Landscaping software in 2026: seven products compared by crew size and work mix

Landscaping companies run two kinds of work that pull software in different directions: recurring maintenance on tight routes, and install projects that are bid, deposited and built over weeks. Many add snow in winter. Each of the seven products below says on its own website that it serves landscapers, and each suits a different mix of that work. The numbers are for reference, not a ranking. All prices are what the vendors' own websites showed in October 2026; confirm on the live page before buying. Owners buying their first system should read what a service-business CRM should handle before booking demos. For the way we set up a landscaper's website, phones and CRM, see our landscaping industry page.

1. Jobber

A general field service app with a dedicated landscaping page. It suits residential crews, from one truck to a handful, that mix weekly maintenance with smaller install jobs.

• Pricing: single-user rates on Jobber's pricing page, read in October 2026, were $29 a month for Core, $99 for Connect and $149 for Grow with annual billing, or $49, $139 and $199 if you pay monthly without a commitment. Pricing for teams depends on headcount. Jobber also sells add-ons: $99 a month for its Marketing Suite, $49 for Pipeline and $29 for an AI receptionist.
• Landscaping features: its landscaping page lists bulk rescheduling of many visits at once, payment schedules tied to project milestones, optional line items on quotes, route optimization, and job costing that sets labor and expenses against what you quoted.
• Contract and trial: Jobber's free trial gives you the Grow plan for 14 days without a card. After that you choose no-commitment monthly billing, monthly billing on a 12-month minimum, or an annual prepayment that is non-refundable.
• Demo checks: move a full day of mowing visits for rain and look at the message each customer receives. Then build a patio quote with a deposit and two progress payments.

Our Jobber alternative page covers the point where it stops fitting.

2. Housecall Pro

Another general home service app with a landscaping page. It suits residential maintenance companies that want booking, payments, review requests and marketing in one app and plan to sell recurring service plans.

• Pricing: three plans appear on Housecall Pro's pricing page. With annual billing in October 2026, Basic covered one user at $59 a month, Essentials five users at $149, and MAX eight users at $299, with each extra MAX user at $35 a month. Month to month, they cost $79, $189 and $329.
• Landscaping features: the landscaping page describes recurring work such as maintenance visits, seasonal cleanups and long-term contracts, online booking from your website or Google search, GPS vehicle tracking with "on my way" texts, charging saved cards for scheduled services, job costing, and email and postcard campaigns.
• Contract and trial: a free 14-day trial that skips the credit card, and the pricing FAQ says Housecall Pro does not require long-term contracts.
• Demo checks: set up a weekly mowing plan that charges a saved card after each visit, then schedule a three-day retaining wall job across two crews. Ask which plan includes the job costing they showed you.

To weigh the first two against each other, see Jobber vs Housecall Pro.

3. LMN by Granum

Landscape management software from Granum, built around budgeting: you enter overhead, labor and equipment costs, and estimates are priced from that budget. It suits maintenance and design-build companies that have outgrown pricing by feel and want crews clocking time against every job.

• Pricing: in October 2026, the LMN pricing page listed Starter from $297 a month, billed monthly, for companies with fewer than 10 employees (one office or crew lead license and five crew member licenses). The Professional plan, for 10 or more employees, is $648 a month with three office or crew lead licenses and fifteen crew member licenses. Each also requires a one-time onboarding fee, and the page doesn't list the amount. Extra licenses cost more. Enterprise, for multi-location companies, starts at 100 users and is quoted.
• Landscaping features: overhead recovery budgets, material and labor calculators, route optimization, GPS location verification in the crew app, and estimated versus actual hours. The LMN overview says the crew app works offline and comes in English and Spanish. Real-time job costing starts on Professional.
• Contract and trial: the pricing page points you to a demo. Ask for the onboarding fee and the term in writing.
• Demo checks: bring last year's overhead and labor costs, have them build your budget live, then price one maintenance property and one install from it.

