UK. Prices read on supplier pages, 15 August 2026
Compare snagging and defect management software for UK construction
Three of the six systems here publish a price, and only two publish one in sterling. The bigger split is what they are for: three record snags during the build, one is built for the two years of aftercare that follow handover, and two try to span both. The New Homes Quality Code requires a registered developer to put right any snags or defects regardless of who identifies them, so which side of handover a system sits on decides whether it is any use to you.
| Option | supplier's own page, checked 15 Aug 2026 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site Audit Pro One inspector who wants a report by teatime | The cheapest published price by a wide margin. £12.90 as a one-off purchase of the app on iOS or Android, then a Free plan at £0 a month, a monthly subscription at £6.99 or an annual one at £59.99. Both subscriptions state they require the iOS app, with Android under development | Not offered. Issues are recorded against a project with annotated photos rather than pinned to a drawing | Not described. The output is a branded PDF report exported and shared, rather than a portal others log into | Not designed for it. No resident portal or defect liability period workflow is described | The Free plan is ongoing rather than time-limited, but needs the one-off app purchase first. It covers offline projects, basic issue details, image annotation, signatures and default report themes |
| PlanRadar Snags pinned to a drawing with subcontractors included | Published in sterling, per user per month: Basic (maximum 1 user) at £23 or £25, Starter at £80 or £89, Pro at £119 or £139. The page offers a Monthly and an Annual option with annual stated to save more than 10%, so the lower figure in each pair is the annual rate. Enterprise is a personal quote | Yes, and metered by tier: 10 digital plans on Basic, 30 per user on Starter, 100 per user on Pro, with 1 BIM model per user from Pro upwards | Unlimited subcontractors and watchers on every tier, stated on the pricing page as included for free | Not framed as aftercare, but the platform covers building operations as well as construction management, with tickets, approval workflows, ticket signatures and report templates | Free trial with no credit card required, stated on the pricing page |
| Fieldwire by Hilti A free tier a small contractor can actually work in | Published in US dollars on the page served to us, per user per month billed annually: Basic $0, Pro $39, Business $64, Business Plus $89. The page carries a currency selector that includes British Pound, but no sterling figure was shown to us | Yes. Plan viewing and as-built drawings on every tier, with a BIM viewer from the Business tier | Priced per user on the paid tiers. The free Basic tier covers 5 users, 3 projects and 100 sheets | Not framed as aftercare. Punch list and inspection are named products, alongside RFIs, submittals, change orders and budget on the higher tiers | Basic is $0 per user a month, described as for small teams wanting to try out core features: plan viewing, task management, specifications, files and photos, and checklists |
| Snagmaster Unlimited users on a project rather than per seat | Not published. The site routes to an enquiry form | Not described on the pages we read. The named modules are a productivity dashboard, defects and activities, eForms and permits, and checklists and audit | Unlimited users is stated as part of the offer, alongside unlimited projects and unlimited signatories on sign-off workflows | Framed around quality assurance, completion and handover of a construction project rather than post-completion aftercare | A 30-day trial that the site states is fully featured and completely free, explicitly contrasting itself with trials that gate features behind payment |
| Zutec Snagging that has to survive into the handover file | Not published. The site routes to a demo, and offers a proof of concept on one project before full-scale implementation | Yes. States users drop geo-located pins for snags and defects on general arrangement drawings, colour coded by status, with photos, annotations and drawings attached. Zutec Field is stated to work offline and sync later | Quality assurance for subcontractors is a separately named solution, and reports can be generated from the snagging register to show how different subcontractors are performing | Positioned around handover rather than after it: snagging sits alongside handover management, digital handover, operations and maintenance manuals and Gateway 3 management | No free tier. A proof of concept on a single project is offered before committing |
| Clixifix The two years after the keys are handed over | Not published. There is no pricing page on the site | Not offered as a drawing tool. Defects are organised by region, scheme and plot rather than pinned to a general arrangement drawing | Contractor portals are described as a free online tool for the supply chain, letting contractors accept defect assignments, schedule repairs and post real-time updates on the jobs they are addressing | The only one here built for it. Described as purpose-built to streamline aftercare operations, for housebuilders, housing associations, principal contractors and subcontractors, with a residents portal, a complaints module, digital sign off, audits and inspections, digital libraries and defect cost analysis | Not stated on the pages we read |
How we chose and ordered these
Every system here is sold for construction snagging, defect or aftercare management and its own supplier website could be fetched and read on 15 August 2026. We recorded only what each supplier states on its own pages, at the URL given against its row. Nothing here comes from a directory, a review aggregator or one vendor's blog about its competitors, because the prices those carry cannot be traced to the supplier and go stale silently.
The order is by what the supplier will tell you before you speak to sales: systems with a published price first, cheapest entry point to dearest, then systems that quote only. That is a ranking of pricing transparency, not of fitness. The three quote-only systems here include the only one built specifically for post-completion aftercare, which is the part of the job the published-price tools do not attempt.
