How to make an app for a house painter

A painting job is won at the measurement and lost in the details: the shade code for the bedroom wall, the extra putty coat, the painter who didn't come on Tuesday. An app measures each room, turns it into an estimate, keeps the shade chosen for every wall and tracks the team's days and the customer's payments.

Updated 2026-11-09

Who uses the app

The painting contractor, and perhaps a site supervisor. If the supervisor updates progress on his phone, connect your own Supabase database; if you run everything yourself, the data stays on your phone.

The screens a house painter app needs

Sites: Each job with the owner, address, start date, rooms done and amount received
Measurement: Room by room: wall sizes, doors and windows to deduct, ceiling; square feet worked out
Estimate: Area by work type (repaint, fresh, texture, enamel) at your rates, with paint and material, as a PDF
Shades: The paint company, shade name and code chosen for each wall, ceiling and door
Team: Painters on each site by day, and the week's wages
Payments: Advance, part payments and balance per site, with paint bought on your account

Features worth asking for

Square feet from wall sizes with doors and windows taken out
An estimate PDF with each room, work type, rate and total
Shade codes saved per wall, so touch-ups years later use the same colour
Room-by-room progress: covering, putty, primer, first coat, final coat
Painter attendance per site and weekly wages
Paint and material bought per site, so the margin is clear
A WhatsApp button with the balance due and the handover date

Where the data lives

If only you use the app, the data stays on your phone. If a supervisor marks attendance and progress on his own phone, connect your own Supabase database from the chat.

How to make it with AppCub, step by step

Decide what the app does. List the screens you need, for example: Sites, Measurement, Estimate, Shades, Team.
Describe it to AppCub. Paste the request below, changed to your own business and details.
Check the plan. AppCub shows the screens and features it will build. Change them in the chat until they are right; seeing the plan is free.
Try it on your phone. The app runs live next to the chat. Scan the QR code to install it, and ask for changes.
Share it. Share it as a web link, an APK file, or publish it on Google Play from your own developer account.

Copy this request, change the details to match your house painter, and paste it into AppCub:

Make an app for my house painting business, Wankhede Painting Works in Nagpur. Screens: sites, measurement, estimate, shades, team and payments. Measure each room by wall sizes, deduct doors and windows, add the ceiling. Estimate by work type: repaint ₹14, fresh with putty and primer ₹24, exterior ₹20, texture ₹65 per sq ft, as a PDF. Save the paint company, shade name and code for each wall. Track each room's stage: covering, putty, primer, first coat, final coat. Mark painters' days at ₹800 a day and total weekly wages. Track advance, payments and paint bought per site. Teal colours.

Tips for a house painter app

Measure the way you quote today and tell AppCub the rule, so the app's square feet match your old estimates.
Save shade codes the day the customer picks them; it is what they ask for at the next repaint.
Mark attendance every evening; weekly wages are easy only if no day is missed.
Record paint bought on your account per site, especially when the customer buys some and you buy the rest.
Start with measurement and estimate; add team and progress once you have used it on two sites.

What it costs

Describing your app and seeing AppCub’s plan for it is free.
A new app usually takes 60 to 110 credits. Start with the 2-day trial for ₹99 (150 credits, enough for one app and a few changes) or the one-time App Pack for ₹499. Starter is ₹1,599 a month for 700 credits.
Google Play needs a paid plan (it includes the Play Store bundle and your app’s signing key) and your own Google Play developer account, a one-time US$25 fee to Google.
Work that fails or is rolled back costs no credits.

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Good to know

AppCub doesn't match colours from a photo or connect to tinting machines. It keeps the shade codes you enter and the measurements you take.
AppCub builds Android apps. You can also share the app as a web link that opens on any phone; for the iPhone App Store, AppCub’s team can do it for you.

Questions

Can the app work out the paintable area of a room?

Yes. Enter wall sizes and the doors and windows, and the app deducts them and adds the ceiling if you want.

Can I keep the shade code of each wall for later?

Yes. Ask for a shades screen with the paint company, shade name and code for each wall, ceiling and door.

Can the app make an estimate the customer can share?

Yes. The estimate becomes a PDF with each room and work type, which the customer can forward to family on WhatsApp.

Can I pay my painters weekly from the app's totals?

The app adds up days per painter and works out the week's wages at your daily rate. You pay them as you do now.

Can I see how far each site has got?

Yes. Each room moves through covering, putty, primer and coats, and the site shows rooms done and left.

Can I add photos of finished rooms to a site?

Yes, from the camera or gallery. If many photos or a second person should see them, connect a Supabase database.

Make your house painter app

Seeing the plan is free. Building starts with a 2-day trial for ₹99.

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