4. SynkedUP

SynkedUP was started by a landscaper who still runs it, and its FAQ says it is built for small to medium-sized landscaping businesses. Its industry pages cover hardscaping, landscape installation, design/build, maintenance, snow and ice, and sitework. It suits install-heavy companies whose biggest problems are slow estimates and not knowing which jobs made money.

• Pricing: as listed on SynkedUP's pricing page in October 2026, Standard is $399 a month paid monthly or $359 a month billed annually, and PRO is $599 monthly or $539 annually. Paying monthly adds a one-time $1,000 activation fee on either plan; annual billing has none. Standard includes two users and PRO five; each extra user is $20 a month.
• Landscaping features: budgeting with overhead recovery, estimate templates built on your materials and production rates, quoted, time-and-materials and per-visit pricing, proposals that alert you when opened and follow up on their own, an offline crew app for time and materials, and real-time job costing. PRO adds GPS-stamped timesheets, Zapier automations and MCP access for AI tools. Plans include access to a financial coach.
• Contract and trial: SynkedUP's FAQ states plainly that it offers no free trial. You can pay monthly and cancel by booking a call before the next billing date, with no refunds.
• Demo checks: have them rebuild one of your recent hardscape bids from a template and compare the result with what you charged.

The same FAQ suggests companies under $200,000 in revenue start with its free or low-cost pricing resources, which is a fair test of whether you need the software yet.

5. Aspire (part of ServiceTitan)

Aspire belongs to the ServiceTitan family, and ServiceTitan's own landscaping page presents it. Its plans page calls it a platform "designed for enterprise-level landscape businesses," and its landscaping page covers grounds maintenance, landscape construction, and snow and ice. It suits commercial companies with several divisions, office staff and property contracts, where purchasing, subcontractors and division reporting matter.

• Pricing: no public prices. The Aspire plans page says price depends on company size and complexity, billed as a single monthly license fee with no limit on users, and that it includes implementation and training. Electronic payments, payroll services and GPS fleet management are quoted separately.
• Landscaping features: site audits, estimating, purchasing and inventory, work tickets, an offline mobile app with time and material tracking, a customer portal, takeoffs and purchase orders for construction, and a subcontractor portal for scheduling crews and subs on snow events.
• Contract and trial: sales start with a demo. The FAQ says your price is protected through the term of the contract, so ask how long that term is.
• Per-crew option: Aspire also sells Crew Control, which its page describes as built to help growing field service contractors. As listed in October 2026, it costs $39 per crew per month, or $59 for PLUS, which adds electronic proposals, on-site estimates, customer request forms and customer text notifications. The page also says annual plans save 30% and offers a 14-day free trial, no card required.
• Demo checks: the implementation timeline, the contract length, and a full quote that includes payments and payroll.

Our ServiceTitan alternative page covers ServiceTitan's main trades product.

6. Service Autopilot

Field software with pages for lawn care, landscaping, snow removal, cleaning, pest control and pool service. It suits maintenance-heavy companies running several crews on recurring routes that want follow-ups, reminders and billing to run on rules.

• Pricing: Service Autopilot's pricing page bases every listed price on an annual subscription. In October 2026 it showed Startup at $49 a month, Pro at $199 and Pro Plus at $499, each plus a sign-up fee it doesn't state. Elite is quoted. Licenses run from one office user and one mobile license on Startup to two office users and eight mobile licenses on Elite.
• Landscaping features: the landscaping page lists multi-day projects, weekly, biweekly or monthly recurring schedules, route optimization, inventory tracking for plants, mulch, soil and chemicals, and automations for estimate follow-ups and past-due reminders. The plan chart also lists snow dispatch and chemical tracking. On that chart, route optimization, multi-day jobs, snow dispatch, chemical tracking and job costing start on Pro, and automations start on Pro Plus.
• Contract and trial: the page offers a free trial without stating its length, and says downgrades take effect at the end of your contract period. Elite includes QuickBooks sync, a client portal and two-way texting; on lower plans the chart marks those "call for pricing" or leaves them out.
• Demo checks: get the sign-up fee and contract length stated in dollars and months, then total a year with the add-ons your office would turn on.