Left out, and why. SnagR, one of the longest-established names in construction snagging, has no readable site we could reach: snagr.co.uk served a captcha challenge, snagr.net returned an empty response, and snagr.com is a placeholder about image security. Dalux returned 403 at every path we tried including its root. Snapdit answered with no readable content. GoReport publishes prices (from £149 a month) but is a residential surveying reporting platform built around RICS and SAVA standards rather than a construction snagging tool, so it is not comparable here. Procore quotes on annual construction volume, and its UK pages did not describe snagging or punch lists, so we had nothing to record.
What this table does not tell you. It is not a rating, a test or a review: we have not run any of these systems on a live site. It says nothing about how a mobile app behaves on a wet Tuesday in a basement with no signal, which is the only test that matters, or about support, onboarding or what a supplier will actually charge after a negotiation. Your obligations under the New Homes Quality Code, your warranty provider's technical standards and the Building Safety Act sit with your business, never with the software. We take no commission from any supplier on this page and carry no paid placements.
- Site Audit Pro siteauditpro.com pricing
- PlanRadar planradar.com UK pricing
- Fieldwire by Hilti fieldwire.com pricing
- Snagmaster snagmaster.co.uk
- Zutec zutec.com snagging and defect management
- Clixifix clixifix.com
Snagging Software is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the New Homes Quality Board, the New Homes Ombudsman Service, any warranty provider or any software supplier named here, and nothing on it is legal, building control or building safety advice. We take no commission from any supplier in this comparison and carry no paid placements. Supplier prices and features change without notice and the New Homes Quality Code is updated on its own cycle: every figure carries the date we read it at source, and you should confirm the current position before relying on it.
Snagging software and the New Homes Quality Code, side by side, August 2026
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Snagging software is sold on speed and photographs. The obligations a registered developer is measured against sit in the New Homes Quality Code, and they are about who puts a defect right and by when. This table puts the two together.
The supplier columns were read on each supplier's own website on 15 August 2026, at the URL given in the comparison above, and are reproduced rather than estimated or converted between currencies. Where a supplier publishes no price, the row says so instead of carrying a figure from a directory. The Code statements come from the New Homes Quality Code, Version 2, March 2026, published by the New Homes Quality Board and read as a PDF on the same day; they are quoted rather than paraphrased where the wording carries weight. The Code applies to developers registered with the New Homes Quality Board and not to every UK builder, and it does not cover homes bought by a commercial entity or claims that could be dealt with through the structural warranty. Nothing here is a rating of any product, and nothing here is a substitute for reading the Code.
| System | Published price, read 15 August 2026 | Where it sits relative to handover |
|---|---|---|
| Site Audit Pro | £12.90 one-off app purchase, then a Free plan, £6.99 a month or £59.99 a year | During the build. Annotated photo issues and PDF reports, no drawing pinning, no resident side. |
| PlanRadar | £23 or £25 a month per user (Basic, max 1 user), £80 or £89 (Starter), £119 or £139 (Pro), annual rate lower. Enterprise on quote | Both. Construction management plus building operations, with unlimited subcontractors on every tier. |
| Fieldwire by Hilti | $0 (Basic), $39 (Pro), $64 (Business), $89 (Business Plus) per user per month billed annually. No sterling shown to us | During the build. Punch list, inspections, RFIs and submittals against plans and BIM. |
| Snagmaster | Not published. Enquiry form, with a 30-day fully featured free trial | During the build. Quality assurance, completion and handover, with unlimited users and signatories. |
| Zutec | Not published. Demo, or a proof of concept on one project | Both. Snagging pinned to GA drawings, carried through to digital handover and O&M manuals. |
| Clixifix | Not published. No pricing page on the site | After handover. Aftercare and resident defect management, with contractor portals and a complaints module. |
- The New Homes Quality Code states that all registered developers must aim to make sure there are no snags or defects in their properties before the keys are handed over to a customer, and that if there are any snags or defects, regardless of who identifies them, these must be put right within the agreed timescales.
- Where a pre-completion inspection identifies issues that breach the warranty technical standards, the Code makes the developer responsible for addressing these, ideally before legal completion or within 30 days if that is not possible.
- The Code states that the NHQB Pre-Completion Inspection Checklist can be reproduced in an electronic or digital format, provided the checks shown on the original template are carried out. That is the sentence that lets a digital snagging tool replace the paper checklist.
- A registered developer must give the customer a full and accessible after-sales service for at least two years following the date of completion, including responsibility for putting right snags and defects arising in that period.
- The Code sets out how the pre-completion inspection is done: internal walls must be inspected in natural daylight from a minimum distance of two metres, and not by shining a light on the surface.
