Atlas Roofing introduces Select Your Roof, a new consumer-oriented app for iPad, devoted to the homeowner’s process of choosing an appropriate roofing system. The app is an extension of Atlas’ existing selectyourroof.com website and the Shingle Visualizer, an interactive webpage found on the atlasroofing.com website.

The app, available for download at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atlas-select-your-roof/id633530766?ls=1&mt=8#, is split into two unique parts: My Roof Color Gauge and Shingle Visualizer.

My Roof Color Gauge allows the user to take a photo of their own home to assist in the process of designing the roof, or use existing photos of various styles of homes. If the user chooses to use their own photograph, the app has specific, easy-to-follow parameters set up to ensure proper positioning.

In the next step, a shingle style is selected from three options, which directly leads to a photo of the chosen home with the new roof installation. Here, a simple swipe of the finger across the roof changes the color to visualize the different options available for that shingle. This is an innovative way Atlas has created to visualize shingle colors against the facade of the user’s home, before starting the installation process.

After that point in the design process, there are options to take a new photo, choose a new photo, or change shingle styles. At any time, the user can also go back to the Home screen; share the photo via E-mail, Twitter, or Facebook; or request a free quote.

Part two of the app is the Shingle Visualizer. An exact replica of the webpage version, this app version also allows for more flexible-use anytime, anywhere.

The Shingle Visualizer is impressive as it shows the user the Pristine Effect of Atlas shingles with Scotchgard Protector against the use of other non-Atlas shingles on a selected model home. With the slide of a knob, the progression of algae growth (or lack of) can be seen over a 20-year timespan.

The user-friendliness and convenience of the Select Your Roof app exemplifies Atlas’ continuous strive to increase technology in the building industry, while helping contractors and home owners throughout the process.