Searching for a free alternative to Jobber? Workeey runs your whole day — schedule, invoices, payment reminders, and card or bank payments — on a free plan that never expires. It's built for the one-person trade in a truck, not an office full of desks. No card, no trial clock.
Jobber is solid software, no argument. But it was built for shops with an office manager and a crew out in trucks, and it's priced for exactly that — a monthly bill per user, with no permanent free plan, just a trial that eventually runs out. For a one-person plumbing, electrical, or handyman business, being asked to pay a team's price before you've even sent your first invoice is a genuinely hard sell.
So people go searching for a free alternative to Jobber — something that does the real work without the standing subscription hanging over every job. That's the gap Workeey fills. It's a free plan that doesn't expire, built pocket-first for the person actually turning the wrench, not the office watching from a desk. You get the tools to run a real business, and you get them without handing over a card to start.
Free in Workeey isn't a countdown trial that locks up in two weeks. It's a plan you can genuinely run your business on: your day's schedule with time slots, clients with full history, backed-up job photos, one-tap invoicing, and payment reminders that email your clients until they actually pay. Connect your own Stripe and you can take card or US bank payments on the free plan too — the money side works from day one.
The one real limit is reminders. The free plan sends 10 payment-reminder emails a month, Pro raises that to 30, and Premium is unlimited. That's the ceiling — no locked screens, no 'upgrade to send an invoice,' no feature held hostage. You get the whole field workflow first, and you only pay when your invoice volume genuinely outgrows the free plan's reminder count. See pricing for exactly what each tier adds.
The heart of Workeey is turning a finished job into money, and all of it is on the free plan. One tap builds an invoice from the job — client, line items, tax rate, and the job photos carry over as proof of the work you did. It's numbered automatically, and you email it before you leave the driveway. No signal down in the basement? The invoice queues itself and sends the moment you're back in range.
Once it's out, Workeey chases payment so you don't spend your evenings on it. Automatic reminder emails go to the client on a schedule until the invoice is paid — you pick the tone once. With Stripe connected, every invoice carries a pay link for card or US bank transfer, and you watch money owed and money paid stack up per client. Text reminders are coming; email reminders are what run today, and they run on the free plan.
A free plan that out-features a paid one sounds backwards, but on the calendar it's simply true. Workeey syncs two ways with Google Calendar — move a job on your phone or in Google Calendar and the new time writes back in both directions, near instantly. Jobber's calendar sync is one-way only. If you live out of your calendar, that difference is the whole day staying honest instead of drifting out of step by lunch.
You also get an AI button on every screen — draft an invoice, write a client email, get a quick estimate, or just ask a question about a client, by typing or talking. And you can try the entire app in one tap with guest mode: a username and your trade, no account, no card. Poke around a real, working app with real screens before you commit a single thing. Most 'free' software won't even let you look first.
No tricks, so here's the fine print stated plainly and up front. The free plan caps payment reminders at 10 a month. QuickBooks sync lives on the paid plans. If you want more reminder emails going out, or your invoices pushed automatically into QuickBooks, that's the point where Pro or Premium starts earning its keep — and not a day sooner than that.
Everything else — scheduling, unlimited invoicing, routing to your next job, client history, backed-up photos, and the AI — is on the free plan exactly as it is. The idea was never to cripple the free tier so you upgrade out of frustration. It's to let a solo trade run a genuine business at zero cost, and grow into a paid plan only when the volume honestly calls for it. That's the deal, with nothing hidden.
You don't need a card or a sales call to start. Tap into guest mode and you see the whole app immediately, or make an account with just a username and your trade and you're already running it. Invoice your next job in a tap, switch on email reminders, connect Stripe, and get paid — all without a monthly subscription hanging over the top of every job you take.
Want the full feature-by-feature breakdown against Jobber? Read Workeey vs Jobber for the head-to-head. Already keeping your books somewhere? Workeey also syncs into QuickBooks on the paid plans, so the numbers only get entered once. Either way, the free plan is the place to start — it doesn't expire, it doesn't ask for a card, and it does the real work.
Yes — the free plan is free forever, not a trial. It includes the full field workflow: scheduling, one-tap invoicing, client history, Stripe payments, and 10 payment-reminder emails a month. You only pay if you want more reminders or QuickBooks sync.
The honest limits: payment reminders are capped at 10 a month, and QuickBooks sync is a paid-plan feature. Everything else — schedule, invoicing, routing, payments, photos, AI — works on the free plan with nothing locked.
Yes. Guest mode lets you open the whole app in one tap with just a username and your trade — no account, no card. You can see every real screen before you decide to make an account.
Jobber has no permanent free plan — only a trial that expires and then asks for payment. Workeey's free plan doesn't run out. You can keep using it for as long as your volume fits the free tier.
Yes. Connect your own Stripe and every invoice carries a pay link, so clients pay by card or US bank transfer. Fees are roughly 3% plus 30 cents on cards and around 1% on bank payments.
The standout is two-way Google Calendar sync — Jobber's is one-way. Workeey also has guest mode and an AI button on every screen. For the full comparison, see Workeey vs Jobber.