- If a customer engages a third party to carry out the pre-completion inspection, the Code requires that inspector to be a member of a recognised professional association experienced in residential surveying (it gives CABE, CIOB, ICWCI, RICS and RPSA as examples), to hold relevant professional indemnity insurance, to work only within their competency, and to use only the standard template checklist.
- The Code does not cover homes bought by a commercial entity, or claims that could be dealt with through the structural warranty.
- Three of the six snagging systems compared here publish a price, and only two publish one in sterling (checked 15 August 2026).
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“Snagging software and the New Homes Quality Code, side by side, August 2026”, Snagging Software, https://snaggingsoftware.co.uk/ (updated 2026-08-15). The supplier columns were read on each supplier's own website on 15 August 2026, at the URL given in the comparison above, and are reproduced rather than estimated or converted between currencies. Where a supplier publishes no price, the row says so instead of carrying a figure from a directory. The Code statements come from the New Homes Quality Code, Version 2, March 2026, published by the New Homes Quality Board and read as a PDF on the same day; they are quoted rather than paraphrased where the wording carries weight. The Code applies to developers registered with the New Homes Quality Board and not to every UK builder, and it does not cover homes bought by a commercial entity or claims that could be dealt with through the structural warranty. Nothing here is a rating of any product, and nothing here is a substitute for reading the Code.
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Straight answers
How much does snagging software cost?
Three of the six systems compared here publish a price. Site Audit Pro is £12.90 as a one-off app purchase, then a free plan, £6.99 a month or £59.99 a year. PlanRadar publishes sterling prices per user per month of £23 or £25 for Basic (maximum one user), £80 or £89 for Starter and £119 or £139 for Pro, with the lower figure in each pair the annual rate. Fieldwire published US dollar prices of $0, $39, $64 and $89 per user per month billed annually. Snagmaster, Zutec and Clixifix publish no figure. All read on 15 August 2026.
What does the New Homes Quality Code say about snags?
It states that all registered developers must aim to make sure there are no snags or defects in their properties before the keys are handed over to a customer, and that if there are any snags or defects, regardless of who identifies them, these must be put right within the agreed timescales. Where a pre-completion inspection identifies issues that breach the warranty technical standards, the developer is responsible for addressing these, ideally before legal completion or within 30 days if that is not possible.
Can the pre-completion inspection checklist be done on an app?
Yes. The New Homes Quality Code states that the inspection must be carried out and recorded in line with the NHQB Pre-Completion Inspection Checklist, and that the checklist can be reproduced in an electronic or digital format, provided the checks shown on the original template are carried out. That last condition matters: a configurable digital template that drops or rewords items on the original checklist is not reproducing it.
How long does a developer have to deal with defects after handover?
The New Homes Quality Code requires a registered developer to give the customer a full and accessible after-sales service for at least two years following the date of completion, including responsibility for putting right issues and problems, including snags and defects, that arise in that period. The developer must also give the customer a written statement of its after-sales procedures, timescales for dealing with problems, named contacts, a formal complaints route and an emergency process.
Is snagging software the same as defect management software?
Usually not. A construction snagging tool is organised around drawings, trades and closing out before handover, and finishes when the site does. An aftercare or defect management system is organised around plots, response timescales and a complaints route, and runs through the defect liability period. Of the six systems here, Clixifix is built for aftercare, Fieldwire, Snagmaster and Site Audit Pro are built for the build, and PlanRadar and Zutec span both. Plenty of housebuilders buy one of each.
Which snagging systems let subcontractors in for free?
PlanRadar states that subcontractors and watchers are unlimited and included free on every tier. Clixifix describes its contractor portals as a free online tool where the supply chain accepts defect assignments, schedules repairs and posts updates. Snagmaster states unlimited users, unlimited projects and unlimited signatories. Fieldwire charges per user on its paid tiers, with 5 users on the free Basic plan. Site Audit Pro produces exported PDF reports rather than a portal.
Does snagging software work offline on site?
Two of the six say so explicitly on the pages we read. Zutec states Zutec Field is designed to work offline, so inspections and secure sign-offs can be carried out with no connection and synced afterwards. Site Audit Pro lists offline projects on every plan, including its free one. The other four describe mobile apps without stating offline behaviour on the pages we read, which is not the same as saying they lack it. Test it in the worst room on your worst site before you commit.
Why is SnagR not in this comparison?
Because we could not read a supplier page for it on 15 August 2026 and we do not publish a row we cannot source. snagr.co.uk served a captcha challenge instead of content, snagr.net returned an empty response, and snagr.com is a placeholder page about image security. Dalux returned 403 at every path including its root, and Snapdit answered with no readable content. That is a limitation of this comparison, not a judgement on any of those products.
Start from what suppliers publish, not what directories claim
Six systems, three published prices, and the New Homes Quality Code requirements they all have to serve, each traceable to the page it came from.