Photo documentation

BuildPunch photo documentation is a jobsite camera and photo record built into the project itself: your crew shoots in the app, the file uploads straight to project storage at full resolution, and it never saves to their personal camera roll. It is for any contractor whose evidence currently lives in twelve phones and a text thread. It replaces a standalone photo app like CompanyCam, because the same photos are already attached to punch items, daily reports, and drawings.

Originals stay original

The file you upload is the file BuildPunch stores — no server-side downscaling, no re-encoding, no silent compression. Small thumbnails are generated separately so the feed loads fast, but a download or a project export hands you back the original bytes.

That matters the day someone asks what was behind a wall before it closed. A photo that has been resized to fit a feed is not the same evidence as the file the camera produced.

A feed that matches how a job actually reads

Date-grouped feed on web and mobile — scroll a job by the day it happened, not by an undifferentiated grid.
Hashtags, full-text search, and bulk tagging so a thousand photos stay findable.
Comments on any photo, with edit history.
Annotations drawn right on the photo, plus video telestration on Professional and above.
Before/after pairing to put the same location side by side across time.

The camera that does not leak

The mobile in-app camera never requests media-library permission and never writes to the device gallery. Jobsite photos go to the project, not to a personal phone that leaves with the employee.

Photos captured against a punch item, a daily report, or a walkthrough are filed with that record automatically — there is no second step where someone has to remember to upload.

Which plans include it

Included on every plan, including free. Video telestration requires Professional or above.

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