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Best apps for a lawn care business in 2026
Six apps for mowing routes, landscaping estimates and seasonal billing, compared
Lawn care is a route business. The same forty yards every week, in the same order, with a few cleanups, aerations and mulch jobs slotted in between. The money is made or lost in the driving, the weather days and the clients who forget to pay for three cuts in a row. A good app for a lawn mowing business keeps the route tight, moves a rained-out day without a dozen phone calls, and bills the season without you rewriting every invoice.
Landscaping adds a second job: estimating installs. A patio, a planting bed or a sod job needs a quote built from materials, labor and equipment hours. Some apps here are built for weekly maintenance, some for landscape estimating, and a few try to do both.
This guide compares six options for lawn care and landscaping businesses: three built specifically for the green industry, two general tools, and Workeey, which we make. We note where each one beats ours.
A quick comparison
| Yardbook | Jobber | Service Autopilot | LMN | Square Invoices | Workeey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price to start | Free; premium prices not listed | From $29 a month billed annually, or $49 with no commitment | From $49 a month on annual rates, plus a sign-up fee | From $297 a month, after a one-time onboarding fee | $0 a month; paid plans from $49 a month per location | Free; Pro $5 and Premium $19 a month |
| Free plan | Yes | No; 14-day trial | No; free trial offered | None listed; book a demo | Yes | Yes, free forever, no card |
| Invoicing | Yes, with payments | Yes, with online payments | Yes, with integrated payments | Yes, with payments | Unlimited, including recurring invoices | Unlimited, emailed with a pay link |
| Estimates | Yes | Yes (quotes) | Yes (quotes) | Yes, with job budgeting | Yes | 23 a month free, as a quote PDF |
| Scheduling | Yes, with routing | Yes, with online booking | Yes; route optimization from its second plan | Yes, with route optimization | Not listed on its invoices pricing page | Time slots, repeating jobs, routes |
| Phone apps | Android app; iPhone app in beta | iPhone and Android | App included on every plan | LMN Crew app | iPhone and Android | Android app on Google Play; runs in any phone's browser too |
| Best for | Small crews wanting free software | Residential lawn care with online booking | Route-heavy maintenance companies | Landscape firms tracking job profit | Billing monthly contracts | A solo mower wanting to start free |
Checked November 4, 2026 on each company's own pricing or product page, and on app store listings for phone apps (Jobber and Square figures re-used from our November 3, 2026 check of the same pages). Prices are in US dollars before tax; card fees are set by each provider. This compares published plans and features, not a hands-on test of every product.
Yardbook
Best fit: a small lawn care or landscaping business that wants green-industry software without a monthly bill.
Yardbook describes itself as a free web-based application for landscaping businesses, paid for by sponsored advertising. Its feature list covers estimates, job scheduling, routing, timesheets, GPS tracking, a pricing catalog, invoices and payments, expenses, and chemical tracking, which matters if you apply fertilizer or weed control. Optional premium features are offered for larger companies.
The phone side is less complete than the rest. Yardbook has an Android app, and its iPhone app is in beta: you ask support for an install link, and it is designed for field team members. Its terms also add a Yardbook processing fee to online payments on accounts not on a paid plan.
Pricing: free; premium plan prices are not listed on its site.
Who should look elsewhere: an iPhone user who wants a finished app today, or anyone who would rather not see sponsored ads.
Sources: Yardbook and Yardbook iOS app help.
Jobber
Best fit: a residential lawn care company that wants homeowners to request work, see visits and pay online.
Jobber's Core plan has online booking and scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments and a client hub. Its next plan, Connect, adds automatic payments, automated client reminders, quote and invoice follow-ups and QuickBooks Online sync, which is where lawn companies with many recurring accounts start saving time.
Pricing: Core is $29 a month billed annually, $39 with a one-year commitment, or $49 with no commitment, for one user. Connect starts at $99 a month billed annually. There is a 14-day trial with no card.
Who should look elsewhere: a mowing business that needs automatic monthly payments but does not want to pay for Connect.
Source: Jobber pricing. Side by side: Workeey vs Jobber.
Service Autopilot
Best fit: a lawn maintenance company with routes, crews and a lot of repeat work to automate.
Service Autopilot is built for lawn care and other route-based services. Startup covers scheduling and dispatching, invoicing with integrated payments, expense tracking, and customer and lead management. Pro adds route optimization, a dispatch calendar, multi-day jobs and job costing. Pro Plus adds automation workflows, and Elite adds two-way texting, a client portal, QuickBooks integration and multi-location management. Snow dispatch also appears in its feature table, useful for crews who plow in winter.
Its app is included on every plan. The prices are annual subscription rates and the three priced tiers carry a sign-up fee, so the first year costs more than the monthly figure suggests.
Pricing: Startup $49 a month, Pro $199, Pro Plus $499, all on annual rates plus a sign-up fee; Elite is priced on request. A free trial is offered.
Who should look elsewhere: a solo mower who does not need automations, or anyone who wants prices quoted month to month (its listed prices are annual rates).
