11 Best Roof Estimating Software in 2026, Compared

Roofr is the fastest way for a residential roofer to turn an address into a signed proposal. The free Starter plan costs $0, includes unlimited users, and sells satellite measurement reports at $19 each with delivery inside 24 hours. Measure+ costs $109 a month, cuts reports to $13 with 6-hour guaranteed delivery, and adds material calculations, waste factor and CSV downloads.

The catch is that reports are never included in the subscription, so volume decides the bill: 20 reports a month cost $380 on Starter and $369 on Measure+. Essentials at $249 a month adds unlimited proposals, e-signatures and payments, and Scale at $349 adds job costing and QuickBooks. Pick Roofr when you sell residential re-roofs and want the measurement-to-proposal path in one place.

Leap is the CRM that used to be called JobProgress, and it is the cheapest full CRM in this list for a solo operator. Essential costs $79 a month for one user and covers leads, estimates, proposals, the appointment calendar and invoicing, with a 14-day free trial. The price is printed on the pricing page, which is rare in this category.

The hard edge is the user cap. Essential is strictly one user, so the day a second person needs a login you move to Team at $298 a month, with each extra user at $99. Every plan is also a 12-month contract paid monthly, so there is no trying it for a month and walking away. Pick Leap when one person runs the whole job from lead to invoice.

Clear Estimates is the simplest estimator here: a flat $79 a month, no per-user charge, and a cost database with local material and labor pricing for 400 US regions. More than 60 project templates cover the common residential jobs, so a first estimate takes minutes rather than an afternoon of building a price book from scratch.

What it does not do is measure the roof. You bring your own dimensions — from Roofr, EagleView or a tape measure — and Clear Estimates prices them. Standard covers one login, Pro at $119 a month adds AI image and plan uploads plus extra users at $9 each, and the whole tool stops at the proposal. Pick it when the measuring is sorted and the pricing is the slow part.

RoofSnap is built around doing the measuring yourself: trace the roof from aerial imagery, or order a Half Snap report for $13, and the sketch turns into a priced good-better-best proposal in seconds. The monthly subscription is $105 per user and bundles five HD roof images a month, material ordering, contracts and payments.

Annual billing is where the price falls: $78 per user a month for 2 to 4 users, $61 for 5 to 9, and $52 for 10 or more, with 240 bonus HD images per user a year. Ordered Full Snap reports still cost $35 to $55 each on top. Pick RoofSnap when a small crew wants to measure, estimate and invoice from one app without a big platform.

RoofScope sells certainty: every report is CAD-reviewed, carries a written 99% accuracy guarantee, and is promised within 12 hours or less. A standard residential report costs $39.95, and the $89-a-month entry membership acts as a prepaid deposit toward reports, with discounts and expedited delivery on top.

The membership model needs reading twice. The $89 a month is not a subscription fee for unlimited reports — it is money credited toward the reports you order, on an annual commitment, and unused funds roll over. GutterScope and ScopeApp extend one order to gutters and field data. Pick RoofScope when a guaranteed, CAD-checked report matters more than a low monthly fee.

EagleView built the aerial measurement category, and its reports are still the ones insurance adjusters know best. A Bid Perfect residential report costs $18 and covers area, squares and main pitches; Premium reports run $32.75 to $87 by roof size and add full edge lengths, pitch breakdown and waste factor. There is no subscription to buy.

The accuracy claim is documented: a 2025 CompassData study comparing EagleView reports with drone and terrestrial LiDAR measured roof lines at 98.77% accurate. The trade-off is that reports are locked once delivered, so a wrong pitch means a new order, and Premium pricing climbs steeply on large roofs. Pick EagleView for insurance and commercial work where the report itself is the deliverable.

Hover works differently from every aerial tool here: instead of satellite imagery, you walk around the house with a phone and take about eight photos, and Hover builds a 3D model of the whole exterior — roof, siding, windows and doors. Starter has no plan fee, the first 3 projects are free, and roof-only scans then cost $29 to $69 by complexity.

Pro costs $999 a year and takes $20 off every project, so roof-only scans drop to $9 to $49, and it unlocks estimates, 2D design and agreements. Business at $2,999 a year charges flat rates instead. Pick Hover when the job is the whole exterior, not just the roof, and the 3D model is what sells it to the homeowner.

JobNimbus is the roofing CRM most of the industry measures itself against: leads, inspections, estimates, contracts, production, invoicing and payments in one system, built for roofing rather than adapted from a generic CRM. The pricing page lists four tiers by user cap — Essentials up to 3 users, Pro up to 10, Premium up to 19, Enterprise at 20 or more.

The price is the problem. No tier publishes a dollar figure; every card says "Request pricing", and third-party estimates of the base plan disagree widely, so we do not quote one here. Per-user role fees sit on top of the base plan, and texting costs extra. Get a written quote for your exact user count before comparing JobNimbus with anything that publishes a price.

AccuLynx is the deepest platform in this list and the one most often named for insurance restoration at scale. Pro covers the day-to-day of a roofing company — leads and CRM, estimates and contracts, invoicing, labor management and supplier ordering — and Elite adds supplement tracking, permits, commissions, multi-location control and a production calendar.

It is also the least transparent on price. AccuLynx publishes no dollar figure at all: Pro and Elite are custom quote after a demo, priced per license, and the $250-a-month Essential plan was dropped in August 2026, so smaller crews now start on a Pro quote. Nine features sit behind paid add-ons. Ask for the quote in writing, with every add-on priced, before you sign.

STACK is cloud takeoff and estimating for teams that bid from plans: upload a plan set, measure quantities in the browser, and build the estimate from items and assemblies, with several estimators working the same numbers in real time. Premium costs $299 per user a month billed annually, or $349 billed monthly, and includes AI Takeoffs and STACK IQ.

The free plan is genuinely usable — one active project a month, up to 300 plan pages and 50 measurements, with 7 days of Pro at sign-up. The catch is the commitment: every paid plan runs 12 months, and a three-person estimating team pays $10,764 a year before add-ons. Pick STACK when the bidding happens off plans and more than one estimator touches the same job.

PlanSwift is the old-school option: a Windows desktop app for point-and-click takeoff, where you measure areas, lengths and counts straight off digital plans and price them from trade assemblies. Essential costs $2,000 a year for one seat and includes Auto Count, Auto Scale and Auto Bookmark; Core at $3,000 adds Auto Takeoff for a first pass.

It is takeoff and estimating only — no CRM, no invoicing, no proposal step — so it suits a solo estimator who bids from plans and hands the numbers to someone else. The 14-day free trial is the way to test it, and the annual license means the $2,000 lands in one payment. Pick PlanSwift when the plans are the job and the assemblies are the shortcut.