Reddit has spoken: contractors are done with CompanyCam’s price hikes
Scroll the contractor subreddits and the message is loud: crews are done with CompanyCam’s price hikes. Reddit thread after Reddit thread asks the same question — what else is out there? — and CrewBoxPro looks to be the top selection: the same jobsite photo documentation, with the seats included in one flat plan price.
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- ✓ Time-stamped, GPS-tagged photo proof on every shot
- ✓ Every photo auto-filed to the right project
- ✓ Seats included in the plan — no $29-per-user add-ons
- ✓ Works fully offline, syncs automatically
- ✓ Branded, client-ready PDF reports in minutes
What Staying With CompanyCam Costs You
Same core features for every crew below — time-stamped photo documentation, annotation, tasks and client-ready reports. Both columns are the published billed-annually rate. The gap is pure overhead, every month, forever.
A solo plan with the full feature set — camera, tags, annotation, tasks and reports — at $0 only exists on CrewBox. CompanyCam’s cheapest way in is $63 a month.
CompanyCam published annual rates, October 2026: Core $63/mo (1 user), Crew $129/mo (3 users), Scale $199/mo (3 users), additional users $29/mo — cheapest qualifying plan shown per crew size. Verify at companycam.com/pricing.
“Before CrewBox my guys were texting me photos from four jobs at once and I couldn’t tell which was which. Now every shot lands on the right project on its own. I stopped losing hours hunting for pictures, and the crew stopped burning time standing around.”Adam
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What the Reddit threads keep saying
Search “CompanyCam alternative” on Reddit and the same three complaints come up in every contractor subreddit.
The bill keeps climbing
Crews report paying more this year for the same app they had last year — without new features they use.
Per-seat math hurts
$129/mo covers only 3 users, then it’s $29 per extra head. A five-person crew lands near $187 a month.
Paying for features they never use
Small crews mostly need photo proof and reports — not the enterprise integrations the price is built on.
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Why CrewBox Pro is the right move
Everything the threads say they’d miss from CompanyCam — photo proof, organization, reports — at a flat rate with the seats already included.
Every shot lands in the right project the moment you capture it.
Time, date, location and who shot it — attached automatically.
Tag the crew so everyone works from the same record.
Arrows, shapes and measurements drawn right on the photo.
Capture and tag with zero signal; it syncs when you’re back.
Turn organized photos into a branded PDF report in minutes.
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Why CrewBox is the best choice — issue by issue
Take the complaints that fill the Reddit threads and put them next to what CrewBox does. That’s the whole case.
Reddit’s issue
“The bill keeps climbing”
CrewBox’s answer
One flat plan price. The rate you sign up at is the rate the whole crew uses — no surprise per-seat add-ons stacked on later.
Reddit’s issue
“Per-seat math hurts”
CrewBox’s answer
Starter includes 5 users at $79/mo billed annually — about $15.80 a user, versus $43 at CompanyCam Crew’s three seats.
Reddit’s issue
“Paying for features they never use”
CrewBox’s answer
CrewBox is built for what small crews actually use — photo proof, tasks and PDF reports — on a modern stack, so the app stays fast and keeps improving.
That’s why we believe CrewBox is the best choice for crews coming off CompanyCam.
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One flat price. Trial included.
Both columns below are the billed-annually rate. The difference is structural: CompanyCam prices a plan and then prices every head on top of it. CrewBox bundles the heads into the plan.
Free
1 user · 50 projects · 10 GB storage. Camera, tags & annotation.
Create Free AccountDuo
2 users included · unlimited projects & storage. PDF reports, tasks and full offline mode for two-person crews.
Start Free TrialStarter
5 users included · unlimited projects · everything in Duo. About $15.80/user.
Start Your Free TrialCrew
3 users included · +$29 per extra user. $43/user at three seats.
How much more is CompanyCam?
Same crew, same job — both prices are the monthly rate billed annually.
| Crew size | CompanyCam | CrewBox | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just you | $63 /moCore | $0 /moSolo · free forever | $63 /mo$756 /yr |
| 2 people | $92 /moCore + 1 seat | $39 /moDuo · 2 included | $53 /mo$636 /yr |
| 5 people | $187 /moCrew + 2 seats | $79 /moStarter · 5 included | $108 /mo$1,296 /yr |
| 10 people | $332 /moCrew + 7 seats | $159 /moPro · 12 included | $173 /mo$2,076 /yr |
CompanyCam published rates, verified October 2026: Core $63/mo (1 user), Crew $129/mo (3 users), Scale $199/mo (3 users), Enterprise custom for 50+ — all billed annually, additional users $29/mo annually or $34/mo monthly. Verify at companycam.com/pricing. CrewBox rates come live from our billing system; see CrewBox pricing for monthly rates and every tier.
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Switching? Bring everything with you
It’s your data — years of jobsite history you paid to build, and you don’t have to abandon it to leave. We migrate crews from CompanyCam to CrewBox in a few hours: your photos, your tags, your comments, your pages, your documents and your videos land in CrewBox exactly how you had them, filed under the same projects, with the original timestamps and GPS data intact.
Contact support
Contact support and they will walk you through the steps to migrate your data. It’s your history — your projects, photos, videos, tags, comments, pages and documents — no hand exports, no zip files, no spreadsheet of filenames.
We rebuild it in CrewBox
Every project is recreated with its photos and videos in order — original timestamps and GPS intact, tags applied, comments threaded on the right photo, pages and documents filed where they were.
Crew signs in, keeps shooting
Install CrewBox, sign in, and the whole history is already there. Most teams are switched the same day — tomorrow’s photos just land in CrewBox instead.
Your data comes across — exactly how you had it
- Photos — with original timestamps and GPS data
- Videos — in the same projects, same order
- Tags — your whole tag vocabulary, still applied
- Comments — threaded on the photo they belong to
- Pages — recreated with their content in place
- Documents — plans, permits and contracts, filed per project
Done in a few hours · Nothing left behind · Keep CompanyCam until you’re sure
Want the full side-by-side?
We did the feature-by-feature and price-by-price comparison so you don’t have to piece it together from Reddit threads — including where CompanyCam is still the better fit.
See what Reddit is talking about.
Put your next job in CrewBox and run it side by side with whatever you use today. If the flat rate and the photo proof don’t win you over, cancel nothing — there was no card to begin with.
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Questions crews ask
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