Hail map apps for roofers — and why loading one storm date at a time costs you a season
Hail Recon publishes its prices, which is more than most of this category manages — $999/yr for one state up to $1,999 nationwide, and every dollar of it buys maps. HailMate sells the same unit at $79/mo, with the canvassing that runs on the map and the jobs, estimates and invoices behind every knock.
One state, one user, everything included · $79/mo, cancel anytime
Ask any hail app to show you a market’s whole storm history without typing a date
Almost every hail product is organised around events. You choose a storm date, load that day’s swath, look at it, go back and choose another. That is exactly right for researching a known loss — somebody hands you a date and you go and see what the radar said. It is backwards for canvassing, because the whole question in the truck is which of the last eleven storms hit the street you are parked on, and you cannot pick the date until you already know the answer.
So a canvasser on an event-organised map ends up loading dates one at a time until something lines up, or falling back on whichever storm the office happened to talk about that week. Streets get worked twice and other streets never get worked at all, and nobody finds out because the map has no memory of what you have already looked at.
HailMate draws every hail day on record across your territory onto one map by default — three years of Evidence Grade™ hail, colour-banded by stone size with the largest drawn on top, plus damaging-wind swaths and verified ground reports. A street shows its entire storm history the second you open it. There is a date filter for working a single event or proving a date of loss, but it narrows a map that is already complete rather than being the thing that makes the map appear.
Every storm at once, by default
The territory’s whole hail history on one screen, largest stone on top. Filter by date when you want one; you never have to guess one to see anything.
Built for a truck, not a desk
One map, one set of controls, everything a thumb’s reach away. No event picker, no layer manager, and no desktop console disagreeing with the mobile app.
Canvassing that ends in a signed job
GPS knock tracking, outcomes, rep territories and leaderboards — and the pin converts into a job with the homeowner attached, the storm date prefilled and the stone size badged.
Monthly, not a year up front
Hail Recon bills annually — $999 in one payment or split into two. HailMate is billed monthly and is genuinely month-to-month.
How HailMate compares to Hail Recon
Three rows go to Hail Recon and they are not small: an archive back to January 2011, frame-by-frame radar replay to June 2015, and homeowner contact data you can buy per state. We do not sell contact data at all.
Why crews leave Hail Recon
These aren't our opinions — they're the complaints Hail Recon users repeat in public reviews, and how HailMate was built to answer them.
You have to know the storm date before the map will show you the storm
Hail Recon is built around picking an event: choose a date, load that day’s swath, look, go back, choose another. Nobody canvassing a market knows which of the last eleven storms hit the street they are standing on, so you end up loading days one at a time trying to find out.
HailMate draws every storm on record over your territory on one map at once, banded by size. You open it and the market is already there. Filter to a single date when you want one — but you are narrowing a map that already has the answer on it, not hunting for it.
Two grand a year, and the business still runs somewhere else
Published plans are $999/yr for one state, $1,499 for three and $1,999 nationwide, with bulk homeowner contact data another $799/yr per state. Nothing in the subscription writes an estimate, sends a contract for signature, tracks a supplement or invoices the job — the company says as much itself, describing its JobNimbus integration as the hail-mapping-plus-CRM pairing.
HailMate is the map and the CRM in one product, from $79/mo for the same one state they charge $999 a year for. The pin your rep drops becomes the job, the job carries the claim, and there is one bill instead of two.
Paid up front, annually, in a business that runs on weather
Subscriptions are annual — $999 in a single payment, or split into two payments of $529. If your market goes quiet for a season, you have already bought the year.
HailMate is billed monthly and is genuinely month-to-month. No annual commitment, no setup fee, and the price is published rather than quoted.
Every yes at the door becomes data entry somewhere else
Their canvassing tracks markers, statuses and territory saturation — but unless you are on JobNimbus, the homeowner you just signed up has to be retyped into whatever runs your jobs, claims and money. Handoffs are where storm leads die.
In HailMate the knock and the job are the same record. Pin to contingency agreement to carrier scope to supplement tracking to invoice, without an export or a second login.
Seven questions that decide which hail app you buy
Useful whichever one you end up on. The first question sorts the whole category and almost nobody asks it.
Does the map show every storm, or one you have to name first?
Ask the vendor to put a market’s entire storm history on one screen without typing a date, and watch what happens. Event-organised maps are right for researching a known loss and backwards for canvassing. This single request tells you more than an hour of feature demo.
How long until a new canvasser is actually productive?
Interface quality sounds like a soft criterion until you hire six people for three weeks after a storm. A tool with an event picker, a layer manager, a separate desktop console and a mobile app that disagrees with it will eat days of training and quietly lose pins all season. Hand the app to somebody who has never seen it and time how long before they drop a useful pin.
Resolution — street, or county?
A hail alert that covers a county tells you a storm happened. It cannot tell you which four blocks took the core. Anything you pay for should draw a polygon you can route a crew inside, and should tell you the estimated stone size band as you move across it.
Archive depth — and be honest about whether you need it
Fifteen seasons of history is genuinely valuable for reconstructing an old loss date, supporting litigation, or researching a market before you move into it. It is worth nothing at all for deciding where to knock on Thursday. Most storm crews buy archive depth they will never open.
What happens after the door
A map subscription ends at the knock. If the lead then gets retyped into a CRM, you are paying two vendors to do one job — and the swath that proves the claim never reaches the adjuster. Ask to see a job record with the storm date, the estimated stone size and the ground reports attached to it.
Annual or monthly, and what happens in a quiet season?
Hail Recon bills a year up front or in two instalments. That is fine in a good year and expensive in a season your market misses. Weigh it against a monthly price you can stop, and against how confident you are about next spring.
