Does annotating a photo change the original?

No. Arrows, boxes, text and measurements live on a separate layer above the photograph. The original file is never rewritten, so you can always view, share or export the clean image. This matters because photographs are evidence in insurance, warranty and payment disputes, and an edited photo is a weaker one.

Can I take photos with no signal?

Yes. Capture works entirely offline and the photos are saved to the device immediately, with the queue visible so you can see what has uploaded and what has not. They upload when signal returns. Editing and deleting need connectivity, which is a deliberate trade to keep the offline path simple enough that it cannot lose your work.

What happens to photos I took before the job existed?

They stay. A Photo belongs to a Site, not to a Job — so the pictures from the estimate visit are already in the right place months later when the work is won. Tagging a Job is optional and can be done afterwards.

Are photos compressed?

No. Originals are stored at full resolution and never downscaled, expired or thinned out.

Job site photo app with annotation

The camera roll problem

The photos exist. That has never been the issue. They are on four different phones, in one undifferentiated stream of eleven thousand images, mixed in with the dog and the kids' birthday. When a homeowner claims the crack was not there in March, the picture that proves otherwise is technically in your pocket and practically unreachable.

A photo taken in Crewsome lands on a Site — the physical property — and stays there permanently. The Site outlives every individual piece of work, so the photographic history keeps accruing to the address rather than scattering across jobs, phones and departed employees.

Why it is a layer, not an edit

A marked-up photo and an unaltered photo are different objects.

Most tools burn the arrow into the pixels. It is easier to build and it looks the same on screen — right up to the day somebody asks whether the image has been modified, and the honest answer is yes.

Annotations here are stored separately from the image. That means you can draw three arrows and a measurement on a photograph, send the annotated version to the crew, send the clean version to the adjuster, and both are the truth.

The original file is never rewritten after upload
View or share the clean image at any time
Annotations can be changed or removed without degrading the photo
Full-resolution original is what you get back on export

What it does

Site albums that outlive the job

Every Site accumulates its photographic history indefinitely — quotes, jobs, callbacks, the lot. Three years of work on one property, in one place, in order.

Optional Job tags

A photo does not have to belong to a Job to be worth keeping. Tag it when there is a Job to tag, leave it untagged when there is not. Nothing is blocked behind setup.

Annotation as a layer

Arrow, box, text and measurement, drawn one-handed with gloves on. Stored beside the photograph, never burned into it.

Offline capture queue

Shoot all day in a basement. The photos are saved the moment you take them and the interface says so, with the queue visible rather than hidden behind a spinner.

Search and share links

Find the shot by Site, Job, date or who took it. Send a homeowner a link without making them install anything.

PDF reports

A dated set of photographs for a Job, formatted to hand to an insurer or attach to an invoice.

Starting from a full camera roll

Day one, already populated.

An empty photo app is a photo app you stop opening. So the first thing it offers to do is read the camera roll already on the phone, cluster the images by where and when they were taken, and turn them into Sites.

You review the clusters, name the ones worth naming, and discard the rest. What was an empty product ten minutes ago is now three years of job history you did not have to enter.

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job sites found in your photos — the opening line of the import, and the reason it is treated as a headline feature rather than onboarding chrome.

Questions

Does annotating a photo change the original?: No. Arrows, boxes, text and measurements live on a separate layer above the photograph. The original file is never rewritten, so you can always view, share or export the clean image. This matters because photographs are evidence in insurance, warranty and payment disputes, and an edited photo is a weaker one.
Can I take photos with no signal?: Yes. Capture works entirely offline and the photos are saved to the device immediately, with the queue visible so you can see what has uploaded and what has not. They upload when signal returns. Editing and deleting need connectivity, which is a deliberate trade to keep the offline path simple enough that it cannot lose your work.
What happens to photos I took before the job existed?: They stay. A Photo belongs to a Site, not to a Job — so the pictures from the estimate visit are already in the right place months later when the work is won. Tagging a Job is optional and can be done afterwards.
Are photos compressed?: No. Originals are stored at full resolution and never downscaled, expired or thinned out.

The other two lanes

Time tracking

Hours against a Job and a Cost Code, so labour cost is a fact rather than a guess.

Crew scheduling

Who is where tomorrow, decided once and visible to everyone who needs it.

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