Comparison

Plaans vs Site Diary (Bautagebuch)

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

Head to head
About

Plaans

Features
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Plaans turns your site walk into a finished defect report: photos, voice notes and measurements land right where they belong on the plan โ€“ and the PDF report is just one tap away. For surveyors, architects, site managers, engineers and facility managers who document on site and don't need a big construction platform. HOW IT WORKS 1. Import a plan: a PDF or a photo of a floor plan. 2. Capture on site: photos with viewing direction, voice and text notes, measurements and sketches โ€“ each in its place on the plan. 3. Create the report: PDF report, interactive plan for the browser and CSV for Excel. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU No sign-up, no cloud. All data stays on your device, and you decide who you share it with. Plaans also works offline. FEATURES - Photos with location and viewing direction on the plan - Voice notes, transcribed to text if you like - Text comments and colored layers - Length, height and angle measurements - Draw sketches, use photos in place of a plan - Connects to laser distance meters (Leica DISTO, HILTI PD-I) - PDF report, interactive plan, CSV export - For iPhone and iPad PRICING Free for small projects with up to two plans. For more: the full version as a monthly subscription, or credits as you need them. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION - The full version gives you all features without limitations. - The subscription period is 1 month. - The subscription price for your country is shown in the app before you buy. - Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, at the price you originally paid. - You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your App Store account settings at any time after purchase. Terms of use: https://www.plaans.com/imprint?lang=en Privacy: https://www.plaans.com/datenschutz?lang=en

About

Site Diary (Bautagebuch)

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You can use 'Site Diary' to create construction site diaries. You can automatically generate monthly attendance reports from the data in the site diaries. Both the site diaries as well as the monthly attendance reports are stored in a data base and can be shared from within the app as PDF document. You enter the attendances of the employees into the site diary. Furthermore you can create jobs, arrangements, hindrances which can be related to the part of a building, the floor and the room. They are created from job blueprints, arrangement and hindrance types so you don't need to enter the same texts multiple times. From the site diaries you can generate monthly attendance reports which collect the attendance data from all the site diaries for all the construction sites containing data for that month. You can create absences like vacation or a holiday which are taken into consideration while generating a monthly attendance report. Depending on the version, you can import employees or a room book, assign a logo to each company and display it in the header according to the settings on each PDF document. You can see a preview of the PDF docutment and share it. The construction diaries can be signed directly in the app by the client. Where the customer signature is not saved but for privacy reasons directly written in a PDF. If a day's wages bill signed by the client is processed, the customer's signature will be lost. On the iPad as of iOS Version 11 you can drag & drop companies, construction sites, clients, employees and rooms between our apps. Users can switch between a local database in the document file and an iCloud database. The iCloud database also synchronizes with all our construction site management apps.

Screenshots

Plaans4 screens
Site Diary (Bautagebuch)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Site Diary (Bautagebuch) at 9.0 against Plaans's 15.6. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Plaans sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Site Diary (Bautagebuch) sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plaans ships an update monthly, Site Diary (Bautagebuch) every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Plaans versus Site Diary (Bautagebuch): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlaansSite Diary (Bautagebuch)
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthly โ€” betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.69.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size10 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMikavaa GmbHReiko Klein

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Plaans

Subscriptions1
  • Full Version$19.991 Month
One-time4
  • 5 additional credits$8.99
  • 10 additional credits$17.99
  • 25 additional credits$35.99
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  • Plaans full version$89.99
6 purchases

Site Diary (Bautagebuch)

One-time6
  • Site Diary Company logo$2.99
  • Site Diary Import$2.99
  • Site Diary Export$2.99
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  • Site Diary Lite$4.99
  • Site Diary Pro$8.99
  • Site Diary Complete$14.99

Questions

Is Plaans free?
Plaans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Site Diary (Bautagebuch) free?
Site Diary (Bautagebuch) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Plaans or Site Diary (Bautagebuch) have ads?
Neither Plaans nor Site Diary (Bautagebuch) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plaans or Site Diary (Bautagebuch)?
Plaans ships an update monthly, and Site Diary (Bautagebuch) every 2 months. Most recently, Plaans was updated on October 21, 2026 and Site Diary (Bautagebuch) on October 26, 2026.

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