TRUEHOUR vs SpoilStack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TRUEHOUR
This app helps small businesses in equipment-heavy industries accurately calculate their operating costs. It provides tools for job estimating, real-time profitability analysis, and tax summaries, ensuring fair pricing and increased earnings.
- True Owning & Operating (O&O) cost per hour
- Job estimating with all cost factors
- Real-time profitability engine
- Estimated vs. actual job tracking
- AI cost guidance
- Machine health score
- End-of-year tax summary
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TRUEHOUR is the financial operating system for equipment-based small businesses. Built for skid-steer operators, landscapers, owner-operator truckers, tractor owners, dozer crews, and small service contractors — it turns the cost of running your machine into a number you can actually charge against. Most small operators undercharge because they don't know what their equipment really costs to own and operate. Fuel, depreciation, interest, insurance, repairs, tires/tracks, and overhead disappear into the noise — and so does your margin. TRUEHOUR makes those costs visible, accurate, and actionable. TRUSTED METHODOLOGY, ADVANCED FOR YOUR BUSINESS TRUEHOUR's cost engine is built on the same Owning & Operating (O&O) calculation standard created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for 70 years — a standard adopted by AGC, Caterpillar, AED, and AACE International as the gold standard for equipment cost calculation. Traditional O&O focused on machine-level costs only. TRUEHOUR adds the Business Overhead Center, automatically allocating business overhead across your fleet on a per-hour basis so your rate reflects the full cost of running your operation. WHAT YOU GET • True Owning & Operating (O&O) cost per hour for every machine — using the trusted industry gold standard • Job estimating with equipment, vehicle, labor, materials, permits, subcontracts, and non-productive time • Real-time profitability engine: break-even rate, recommended rate, sensitivity analysis • Estimated vs. actual job tracking — finally know which jobs made money • AI cost guidance that suggests realistic ranges without ever overriding your inputs • Anonymized benchmark ranges from similar equipment • Machine health score (0–100) — utilization, downtime, repair patterns • End-of-year Schedule C tax summary, ready to hand to your accountant • PDF and CSV export for reports, estimates, and tax summaries • Mobile-first UI built for the job site — gloves, sunlight, one-handed use FREE (BASIC) One machine, full O&O calculation, expense tracking, monthly/yearly reports, basic job estimating, Schedule C summary, AI cost-fill assistance. TRUEHOUR PRO Unlimited machines, save/export/send job estimates, estimated vs. actual analysis, real-time profitability engine, enhanced AI insights, weekly reports, customer/lender-ready summaries, saved equipment templates, cloud backup, cross-device sync (iPhone, iPad, Android, desktop). WHO IT'S FOR • New owner-operators pricing their first jobs • Micro-business contractors running 1–3 machines • Side-hustle equipment owners doing weekend work • Small fleet owners with 2–10 machines and employees • Anyone tired of broken spreadsheets and gut-feel pricing PRIVACY & CONTROL TRUEHOUR never auto-fills your inputs. AI suggests; you decide. Benchmark contributions are anonymized and opt-in. Your data stays yours. Know your true hour. Charge what you're worth. Keep what you earn. Support: support@truehourapp.com TERMS OF USE: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SpoilStack
This app centralizes job management for excavation crews, tracking equipment, hauls, and crew schedules. It allows for offline work and provides a comprehensive job record for efficient project closeout.
- Job tracking with custom status stages
- Machine location and assignment tracking
- Timestamped haul logging
- Crew scheduling
- Shared job notepad and document management
- Offline functionality
- Job closeout package exports
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Your 330 is on the Henderson job. The dozer is there too. The Bobcat is at Maple St. You know that because you opened Spoil Stack, not because you made four phone calls. Spoil Stack keeps your jobs, machines, crew and haul counts in one simple app. It's built for excavation crews who run on whiteboards, group texts and paper today. Every load, on the record. Start a haul session and log loads with one tap, right from the Lock Screen. Every load gets a timestamp, the machine and the material. If the trucker says 16 and the foreman says 14, you have the record. Know where your iron is. See every machine and the job it's on. Move one to another site with a tap, and log hour meter readings as you go. Know who's where. The crew schedule shows who's on which job today and this week. Each person can open "just me" to see their own day. The whole job in one place. Todos, photos, plans you can mark up, permits and documents, daily logs, T&M tags, crew hours and a shared job notepad the whole crew can write in. When the job's done, export a closeout package with the records and files. Start the day knowing the plan. A morning email lists today's jobs, who's on them and where the machines are. Tap any job or machine in it to open it right in the app. No signal in the hole? Keep working. Spoil Stack saves everything on the phone and syncs it when you're back in range. What you get: - Job tracking with your own status stages - Machine locations, job assignments and hour meters - Timestamped haul counts, with a Lock Screen counter during haul sessions - Crew schedule by day and week - Shared job notepad, todos, photos, plans with markup and documents - Daily logs, T&M tags and crew hours - Closeout package exports - 5-day weather for every job site - Morning email with links straight to each job and machine - Crew logins with owner and crew roles - Works offline on low-signal jobsites Built for small excavation crews that need to track their iron, log their loads and keep the job record straight. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://spoilstack.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TRUEHOUR at 5.0 against SpoilStack's 4.0. TRUEHOUR also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). SpoilStack's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. TRUEHOUR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. SpoilStack asks for nothing beyond the download.
TRUEHOUR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TRUEHOUR | SpoilStack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WALNUT FLAT LLC | Crux Labs LLC |
Customer experience
TRUEHOUR
SpoilStack
In-app purchases
TRUEHOUR
- TRUEHOUR Pro$14.991 Month
- TRUEHOUR Pro$149.991 Year
SpoilStack
No in-app purchases









