What app should a small cleaning or landscaping business use?

What does a cleaning or landscaping business need from an app?

Less than the big apps sell you. Five things do most of the work:

• Repeat visits. Set a house once, every week or every two weeks, and it lands on the schedule by itself.
• Each person’s day on their phone, with the address, the gate code and the notes.
• A checklist, so every clean or every mow is done the same way, whoever does it.
• Quotes the customer approves online, with a deposit for bigger jobs like a spring cleanup or a move-out clean.
• Invoices paid by card, sent when the visit is done, without typing anything twice.

Lawn and landscaping crews also send more quotes, so good, better, best choices on a quote are worth having. Cleaning businesses lean on checklists and on keeping the same cleaner at the same house.

What do the popular apps cost?

US prices from each company’s own pricing page, checked November 4, 2026, month to month.

• Jobber: Core is $49 a month for one person. Connect is $139 for one, and Grow, the first plan with two-way texting and good, better, best quotes, is $199 for one. Each extra person is $29 a month. The AI Receptionist is $29 a month more.
• Housecall Pro: Basic is $79 a month for one person, Essentials $189 for up to 5, and MAX $329 for up to 8. Its recurring service plans are on MAX.
• ZenMaid (made for cleaning businesses): Starter is $19 a month for up to 40 appointments, and Pro is $39 with no limit, plus checklists, GPS for your cleaners and QuickBooks. Texts are charged on top, and its page doesn’t say how much.
• ohelloo Work: free to start for you and one helper, or $79 a month in Get booked for the whole team, with your website and Google listing.

Paying for the year costs less on Jobber and Housecall Pro. Prices change, so check their pages before you sign.

What would a crew of 3 pay?

Here’s an example business, not a real one: an owner and two helpers, with about 60 repeat houses.

• Jobber Connect: $139 plus two extra people at $29, so $197 a month.
• Jobber Grow, for two-way texting and quote choices: $199 plus $58, so $257 a month.
• Housecall Pro Essentials: $189 a month. MAX, for its service plans, is $329.
• ZenMaid Pro: $39 a month plus texts, if you clean houses and don’t need quotes.
• ohelloo Work in Get booked: $79 a month, and the same if you hire a fourth and fifth person.

Card fees can cost more than the app, so ask each one what it charges per payment before you pick.

Which one fits my business?

• You clean houses on your own and want the cheapest thing that works: ZenMaid.
• You work alone, mow or do odd jobs too, and want to set it up yourself: Jobber Core.
• You run a bigger home services crew with an office and want service plans: Housecall Pro MAX.
• You have a crew, or plan to, and want one price that doesn’t climb with every hire: a flat price, like ohelloo Work.

What does ohelloo Work do for cleaning and lawn businesses?

Pick your trade in ohelloo Work and it shows only what that trade uses. A cleaning business gets repeat visits, checklists and Tap to Pay. A lawn and landscaping business gets repeat visits, checklists, good, better, best quotes and Tap to Pay. Both get the schedule for the team, each person’s jobs on their phone, On my way texts, quotes approved online with a deposit, invoices paid by card, and an AI receptionist for the calls you miss.

It’s free to start for you and one helper, with 5% + 25¢ added to each online payment. Get booked, $79 a month, covers the whole team with no ohelloo fee on payments. We set it up for you and bring your customers over from Jobber, Housecall Pro, Square or a spreadsheet, month to month, and your first 14 days are free.