Digital Permit Book Alternatives: Permit Book Apps Compared (2026)

If you searched “digital permit book” or “digital permit book pricing”, you are probably shopping for a way to get the fleet’s permits, cab cards and other in-cab documents off paper and onto the driver’s phone. Digital Permit Book is one product that does that. It is not the only one.

This guide lists alternatives that describe the same job on their own public pages, what each page says about billing and features, and the questions that matter more than the sticker price. Where a vendor does not publish a price, this page says so and tells you to ask. Nothing here is a hands-on test. For a closer look at Digital Permit Book itself, see Is Digital Permit Book Worth It? and Digital Permit Book pricing: what to ask before you buy.

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What Digital Permit Book offers today

As of October 20, 2026, Digital Permit Book’s pricing page lists two plans:

• Owner-Operator: $20 per month for one driver, billed monthly.
• Fleet (2–99 drivers): $50 per month including 10 drivers, plus $5 per additional driver.

The same page lists One-Tap Inspection, 30/15/7-day renewal alerts, an AI safety and compliance assistant, and, on the fleet plan, AI bulk document upload, a document scanner and ELD integrations. It also says there are no setup fees and no contracts. The vendor’s homepage says One-Tap Inspection matches documents to the equipment the driver is using and works offline.

The pricing page does not show a figure for fleets above 99 drivers. If that is you, ask the vendor for a written quote. Billing is per driver, which matters when you compare it with tools that bill per truck.

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Digital Permit Book alternatives, from their own pages

Each entry below sticks to what the vendor’s public page says on October 20, 2026. Treat every line as something to confirm in a demo.

PermiShare

PermiShare’s pricing page lists an Owner Operator plan at $5 USD per month for one power unit, billed annually at $60 per year. Fleet plans for 2 to 100 trucks are priced per power unit with a slider; at 2–5 trucks it shows $4.50 per truck per month. The page also says final pricing is confirmed on a discovery call, and fleets over 100 power units get custom pricing. It describes unlimited drivers and trailers at no extra charge, an iOS and Android driver app with offline access, expiry alerts and a Samsara integration. The main difference from Digital Permit Book is the billing unit: per truck, not per driver.

ProMiles eCredentials

ProMiles’ eCredentials page describes an enterprise app that delivers and manages in-cab documents, including IFTA, IRP, permits, cab cards and vehicle inspections. It lists alerts for expiring credentials, electronic transfer of credentials, and support for web, Android and iOS. The listed price is “as little as $5 per driver per month.” Ask what that figure includes for your fleet.

eCred digital Permit Book

ecredentials.com describes a digital permit book in the iOS and Google Play stores, with local storage so documents can be opened without cell service, remote updates so trucks do not have to come back through the terminal, and a “Permit Store” for buying and renewing credentials. No price was listed on the page we checked, so ask the vendor. Its name sounds a lot like ProMiles eCredentials, but the two have separate websites, so confirm which company you are talking to.

Carrier Pulse

carrierpulse.com describes e-Permits: one permit book per truck built from your document library, renewal alerts at 30, 14 and 7 days, a driver app that works offline with a browser link as a fallback, and audit exports. It says it is built for carriers running roughly 10–200 power units. On the day we checked, the site asked carriers to join a waitlist and showed no price.

A paper binder or a shared folder

The cheapest alternative is the one you already have: a binder in the door pouch, or PDFs in a shared folder on each driver’s phone. It costs nothing extra, but someone has to swap out every renewed document by hand, and nothing warns you when a page goes stale. Whether a state accepts an electronic copy at roadside depends on the state and the document, so check before you go paperless, and keep paper for anything you are not sure about.

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Side by side: billing, price and offline access

This table only repeats what the linked public pages say on October 20, 2026. A blank in a vendor’s public page is marked “ask the vendor,” not filled in.

Per-driver and per-truck prices do not compare directly. A fleet with more drivers than trucks (team drivers, seasonal hires, high turnover) will see a different total under each model. Do the math on your own counts, then get it in writing.

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How to choose between them

The list price is the easy part. These questions usually decide it:

1. What is the billing unit? Drivers, trucks or seats. Ask how team drivers, trainees and trailers are counted.
2. Which documents are in scope? Cab cards, IRP, IFTA, annual permits, insurance, inspections and single-trip oversize permits are different piles. Make sure the packet your drivers actually show at roadside is covered.
3. Does the right packet reach the right truck? Ask how documents are assigned when a driver swaps trucks or trailers, and test it on a real phone with the data turned off.
4. Who gets the renewal alert? Alert windows are listed on several of these pages. Confirm who is notified and what happens when a permit is replaced mid-trip.
5. What integrations do you already pay for? Digital Permit Book lists ELD integrations on its fleet plan, and PermiShare lists Samsara. Confirm that yours is supported.
6. Can you get your documents out? Ask about export if you cancel. Carrier Pulse’s page addresses this directly; ask every vendor the same question.
7. What does setup cost in hours? Scanning binders and setting up driver accounts can take longer than the first month’s bill.

Our Digital Permit Book pricing guide goes deeper on these questions, and Oversize Permit Management Tools Compared covers ordering and organizing tools more broadly.

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A different job: reading the oversize permit itself

Every tool above stores and delivers documents. None of them, from their public pages, is described as reading the route conditions in a single-trip oversize or overweight permit for the driver. That is a separate job, and it is the one JaloPermit does.

Drop an already-issued, text-based permit PDF into the permit decoder on the JaloPermit homepage. It turns the permit into a readable route card that can surface escorts, curfews, weigh stations, truck stops and low-bridge alerts so the driver can check them against the original. It is a reading aid. It does not file, order or renew permits, it does not store a fleet’s documents, and it does not plan routes or provide navigation. The paper permit always wins.

JaloPermit covers the 48 contiguous states, reads text-based PDFs only (not scans or photos) and runs in the browser. Guests get three free decodes a day with no account and no card. Logged-in users get 10 free decodes a day. After those free decodes, each one is $3.50. There is no subscription.

Many fleets need both: a permit book for the standing packet, and a careful read of each oversize permit before the truck rolls. Digital Permit Book vs a Permit Card explains the split.

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Limits of this comparison

• Public pages only. We did not test any of these products with a paid account. Features listed here are the vendors’ own descriptions.
• Prices change. Every price above was on the linked page on October 20, 2026. Confirm on the vendor’s page or in a written quote before you budget.
• Roadside acceptance varies. Whether an electronic copy is accepted depends on the state and the document. Ask the state, not the software vendor, when it matters.
• Not a ranking. The order of the list is not a recommendation.

Questions about how JaloPermit reads a permit? Email support@jalopermit.org.

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