Source: Service Autopilot pricing.
LMN
Best fit: an established landscaping company that wants to budget, estimate and track the profit on every job.
LMN focuses on the numbers behind landscape work. LMN Starter, for companies with fewer than ten employees, includes budgeting, estimating, scheduling, the LMN Crew app, and invoicing and payments, with one office or crew lead license and five crew member licenses. Its feature list also includes route optimization, mobile estimating and a customer portal for estimates, schedules and invoice payments. Professional adds real-time job costing and equipment and material costing.
It is priced for a business with crews, not a one-person mowing route.
Pricing: LMN Starter starts at $297 a month and Professional at $648 a month, billed monthly in US dollars after a one-time onboarding fee. Enterprise is priced by sales.
Who should look elsewhere: a small or new lawn care business, for which the starting price is hard to justify.
Source: LMN pricing.
Square Invoices
Best fit: a mowing business that bills the same customers every month and wants it free.
Square Free includes unlimited invoices and recurring invoices, estimates, contracts, deposits and automatic reminders at no monthly cost. Recurring invoices suit a flat monthly mowing contract, and customers can pay by card or bank transfer from the invoice. Square Plus adds payment schedules and multi-package estimates, handy for offering a basic, standard and full-service mowing package.
Its invoices pricing page does not list a route or work schedule, so you would keep the route somewhere else.
Pricing: Square Free is $0 a month; Square Plus is $49 a month per location. Card fees are set by Square.
Who should look elsewhere: an operator who wants the route and the billing in the same app.
Source: Square invoices pricing. Side by side: Workeey vs Square Invoices.
Workeey
Best fit: an owner-operator mowing route that wants the week's visits, quotes and invoices on one phone, free to start.
Workeey's free plan has no end date and no card. It includes unlimited invoicing, 23 quick estimates a month and 10 payment reminder texts a month that you switch on per invoice. Weekly or biweekly cuts are set up as repeating jobs, with the next 12 visits on the schedule, and the route planner puts the first 11 stops of the day in the best order. Save your mowing, edging and cleanup prices as lines and an estimate for a new yard takes a minute, sent as a quote PDF; when the client says yes, one tap makes it the invoice.
Each invoice is emailed with a pay link, so clients pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or US bank transfer through your own Stripe account, with a small processing fee. Connect your bank and matching invoices are marked paid. Google Calendar and QuickBooks sync come on Pro, with 30 texts a month; Premium makes texts unlimited.
What it lacks for this trade: there is no recurring billing, so each visit or month is its own invoice, and no automatic card charging. There are no crews, no chemical tracking like Yardbook's, and no job costing like LMN's. Deposits print on the quote as a percent but are not collected. 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: an operation running crews on several routes, or one that wants every client billed automatically each month.
Sources: Workeey features and pricing and availability.
How to choose an app for lawn care or landscaping
Decide whether you are a maintenance business, an install business, or both. Weekly mowing lives on routes, repeat visits and monthly billing; installs live on estimates built from materials and hours. Service Autopilot and Yardbook lean toward maintenance, LMN toward landscape estimating and job costing.
Look at how each app bills a season. Some send a recurring invoice or charge a saved card automatically; others make one invoice per visit. If you sell monthly contracts, recurring invoices or automatic payments will save you hours by the end of the year.
Check the route tools on a real Monday: enter your stops, move a rained-out day, and see how fast the new order comes back. And price the first year honestly, counting sign-up or onboarding fees and annual commitments, not just the monthly figure.
To set your prices, see how much to charge for lawn mowing and how much to charge for landscaping. Other trades are in the best apps for tradespeople.
More for lawn care pros: pages and free templates
- Lawn care software — mowing routes and a month of visits on one invoice
- Invoicing for lawn care — how to bill a month of mowing
- How much to charge for lawn mowing — a guide to setting your prices
- How to start a lawn care business — a step-by-step guide to going out on your own
- Lawn care invoice template — free, with a filled-in sample
- Lawn care estimate template — a free quote sample
- Lawn care receipt template — a free paid-in-full sample
- Landscaping and lawn care price list template — free, with sample prices
- Landscaping and lawn care 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
What is the best app for a lawn mowing business?
For a solo mower, start with a free app that handles repeat visits and routes: Yardbook and Workeey both have free plans, and Square Free covers recurring invoices. A larger route business with crews will get more from Service Autopilot or Jobber.
What is the best app for a landscaping business?
If you mainly install, pick an app with strong estimating and job costing; LMN is built for that, from $297 a month after an onboarding fee. A smaller landscaper can quote and invoice from a lower-cost app such as Jobber, or free with Yardbook or Workeey.
Is Yardbook really free?
Its site says Yardbook is free, supported by sponsored ads, with optional premium features for larger companies. Its terms add a Yardbook processing fee to online payments on accounts that are not on a paid plan.
Can I bill lawn care customers monthly?
Square Free sends recurring invoices, and Jobber offers automatic payments on its second plan. Workeey has no recurring billing; you send each invoice yourself, with optional reminder texts.