Apps like Housecall Pro, without the monthly bill

The short version

Housecall Pro is field-service software for home-service companies. It takes online bookings, schedules and dispatches techs, sends quotes and invoices, and manages reviews. A company with trucks on the road gets real value from all of that. It is also a paid product from the first day, with a 14-day trial and no plan that stays free.

Workeey is a free alternative for the one-person trade: the plumber, electrician, HVAC tech or handyman who books the work, does it and sends the bill. The free plan covers the jobs and the money. You schedule the day, send invoices with a pay link, switch on reminder texts and price quick estimates from your own rates. Paid plans start at $5 a month when you want more.

• Pick Housecall Pro if customers book you online and you dispatch a team.
• Pick Workeey if you work alone, run the business from your phone and want the daily work free.
• Both email invoices with a link the client pays by card. On Workeey that works on the free plan.

Is Housecall Pro free? Its plans and prices

Housecall Pro does not have a free plan, and its pricing page lists no free version. What it offers is a 14-day free trial with no credit card, then a paid plan. These figures are from its own pricing page, checked November 2026, and they exclude sales tax.

Its three plans differ mainly by team size and by how much of the back office they automate. Prices on the page change, and sign-up offers come and go, so check theirs before you buy.

• Basic: $59 a month billed annually, or $79 month to month, with 1 user. It includes online booking, scheduling and dispatching, quotes, invoices and payments, and review management.
• Essentials: $149 a month billed annually, or $189 month to month, with 5 users. It adds routes, flat-rate pricing, checklists, GPS tracking and QuickBooks Online sync.
• Max: $299 a month billed annually, or $329 month to month, with 8 users and $35 a month for each extra user. It adds recurring service plans, route optimization and an open API.

What the free Workeey plan covers

Free in Workeey means a plan you keep, not a trial with a clock on it. You don't need a card. Invoicing is unlimited. A finished job becomes an invoice in one tap, and it goes out by email from the app with a pay link. Your client pays by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or US bank transfer through your own Stripe account, and a small processing fee applies to online payments.

The free plan has limits, and they're counts. You get 10 payment reminder texts a month, which you switch on per invoice, and 23 quick estimates a month. A quick estimate is priced from your own rates and shared as a quote PDF that can print your deposit percent, and one tap turns it into the invoice. Your schedule runs in time slots, with repeating jobs and a route to the next client.

Pro is $5 a month and Premium is $19 a month. Both are billed monthly, with no yearly plan and no trial, because the free plan is the trial. Pro adds Google Calendar and QuickBooks sync. See pricing for what each plan adds.

Where Housecall Pro is stronger

Say it plainly: Housecall Pro does things Workeey doesn't. Customers can book you online. It dispatches jobs to a team of techs, and even its first plan includes review management. Its higher plans add GPS tracking, flat-rate pricing, checklists and route optimization. Every plan comes with live phone and chat support, and the app works in English and Spanish.

It is also stronger on the payment counter. Your techs can take a card in the field with Tap to Pay, deposit checks from the phone and offer customers financing. If you are hiring or already have helpers, Housecall Pro gives each person a login. Workeey is one person's app and has no team logins.

What Workeey doesn't do

You should know the limits before you switch. Workeey has no online booking page and no dispatching. It has no card reader and no Tap to Pay, so clients pay through the link on the invoice. It doesn't collect deposits or split a bill into payments. The deposit percent prints on the quote, and you collect it your own way. There are no recurring bills, no appointment texts and no on-my-way texts. There's no online quote approval: the client tells you yes, and you turn the estimate into the invoice.

On a phone, Workeey runs as an Android app and in any phone's browser. There is no iPhone app and no desktop app. On an iPhone you use it in the browser. If those gaps are the center of your business, Housecall Pro is the better fit, and our Workeey vs Housecall Pro comparison covers it point by point.

What a solo pro gains on Workeey

Most of a one-person day is the same loop: get to the job, do the work, price the next one and get paid. Workeey keeps that loop short. The assistant takes typing or talking. Tell it what you did and it prepares the job, the invoice or the quote, and you check it and apply. When you connect your bank, invoices that match a deposit are marked paid on their own.

If you keep your books in QuickBooks or your life in Google Calendar, Workeey Pro syncs with both for $5 a month. That's less than a tenth of the cheapest Housecall Pro price above. If you later hire a crew and need dispatching, you can move to a team tool then.

Who should pick which

Choose Housecall Pro if your work comes from online bookings, you run more than one truck, and live support and dispatching are worth a monthly bill. Choose Workeey if you are the whole business and want invoicing, reminders, estimates and the schedule without a subscription. The test costs nothing: make a free account, add a job and send yourself the invoice.

Still comparing the big two? Read Jobber vs Housecall Pro, or see the free alternative to Jobber and our list of the best apps for tradespeople.