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A precise location
Not "master bedroom" — the exact point. In PinMy that is a pin placed on the plan, the site photo, the walkthrough video or the 3D IFC model, at the spot you are standing in front of.
Punch list · Snag listiOS · Android · Web
The punch list, pinned where the defect actually is.
PinMy is a punch list app for iOS, Android and web. Drop a pin exactly where the defect is — on a PDF plan, site photo, walkthrough video, map or 3D IFC model — attach photos and a voice note, assign it to a trade, then export every pin and comment on that file as a PDF report.
Free plan, no card · GDPR-aligned
What the job needs
A punch list item only closes if five things travel with it.
Writing the list is the easy part — it happens in one energetic walkthrough. The next six weeks are where it rots: items fixed but never marked, items disputed, and item 47 turning out to be in a different room than anyone remembers. Each of these is a failure of something missing from the row.
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Evidence, at the moment it was found
Photos, video and a voice note attach to the pin's Description — the first comment on the pin — while you are still looking at the defect, not reconstructed at a desk that evening.
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One named owner
Assign the comment to a person by @mention. Items assigned to "the contractor" belong to everyone and therefore to no one. An assigned comment becomes a task on the board.
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A status you can trust
Pins are Open or Resolved. Tasks move To Do → In Progress → Done on the Kanban board. A finished task never makes an unresolved pin read as resolved — the two are deliberately separate.
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Closure with proof
The fix gets photographed as a reply on the same pin, so the after-photo sits next to the original defect photo at the same location. That pairing is what ends disputes.
How it works
From walkthrough to signed report.
- Step 1
Upload the plan
A floor plan PDF, a site photo, a JPEG or PNG, or an IFC model. On Premium, walkthrough video too. The file is the container the whole punch list hangs from.
- Step 2
Walk the site and pin the defects
Tap the spot, photograph it, speak the note. Voice comments run to 30 seconds on the free plan, with multi-language voice-to-text in the app.
- Step 3
Assign what needs an owner
@mention the trade on the comment that needs doing. It lands on the Kanban board as a task. Pins you only need on record can stay unassigned.
- Step 4
Export the report
The Item Report puts every pin and every comment on that file into one PDF — no assignment and no Kanban board required first. Generation happens in your browser; nothing is uploaded to a rendering server.
Every surface a defect lives on
The same pin works on five kinds of file.
Most punch list tools assume a PDF plan. A defect does not always live on one — sometimes the only record you can get in the moment is a walkthrough video, or a point on a map.
- PDF plans and drawings
- Floor plans, sections, details. The classic punch list surface, and the one your subcontractors already read.
- Site photos
- Photograph the wall, then pin the crack on the photo. On Premium, OCR reads serial plates and printed labels straight off the image.
- Walkthrough video — Premium
- Pin a comment to a specific frame of a walkthrough. Film the corridor once, then mark every defect at the moment it appears instead of stopping to photograph each one. Free users can view and comment on videos a Premium teammate shares, but cannot upload their own.
- Maps
- Geolocated pins for everything that is not inside a drawing: site access, external works, a scattered portfolio. The interactive map shows your projects in one view.
- 3D IFC models
- Upload an IFC and it converts to a lightweight 3D model that opens on a phone. The pin anchors to a point in space, not to a model element.
Whatever the surface, the Item Report opens with a preview of that source carrying the numbered pin markers — for a video, that is the frame you pinned. Media inside comments is linked rather than embedded, so the PDF stays small enough to email.
Honest limits
What works, and exactly where it stops.
Most software in this category describes the tool it wants to be. These are the edges of the one that exists today — worth reading before you trial it, because they are the things people ask us after a week.
- A report covers one file. There are no folder-level or multi-project reports.
- PDF reports carry a β badge and their published limits. They are useful today and still maturing.
- PinMy does not write or sign the formal punch list document. The downloadable template below is for that, and the signatures still happen on paper or in your contract admin tool.
- BCF 2.1 import and export for IFC models is shipped, in β — camera viewpoints, snapshot PNGs and IFC-GUID matching on import. What does not exist is live or API sync with Revit, Navisworks or Solibri: it is file-based.
- On a 3D model a pin anchors to a point in space. BCF import matches an IFC GUID to place it, but the pin is not linked to a model element and PinMy does not read element properties or version models.
- You can reply to any comment, including voice notes and other replies, and the reply carries a quote of what it answers. The feed stays flat: one chronological list, no indentation, no separate thread screen. That flatness is deliberate.
- PinMy is not a CDE and does not replace Revit, BIM 360 or your contract administration tools. It is the capture layer.
Same document, different passport
Punch list, snag list, lista de repasos.
The name changes at every border. In the US it is a punch list. In the UK and Ireland it is a snag list or snagging list. In Spain it circulates as the lista de repasos, in Italy as the lista delle non conformità, in Poland as the lista usterek. Different traditions, one instrument: the itemised record of everything that must be corrected before the work is accepted — and the same failure modes everywhere.
Free template
Need the paper version too?
The punch list template gives you the row structure to print and sign — locations, trades, priorities, closure evidence — plus the method that gets items closed. PDF and Excel, free, no signup.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask.
What is a punch list app?
A punch list app replaces the notebook-and-spreadsheet version of the closeout list with something the whole site can see. The useful ones let you record a defect at its exact location with photo evidence, give it an owner and a status, and produce a report at the end. PinMy does this by pinning each item onto the plan, photo, video or 3D model it belongs to.
What is the difference between a punch list and a snag list?
Only geography. Punch list is the US term, snag list the UK and Irish one, lista de repasos the Spanish one. Structure, purpose and failure modes are identical, and PinMy treats them as the same document.
Do I have to set up tasks or a board before I can get a report?
No. The Item Report pulls every pin and every comment on a file into one PDF with no assignment and no Kanban board required. The task-driven reports — Status, filtered Status, per-Assignment and Daily Activity — do need items assigned first.
Which devices does it run on?
iOS, Android and the web app, plus a Chrome extension. The mobile apps are native, which matters on a walkthrough — browser-based viewers degrade badly on iPad, where every browser is required to use WebKit.
What file formats can I pin on?
On the free plan: JPEG, PNG, PDF, GIF, SVG, AI and IFC. Premium adds MP4 and MOV, so you can pin defects onto walkthrough video, plus video annotation and text recognition for images.
Can I get the items out as BCF for the BIM team?
For IFC models, yes — BCF 2.1 export, with camera viewpoints, snapshot PNGs and IFC-GUID matching on import, including a guard that warns when the GUID match falls below 80%. It is file-based import and export, shipped β. Pins on non-IFC files do not export to BCF, and voice appears as a text placeholder rather than audio.
Is there a free plan?
Yes, with no card. It covers 6 files, unlimited pins, comments and replies, unlimited files shared with you, 30-second voice comments and PDF To-Do reports in beta. Premium is €8.99 per month excluding VAT, or yearly with 2 months free.
Next walkthrough
Log the first ten items as pins.
Then look at both lists two weeks later and see which one is still trustworthy. That is the whole pitch — it takes one walkthrough to answer.