Best apps for electricians in 2026

This guide covers apps for running an electrical business: booking the work, pricing it, sending the invoice and getting paid. It does not cover calculator, code-reference or voltage-drop apps; they help on the job, but they will not tell you who still owes you for last month's panel change.

The right app depends on which kind of pricing fills your week. Service calls, like a tripping breaker or a fixture swap, need a quick price and an invoice before you leave the driveway. Bid work, like a rewire or a run of EV charger installs, needs a careful material and labor count first.

We compared six options: three general field-service apps, one built around contractor quotes, one dedicated electrical estimating program, and Workeey, the app we make. Where another app does something better than ours, we say so.

Jobber

Best fit: a small electrical shop that wants booking, quoting and billing in one connected system.

Jobber links the customer record, the schedule, quotes, invoices and online payments, and gives clients a hub where they can see their work and pay. For a steady stream of residential service calls, that is one place from first call to payment.

Some features sit on higher plans. Automated reminders to clients, quote and invoice follow-ups, and QuickBooks Online sync are on Connect, which starts at $99 a month billed annually for one user. Each extra user on Core is $29 a month.

Pricing: Core is $29 a month billed annually, $39 a month with a one-year commitment, or $49 a month with no commitment, for one user. There is a 14-day trial with no card and no free plan.

Who should look elsewhere: a one-person outfit that only sends quotes and invoices, or anyone unwilling to commit to a year for the lowest price.

Source: Jobber pricing. Side by side: Workeey vs Jobber.

Housecall Pro

Best fit: a residential electrical business that books and dispatches service calls every day.

Housecall Pro's entry plan already includes online booking, scheduling and dispatching, quotes and proposals, invoices and payments, and review management: the pieces that matter when homeowners call with a problem.

Many electrical shops price a GFCI replacement or a breaker swap as a fixed task rather than by the hour. On Housecall Pro, flat-rate pricing is listed on Essentials, along with routes, checklists and QuickBooks Online sync. Essentials includes five users.

Pricing: Basic is $59 a month billed annually or $79 month to month, with one user. Essentials is $149 a month billed annually or $189 monthly. There is a 14-day trial with no card.

Who should look elsewhere: an electrician working alone who mostly does bid work, where a dispatch board adds little.

Source: Housecall Pro pricing. Side by side: Workeey vs Housecall Pro.

ServiceTitan

Best fit: an established electrical contractor with office staff, several technicians and a need for detailed reporting.

ServiceTitan sells three packages, Starter, Essentials and The Works. Across the three it lists dispatching, scheduling, call booking, invoicing, a pricebook and mobile estimates, along with payroll, commission tracking, advanced reporting and memberships; ask which package carries which. It names electrical among the trades it serves, and its field mobile app is what technicians use on site.

Its strength is breadth. The tradeoff is that ServiceTitan publishes no prices: every package says to request pricing, quoted per technician, so you cannot compare it on paper the way you can the others.

Pricing: custom quote for each package, priced per technician.

Who should look elsewhere: a one- or two-person shop, or anyone who wants to start sending invoices today without a sales call.

Source: ServiceTitan pricing.

Joist

Best fit: an electrical contractor whose week revolves around writing estimates and turning them into invoices.

Joist was built for contractors who quote a lot. Its estimates convert to invoices, and the higher plans add contractor paperwork such as work orders and change orders. Change orders matter in electrical work, where opening a wall often reveals something the original quote never covered.

Basics caps you at five documents a month, which a busy electrician passes quickly. Pro removes the cap, Elite adds change orders and your license and insurance details on documents, and only the new Run plan adds job scheduling and calendar sync.

Pricing: Basics $10 a month, Pro $17, Elite $32, and Run $70 a month at its introductory price. The free plan is no longer available; there is a 14-day trial with no card.

Who should look elsewhere: someone who needs a schedule at a low price, since that only arrives on Joist's top plan.

Source: Joist pricing. Side by side: Workeey vs Joist.

