Lawn care software in 2026, from a free plan to per-technician quotes

Lawn care software has a narrower job than most field software. It has to repeat weekly and biweekly visits all season, push a rained-out day of stops to tomorrow without wrecking the routes, bill per cut or per month against a card on file, and, if you apply fertilizer or weed control, keep a record of what went down on which lawn. Below are eight products sold to lawn care companies in 2026, plus the option of a custom build. They run roughly from the smallest operation each one targets to the largest, grouped by fit rather than ranked. Every price comes from the company's own pricing page or help center as read in October 2026, and every feature from its own site. Prices change, so confirm them before you sign. For the basics first, start with our plain guide to CRMs in service companies, and see our lawn care industry page for how lawn companies win and keep customers.

1. Yardbook

Who it suits: solo mowers and one or two crew companies in their first seasons that want quotes, schedules, routes and invoices without a monthly software bill. Yardbook's homepage pitches it as landscaping business software you can start on for free.

• Pricing: the Starter plan is free. Business is $34.99 a month and Enterprise $49.99 a month, as listed on the pricing page in October 2026. Its general FAQ says Yardbook runs on "a sponsored ad business model" and sells optional premium features to larger companies. The help center says non-premium accounts pay an extra 1% on online card payments, on top of Stripe's processing fees; on Business and Enterprise, Stripe's fee is the only one.
• Lawn features: a price per cut set on each property that carries from the job to the invoice, route optimization by shortest total driving time, lot measurement on satellite images, chemical application records with weather data filled in from GPS location, cards on file, and snow route templates. Business adds bulk email and text, GPS tracking, automatic invoice reminders and multi-step chemical programs; Enterprise adds QuickBooks sync and a branded company portal.
• Trial and contract: no trial is needed for the free plan, which the FAQ says you can always run your business on. The homepage links to a demo account, and the pricing page lists the paid plans as monthly prices.
• Check first: which features you need sit on a paid plan. The help center says matrix pricing, in beta now, will become part of the premium business package. Texting is a premium feature, and two-way texting works by linking your own Twilio number, which needs 10DLC registration.

We weigh it against a custom build on our Yardbook alternative page.

2. Jobber

Who it suits: solo operators and small to mid-size crews who mow on a recurring schedule and sell extras like aeration, mulch and cleanups by quote. Jobber sells to many trades and keeps a separate lawn care page.

• Pricing: Core costs $29 a month for one user when billed yearly, or $49 paid month to month. Connect is $99 billed yearly or $139 monthly, and Grow is $149 or $199, per the pricing page in October 2026. Team plans cost more, depending on plan and headcount. Extras sold on top: Marketing Suite ($99 monthly), an AI receptionist ($29) and Pipeline ($49).
• Lawn features: the lawn page describes visits generated automatically for recurring jobs, bulk scheduling to move many visits at once when weather doesn't cooperate, and property measurements and past-work photos on quotes. Its route optimization page says it can "automatically generate the best daily routes," and the pricing chart includes routing from Connect up. Connect adds automated client reminders, automatic payment collection and QuickBooks Online sync; Grow adds job costing and two-way texting.
• Trial and contract: two weeks of the Grow plan free, no card required. Billing comes three ways: month to month and cancel any time, monthly payments locked to a 12-month term, or the full year prepaid, which Jobber won't refund if you quit early.
• Demo questions: what a team plan costs at your crew count in May, and exactly how a rained-out Tuesday lands on Wednesday's routes.

For the custom side of that choice, see our Jobber alternative page.

3. Housecall Pro

Who it suits: small lawn crews that want homeowners to book and pay online, including straight from Google, and owners who sell other home services next to mowing. Housecall Pro is general home-service software with its own lawn care page.

• Pricing: Basic is $59 a month billed annually ($79 monthly) for one user; Essentials is $149 ($189) with five users; MAX is $299 ($329) with eight users, plus $35 a month for each extra user, as listed on the pricing page in October 2026. Prices exclude sales tax.
• Lawn features: the lawn page describes recurring weekly, biweekly and seasonal visits, rescheduling when rain shifts the day's route, and "On my way" texts with GPS tracking. Essentials adds grouping and sequencing jobs into routes, employee GPS tracking and QuickBooks Online sync. MAX adds recurring service plans and one-click route optimization based on real drive time and live traffic.
• Trial and contract: two weeks free without entering a card, and the page says you can cancel whenever you like.
• Demo questions: how recurring mowing bills on Basic and Essentials, since the pricing page lists recurring service plans under MAX.

Our Housecall Pro alternative page covers when a custom build fits better.

4. GorillaDesk

Who it suits: small fertilization and weed control operators, and companies that run lawn and pest routes side by side, that want month-to-month terms. GorillaDesk sells to pest control, lawn care and other trades, and has a dedicated lawn care page.

