RoofDesk vs SMS Metal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoofDesk
This app is a CRM designed for Hispanic roofing contractors in the USA. It helps manage leads, track insurance claims, and coordinate teams with features like real-time communication and task assignment.
- Lead management
- Insurance claim tracking
- Team coordination
- Task assignment
- Appointment scheduling
- Estimate generation
- Document scanning
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RoofDesk is the CRM built for Hispanic roofing contractors in the USA. Manage leads, track insurance claims step by step, and keep your team coordinated from your phone. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH ROOFDESK: • Add new leads in seconds • Track your sales and insurance claim pipeline • Communicate with your team in real time • Assign tasks to salespeople and inspectors • Schedule appointments and inspections • Generate professional estimates • Scan and store client documents • Take roof photos directly in the lead • Canvassing with a pin map by zone • Manage your team: managers, salespeople, inspectors FOR CONTRACTORS WHO WORK WITH INSURANCE: Track every claim from inspection to final check. Specialized pipeline with adjuster, supplement, estimate and close stages. IN SPANISH. FOR YOUR BUSINESS. RoofDesk is designed with the Hispanic contractor in mind — no complications, no forced English.
SMS Metal
This app helps metal roofing contractors and homeowners quickly spec, visualize, measure, and quote roofing projects on-site. It provides a full product catalog, a live roof visualizer for color selection, and tools for precise roof measurement and quote generation.
- Metal roofing product catalog with specs
- Live roof visualizer for color previews
- On-site roof measurement tools
- Dimensioned trim and edge metal library
- Instant quote request generation
- In-app chat with support team
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Spec, visualize, measure, and quote metal roofing — all before you leave the driveway. SMS Metal puts SMS Metal Supply's entire product line in your pocket. Browse standing seam panel profiles, check warranties, preview colors on a real roof, and send a complete quote request straight to the shop. PANEL CATALOG WITH REAL SPECS Every profile comes with a full spec sheet, cross-section drawing, gauge and coverage details, and warranty information. No more digging through PDFs or calling for a number you should already have. SEE THE COLOR BEFORE YOU COMMIT Pick from real paint-finish swatches, then use the live roof visualizer to overlay your panel profile and color choice onto the actual house through your camera. It is the fastest way to close a color decision with a homeowner standing next to you. MEASURE THE ROOF ON SITE Trace the roof and get squares and linear footage in seconds. Estimates stay attached to the job so nothing gets re-measured or re-keyed later. TRIM AND EDGE METAL, FULLY DIMENSIONED A complete trim profile library with dimensioned 24x24 cross-section drawings, plus a custom trim sketcher for the pieces that do not exist yet. Coping, gutters, fascia, and gravel stops are all included with engineer-print dimensions and sheet references. BUILD THE QUOTE, SEND IT INSTANTLY Assemble panels, trim, and edge metal into a single PDF quote request and fire it off to the shop. Generate material pull sheets, chat with the SMS Metal team in-app, and get a push notification the moment your quote comes back. BUILT FOR THE FIELD Contractors use it to spec faster and quote same-day. Homeowners use it to understand exactly what is going on their roof and what it will cost. Everyone works from the same product data. Download SMS Metal and turn a site visit into a finished quote request.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SMS Metal at daily against RoofDesk's every 3 weeks. RoofDesk's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RoofDesk against 5.0 for SMS Metal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
RoofDesk ships an update every 3 weeks, SMS Metal daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | RoofDesk | SMS Metal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Techadvisor LLC | SMS INDUSTRIES LLC (Company/Organization) |
Customer experience
RoofDesk
SMS Metal
In-app purchases
RoofDesk
No in-app purchases
SMS Metal
No in-app purchases