TurboBid

Best fit: an electrical contractor who bids larger jobs and wants an accurate material and labor count before naming a price.

TurboBid is dedicated electrical estimating software, not a job or invoicing app. It builds estimates from a database of items and assemblies with labor units, updates material prices from supply-house price files, and handles service-work estimates, flat-rate pricing and change orders. An on-screen takeoff tool can be bought with it, so you can count devices off a set of plans.

It is a Windows program. The product page says Mac users must first install Parallels and Windows 11, and no phone app is listed. Expect to pair it with a separate app for scheduling and invoicing.

Pricing: the monthly subscription is $135 a month, with a mandatory one-time setup fee of $350. There is a free 14-day trial and, as a result, no refunds.

Who should look elsewhere: a service electrician who prices small jobs on the spot, where a full estimating database is more than the work needs.

Source: TurboBid electrical estimating, monthly subscription.

Workeey

Best fit: a self-employed electrician who wants quotes, invoices and the day's schedule on the phone, and does not want a monthly bill to start.

Workeey's free plan has no end date and needs no card. It includes unlimited invoicing, 23 quick estimates a month and 10 payment reminder texts a month, which you switch on per invoice. Estimates are built from your own rates and saved lines, so a panel change or a dedicated circuit you price often is a tap away, and the result is a quote PDF you share from your phone. When the customer tells you yes, one tap turns the estimate into the invoice.

Invoices go out by email with a pay link, and your customer can pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or US bank transfer through your own Stripe account, with a small processing fee. The schedule works in time slots, handles repeating jobs, and can put your next stops in the best order. Connect your bank and matching invoices are marked paid. Pro adds Google Calendar and QuickBooks sync and 30 reminder texts a month; Premium makes texts unlimited.

What it does not do matters just as much. There is no takeoff or material database like TurboBid's, no crew dispatch, no card reader or tap to pay, and no deposit collection: a deposit percent prints on the quote, but you collect it yourself. The customer cannot accept or sign the quote inside Workeey. Workeey is built for the phone: the Android app is on Google Play, it runs in any phone's browser, and a desktop version is coming soon.

Pricing: free; Pro $5 a month; Premium $19 a month.

Who should look elsewhere: a shop with technicians to dispatch, or a contractor who bids from drawings every week.

Sources: Workeey features and pricing and availability.

How to choose an app as an electrician

Start with how you price. If most of your money comes from service calls, you need fast quotes and an invoice that goes out before you pack up, so test Jobber, Housecall Pro or Workeey on a real call. If most of it comes from bids, the count matters more than the paperwork, and an estimating program such as TurboBid may earn its fee on one job you would otherwise have underpriced.

Next, count the people. A one-person business rarely needs dispatching or per-seat plans. With two or three trucks on the road, a dispatch board earns its cost, and that is where Housecall Pro and, later, ServiceTitan fit.

Then check how each app handles the moments that cost electricians money: the extra circuit added mid-job, copper that went up since you quoted, and the invoice that sits unpaid. Look at change orders, saved price lines and payment reminders first.

If you are still working out your numbers, our guide on how to price electrical work covers hourly rates, flat-rate tasks and materials. For other trades, see the full list of best apps for tradespeople.

More for electricians: pages and free templates

• Electrician software — the whole electrical business in one app
• Invoicing for electricians — permits, panels and per-device rates on one bill
• How to price electrical work — a guide to setting your prices
• How to start an electrical business — a step-by-step guide to going out on your own
• Electrician invoice template — free, with a filled-in sample
• Electrical estimate template — a free quote sample
• Electrical receipt template — a free paid-in-full sample
• Electrical price list template — free, with sample prices
• Electrical work order template — free, with a filled-in sample
• Free invoice template — every field a trade invoice needs
• Free estimate template — copy it, price it, send it
• Free receipt template — a paid-in-full receipt to copy
• Work order template — the job written down before you bill it
• Late payment reminder templates — texts, emails and a letter to copy and send
• All free templates and tools