The best snagging apps for Android in 2026, compared honestly

How we compared them

This guide covers apps you can install on an Android phone today and use to record snags with photographs, then get those snags in front of a builder. That rules out iPhone-only tools and desktop-only registers.

Prices checked 26 September 2026; check the current listing before buying. Pricing pages change, Play store prices vary by country, and cloud platforms in particular move their tiers around. Where a fact below is stated plainly, it came from the vendor’s own pricing page or Play listing on that date. Where we could not verify a feature from the vendor’s own material, the table says so rather than guessing.

One disclosure before anything else. Site Audit is our app. Blu Mint Digital in Melbourne builds it, and this website exists to sell it. We have tried to keep the comparison straight, and the section on who should not use it is not decorative. If you read only one section, read that one.

The quick answer

Most people reading a comparison like this already know which of these they are. Find yourself in the list and skip to that app.

• A solo snagging inspector, a small builder or a site supervisor who needs a PDF report from a phone, and does not want an account or a subscription: Site Audit, or Site Audit Pro if you also want iOS or a choice of report layouts.
• A project team of five or more who need one live list everyone can see, pinned to drawings: PlanRadar or Fieldwire. Fieldwire if the work is task-driven off plan sheets, PlanRadar if defect tracking and reporting is the centre of it.
• A project run from a BIM model: Dalux Field.
• A large contractor with a procurement process and a defect-management standard to meet: SnagR, and expect a sales conversation rather than a price.
• Anyone on an iPhone: not ours. Site Audit Pro, PlanRadar, Fieldwire and Dalux all have iOS apps.

Side by side

Read the price column carefully. A one-time purchase and a monthly per-user subscription are not comparable numbers, and a free tier is only free if it covers the work you actually do.

“Check current listing” means exactly that. We have not tested every competitor’s offline behaviour on a site with no signal, and we are not going to claim a limitation we cannot show. Most of the cloud platforms describe some form of offline mode; how much of it works without a sync is the question to ask them.

Site Audit & Snag List Report

Ours. Site Audit is a single-purpose Android app: walk the building, record each snag with photographs, and export a PDF report that a site manager can act on. It is built by Blu Mint Digital in Melbourne and is Android only. There is no iOS version and no web portal.

The free tier gives you one project with unlimited snags and unlimited photos, the full photo markup tools, voice to text for descriptions, and a real PDF export. The only difference in the free PDF is a small credit line in the footer. Pro is a one-time purchase of A$29.99 through Google Play, with local pricing varying by country, and it unlocks unlimited projects, removes the credit line, adds a filtered PDF per contractor, CSV export and a maximum-quality PDF setting. There is no subscription and nothing that expires. Full detail is on the pricing page, and you can open a sample report to see what the output looks like before installing anything.

The design decision that shapes everything else is that the app works fully offline with no account, no cloud and no analytics. Data lives on the phone. Each snag takes multiple captioned photographs, markup that you can go back and edit later, a priority, a status, a trade and a due date. Backup and restore is a single zip file, and that is never gated behind Pro, because losing a register to a lost phone is not something we are prepared to charge to prevent.

It suits a solo inspector, a small builder or a supervisor who needs the report rather than a shared list. It does not suit a team that needs one live register everyone edits, anyone who works from drawing pins, or anyone on an iPhone. More on that below.

Site Audit Pro

Site Audit Pro by Veam Studios is the long-established name in this category, and if you have searched for a snagging app before you have probably seen it. It is a general auditing tool as much as a snagging tool: safety inspections and quotations are in scope alongside defect lists, and it ships with eight report designs and a signature field.

On the UK Play store it was £12.90 as a one-time purchase when checked, with the iOS version a separate purchase. An optional cloud subscription at £6.99 per month or £59.99 per year adds sync and a web portal. The listing showed more than 100,000 downloads and a rating of 3.5 from 783 reviews on that date. That is a large installed base and a middling score; read the recent reviews yourself rather than the headline number, because a long-lived app carries reviews from versions that no longer exist.

It suits someone who wants a choice of report layouts, needs to run the same app across Android and iOS, or wants to use one tool for safety audits and snagging together. Worth knowing: its Play data safety section declares that it collects some data types, including location and personal information, whereas ours declares none. Whether that matters depends on your client and your contract. Check the current listing for the exact declaration, because vendors update these.

