We offer a free construction estimating app, desk top windows machine, that anyone can download and use to learn how estimating works, plus a fast, low-cost way to generate detailed project estimates without hiring an estimator.

There's no trial, because there's nothing to run out of — the full app is free forever. Download it, use it as long as you like, and only consider the $10/month upgrade if you want clean, watermark-free reports to hand to clients.

Most estimating tools lock you into a monthly subscription and live entirely in the cloud. FEQ runs on your own computer, costs nothing to use, and only charges if you want watermark-free reports. No lock-in, no per-seat pricing, and you don't lose access the month you stop paying.

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Yes. The app is free to download and free to keep — no time limit, no trial to expire. You get a fully functional construction estimating tool at no cost. The only paid option is an optional $10/month upgrade that removes the watermark from printed and exported reports. If you never need watermark-free reports, you never pay a cent.

We aim to be collaborative, honest, and straightforward, and we're happy to guide you through the process if you have questions.

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Yes. The free download is fully functional — you can build unlimited estimates and view complete reports at no cost. The only thing the paid subscription adds is removing the watermark from your printed and exported reports.

Yes, Fast Estimating Quotes works anywhere in the United States or in any country. You can build your unique store and pricing tables from your local area.

Yes. When you run an estimate, the app looks up pricing from the store nearest your entered zip code.

Pricing is currently sourced from Home Depot and Lowe's, to include any the user chooses to add.. It's refreshed manually rather than pulled live — most major retailers, including Home Depot and Lowe's, don't allow automated price-scraping. The app ships with real seed pricing to get you started, and a built-in update tool lets you refresh pricing for your active stores and zip code whenever you want. Your estimate reflects your most recent pricing update, not the exact live price at checkout — so you're working from real, current numbers instead of guesswork or stale figures, even if it's not a live feed. On top of that, the software automatically monitors your price data in the background and flags items that need your attention — a missing price, a description mismatch, a possible stock issue — so you always know exactly what to check instead of re-reviewing everything from scratch.

Builders, remodelers, and small contractors who need quick, credible numbers without a monthly software bill — and homeowners who want to understand what a project should really cost, phase by phase, before they start.

Yes. Realtors can use Fast Estimating Quotes to quickly estimate renovation or repair costs, which is useful for pricing a listing or evaluating a property's investment potential. You can develope real life comparison construction costs.

Key features include customer and project management, multiple estimating plans, material and assembly data management, and automatic backup of your estimates. This quoting method we present can reflect in real time changes in major material groups across the whole project at any time during the life of your project. Do this to avoid the BOTTOM LINE SHOCK! Know what’s coming and how it will impact your company financially. Each user can develop his own unique products and suppliers, resulting in a unique pricing table. Therefore: we can’t presume to do your store item table updates. Roughly 150 items per store can take about 2 hours for you update cycle.

Yes. Home Depot and Lowe's pricing is already built in, and you can also load pricing from any store you choose — a local lumber yard, a regional supplier, whoever you actually buy from — so the estimate always reflects the numbers that matter to you.

Yes. Because your pricing data is something you've personally checked and verified from your own local stores, the totals the AI produces are numbers you can actually trust — not a black box. That trust matters most on complex jobs: for high-grade, custom homes with layouts that would normally take hours to break down by hand, the AI scans your blueprint plan sheets and automatically pulls square footage, bed/bath counts, and line items into the estimate. It currently handles five basic house styles and seven construction types using generalized quantities, and you review and adjust anything it fills in before finalizing. Prefer full control from the start? The manual Pro Takeoff path lets you enter every dimension yourself.

No. The app is designed to run its calculations locally on your computer and does not collect or share your personal data.

Yes, There's no need for a free trial — the core app is free to download and use with no time limit, no credit card, and no sign-up. You can build unlimited estimates for free; the only paid option is a $10/month subscription that removes the report watermark. For professionals and private use.

No — Fast Estimating Quotes runs entirely on your computer. The app, your saved estimates, and your pricing data all live in a local database on your machine, not in the cloud, so there's no server to log into and no connection required to open the program, build an estimate, or print a report. You only need to be online when you want to pull down a material pricing update or check for a new app version — everything else works fully offline.

Fast Estimating Quotes is a lightweight Windows desktop app — it runs on Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and doesn't need a powerful machine: about 500 MB of free disk space and 4 GB of RAM is plenty, no dedicated graphics card required, recommended resolution 1920×1080. There's no cloud account and no server to sign into; it installs and runs directly on your computer. (Disk/RAM figures are a reasonable estimate for an app this size, not a measured minimum — swap in real numbers from an actual low-spec test machine if you have them before publishing.)

Right here on our site — click the download button and you'll get the Windows installer. It's an ordinary desktop application: download it, run it, and you're estimating within a couple of minutes.

The number-crunching itself — turning your inputs into a full estimate — takes about 20 seconds. Getting there (scanning your plan sheets, importing them, and filling in a few remaining details by hand) typically takes an experienced user around 15 minutes total; a new user might take closer to an hour while learning the process. Either way, that replaces what could be 40 hours of manual estimating — and once your data is saved, rerunning the same estimate later with updated pricing takes only a fraction of that time.

Absolutely. Fast Estimating Quotes gives a homeowner a clear, phase-by-phase budget baseline to build against during construction — if they stick to those numbers and keep upgrades sensible, they're far less likely to run over budget or into default. For a loan officer, that means a more disciplined borrower, and a quick way to spot-check a construction budget or draw request against a real, itemized estimate — no estimating software of your own required.

Reports are organized by construction phase, following the actual build sequence, and export as professional Word or PDF documents formatted for a builder, homeowner, or bank. You can also generate reports comparing pricing across the different stores you've set up, so you can see where costs differ.

You can build your own product lines and item lists unique to how you work, rather than being locked into a generic template. Subcontractor fees and other non-store costs — permits, allowances, misc expenses — are tracked right alongside your store-based pricing. And you're free to share the software with everyone in your contacts.