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- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Raken has made life easier
Reviewed on 15/12/2022
Raken has been an excellent partner during the entire journey. From the pitch, through proof of...
Raken has been an excellent partner during the entire journey. From the pitch, through proof of concept, license negotiations, implementation, and production, Raken has been very easy to deal with the entire way.
Pros
The struggle to produce quality daily reports at construction sites used to be real. Raken gave us an "Easy" button. It is almost hard to imagine life before Raken.
Cons
Raken has some extremely nice checklist features to collect data on the mobile app. The only con, is that getting to the data behind these checklists is not possible beyond the PDF report that the checklist produces.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A Resource Manager's Perspective on Raken
Reviewed on 8/04/2024
I would say it has been a good overall experience. Especially since this is the first and only...
I would say it has been a good overall experience. Especially since this is the first and only construction app that we checked out and immediately put to use. We were able to add about 9 jobs in a two week period as it was being put into use.
Pros
It consolidated into one program that we could utilize for tracking job costs, work done, employee hours and materials used on the job.
Cons
At times, it does seem to be a little pricey when adding a new "seat at the table."
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
My Raken app is barely usable.
Reviewed on 8/04/2024
I have been utilizing this app for construction purposes for six years, and it has generally been...
I have been utilizing this app for construction purposes for six years, and it has generally been reliable. However, following an update last summer, the app's performance on my Pixel Pro 7 has been inconsistent. Unlike other apps on my phone, this app now experiences frequent issues. Inputting notes and pictures now require multiple attempts, and the app often reboots and shuts off unexpectedly. Despite reaching out to tech support multiple times and following their suggestions, the problems persist. As a result, I have suggested to my employer that we consider transitioning to Procore.
Pros
The app is very easy to use when it's working properly.
Cons
The constant rebooting of the app while trying to utilize it on the job site.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Well Organized.
Reviewed on 2/04/2024
It has been great and really love working with Cody Armes
It has been great and really love working with Cody Armes
Pros
I love the daily report. Our owners & CMs love seeing that daily. They never have to worry on what is going on because of the write up and the pictures included on that.
Cons
So far there is nothing that I don't like about. When used correctly you get a lot of valuable information.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Program is very adaptable
Reviewed on 4/04/2024
It’s the next step in evolution for both the construction and management whether that be from an...
It’s the next step in evolution for both the construction and management whether that be from an office side or a site side
Pros
With very little training, anyone, and everyone can at least use some function of the app, and be useful and productive with it
Cons
Good is not cheap and excellent is even more expensive
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Raken works well with sage product
Reviewed on 4/04/2024
The start was slow as we kept running into compatibility issues. Once connected it was a very fast...
The start was slow as we kept running into compatibility issues. Once connected it was a very fast transition. Team was super helpfull in trying to get the program installed and ready.
Pros
Once the setup was completed. the ease at which we can upload pay hours and gather reports was amazing and most workers have adjusted to it quite well.
Cons
Equipment tracking is currently the worst feature. you can only add equipment by hours. you can' separate it into different segments. and when you are working on and off a project each time you move the equipment it creates an entry and make it really hard to track/ has too many entires.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Raken System
Reviewed on 3/08/2024
Raken seems somewhat helpful in keeping the details for different jobsites.
Raken seems somewhat helpful in keeping the details for different jobsites.
Pros
Raken help keeps track of details at different project locations.
Cons
Obtaining an invoice from Raken system is challenging.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Raken Review
Reviewed on 13/11/2024
Over the years it has been great. Especially the little improvements that happen within the...
Over the years it has been great. Especially the little improvements that happen within the software. It is obvious that the team at Raken listens to the feedback of its customers. There has also been a couple of hiccups that I have had, but they were definitely user error.[sensitive content hidden] in support was able to help me out quickly and above my expectations!
Pros
Ease of tracking job progress for manpower and progress.
Cons
Some times it is difficult to find exactly what you are looking for, but it gets easier as you navigate through more and more.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Awesome Product
Reviewed on 20/04/2024
Pros
It was simple and combined multiple platforms into one.
Cons
There is nothing I can think of to list here
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Change Equipment Logs
Reviewed on 25/09/2024
We have used Raken for many years and overall have been satisifed.
We have used Raken for many years and overall have been satisifed.