PlanRadar

PlanRadar, from Vienna, is a different kind of product. It is a cloud platform for construction documentation: drawings, tickets pinned to those drawings, defect tracking, task assignment and reporting, with Android, iOS and web clients. The phone app is the site end of a system whose centre is in the browser.

Pricing when checked was a Basic plan at US$32 per month for one user, Starter at US$107 per month, Pro at US$159 per month and Enterprise on quote, with a 30-day free trial that does not need a card and a saving of more than 10% on annual billing. Do the arithmetic against a one-time app before dismissing the difference: a single user on the Basic plan pays in a year what a one-time app costs many times over, and that is the correct price if the shared platform is what you need.

It suits a project team where several people raise, assign and close items and where the client or consultant needs to see the register live. A solo inspector who exports a PDF and moves on is paying for a platform they will not use. A large team that tries to run the same process from one phone is losing time they could buy back.

Fieldwire

Fieldwire, now owned by Hilti, is plan-based task management. The organising idea is the drawing sheet: tasks, including punch and snag items, are placed on the plan and assigned, and the field team works from the sheet. It is used far beyond snagging, for scheduling and daily coordination, and the snag list is one use of a general task engine.

The Basic plan was free for up to five users, three projects and 100 sheets when checked, which is a genuinely usable free tier for a small crew rather than a demo. Above that, Pro was US$39 per user per month billed annually, Business US$64 and Business Plus US$89. The per-user pricing is the number to model: a ten-person team on Pro is a four-figure annual cost, and that is the cheapest paid tier.

It suits a team that already works from drawings and wants snags to live on the same sheets as everything else. If you do not have plan sheets, or your work is a room-by-room walk of a finished house, the drawing-centric model is overhead rather than help. Check the current listing for what the free tier includes today, because free tiers are the first thing vendors adjust.

Dalux Field

Dalux Field is the site app of the Dalux platform, which is built around BIM models rather than flat drawings. Its Field Basic tier is free and is described by Dalux as an easy-to-use snagging tool with drawings and BIM, with the ability to invite all project members at no cost. Paid tiers are on quote.

That free tier is unusual in this category and makes Dalux worth a look for any project that already has a model, even a small one. The catch is the word BIM: if nobody on the project has a model and nobody wants one, the reason to choose Dalux over Fieldwire or PlanRadar largely disappears, and you are back to comparing cloud platforms on price and fit.

It suits BIM-led projects, and larger commercial work generally. It is not a natural fit for a snagging inspector walking a new build with a phone and no model. Check the current listing for what Field Basic includes and whether the free tier has usage limits.

SnagR

SnagR is an established UK defect-management platform, now part of rdrive. It has been in the market long enough to be the tool a lot of UK main contractors think of first, and it is positioned at the enterprise end: large sites, formal defect processes, reporting to clients and consultants at scale.

There is no public price. Pricing is on quote, which in practice means a demonstration, a scoping conversation and a contract. That is the right model for a contractor rolling a system out across a business. It is the wrong model for a sole trader who wants to install something tonight and use it on site tomorrow.

It suits large contractors with an existing defect-management process and the budget to match. If your whole operation is one or two people, this is not the tool, and SnagR would probably tell you so.

Who should not use Site Audit

A comparison written by a vendor is only worth reading if it is honest about the vendor. So, plainly: there are three groups our app is the wrong choice for, and you should not have to install it to find out.

Teams that need a shared live list. Our register lives on one phone. You can back it up to a zip and restore it on another device, and you can export a filtered PDF per contractor, but two people cannot edit the same project at the same time and nobody can watch it change from a browser. If your process is several people raising and closing items through the day, you need a cloud platform, and PlanRadar, Fieldwire and Dalux are the ones to look at.

Anyone who works from drawing pins. Our location field is text: unit, room, wall, position. It is precise if you write it precisely, and the guide to writing a defect report shows how. It is not a pin on a floor plan. If your site manager expects to tap a plan and see the items in that room, that is Fieldwire, PlanRadar or Dalux territory.

iPhone users. There is no iOS version. If you or the people who will use the app are on iPhones, Site Audit Pro is the closest equivalent to what we do, and every cloud platform above has an iOS client.

How to choose

Most bad choices in this category come from buying the wrong shape of product, not the wrong brand. Work through these before you compare features.

If you are still weighing whether an app is worth it at all against the spreadsheet you already have, the guide to running a snag list in Excel versus an app goes through where the sheet holds up and where it breaks. And whichever tool you land on, the report it produces is only as good as what you put in each item, which is what how to write a snagging report is about.