Features
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QELM is the time clock your crew actually uses. One tap to start the day, one to end it, and the hours land straight on the timesheet your office sees. CLOCK IN AGAINST THE JOB Pick the job, tap once, and you are on the clock. The app remembers the last job you worked, so most mornings it is one tap and nothing else. Every punch says back the job and the time it booked, so you know it went through before the phone goes in your pocket. Working somewhere the office has not set up yet? Type the address and punch against that instead. START THE DAY WITHOUT OPENING THE APP On iOS 18 and later, clock in and out from Control Center or the Lock Screen. One press, no unlocking, no hunting for the app. Once you are on the clock the running time sits on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, and on a Home Screen widget, so you can check the shift without opening anything. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Basements, new builds, the far end of a site. Punches taken with no bars are held on the phone and sent the moment signal comes back, and they book the time you actually took them, not the time they arrived. Your pay does not move because the site had no service. SEE YOUR WEEK BEFORE PAYDAY Every shift in the week, grouped by day, with the punch times and the hours behind each one. The week's total sits at the top. No surprises on payday. ASK FOR A CORRECTION Forgot to clock out? Tap the shift, put in the times you actually worked, say what happened. It goes to your manager as a request. Nobody edits their own hours, which is what keeps the timesheet worth trusting. If the office changes one of your shifts, the timesheet shows that it was changed, who changed it, and when. PHOTOGRAPH A RECEIPT Buy materials, photograph the receipt, and the app reads the vendor, the total and the date off the paper for you. Check it, pick the job, done. The receipt is filed against that job for the office. SIGN IN WITHOUT A PASSWORD We email you a link. Tap it once and you are in. After that it is Face ID. There is no password to forget on a job site and none to write inside a hard hat. EN ESPAÑOL The whole app is in Spanish as well as English, and follows whatever your phone is set to. WHAT YOU NEED QELM is used by construction and trade companies. Your employer sets up your account and adds you to the workspace; you cannot sign yourself up. If your company does not use QELM yet, ask your office about it. ABOUT LOCATION The app records where you were at the moment you punch, so your employer can verify the hours they are paying for. That is the only time it reads location. There is no geofence, nothing is recorded between punches, and nothing is recorded while the app is closed.

Screenshots

ProjectsForce4 screens
QELM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: QELM at every 5 days against ProjectsForce's every 3 weeks. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ProjectsForce ships an update every 3 weeks, QELM every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ProjectsForce versus QELM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProjectsForceQELM
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProjectsForceChristopher Hudson

In-app purchases

None

ProjectsForce

No in-app purchases

None

QELM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ProjectsForce free?
ProjectsForce is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QELM free?
QELM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ProjectsForce or QELM have ads?
Neither ProjectsForce nor QELM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ProjectsForce or QELM?
ProjectsForce ships an update every 3 weeks, and QELM every 5 days. Most recently, ProjectsForce was updated on October 1, 2026 and QELM on October 2, 2026.

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