Site Pal vs Dashpivot: an honest comparison
Last updated 14 August 2026
Competitor pricing checked 14 August 2026 against each vendor’s own published pricing page. Always confirm current rates with the vendor.
Dashpivot, from Sitemate, is one of the most visible site diary products in the UK. Partly because they advertise on searches for exactly that phrase, so if you’ve googled “site diary app” recently you’ve seen them.
Site Pal is a £19-a-month app I built because I got sick of typing reports up at nine at night. Here’s how the two actually compare.
What Dashpivot is
Dashpivot is a form digitisation platform. You take the forms your company already uses — diaries, timesheets, inspections, permits, incident reports — and rebuild them as digital versions your team fills in on a phone or tablet. Everything lands in one place, and you get standardised records across a business.
They’ve also added a feature called Storm, which turns voice and photos into a daily report. So the gap between the two products is narrower than it once was, and it’s fair to say so.
Pricing is per user, per month, in four tiers. As published on their site on 14 August 2026: Standard £21.24, Pro £36.54, Premium £51.84, Platinum £67.14, all per user per month.
Worth being straight about that entry tier — £21.24 for one person is only a couple of pounds more than Site Pal, so this isn’t a story about them being wildly expensive at the bottom. Two things matter more. First, Standard caps you at 250 template fields and 10 list properties. The plan most companies actually end up on is Pro at £36.54, which is nearly double Site Pal. Second, and this is the real one: it’s per user. Five people on Pro is £182.70 a month. Site Pal is £19 whether it’s you or you.
What Site Pal is
Photograph the works and it writes the diary entry — activity, operatives, PPE, housekeeping, GPS, weather, timestamp. Walk the job talking and it produces a client-ready PDF before you’re off site.
£19 a month, flat, one person, unlimited projects, everything included, cancel anytime.
No form builder. No team standardisation. No permits, timesheets or incident workflows.
The comparison
| Feature | Dashpivot | Site Pal |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Companies standardising forms across a team | One person doing their own records |
| Pricing model | Per user per month, tiered | £19/month flat |
| Form builder | Yes | No |
| Permits, incidents, timesheets | Yes | No |
| Voice and photos to report | Yes, via Storm | Yes |
| Photo to written diary entry | — | Yes |
| Walkthrough mode | — | Yes |
| On-site signature with GPS | Signature fields available | Yes |
| Terminology | Multi-market | UK, written by a UK site manager |
| Free trial | Available | 14 days, no card |
Where Dashpivot wins
If you’re a company rather than a person. Dashpivot’s real strength is taking a business that runs on twenty different paper forms and putting all of them into one system, consistently, for everyone. Site Pal cannot do that and isn’t trying to.
Breadth. Permits, timesheets, incident reports, inspections. Site Pal does none of those.
Templates. They have a genuinely large library and a lot of it is free to look at, whether you buy anything or not.
Where Site Pal wins
Price shape, if you’re paying yourself. Per-user pricing is perfectly reasonable when it’s a company card. £19 flat is a different proposition when it’s your money and you’re one person. £19 flat against £36.54 per person on the tier most teams land on. If you’re one man in a van, that difference is the whole decision.
It isn’t a form. Dashpivot’s model is “here is your form, digitised”. Site Pal’s model is “say what you saw, and it writes the record”. If your problem is that filling in a form takes too long, a faster form helps. If your problem is that writing takes too long, only the second one helps.
UK terminology. Site Pal was built by a UK construction manager for UK site records — daywork, delay records, the language a site actually uses. Dashpivot serves several markets, which necessarily makes the language more general. That’s the same argument I make against the bigger platforms in Site Pal vs Field View and Site Pal vs Fieldwire.
The honest verdict
If you’re rolling something out across a company and you need consistent forms for everyone, Dashpivot is the better product for that job. Go and look at it properly.
If you’re one person, on your own money, and the thing eating your evening is the writing rather than the form, Site Pal is cheaper, narrower, and does that one thing well.
And if you don’t want to pay anything at all, Site Diary from Script&Go has a genuinely free tier for a small number of projects. That’s the right answer for some people and I’d rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Whatever you land on, the free daywork sheet template on here is yours, and it’s worth knowing what a delay record needs to include before you need one. If you want the smaller paid options side by side, they’re in best site diary apps for solo UK contractors and head-to-head in Site Pal vs Site Audit Pro.
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