7. Arborgold

Software for lawn, tree and landscape companies, with a landscaping page built around design-led bids. It suits firms that sell installs with a drawing and also run tree, plant health or lawn programs.

• Pricing: as listed on Arborgold's pricing page in October 2026, Starter is $129 a month, Professional $299 and Enterprise $499 on the annual payment plan, or $149, $343 and $573 paying monthly. Office and mobile user licenses are priced separately through sales.
• Landscaping features: per the landscaping page and plan chart, proposals can include a drag-and-drop landscape design. Every plan lists unlimited remote land measurements, route optimization and crew time tracking. Professional adds job costing, renewals, material inventory and chemical tracking, and Enterprise adds plant and tree inventory mapping and equipment maintenance tracking. The chart lists SiteOne and LandscapeHub catalog connections, for locally priced materials, on Enterprise, and notes that integrations may need third-party apps at extra cost.
• Contract and trial: a twelve-month minimum on every plan, automatic renewal, and at least 60 days' notice to cancel.
• Demo checks: the license cost for your office staff and crew leads. Put the renewal and notice dates on your calendar the day you sign.

8. A custom CRM

A CRM built around your process instead of a vendor's. The first one we built ran our own service companies, because packaged field software had us stacking workarounds. Other owners can now have one built through our custom CRM work.

When it fits: you run maintenance, installs and snow under one roof, and each bills differently: seasonal contracts split into equal monthly payments, deposits and progress billing on builds, per-push or per-event snow. Someone in the office keeps a spreadsheet next to the software for what it can't hold. You want the database, the code and the customer list in your company's name.

When it doesn't: you're in your first seasons and still learning how you quote, your work is standard weekly maintenance, you need software running this week, or you'd rather pay a subscription than own a system. In those cases one of the products above is the better buy, and we'll tell you that.

Ask before you commit: who owns the code and data, who maintains it after launch, and how you would move off it.

How do these options compare?

How should a landscaping company choose?

Start with your work mix. Pull last season's revenue by type: maintenance, installs and snow. If it is mostly maintenance, weigh routing, rain-day rescheduling and automatic billing for seasonal contracts. If it is mostly installs, weigh estimating from production rates, deposits and progress billing, and job costing that shows estimated against actual hours. If you plow, watch how each product dispatches a snow event and bills it.

Test how you price. If you price from a labor-hour budget with overhead recovery, run that exact workflow with your own numbers in every demo. Our guide to pricing landscaping jobs walks through the math, and job costing for service businesses explains what to track once the crew is done.

Count licenses the way each vendor counts them. Some charge per user (Jobber, Housecall Pro, SynkedUP), Crew Control charges per crew, others split office and mobile licenses (LMN, Service Autopilot, Arborgold), and Aspire includes unlimited users. If you add seasonal crew members in spring, price your summer headcount.

Read the exit terms. Annual prepayment, 12-month minimums, a 60-day cancellation notice, and onboarding, activation or sign-up fees all appear on the pages above. Ask how you export clients, properties, job history and invoices, in what format, and at what cost. The checklist in moving to a new CRM without losing records covers what to ask for.

Price a full year. Add the subscription, setup fees, extra licenses, add-ons and card processing at your peak team size, then compare totals.

Where to start

Do these three things first:

1. Write down the three jobs your current setup handled worst last season, such as rain-day reschedules, install deposits or snow billing. Those become your demo tests.
2. Shortlist two or three tools whose best-fit column matches your work mix, and book demos that use your data: one maintenance property, one install bid, and one snow account if you plow.
3. Before you sign, get the contract term, cancellation notice, fees and data export process in writing.

If none of them fits the way you run, or you want a second look at how leads reach you and what happens after the first call, start with a free system quote.

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