• Pricing: priced per route, meaning one schedule. Basic is $49 per route per month, Pro $99 and Growth $149, as listed on the pricing page in October 2026. Yearly prepay is listed at $539 for Basic, $1,089 for Pro and $1,639 for Growth. Seats follow schedules: office staff and helpers without a schedule of their own are free, so a crew that travels together pays for its leader's schedule. Texting is a $5 monthly subscription plus prepaid credits.
• Lawn features: Basic includes material tracking for chemical use records, estimates and invoices, triggered automations, and basic routing capped at 25 stops per optimization. The Pro tier brings routing on real street drive times, Stripe and Square subscription billing, a customer portal, online booking and QuickBooks Online sync. Growth adds map tools that measure properties for estimates.
• Trial and contract: free for 14 days, no card needed, per the lawn care page. The pricing FAQ says every plan is month to month with no contracts or setup fees, that the yearly option is billed in full up front, and that seasonal businesses can freeze their account.
• Demo questions: how a 40-stop mowing day routes on Basic, and what happens to autopay customers while the account is frozen.

More detail is on our GorillaDesk alternative page.

5. Service Autopilot

Who it suits: lawn and landscape companies with several crews that want repetitive office work automated, especially those that also plow snow. Its site lists lawn care, landscaping, snow removal, cleaning, pest control and pool cleaning among the industries it serves.

• Pricing: Startup is $49 a month, Pro $199 and Pro Plus $499, each "+ sign up fee," with Elite by quote, as listed on the pricing page in October 2026. Per a note on that page, those figures are annual subscription rates, and the sign-up fee amount isn't shown. Included mobile licenses rise from 1 on Startup to 2, 5 and 8 on the plans above it.
• Lawn features: its lawn care page describes recurring jobs on weekly, biweekly or monthly cadences and asset and chemical tracking in the mobile app. The plan chart marks route optimization, snow dispatch, chemical tracking and job costing as included from Pro up. Pro Plus adds Automations, which the company says can handle estimate follow-ups, past-due reminders, texts and email campaigns. Elite bundles two-way texting, QuickBooks integration and a client portal; on Pro and Pro Plus the chart shows those three as "Call for Pricing."
• Trial and contract: the pricing page offers a free trial and live demos. Its FAQ allows upgrades whenever you like, while downgrades wait until your contract period is over.
• Demo questions: the dollar amount of the sign-up fee, the contract term, and the price of each added mobile license if every crew leader will run the app.

6. LMN by Granum

Who it suits: landscape maintenance companies with several crews that do recurring lawn work alongside installs and want to price from a budget and track job costs. LMN is landscaping software from Granum, and its pricing page pitches Starter at companies with fewer than 10 employees and Professional at 10 or more.

• Pricing: Starter lists from $297 monthly, billed monthly, covering 1 office or crew lead license and 5 licenses for crew members. Professional lists from $648 monthly, covering 3 office or crew lead licenses and 15 crew licenses. Enterprise is quoted and starts at 100 users. A footnote says both figures come after a one-time onboarding charge (amount not shown), and additional licenses are extra. All as listed in October 2026.
• Lawn features: overhead recovery budgeting (one active budget on Starter), material and labor calculators for estimates, the LMN Crew app with offline access, GPS location verification, weather notes recorded automatically, route optimization, text messages to customers, and a customer portal for approving estimates and paying invoices. Professional adds real-time job costing and equipment and material costing.
• Trial and contract: every plan on the pricing page leads to a booked demo, so ask there about a trial and the contract terms.
• Demo questions: the onboarding fee, the price per extra crew license, and how much of the budgeting module a mowing-heavy company will actually use.

7. RealGreen by WorkWave

Who it suits: lawn care companies with three or more crews, especially those selling multi-round treatment programs, and franchise or multi-branch lawn operators. RealGreen's site says it is built for lawn care, "with lot-size pricing, service programs and a customer portal."

• Pricing: not published. The pricing page lists Small Business ("Ideal for 3 crews or more"), Professional and Enterprise packages, with pricing that is "both usage and user-based" by custom quote.
• Lawn features: online measuring, routing that accounts for technician skills and licensing, turn-by-turn navigation and live truck tracking, property inventory for pricing jobs, and a self-service portal where customers pay, prepay and order more services. Email, digital and direct mail marketing tools are part of the platform.
• Trial and contract: the pricing page leads to a custom quote and lists no contract terms. The homepage says it handles the migration for companies moving off Arborgold, Jobber or a spreadsheet.
• Demo questions: whether your quote is per user or per usage, what migration and training cost, and the contract length.

Already on RealGreen and weighing a move? Our RealGreen alternative page covers its contract, texting and what happens to your data when you leave.