Are you buying contact data too?
Hail Recon sells bulk homeowner contact lists at $799/yr per state on top of the map. If cold-list building is central to how you canvass, that is a real reason to buy them and we do not have an answer to it — HailMate does not sell contact data.
What each one actually charges
Every figure below is one the vendor publishes on its own site, read in September 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing we say “quote only” rather than guessing — prices move, so check the source link before you sign anything.
HailMate
$79–$499/moFlat per company. $79/mo one state and one user, $149/mo three states and up to three users, $299/mo nationwide and up to ten, $499/mo nationwide with twenty included and $20/user/mo beyond that. Annual is ten months' price — $790 for a state. Hail maps, canvassing and the full CRM on every rung.
Source: hailmate.ai/pricingHail Recon (Interactive Hail Maps)
$999–$1,999/yr$999/yr for a single state, $1,499/yr for three states and $1,999/yr nationwide, payable up front or split into instalments. Bulk homeowner contact data is a separate $799/yr per state. Regions are defined as a 125-mile radius around named cities. Billing is annual only.
Source: interactivehailmaps.com/pricing-pageHailTrace
Quote onlyFour tiers — Free, Maps Only, Maps & Data and Enterprise — and every paid one is a contact-us button, so a subscription figure depends on your quote and your coverage area. The only rates HailTrace publishes are per item: $40 for a weather history report, $150 for a meteorologist-reviewed report, $1,000 for a certified forensic report, and $229 for a single storm day as a one-time download. Be sceptical of any article quoting a HailTrace monthly price — the number is published nowhere.
Source: hailtrace.com/plansHailStrike
$149–$249/moPremium Plus+ at $149/mo (unlimited maps, one full report, five subusers) and Ultimate at $249/mo (four full reports, ten lite reports a day, 300 monitored addresses), plus a $2,500/yr Litigation tier. The report credits are the product; the maps come with them.
Source: hailstrike.com/pricingWhere HailMate pulls ahead
Every storm on the map, without picking a date
Hail Recon makes you choose an event and load it. HailMate stacks every hail day over your territory on one screen — biggest stone on top — so a street tells you its whole storm history the moment you look at it.
An interface built for a truck, not a desk
One map, one set of controls, everything a thumb’s reach away. No event picker, no layer manager, no separate web console and mobile app disagreeing with each other.
Canvassing that ends in a signed job
GPS knock tracking, outcomes, territories and leaderboards like you would expect — plus the part a map app cannot do: the pin converts into a job with the homeowner attached, the storm date prefilled and the stone size badged.
And the second subscription you were going to buy anyway
Hail Recon is honest about what it is. Their own material points at JobNimbus as the CRM half of the pairing, which means the real comparison is not $999 a year against $948 a year — it is a map subscription plus a CRM subscription against one product.
What comes with HailMate’s map is a full roofing CRM, on every plan, never sold separately. Starter, Crew, Team and Company carry this same list; territory, seats and price are the only differences between them.
Run the job
- Jobs and pipeline stages built for a claim, not a generic sales funnel
- Contacts, tasks and appointments
- Photos and files on the job, with capture, stamps and branded reports
- An activity trail on every record
- Works offline — knocks, notes and photos queue and sync when signal returns
Get paid
- Estimates and proposals
- Invoices and card or ACH payments through Stripe
- Job costing and commissions
- Material orders with ABC Supply live pricing
- QuickBooks sync
Work the claim
- Carrier scope extraction — the adjuster’s PDF read and its line items pulled out
- Supplement tracking with dollar amounts and ages, so the quiet ones surface
- Insurance and mortgage check tracking through to deposit
- Roof measurements — EagleView and Hover ordering, plus instant satellite
- E-signature on the contingency agreement and every document after it
Talk to people
- A real phone number per rep — calls, texts and voicemail
- Per-rep email threads on the job record
- A homeowner portal that shows the job’s progress without a phone call
- Storm alerts and a daily morning hail digest for your territory
- Notifications that follow the job, not the inbox
Every plan gets this same list. Starter, Crew, Team and Company differ on territory, seats and price — nothing else. There is no tier where the maps arrive without the CRM, or the CRM without the maps, because the whole argument is that they are one product.
What you actually pay
HailMate
One state, one user — hail maps, canvassing and the full CRM, billed monthly. $149 for three states, $299 nationwide with ten users, $499 nationwide with twenty.
See all four plansHail Recon
One state to nationwide, billed annually. Bulk homeowner contact data is $799/yr more per state. Maps only — the CRM is a separate bill.
The short version
- Canvassing a market this season? HailMate. Every storm on one map, the knocking on top of it, and the claim behind that — billed monthly for what they charge annually for a state.
- Researching old losses or doing forensic work? Hail Recon. Fifteen seasons of archive and frame-by-frame radar replay to June 2015, which no radar-derived swath map replaces.
- Buying homeowner contact lists? Hail Recon, at $799/yr per state on top of the map. We do not sell contact data.
- Only ever want a map, nationwide? They are cheaper at that end and we will say so: $1,999/yr is about $167/mo against $299 for HailMate nationwide. You are paying that difference for ten seats and the whole workflow — a real difference, not a rounding error.
Hail map apps, answered
Yes. Hail Recon is the brand the company leads with now — hailrecon.com redirects to interactivehailmaps.com, and their own FAQ describes the service as “Interactive Hail Maps, aka Hail Recon”. One company, one subscription, covering the web maps and the iPhone, iPad and Android app. So an alternative to one is an alternative to both, and pricing published under either name is the same subscription.
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