Paintless dent repair software

Write the estimate in your language.
Hand it to the customer in theirs.

Name: Dent Repair USA
Author: Paul Whitehorn

Dent Repair USA is PDR software built by a working technician. Estimates, invoices, customers, photo documentation and the hail map — free forever. It runs in ten languages, and the language you work in doesn't have to be the language your customer reads.

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English Deutsch Русский Español Português Français 日本語

One job, two languages

This is the part no other PDR app does. You work in the language you think in. The customer gets their estimate, their invoice and their appointment confirmation in the language they think in. Nobody has to meet in broken English in the middle.

🇩🇪 You write in German → 🇷🇺 Customer reads Russian

Or Portuguese in, English out for the insurer. Or Arabic in, French out. Ten languages, any direction: English, Deutsch, Русский, Español, Português, Français, 日本語, 한국어, 中文, العربية.

What you get for nothing

Not a trial. Not a teaser. These stay free, permanently:

Free forever

Estimates — panel by panel, your pricing, your matrix
Invoices — send them, mark them paid
Customers & vehicles — full history, VIN scanning
Photo tools — document damage properly
The hail map — see where storms hit
The PDR community — other techs, worldwide

If it makes you money, you can chip in

Some things cost me money every month to run — servers, mapping, the web portal. I'm not willing to cheapen the app to cover them, so those parts are supported by technicians who are earning with it and want to help keep it going.

If that's not you, use the free side forever and owe nothing. That's not a marketing line — it's the actual deal.

Built around how the work actually goes

Not a generic invoicing app with "dent" in the title.

Estimates that match the trade

Panels, dent counts, sizes, R&I, your own matrix and rates — hail, retail and wholesale priced the way each is actually priced.

Hail mapping

See where storms landed, so you know where the work is before you drive.

Photo documentation

Before-and-after capture built for panels and light, not a generic camera roll.

Scheduling customers can use

Send a link, they pick a time. It lands on your calendar and confirms itself.

Your money, visible

What came in, what went out, what's still owed — without a spreadsheet.

Made for a truck, not a desk

It works on the phone in your pocket, in the field, where the estimate actually gets written.

Who built this, and why it's free

Paul Whitehorn, paintless dent repair technician and the builder of the Dent Repair USA app

I was an American soldier, stationed in Germany. My wife was a German soldier — that's where we met. When I got out, I went into paintless dent repair, which I'd grown up around: my father was a PDR technician. We went home, started a business, and it did well.

Our family is German. German immigrants — that's where we come from, and it's why this app has never been an English-only app with translations bolted on afterwards. Speaking more than one language at the kitchen table is normal here. It ought to be normal in the tools you work with too.

I've been removing dents by hand since 1999 — 26 years, more than 14,000 vehicles, everything from a single door ding to a whole hail-damaged car. I'm a Vale Certified Master Craftsman II, ARC hail and retail certified, and my workmanship is backed to a million dollars per panel. I've run my own shop, worked for other people, and competed at Mobile Tech Expo. I know what this trade asks of you, because it's still what I do.

I'm in my late fifties now, and I'm an ordained pastor. My B.A. is in Biblical Studies — Greek, with a Hebrew minor — from Crichton College, my Master of Divinity is in Missions from Liberty University, and I'm finishing a PhD there now. My study is the Psalms: the Psalms as songs rather than poems. I write and sing them from the original Hebrew and Greek. I originally built all of this so I could get that music out into the world for free — it's still in every app, quietly, and it always will be.

Paul Whitehorn recording the Psalms — the music included free in every Dent Repair USA app

I don't mind giving my work away. What I'm not willing to do is pay out of my own pocket so that you can use it. So where it costs me money, it costs you money — and nowhere else.

The other reason this exists is simpler. When I went looking for tools for my own shop, I found an industry full of people charging astronomical money for software that wasn't innovating in any real way for our trade. There's a difference between making a living from an app and gouging the people who depend on it. I got tired of it, so I built what I wanted to use.

That's the whole story. I'm not trying to build a company that sells you back your own data. I'm a technician who can write software, and I'd rather the trade had something good.

More than just dents

The people this is really for.

Why we really do this

We are Christians. Christ is the reason behind everything we do — this app included. We treat it as mission work, and we'd rather say that plainly than hide it. My Master of Divinity is literally in Missions; giving the work away isn't a marketing posture, it's the thing I trained for.

That doesn't mean we're going to preach at you through a dent estimate. There's no sermon in your invoice. It means the reason I can give the work away is that I don't believe any of it was mine to begin with. My study is the Psalms, I write and sing them from the original Hebrew and Greek, and that music is in every copy of this app — free, in every language, and it always will be.

If a stranger builds you something good and asks nothing for it, it's fair to wonder why. The answer is Jesus. That's the whole reason.

This is the music that's in the app — the Psalms, sung from the Hebrew and Greek. It's on Spotify too, so you can hear it before you download anything:

Paul Whitehorn on Spotify →

You do not have to share any of that to use this software. Nothing is withheld from you if you don't, and nothing extra is asked of you if you do. Use it, make a living with it, feed your family with it. That is the point.

Questions techs actually ask

Is it really free, or is this a trial?

Really free. Estimates, invoices, customers, photo tools, the basic hail map and the community don't expire and don't ask for a card. The paid side covers the parts that cost money to run — you only meet it if you want those.

Can I write an estimate in one language and send it in another?

Yes — that's the reason this app exists in ten languages rather than one. You work in yours, the customer receives theirs.

Does it work on my phone?

iPhone and Android, plus any browser. The phone is the point — estimates get written at the vehicle, not back at a desk.

Do you sell my data?

No. Your customers, your pricing and your photos are yours. The business model is technicians choosing to support the app, not advertisers or data brokers.

Why is it free? What's the catch?

There isn't one. We're Christians and we treat this as mission work — the tools are given, not sold. The only thing that costs money is the part that costs us money to run, and you never have to touch it. You don't have to share our faith to use the app, and nothing is held back from you if you don't.

I do hail. Is this built for that?

Yes. Hail is priced differently from retail and wholesale, and the app knows that. There's also a hail map so you can see where storms actually landed.

Try it. It costs you nothing.

Download it, write one estimate, and decide for yourself.

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Write the estimate in your language.Hand it to the customer in theirs.