RoofMetric
The TL;DR
EagleView is a roof report service — you pay $50–$80 per roof, they send you a measurement PDF a few hours later. Best when you need a court-defensible, surveyor-grade report (insurance claims, large commercial bids).
RoofMetric is roofing business software — you measure roofs yourself in 2 minutes using AI on satellite imagery, plus get a full CRM, branded estimate PDFs, photo annotation, hail tracking, and team collaboration. Flat $29/month, unlimited measurements.
Most residential roofing contractors measure 5–20 roofs per week. At EagleView prices that's $1,000–$6,400/month just on reports — before you've written a single estimate. RoofMetric pays for itself after the first roof.
Feature-by-feature comparison
| Capability | RoofMetric | EagleView |
|---|---|---|
| Measure a roof from satellite | ✓ In ~2 minutes, AI traced | ✓ Surveyor-grade, hours-long turnaround |
| Manual roof sketch (when satellite is stale or occluded) | ✓ Outline → snap interior lines → auto facet detection → per-facet pitch → edge classification | ✗ Report-only model — no in-house drawing tool |
| LiDAR room scanning (iPhone) | ✓ Native iOS app — Apple RoomPlan, 60-second capture, drops into estimate as Room Takeoff | ✗ Not in their product line |
| AR distance measure (iPhone) | ✓ Multi-item: Gutter / Downspout / Fascia / Valley, live rubber-band, labeled top-down sketch | ✗ |
| Gutter takeoff → estimate (iPhone) | ✓ Measure on the roof, set $/ft, line items land in the estimate builder | ✗ |
| Pricing | $29/mo flat — unlimited | $50–$80 per report |
| Customer CRM | ✓ Pipeline, custom fields, photos, notes | ✗ Reports only — no customer management |
| Branded PDF estimates | ✓ 4 templates, your logo, your colors | ✗ Measurement report only — bring your own estimating tool |
| Photo annotation with measurement | ✓ Arrow, text, pixel-accurate calibrated measurement | ✗ |
| Hail history & storm alerts | ✓ NOAA-backed lookup + alerts | ✗ Separate product (Assess) |
| E-signature on estimates | ✓ Built in, mobile-friendly | ✗ |
| Stripe Connect — accept payments | ✓ Built in | ✗ |
| Team collaboration | ✓ Up to 10 seats on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise | Multi-user available on enterprise plans |
| EagleView PDF import | ✓ Drop EagleView PDFs in, extracts measurements automatically | N/A (it's their format) |
| Order EagleView reports directly from inside RoofMetric | ✓ Built into every customer file (live as soon as your EagleView API account is approved) | Their core product — order from their portal |
| Court-defensible insurance-grade reports | For most jobs, no — sketches and AI traces (~99% accurate for residential) | ✓ Their core strength — sealed, signed, audit-grade |
| Calendar & task management | ✓ | ✗ |
| Mobile (iOS / Android) | ✓ Full-featured web app on any device plus native iPhone app (TestFlight today, App Store soon) — LiDAR, AR, native PDF preview + share sheet | Mobile app exists for ordering reports |
| Free trial | ✓ 14 days, no credit card | ✗ Pay per report from day one |
When to use EagleView
EagleView still wins for these scenarios:
- Hail damage insurance claims where the adjuster expects a sealed EagleView measurement report
- Large commercial roofs (50,000+ sq ft warehouses) where AI tracing on satellite gets fuzzy
- Public agency / government bids requiring third-party verified measurements
- Anything where the roof is occluded on satellite (heavy tree cover, recent build, low-res imagery)
The good news: you can use both, from inside the same app. RoofMetric has a one-click EagleView PDF importer (drag a PDF in, measurements extract automatically) plus a built-in EagleView API integration — order an EagleView report directly from any customer file in RoofMetric, the report comes back attached to the customer, and the measurements feed straight into the estimate. (API ordering is live as soon as your EagleView aggregator credentials are approved.)
When RoofMetric is the better fit
- Residential roofing (~85% of contractor work) — AI tracing on satellite is plenty accurate
- Field measurement on the roof itself — LiDAR, AR measure, and gutter takeoff on the iPhone replace the tape measure entirely for residential
- Older or rural homes with stale or low-res satellite — sketch manually with auto facet detection in 2 minutes, no EagleView order needed
- High-volume estimating — measure 10 roofs in the time EagleView takes to deliver one report
- You also need a CRM, estimate generator, and follow-up tracking — EagleView gives you a PDF and stops there
- You want flat, predictable pricing — $29 or $79/month vs. "depends on how many roofs you bid this month"
- You're a solo or small operation — EagleView's enterprise pricing is geared to volume
The math
Say you measure 6 roofs a week (24 a month) at $60 per EagleView report: $1,440/month.
RoofMetric Solo: $29/month. Difference: $1,411/month, $16,932/year.
Even if you keep using EagleView for the 1–2 insurance jobs per month that absolutely need it, you save ~$1,300/month on the prelim measurements that don't need that level of certification.