Jobsite progress, documentedQuestions
How photos get captured, filed, found, and handed to a client. If your question isn't here, ask us directly — a person answers.
Ditch is jobsite photo documentation. Your crew shoots photos with the mobile app; Ditch files them by jobsite, location, and time, reads what’s in them, and makes the whole record searchable from your desk.
It replaces the camera roll, the text threads, and the folder nobody maintains.
Contractors, supers, and field crews who take a lot of photos and need to find them later — for progress reporting, change orders, closeout, or a dispute two years out.
No. They open the app and take photos. Everything else — where it was, what it shows, which session it belongs to — Ditch works out on its own.
A phone and a jobsite. Create a site, invite the crew with a code, and start shooting. The free plan covers one jobsite so you can try it on a real job, not a demo.
Yes. Photos capture straight to an on-device queue and upload when you get service back. You can keep shooting all day in a dead zone — nothing waits on a bar of LTE.
GPS. Ditch matches your location against your sites and shows an on site indicator when you’re there. You can switch sites by hand any time.
That’s what it’s built for. Big targets, high contrast, light backgrounds for outdoor legibility, and no small text where it matters.
Yes. Field notes go on the photo itself, so the context lives with the evidence instead of in someone’s memory.
Yes — the mobile app is for capture, and the web app is where you search the record, review the timeline and map, and build albums to send out.
By jobsite, then into sessions — a run of photos taken in the same area around the same time. A morning on one gridline reads as one entry in the timeline instead of forty separate rows.
The primary subject, the type of work, and site conditions — indoor or outdoor, wet or dry, and so on. That’s what makes the record searchable without anyone tagging anything.
No. Tagging is the reason photo libraries die. Ditch reads the photo instead, and you can still add a note when it matters.
Yes. The map view plots every GPS-tagged photo on the site, grouped by location, so you can see which areas got documented and which didn’t.
Yes, alongside the photo record for the same jobsite, so drawings and captures live in one place.
Search by what’s in it — work type, equipment, conditions, notes, date, or where on the site it was shot. You don’t need to remember the day or scroll a camera roll.
You ask the record a question in plain language and get an answer drawn from the photos on that site. Useful when you need what happened, not a folder.
Yes — including the free one. It’s how Ditch works, not an upsell. Fair-use limits apply.
Send a code or have them scan a QR. They join that site and can start capturing immediately — no seat provisioning, no IT ticket.
No. Paid plans include team and crew access — supers, PMs, office staff, field uploaders. You’re priced by jobsites, albums, and storage, never by head count.
Yes. Every photo carries its uploader, and the timeline shows who has been on site.
Free for one jobsite. Crew is $49/mo, Team $129/mo, and Operator $349/mo for unlimited jobsites and albums. Every plan includes AI search and chat.
Roughly 500 on Free, 2,700 on Crew, 9,000 on Team, and 36,000 on Operator. Those assume an average 5.7 MB photo — real capacity depends on your image sizes.
A site you’re currently capturing to. Archive one and it stops counting against your plan; the photos stay in the record.
Get in touch and we’ll put a package together — more storage, onboarding, or specific requirements.
Both put jobsite photos in one place. The difference is what happens after the shutter: Ditch reads every photo, groups it into sessions by location and time, and makes the whole record answerable in plain language.
The other difference is the bill. Ditch paid plans include your whole team and crew — you scale by jobsites, albums, and storage, not by how many people you add.
No. Paid plans include team and crew access — supers, PMs, office staff, field uploaders. Adding the fifth person costs the same as adding the fiftieth: nothing.
You scale by active jobsites, shared albums, and storage instead.
Compare the whole bill, not the base plan. Per-seat pricing grows every time you hand a phone to someone new; capacity pricing doesn’t. If your crew count moves and your jobsite count doesn’t, Ditch gets cheaper by comparison as you grow.
Run your own numbers against current list prices — ours are on the pricing page, plainly.
If searching the record is the job, that’s what Ditch is built around — find a photo by work type, equipment, conditions, notes, date, or where on the site it was shot, then ask the record questions in plain language. It’s on every plan, including the free one.
SiteCam is solid at photo documentation and reports. Ditch is aimed at the record you keep afterward: AI search and jobsite chat, session grouping, client-ready albums, and no per-user pricing on paid plans.
Ditch Free is one jobsite, 3 GB (roughly 500 photos at an average 5.7 MB), one shared album, and full AI search and chat. SiteCam’s free tier lists 3 projects and 500 photos.
So: they give you more sites, we give you the full AI record on a real job. If you want to try search and chat before paying, start free with us.
Those are broad field-management and daily-reporting platforms — scheduling, tasks, RFIs, reports. Ditch does one thing: the jobsite photo record, and the search and sharing on top of it.
If you need a full construction management suite, Ditch is not that. If you have one and its photo tooling is where things get lost, Ditch is the searchable photo layer.
Honestly, no — not as a construction management system. It is a replacement for the camera roll, the text threads, and the photo folder nobody maintains.
Yes. Most crews already run something for schedules and reports. Ditch handles photos, and your PM tool keeps doing what it does. If you need specific integration, get in touch and tell us what you’re running.
Crew photos. Ditch is built for field-uploaded documentation — what your people shoot as they work — not fixed-camera progress monitoring. Tools like SiteWatch price by project for camera monitoring; Ditch prices by jobsite for crew capture.
One that works with gloves on, in the sun, without signal — and that doesn’t charge you for growing. Start on Ditch Free with one real jobsite and see if the record holds up.
Look at how sites are separated and how you search across them. Ditch keeps each jobsite its own record with its own crew access and albums, and Operator covers unlimited active jobsites.
Those are excellent file systems. They just don’t know what a jobsite is. There’s no on-site capture, no GPS context, no session grouping, no reading what’s in the photo, and no client-ready album — there’s a folder, and whoever last named things badly.
Ditch stores photos as a jobsite record, not as files.
No, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Dropbox Plus lists 2 TB for $9.99/month; Dropbox Standard starts around $15/user/month. Nobody beats commodity storage on price per gigabyte.
You’re not paying us for gigabytes. You’re paying for the photos being findable two years later.
Google One lists 100 GB at $1.99/month and 2 TB at $9.99/month. That’s raw storage, and it’s a good deal.
Ditch is not competing as storage. Search, jobsite context, crew access, and albums are the product; the storage is just where the evidence sits.
For contracts, submittals, spreadsheets, and anything that isn’t a photo of the work. Use Dropbox as the file cabinet and Ditch as the jobsite record. Most crews run both.
For your own camera roll, sure. They fall down on the parts that matter on a job: separating sites, giving a crew access, keeping the uploader on the photo, sending an owner a clean album, and searching by what the photo actually shows.
They’re built for family albums. A jobsite record has different requirements.
They’re document systems with permissions. Ditch is photo capture in the field plus a searchable record behind it. Nobody on a crew is filing into a SharePoint tree from a ladder.
Storage answers “where is the file.” Documentation software answers “what happened on this site, and can you prove it.” Storage needs you to remember; documentation software remembers for you.
Files photos by jobsite, location, and session without anyone naming anything. Reads what each photo shows so you can search it. Keeps who took it and where. Sends a client a clean album instead of a dump. Works with no signal and syncs later.
A folder does none of that, and a camera roll actively works against you at 3,000 photos.
You do. It’s your jobsite record.
Yes. The original is what makes a photo evidence, so Ditch keeps it and makes it available.
Yes. Download originals or share them out as albums whenever you want.
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