The 10 Best Construction Project Management Software For 2023

Wrike is a powerful project management software that caters to the unique needs of construction projects. With its comprehensive features and tools, this software allows users to keep track of every aspect of their project, from budgeting to scheduling, resource allocation, and team collaboration. They can easily create custom workflows and task lists, delegate responsibilities, and monitor progress, making it an ideal solution for busy construction managers who must simultaneously stay on top of multiple projects.

This cloud-based platform provides real-time data and analytics, allowing teams to make better, data-driven decisions that can improve project outcomes and increase profitability. Its resource management feature lets supervisors manage and track project resources, such as equipment and materials, in real time. This feature also allows managers to check availability, allocate resources to specific tasks, and identify underutilized resources within the project.

Wrike's collaboration tools enable all team members to work together seamlessly by providing real-time messaging, commenting, and video conferencing tools. Its timesheets provide granular insights into the labor costs associated with each project stage, which is helpful in the construction industry, where projects can span months or even years. This feature gives users complete visibility into their workforce's activity, enabling them to make more informed decisions and adjustments to ensure the project stays on time and within budget.

The software’s intuitive interface provides users with drag-and-drop functions to manage the timeline, budgets, and resource allocation. They can also specify project milestones to track progress while ensuring all team members stay on the same page. Wrike’s Gantt charts clearly show the project timeline, highlighting the dependencies between tasks. This allows stakeholders to better understand how each task relates to the overall project and helps identify potential roadblocks early.

Pricing starts at $9.80/user/month, and a free plan is available.

Contractor Foreman is a cloud-based software that helps manage construction projects, resources, documents, and finances. Features span to include employee time tracking, project scheduling, billing and invoicing, and document sharing. Users can manage multiple projects simultaneously and dispatch teams based on availability and proximity because of the software's GPS tracker.

Project plans, daily logs, to-do lists, and client portals can all be used to streamline the project lifecycle and keep everyone in the loop on progress. Users can create personalized forms, templates, inspection checklists, and reports to fit project-specific requirements, helping you collect all the essential data to plan and execute your construction projects. The software also includes a custom estimation module with quick selections and customizable items allowing contractors to quickly create professional estimates.

Photos, measurements, and other important project documents can be easily captured on the go with the mobile app. The document management module enables users to manage all construction project-related documents in one place. This could include plans, drawings, blueprints, photos, and contracts. Contact management is also included, to help you manage your client, vendor, and subcontractor data.

Integrations with other apps like QuickBooks, WePay, Outlook 365, Google Calendar, CompanyCam, Gusto, and Angi Leads are available. You can also use a paid Zapier account to unlock additional software integrations. A free 30-day trial is available, and paid plans start at $49 per month, billed annually.

CMiC delivers enterprise and field operations solutions purpose-built for construction and capital projects companies by using a single database platform for all planning. You can manage invoices, purchases, subcontractor compliance, change orders, punch lists together with your customer relationship management in one place.

CMiC is a robust, scalable tool that uses expert infrastructure to organize collaboration, data storage and retrieval, and intelligent reporting technology. Their tools help create a database of information that is easily searchable and clean. 

CMiC has built-in seamless integrations with Kofax, DocuSign, Plan Grid, BlueBeam, AutoDesk, Oracle/Textura, and other third-party applications.

A one-time payment might be a relief to companies who don’t want to dabble in endless billing cycles and hard-to-cancel contracts – however, the substantial price tag makes CMiC an inaccessible choice to many, losing them some point in our evaluation for Value for Cost. 

CMiC starts at $90,000 as a one-time payment and has a free demo.

VPO markets itself as the easiest construction project management software because it’s customizable, easy to use, accessible on any device. It’s also based off of the Office 365 system so for project managers who are used to Excel or Microsoft Project the learning curve is shorter.

VPO’s feature set includes features for bidding, financials, meeting management, capturing work in progress, RFIs, submittals, change orders, project emails, service management, and scheduling. It also has a program management feature to keep your eye on the bottom line and aid program level decision-making. 

The dashboards are above average in this software, with useful executive dashboard reports and visual displays of your projects by location.

VPO offers pricing upon request and has a Free Demo.

ConstructionOnline is a highly-rated construction project management software with features like cloud file management, plan and drawing markup tools, estimating and job costing, and critical-path project scheduling to manage projects from pre-construction to the complete project lifecycle.

