Fieldwire Review 2026:
What 476 real reviews revealed

Directly tested: sign-up and company setup, project creation, the four sample plans, the plan viewer and freehand markup, task detail with checklist, manpower, and cost fields, photo records, the project and account People screens, the Basic 3-project limit, mobile project downloads, offline edits on Android, sync back to the web, the browser with the connection off, and the upgrade gates on every paid module.

Seen but not tested in depth: Specifications, Files, version control, and the Integrations catalog. Not tested: multi-user permissions, sheet compare, custom forms, BIM, RFIs, submittals, change orders, and Budget, because those sit on paid plans or need a live team.

Where we rely on Fieldwire's pricing page or Help Center rather than our test, we say so.

Fieldwire got us into the product fast. The sign-up form asked for a name, work email, and a password of at least 10 characters, then a short company setup: company name, phone number, and company type (Specialty Contractor, General Contractor, Architect / Engineer, Owner / Developer, or Other). No credit card was asked for at any step.

The first real step was "Create your first project," which prefilled a project name from the company name. Inside the project, Fieldwire went straight to an "Upload your plans" dialog. That says a lot about the product: the plan set is the center of everything. We had no drawings ready, so we said so, and Fieldwire offered to load four sample plans. That let us test the plan viewer without preparing a real file.

Onboarding mostly gets you through the door. The account menu (Projects, People, Account, Templates, Integrations) was easy to read, but the real setup work starts after that: deciding which plans, people, tasks, and files belong in each project.

The free Basic plan is not a time-limited trial. Fieldwire's pricing page describes it as "For small teams wanting to try out Fieldwire's core features," with plan viewing, task management, specifications, files, photos, and checklists. The limits are firm: 3 projects, 5 users, and 100 sheets across the account.

We hit the project limit directly. Creating a fourth project opened a modal reading "You've reached the limit of 3 projects on your Fieldwire Basic plan. Upgrade to any paid plan for unlimited projects." The only button on it was "Request demo," not a self-serve upgrade. The Account page showed the plan as Basic with API access disabled.

Fieldwire's Help Center says that once you go over any limit, you need to upgrade or cut projects, sheets, or users back down. For a small team testing the workflow on one or two live jobs, Basic is enough. For an active contractor with several jobs running, it is a sandbox.

Plans were the strongest part of our test. Opening a sheet gave us a construction workspace, not a basic PDF viewer: the markup toolbar sat on the left, the task list for that sheet sat on the right, and a revision date and Version control button sat above the drawing. We marked up the sheet freehand, and the markup stayed attached to the sheet instead of becoming a separate image.

Tasks can be tied to a spot on the drawing, so the plan stays visible while an issue is tracked. That is more useful in the field than a task list that says what needs doing without showing where.

We did not run a multi-revision sheet comparison, so we make no claim about sheet compare quality. Fieldwire lists sheet compare on Pro and up. Reviewers who use plans heavily raised the most specific complaints here: sheet ordering and naming on upload, layering by issue date, and measurement accuracy. That came up in 16 of the 476 reviews and comments we coded.

Fieldwire tasks are flexible enough to work as punch items, observations, field issues, or small assignments. The task detail held status, priority, category, assignee, plan, location, start and end dates, manpower, cost, tags, watchers, related tasks, checklists, attachments, and a message thread.

We built a five-item checklist, set manpower to 5 hours, and set cost to $100. The activity log recorded each change with a time stamp, so the task carries its own history instead of being a static note. A message sent from the phone showed up in the same task's activity on the web.

Manpower and cost are plain number fields you fill in by hand. They don't come from a time clock and they don't roll up into labor costs by job on Basic. Reviewers like Fieldwire's task tools: one Reddit user wrote that task management is "where Fieldwire blows it away."

Photos are project records, not attachments buried in a message. The web photo view showed who uploaded the photo, the upload date and time, tags, and whether it was linked to a plan, task, or form. Ours wasn't linked yet, and Fieldwire prompted us to attach it to one. That gives a team a way to keep jobsite proof organized instead of leaving it in personal camera rolls. Our guide to <a href="https://www.workyard.com/construction-management/construction-photo-documentation">construction photo documentation</a> covers what good photo records need.

A photo taken on the phone appeared in the web Photos list with the same upload time. Photo handling is also where some reviewers struggle: syncing photos, uploading from the phone's gallery, and photos landing in the wrong place came up in 8 of the 476 reviews and comments we coded.

People management stayed available on Basic. The project People screen listed project users with name, email, company, phone, and project role, with a New users button. The account-level People list showed the same details plus each person's projects and account role.

We worked alone, so we didn't test roles and permissions with a live team and make no claim about them. One pricing detail matters here: Fieldwire's Help Center says every person invited to a paid account, including followers, counts as a license unless they already pay for their own Fieldwire plan, so access decisions are also cost decisions.

Yes, on the mobile app, for projects you downloaded before losing signal. In our September 2026 test on Android, we opened a downloaded project offline, added a task message, took a photo, and marked up a plan. After we reconnected, all three appeared in the web app with no manual recovery: the message in the task's activity, the photo in Photos, and the markup on the sheet.

Two things did not work offline. Creating a new project showed "Internet connection is required to create a project." And the desktop browser has no offline mode: when we cut the connection, the Tasks and Plans pages sat on "Loading..." and we couldn't keep working.

Fieldwire's Help Center matches what we saw. Offline works in the iOS and Android apps, not the Windows beta. In our test, the browser didn't work offline either. You must be logged in before you go offline, only downloaded content is available, and tasks created offline don't get their numbers until the device reconnects. If your crews work in basements, rural sites, or steel buildings, download the project before you leave the office.

The Basic sidebar shows the whole product: Plans, Specifications, Tasks, Photos, Files, Forms, 3D Models, RFIs, Submittals, Change Orders, and Budget. Clicking through showed that several of those are upgrade screens on Basic, not working modules.

In our account, Forms, 3D Models, Templates, and app integrations opened Business upgrade screens. Fieldwire's pricing page lists project templates on Pro, but our Basic account showed a Business upgrade screen for Templates, so confirm with Fieldwire. RFIs, Submittals, Change Orders, and Budget opened Business Plus screens. The Forms gate itself mentions "daily reports to timesheets and safety audits," so daily reports and timesheet forms start at Business. We saw the gates, not the paid workflows behind them, so we make no claim about how well those modules work.

The practical point: price the tier that holds the workflows you need, not the sidebar. If your team needs forms, that's Business at $64 per user per month billed annually. If you need RFIs, submittals, or change orders, that's Business Plus at $89.