Pros
The ease of use for logging information.
Cons
The changes to the Equipment section and reports.
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Daily Tracking
Reviewed on 4/04/2024
Pros
Tracking makes a life lot easily with the RAKEN and can upload all the photos to the daily logs.
Cons
Not Applicable and it has no cons to my knowledge
- Industry: Facilities Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Diamond in the rough...and it is rough!
Reviewed on 10/11/2022
Fantastic team, all very helpful...I have not spent one minute feeling like a number or a dollar...
Fantastic team, all very helpful...I have not spent one minute feeling like a number or a dollar sign. My sales person [SENSITIVE CONTENT], phenomenal. One of the best sales approaches with the proper follow up that I have ever been involved with. He made this so easy. This software has made keeping track of what goes where with who and when as easy as can be. Each of my Foremen/Project managers can get their notes in all day long instead of spending 30 minutes to an hour at the end of each day to dump information to the cloud. It's quick, it's fast, it keepsy company moving!
Pros
Offline functionalityEase of usePriceEasily accsessible in the fielsUsing the App interface for data collecting along with the desktop site for organization and processing info seemlessly integrates my field operators with my office support team so we never miss a beat!
Cons
Would like a little more customization options but I haven't even had our full set up yet so I am sure it's coming. Would like to be able to assign tasks to mutiple people without recreating the task. Would like name and time stamps on notes.
Reasons for Switching to RAKEN
Well one, their sales pitches were terrible...they just wanted to talk to me about the things they think are cool about their product. Raken took the time ask what my needs are and then let me know how they can help me deliver on them. Pricing with Raken is much more practical, as a small company I cannot see paying 10k for startup of software plus 500-1000/monthly in support/service fees with Raken at less than half that price, with better people and better service! Raken IS the Golden Ticket.- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Chose Raken
Reviewed on 3/04/2024
Raken has been a very valuable tool in project tracking and documentation.
Raken has been a very valuable tool in project tracking and documentation.
Pros
The documentation of verbiage and photos. The ability to share these with offsite clients and stakeholders.
Cons
The system seems to update periodically without prior warning. A brief heads-up would be helpful.
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Raken is great!
Reviewed on 28/10/2024
Very easy app to use, it has a lot of great tools to report whatever is needed in the field. The...
Very easy app to use, it has a lot of great tools to report whatever is needed in the field. The tracking of safety is great just in case we get audited.
Pros
We are using it for the ease of the JHA feature, it's simple and easy for the guys!
Cons
We are a small company so cost matters to us probably more than a larger company, so the price was what make us take a pause before ordering.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Very easy to ise
Reviewed on 9/04/2024
Overall I’m very pleased with Raken it is a very straight forward easy to use platform.
Overall I’m very pleased with Raken it is a very straight forward easy to use platform.
Pros
I like the fact that it is very intuitive and easy to share.
Cons
You need to have internet to access certain features.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Raken Review
Reviewed on 5/04/2024
Easy to use and the customer service has been good.
Easy to use and the customer service has been good.
Pros
The pictures and reports tagged to each day and job.
Cons
The mobile app isn't as functional as the web.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Raken review
Reviewed on 1/10/2024
Very positive. After purchase support has been excellent.
Very positive. After purchase support has been excellent.
Pros
The daily reporting feature makes it easier for our site supervisors to efficiently provide clear, accurate reports.
Cons
Tried the timesheet feature but didn't find it any better than our current in house system. We don't have web based Quickbooks.
- Industry: Utilities
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Raken review
Reviewed on 5/04/2024
Pros
photo gallery has stamp dates. easy to scan thru
Cons
tracking cost is not easy to set up and review
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Happy with our investment
Reviewed on 1/10/2024
Overall we are happy with Raken and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future.
Overall we are happy with Raken and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future.
Pros
Helps keep our projects organized and moving forward smoothly.
support is great and helpful with looking into upgrades and requests for improvements is welcome.
Cons
The learning curve for certain personnel onsite is difficult and slow to accept.
Some modules need overhauls to make more user friendly and some features added are needed like date stamps on task completion.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great for construction management
Reviewed on 11/05/2023
I have used it daily for 13 years between the 2 companies I have worked for
I have used it daily for 13 years between the 2 companies I have worked for
Pros
You answer questions and upload pictures and the format of the report is put together for you
Cons
It can be glitchy. I don’t like that you can’t add pictures to the equipment if you have already passed that day
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Functional Program that has the potential for so much more.