8. ServiceTitan

Who it suits: larger lawn treatment companies with an office team, technicians who sell on site, and customers on treatment plan memberships. ServiceTitan's lawn care page centers on memberships, marketing and field sales, and its demo form asks for your technician count and whether a full-time office employee is on staff.

• Pricing: not published. The pricing page describes "per-technician pricing" for three packages (Starter, Essentials, The Works) and shows no dollar figures; every package sends you to request a price.
• Lawn features: memberships for lawn treatment plans that feed their recurring visits into the schedule, volume scheduling with bulk booking and routing optimization, a pricebook with mobile estimates, a customer portal, trackable phone numbers to tie calls to campaigns, and Marketing Pro, which ServiceTitan lists among its Pro upgrades, for email and direct mail campaigns to existing customers.
• Related product: Aspire, which its own site places in the ServiceTitan family, covers landscape maintenance, landscape construction, and snow and ice management.
• Demo questions: the implementation fee and timeline, the contract length, and how seasonal technicians count toward per-technician pricing.

See our ServiceTitan alternative page for the custom side of that decision.

9. A custom CRM

Who it suits: lawn companies whose work only fits a packaged product with workarounds. The usual signs: you run mowing, treatment rounds and snow contracts under one roof, each billed differently; you spread a season's contract over twelve equal payments; your office keeps spreadsheets next to the software to answer simple questions; or you want the database in your own company's name. The service companies we operate run on a CRM we built in-house, before we sold custom builds to anyone, because packaged field software kept bending our workflow to fit it.

• Pricing model: you pay once for the build, then for hosting and ongoing maintenance. The total depends on scope.
• What it covers: quotes, scheduling, routes, invoicing, cards on file and reports shaped to how you already work, with your data exportable whenever you want it.
• When it doesn't fit: you're in your first seasons, run one or two crews on a standard mow-and-invoice routine, or need software running this week. A build takes weeks, usually costs more up front than a subscription, and leaves you dependent on whoever maintains it. In those cases, a packaged product from the list above fits better.
• Ask any builder: who owns the code and the database, how you export your data, and what happens if they stop maintaining it.

The custom CRM service page lays out how a build works with us, from discovery to training your crews.

Lawn care software compared side by side

Figures below are list prices read on the vendors' own sites during October 2026, and "entry" marks the cheapest listed plan.

How do you choose lawn care software for your size?

Start with your size and your work mix, then test the three things that break most often in lawn care: weather, billing and routes.

• Solo or first season: keep the monthly cost low until the work pays for it. Yardbook's free plan, Jobber Core, GorillaDesk Basic and Housecall Pro Basic all cover quotes, scheduling and invoices. Our guide to starting a lawn care business covers the rest of the setup.
• Two to five crews, mostly mowing: routes and recurring billing matter most. Compare Jobber Connect or Grow, Housecall Pro Essentials or MAX, GorillaDesk Pro and Service Autopilot Pro. Our route optimization guide explains what to look for in a routing tool.
• Fertilization and weed control programs: look hard at application records, rounds that repeat through the season, and prepay. GorillaDesk, Yardbook and Service Autopilot describe chemical tracking on their own sites, and RealGreen describes service programs and routing by technician licensing.
• Several branches, or ten-plus technicians with office staff: RealGreen markets to franchise and multi-location lawn companies, LMN pitches Professional at companies with 10 or more employees, and ServiceTitan prices per technician and asks about office staff on its demo form. RealGreen and ServiceTitan both price by quote. Expect a demo and an onboarding period.

Whatever your size, check these before you sign:

• Price your peak season. Count every user, crew leader license or route you'll need in May, then add sign-up or onboarding fees and card processing. Per-route, per-user and per-technician pricing produce very different bills for the same crew.
• Run a rain day. Load a real Tuesday of stops, push it to Wednesday, and watch what happens to Wednesday's route and the customer notices.
• Bill the way you bill. Per cut, flat monthly or prepaid season: set one customer up each way and run a month of invoices against a card on file. Our recurring billing guide walks through the tradeoffs.
• Check application records. If you apply fertilizer or pesticides, ask your state's pesticide regulatory agency what records you must keep, then confirm the software captures every field. Rules vary by state, and this is general information, not legal advice.
• Get the exit in writing. Ask what a full export includes (customers, properties, visit history, invoices) and how saved cards move if you leave. Our guide to switching CRMs has the checklist.

Where to start

Start this week with three moves:

1. List your real numbers on one page: crews, stops per crew per day, services, and how each customer pays. That page alone will rule out several products on this list.
2. Pick two products from the table that match your size and run the same test in each free trial or demo: 20 real properties, a recurring schedule, a rain day and a month of invoices.
3. Before you sign, get the contract length, every fee and the export terms in writing.

If the real problem is a schedule that isn't full, new software won't fix it. Our free system quote looks at how customers find you and reach you, and where they drop off along the way.

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