Jobber is built for crews. Workeey is built for you.

The short version

Jobber is field-service software for companies that are growing. It's at its best when you've got technicians to dispatch, a schedule to hand out every morning, an online booking page to fill, and a back office keeping score. All of that is real, and Jobber does it well. It's also built and priced around that world — subscription-only, a genuine learning curve, and a stack of features a one-person shop opens once and never opens again.

Workeey is built for the other person entirely — the plumber, electrician or handyman who is the office, the crew and the boss all at once. You want today's jobs in front of you, a fast invoice, and the money to actually land, without a monthly bill for the privilege. The core is free forever, it's designed for your phone first, and guest mode lets you try the whole app in one tap before you hand over an email.

• Pick Jobber if you run a team, dispatch techs, and want online booking and marketing built in.
• Pick Workeey if you're one or two people, work off your phone, and want the daily core free.
• Both let a client pay by card online — only Workeey does it on a free plan.

Price: free forever vs subscription-only

Jobber has no free-forever plan. You pick a monthly subscription, and the price steps up as you add features and seats — the fuller the toolset and the bigger the crew, the more you pay. For a busy company that's fair; the software is doing a lot. For a solo tradesperson who mostly needs to schedule a day and send an invoice, it can feel like renting a warehouse to store one toolbox.

Workeey's core is free forever — scheduling, clients, invoicing, your own notes, the dashboard, all of it. Paid pricing tiers exist, but they add volume and extras rather than unlock the basics: more automatic payment reminders each month, QuickBooks sync, and so on. The free plan already runs your schedule, sends invoices and takes card and bank payments through your own Stripe; Google Calendar and QuickBooks sync come with Pro. You upgrade when your business asks you to, not to get in the door.

Calendar sync: the difference you'll feel daily

This is where Workeey genuinely beats Jobber, not just matches it. Jobber's Google Calendar connection is one-way — it publishes a read-only feed out to Google. Move a job in your Google Calendar and the change doesn't come back into Jobber, so the two can quietly drift apart. If your day lives in Google Calendar alongside your personal life, that gap turns into double-booked afternoons and jobs you thought you'd rescheduled.

Workeey listens back. On Pro, every job lands in its own Workeey calendar in Google near-instantly, and if you drag one to a new time in Google Calendar, the new time writes straight back into Workeey. Your other Google calendars show inside Workeey too, so you see the whole day in one place and can trust it. For a solo operator juggling work and life in the same day, that's not a nice-to-have; it's the feature that keeps you from showing up an hour late. See how scheduling works.

Invoicing and getting paid

Workeey's invoicing is built for the moment the work is done. Finish a job and one tap turns it into an invoice — client, line items, your tax rate and the job photos as proof all carry over. Invoices are numbered automatically, move through draft, sent, paid and overdue, and send by email from the app. It even works in a basement with no signal: the invoice sits in a durable queue and goes out the second you get bars again.

Jobber's invoicing is capable too, with quoting and deposits and the rest — but it's behind the subscription, and it's more machine than a one-person job usually needs. On both, the client pays online. Workeey connects your own Stripe, so invoices carry a pay link and customers pay by card or US bank transfer, with money-owed and money-paid totals and a payment history per client. The difference is you can do all of that on the free plan.

Simplicity and your phone

Jobber is a desktop-shaped tool with a mobile app bolted alongside. There's a lot on screen because there's a lot going on — dispatching, timesheets, reporting — and every extra panel is another thing to learn and tap past when all you wanted was to add a job. For a crew with an office, that depth pays off. For a person standing in a customer's kitchen, it's friction.

Workeey is mobile-first by design: the Android app is on Google Play, and it runs in any phone's browser too. Adding a job is also where you enter the client and notes, so you're never hunting through menus. An AI button sits on every screen, and it does the work instead of just writing about it — book the job, make the invoice, text the payment reminder, build the estimate or ask about a client, by typing or talking. It runs almost anything in the app for you. And routing hands the day off to Google Maps, Waze or Apple Maps to get you to the next stop.

Where Jobber genuinely wins

Be clear-eyed: if you're building a company, Jobber earns its price. It's stronger for teams — dispatching several techs, timesheets, a client hub portal, online booking your customers use themselves, review and marketing automation, and deeper reporting. It also treats quotes as full standalone records with their own approval flow, which matters when estimating is a formal step in your sales process rather than a number you give on the spot.

Workeey is deliberately narrower. Its estimates live inside a job — the AI itemizes the work from your own rates, parts are priced from the web at your markup, and you send it as a quote PDF with a deposit — but there's no online sign-off for the customer and no quote pipeline to track. That's a fair trade for a solo tradesperson who quotes in a driveway, not a deal-breaker to pretend around. If your business is genuinely a crew with a pipeline, Jobber's depth is worth the money.

Which should you pick?

If you dispatch technicians, run online booking, and want marketing and reporting under one roof, choose Jobber and use what you pay for. If you're the whole operation — quoting, doing the work, and chasing the check yourself — Workeey does the daily job without a subscription and without the overhead. Most solo plumbers, electricians and handymen we built this for fall firmly in the second camp.

The honest test is cheap: open Workeey in guest mode, add a practice job, turn it into an invoice, and ask the AI to book the next one for you. It takes a few minutes and costs nothing. If it fits, keep it — the core stays free. If you outgrow it into a crew, tools like Jobber will be waiting. You can also read our Workeey vs Housecall Pro comparison.