Reviewed on 10/11/2022
Pros
It is easy to start using and requires minimal instruction. The daily report is nice once it is processed.
Cons
The updates that occur seem to down grade the system. There has not been an update that we have been excited about. The last one wiped out many of the things we liked.

- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Raken Review
Reviewed on 10/01/2019
We have been using the Raken app now for almost 8 months. We have found that this greatly cuts on...
We have been using the Raken app now for almost 8 months. We have found that this greatly cuts on paper waste, and improves response time by having uploads available in real time.
Pros
We are a commercial wood framing company. The best feature of this app is the ease of use for all of our foremen. The speak-to-text works great, and uploading pictures are simple. This gives us plenty of real-tie information.
Cons
Once you have multiple projects going, sometimes it is difficult to find a specific log that mentions a key item you are looking for from a month or two ago. A keyword search feature to sort through the daily logs would be nice.
Response from RAKEN
Thanks for the feedback, Isauro! Really glad to hear that Raken has been working out well. In regards to the keyword search, you can actually use the 'Dashboard' tool from the app to search through all your old reports. Once in the 'Dashboard', there's a search icon in the top right, feel free to contact our support if you need any [email protected] if you need assistance. Thanks again!
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Raken for construction reporting.
Reviewed on 24/03/2017
We are steel erectors running 3 crews. We were going crazy trying to keep up with who was where...
We are steel erectors running 3 crews. We were going crazy trying to keep up with who was where doing what. None of our Forman are good with paper processing. We introduced them to Raken and we get more detail on a daily basis that we ever thought possible. They love it....what was burdensome communication is now bragging rights....the Forman take pride in their work and out-do each other with amazing photos of work completion and level of daily accomplishment. We are no longer chasing down fuel and charge card receipts as they just snap a picture of it, include it in the daily activity report and throw the paper away. No more Monday morning crisis calls from the office trying to sort payroll, either. We close everyday knowing how many hours each employee worked on each job. Payroll and cost accounting can now be processed daily and by Monday morning, payroll is all ready to go with the push of a button. The Daily Reports are also very professional in appearance. We are often treated like small potatoes by large General Contractors and now, with our Daily Reports, we no longer have long negotiation sessions over Change Order requests because our work is accurately and professionally documented along with photographs. Thanks, Raken. We are fans.
Pros
simplicity, affordability
Cons
limited search ability from the app.
Response from RAKEN
Thanks for the review Susan! Glad we could make your daily reporting process much simpler.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best Software for Daily Reports
Reviewed on 30/12/2019
We have been able to easily track many daily reports of our projects using Raken. Being able to...
We have been able to easily track many daily reports of our projects using Raken. Being able to have them all in one location is nice. Also, sending out daily reports to other people that need to see them is a great feature.
Pros
Using Raken for the past 3+ years, I have seen the software develop and continue to expand. Raken strives to be on the leading edge for keeping track of day to day activities on a construction site. Using the app on my phone or tablet has been very helpful in keeping track of jobsite Daily Reports. Being able to attach pictures to the report is great.
Cons
There has not been any issues or problems with the software that has stood out to me. Only thing I've had trouble with in the past has been pictures uploading sideways. This was corrected with an update to the app.
Response from RAKEN
Hey Tim, thank you for the review and feedback!
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Love Raken - Highly recommend
Reviewed on 23/10/2018
Tracking and receiving daily reports is made possible. Without Raken it would be a paperwork...
Tracking and receiving daily reports is made possible. Without Raken it would be a paperwork nightmare for everyone.
Pros
The support is the best support out of all the software packages we use. The developers respond quickly to bigger issues and most importantly the software is incredibly intuitive and well designed. All spectrum of technical skills in our company can use it with ease.
Cons
I wish they had more functionalities that we could use. We really only use the Daily reporting function. I would love to be able to download everything into an excel file.
Response from RAKEN
Thanks for your feedback, Nichole! We have an Excel report called Manpower Summary which includes every work log ever entered into a daily report including the hours, the name of the contractor, and the description of the work performed. Please reach out to us at [email protected] and we will give you a rundown of this feature. Thank you!