Communication and collaboration tools are well-utilized here, particularly the sleek email-esc messaging feature dedicated to each individual project. Notes and comments are kept segmented, clean, and logged. 

Integrations include Quickbooks, Microsoft Project, AWS, Zero, Sage 300, Dropbox, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, UDA ConstructionSuite, OnSite Mobile Apps, Houzz, and more. 

The integration between ConstructionOnline and ConstructionSuite is quite rough around the edges. Considering they are based on the same platform and built by the same developer, this clear oversight lost them some point in the Integration evaluation category. 

ConstructionOnline starts at $200/month and has a free 10-day free trial.

Builterra is a contract administration tool with real-time cost estimates, a Bid Preparation portal, RFI and submittals, incident reporting, standardized item catalogs, geo-located photo updates, a progress dashboard, accurate monthly payment certificates, and more. 

Photo geolocation is easily accessible, as is photo captioning options. Uploading from desktop or mobile is intuitive and handled well by the app. Documentation and record keeping are some of the most useful features. 

Integrates with CAD data and Excel. No other possible integration data was provided by the vendor.

The UX looks a bit dated and the iOS compatibility isn’t gesture supported. Because of this, they lost some marks in the UX segment of the evaluation criteria list. Additionally, they lost some marks for not having transparent pricing options outlined on the website. 

Builterra offers pricing upon request and has a free demo.

PASKR is a construction-oriented project management solution with features to help with pre-construction, project management, field management, and accounting. Notable features include unlimited storage, contact management, version control, bid response tracking, proposal packages, and lots of features for billing, expenses, and purchase orders. 

PASKR is incredibly streamlined. They’ve selected project management features are most useful to automate parts of the job, and they’ve trimmed the fat. They focus on portability, easy onboarding, remote access, collaboration, and task management.

Integrations include Sage 100/300 and Quickbooks. No other integration data was available on their site. 

PASKR would do well with more options for accounting integration options, which lost them some evaluation criteria points in the Integrations section. Additionally, more frequent software updates would be welcome.

LetsBuild, formerly GenieBelt and Aproplan, is a digital tool for construction professionals that assists with ensuring teams are in sync, schedules are up-to-date, stakeholders and involved in the communication, and construction processes are digitized so all team members have access to project information. 

The different dashboard features are well utilized and having everything hosted in cloud-based storage better enables remote contractors and subcontractors. Analysis, reporting, and picture uploading are some extremely helpful features to help visualize the entire project on a big picture level.

Integrations Revit, Piecync, Bricsys, Excel spreadsheets, Tableau, Sharepoint, SAP, Landax, Dropbox, Trello, Primavera P6, and over 1000 more through Zapier. 

LetsBuild lost a few marks in Usability simply because the mobile app and the web app function differently and cause some confusion. The web-based platform has more details, a different interface, and more options, but you won’t know until you waste time hunting for something.

LetsBuild starts at $277/month and has a freemium version available.

Used by over 850,000 contractors, Joist is a professional invoicing and estimating app with a feature list that includes digital signatures for invoices in-person or online, cost markups, financial management, deposit requests, payment schedules, job photos, and more.

Joist is hugely affordable and perfect for teams without regular access to desktop computers and/or an office space. All it takes is a compatible mobile device to get started. Because of the low barrier cost, it’s perfect for smaller teams who only need the basics. 

Joist does not currently integrate with other applications. 

Per the above note, Joist lost a significant number of evaluation points in the Integrations category – as they don’t offer any. It’s not unusual for mobile-only apps to not integrate well, however, project management often requires many connections to cover all of your bases.

Joist starts at $10/month and has a freemium version available.

Candy CCS is a specialized software solution for the construction and engineering industries that is developed by contractors to address industry-specific needs. They address estimating and cost control, project control, enterprise management, and more. 

Candy CCS is user-friendly and the UX is transparent and useful, if a bit drab. It can take some time and practice to get into programming on CCS but it overall scored quite well in our evaluation consideration for Usability and UX. 

Integrations include Pastel’s Accounting Software and BuildSmart. No other information was available on their site. 

On occasion, reporting doesn’t work as intended and will offer an error or a corrupt PDF. Navigation and management of Quantity take-offs (QTO) estimates and tracking could be more comprehensive. 

Candy CCS offers pricing upon request and has both a free trial and a free demo available.