Comparison

Form Up vs Foreman

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

Head to head
About

Form Up

This app streamlines construction and trade business operations, managing crew, projects, scheduling, estimates, and payments. It offers features like client portals, AI-powered takeoff, and QuickBooks integration to simplify job management and financial tracking.

Highlights
  • Client portals with project progress and invoices
  • AI-powered takeoff and estimate generation
  • GPS-verified crew clock-in/out
  • Weekly crew scheduling with shift swaps
  • QuickBooks sync for financials
  • Automated client review requests
Features
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FormUp is the all-in-one app for construction and trade companies. Run your crew, projects, schedule, estimates and money from one place, so you can stop juggling a clipboard, spreadsheets, group texts and half a dozen apps that don't talk to each other. Built by a third-generation contractor who got tired of paying for five apps and none of them working together. WIN THE JOB Build a magazine-quality estimate on site, with photos, options and good, better, best packages. Send it as a link instead of just a PDF. Your client opens it on their phone, picks their options, watches the price update, signs, and pays the deposit. Let clients choose patterns, colors and finishes from your own catalog, priced to the square foot. Turn a signed estimate into a live project in one tap. A sales pipeline from new lead to won, with every call, text and email on one timeline. RUN THE JOB GPS-verified clock in and out, so you know who was on site and which job their hours belong to. Weekly crew schedule with copy-a-week templates, time off, open shifts and shift swaps. Assign a task to a day, not just to a job. Photos and video organized into albums, with a burst camera built for work gloves. Daily field reports, punch lists and assignable task checklists. Full PDF plan sets, with AI takeoff, RFIs, submittals and revision comparison. Scan paper documents into clean multi-page PDFs with your phone. GET PAID Set a payment schedule and deposit for every job, and track paid against owed. Invoices, receipts and branded job close-out reports as PDFs. Card on file and automatic charging through Square. QuickBooks sync for invoices, payments and expenses. Watch real profit per job as materials, clocked labor and sub costs roll in. Know your cost of doing business, your overhead, and the rate you actually need to charge. YOUR CLIENTS Every client gets a portal with their estimate, project progress, photos and invoices. Message clients inside the app instead of losing it in a text thread. Automatic review requests once the job is done. CREW AND SUBS Role-based access for owner, admin, manager, office, estimator, foreman, worker and sub. Subs see the job, schedule, tasks, photos and chat they need, and never see your numbers. Share one job with an outside contractor through a link. Track sub payments and year-end 1099 totals. Messages and reports auto-translate, so English and Spanish speaking crews stay together. AI THAT DOES REAL WORK Snap jobsite photos and get an estimate back with line items and pricing. Turn a plan set into a phased job with tasks and crew assignments. Turn rough notes into a clean daily report. Ask about your own jobs, hours and money, and get a real answer from your real data. FRONT DESK, OPTIONAL ADD-ON An AI receptionist answers your phone when you are on a ladder. It books estimate visits, takes messages, and texts you the lead before you climb down. ALSO INSIDE Recurring maintenance: properties, service plans, routes and visit billing. Material load lists and calculators for concrete, decking, fencing, framing and roofing. Equipment tracking, a document vault with expiring-document alerts, and e-signatures. Easy Mode, a stripped-down five-tab version for crews who only need today's work. Dark mode, custom accent colors, and full English, Spanish and Portuguese. Works across concrete, masonry, decks, landscaping, roofing, plumbing, electrical and every trade. FormUp. Win the job. Run the job. Get paid. A subscription is required after your free trial. Front Desk is a separate add-on. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://useformup.com/privacy

About

Foreman

This app connects your construction jobsite crew with the office by allowing field teams to log daily activities, track time and expenses, manage tasks, and communicate project-specific messages. It provides access to project details and contacts, with an AI assistant for quick information retrieval. The app is designed for offline use and scales for businesses of all sizes.

Highlights
  • Daily logs with photo attachments
  • On-site time tracking
  • Expense and receipt capture
  • Task and schedule management
  • Project-specific messaging
  • Offline functionality
  • AI assistant for project queries
Features
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Foreman puts your projects in your pocket. The office has the budget, the schedule, and the paperwork. Your crew has a phone. Foreman is the app that connects them — so the work that happens on site actually shows up in the numbers, the same day it happens. WHAT YOU CAN DO FROM THE FIELD Daily logs Write up the day in under a minute. Attach photos straight from the camera, note weather and crew, and it's on the project before you leave the driveway. Time tracking Clock in and out on site. Hours land on the project, ready for the office to approve — no paper timesheets, no Monday-morning guessing. Expenses and receipts Snap the receipt at the counter. Code it to a project and a cost line right there, so it hits the budget instead of a shoebox. Tasks and schedule See what's assigned to you, what's due, and what the project schedule looks like. Check things off as you finish them. Messages Ask a question, get an answer, keep it attached to the project it's about — instead of losing it in a group text. Projects and records Look up any project: its budget, its proposals and invoices, its files and plans. Everything the office sees, shaped for a phone. Contacts Your clients and subs, one tap from a call, a text, or an email. AI assistant Ask it anything about your projects in plain language and it answers from your real data. BUILT FOR A JOBSITE, NOT A DESK Works offline. Photos, messages, and expenses you capture with no signal are held on the device and sent the moment you're back — even if you close the app. Push notifications that go somewhere. Tap one and land on the exact thread, log, or task it's about. Your role decides what you see. Field crews get a focused view. Clients and subcontractors only ever see what's been shared with them. FOR CONTRACTORS OF EVERY SIZE From owner-operators running everything themselves to 100-person companies with crews on a dozen sites. Foreman scales with you — it doesn't make you graduate to something else. WORKS WITH THE OFFICE Foreman on the web handles budgets and estimating, proposals with built-in e-signatures, invoicing and payments, scheduling, AI plan takeoffs, and two-way QuickBooks Online sync. The mobile app is the same account, the same projects, the same numbers. A Foreman account is required. Start free at foreman.co — no credit card. Questions: hello@foreman.co

Screenshots

Form Up4 screens
Foreman4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Foreman at none against Form Up's 6. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Form Up sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Foreman asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Form Up against 5.0 for Foreman. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Form Up ships an update every 5 days, Foreman every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Form Up versus Foreman: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForm UpForeman
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrick James BreenScoutOut, Inc.

Customer experience

Form Up

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Foreman

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Form Up

Subscriptions6
  • Starter Monthly1 Month trial$29.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly1 Month trial$59.991 Month
  • Elite Monthly1 Month trial$99.991 Month
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  • Starter Annual1 Month trial$289.991 Year
  • Pro Annual1 Month trial$499.991 Year
  • Elite Annual1 Month trial$839.991 Year
None

Foreman

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Form Up free?
Form Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Foreman free?
Foreman is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Form Up or Foreman?
Form Up and Foreman are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Form Up or Foreman have ads?
Neither Form Up nor Foreman shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Form Up or Foreman?
Form Up ships an update every 5 days, and Foreman every 4 days. Most recently, Form Up was updated on November 5, 2026 and Foreman on October 31, 2026.

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