The best landscaping software depends on what you sell and how big you are. For small and mid-size landscaping companies, the realistic shortlist is Contruva, Jobber, LMN, Service Autopilot, Housecall Pro and Yardbook, and large commercial companies should also look at Aspire. Contruva fits crews who want the phone answered, quotes sent and every crew member on one plan; LMN and Aspire fit companies that live by estimating budgets and commercial contracts.
One thing first: a lot of “best landscaping software” lists are really about design tools that draw a backyard in 3D. This page is about landscaping business software, the app that runs leads, quotes, crews, invoices and payments. All prices below were checked on each company’s own site in November 2026, and we say plainly where a price isn’t published.
What does a landscaping business need from software?
Landscaping isn’t one business. Most companies run two or three at once, and each one stresses the software differently:
- Install and design-build. Fewer, bigger jobs: patios, retaining walls, planting plans, sod, lighting. You need quotes with photos and options, deposits, change orders and job costing so you know whether that wall made money.
- Maintenance. Weekly or biweekly cuts, spring and fall cleanups, fertilizer rounds. You need recurring jobs that fill the calendar for the season and billing that doesn’t eat your month-end.
- Winter work. Many landscapers plough and salt from December to March. That means per-push or seasonal contracts and a schedule that changes with every storm.
Then there’s the season itself. You sell in February, build flat out from April to June, and a wet week in May pushes every job behind it. Crews swell with seasonal labourers who all need the job address, the drawing and a clock-in, but don’t need to see your pricing. A good landscaping app handles that without charging you a seat fee for every summer hire.
Before you trial anything, run one real job through it:
- Quote your most common install, with photos, an upgrade option and a deposit, in under ten minutes.
- Check the price book handles your units: square feet of pavers, face feet of wall block, yards of mulch, pallets of sod, tonnes of gravel.
- Set up a weekly cut from mid-April to the end of October and see what the calendar does.
- Move a three-day patio after a rain day and see whether the crew finds out without a phone call.
- Price it with every crew member on it, including the seasonal hires.
For the install side in more depth, see our page on landscaping business software for design-build crews, and for maintenance routes, lawn care software.
The seven at a glance
| Software | Starting price (checked Nov 2026) | Per-user fees | Route optimization | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contruva | One plan, everything included | ✓ None | ✕ No | Small to mid-size crews who want calls, quotes, crews and marketing in one app |
| Jobber | $49 USD/mo (Core, 1 user) | $29 USD/mo per extra user | Not tied to a plan on the pricing page | Home service and maintenance crews of most sizes |
| LMN | $297 USD/mo (Starter) | Extra licences, fee not published | ✓ All plans | Landscape companies that estimate from budgets and overhead recovery |
| Aspire | Quote | ✓ No user limit | Not stated | Enterprise and commercial landscape companies |
| Service Autopilot | $49/mo (Startup), annual pricing | Users set by plan | Pro and up | Maintenance companies that want heavy automation |
| Housecall Pro | $79 USD/mo (Basic, monthly) | $35 USD/mo on Max | Max only | Residential service companies |
| Yardbook | Not verified (see below) | Not verified | Not verified | Solo and very small lawn operators on a tight budget |
1. Contruva
Who it suits: owner-operators and small to mid-size landscaping companies, install or maintenance, that lose work to missed calls and slow quotes, and want every crew member on the app without a seat fee.
Price: one plan, Contruva Pro, with everything included and no per-seat pricing. Every account starts with a 7-day free trial, no credit card. Pay monthly or yearly, in your own currency (Canadian customers can pay in CAD, with HST shown on the bill).
The AI receptionist answers calls in your business name and books site visits into real open slots while you’re on a compactor. Quotes go out the same day with photos, optional add-ons like lighting or a seat wall, e-signature and a card deposit. Install jobs sit on a drag-and-drop calendar, maintenance runs as recurring jobs, and the crew app handles clock-in, checklists, photos and daily logs, with job costing that shows each job’s real margin. Payments run through Stripe with no extra Contruva fee on top of standard card processing. It also builds your website, adds SEO pages weekly and can post your finished backyards to social media when you text it.
Where it falls short for landscapers: Contruva has no GPS crew tracking or route optimization, so if your business is fifteen mowing crews on dense routes, a route-first tool will serve you better. It also doesn’t do inventory, payroll or multi-location management, and it isn’t accounting software, so keep your bookkeeping tool.
- ✓ No per-seat pricing, so seasonal crew cost nothing extra
- ✓ AI receptionist, website and marketing included
- ✓ Quotes, deposits, change orders and job costing for installs
- ✕ No route optimization or GPS tracking
- ✕ No inventory, payroll or multi-location tools
- ✕ One plan only, no cheaper invoicing-only tier
2. Jobber
Who it suits: home service businesses, including lots of lawn and landscape companies, that want a mature, widely used job app.
Price (USD): Core is $49 a month for one user with no commitment. Connect starts at $139 (1 user) and Grow at $199 (1 user), each rising with user count up to 15 users. Plus starts at $499 for 5 users. One-year commitments and annual billing are cheaper. Extra users are $29 a month each. AI Receptionist ($29), Pipeline ($49) and Marketing Suite ($99) are listed as add-ons. QuickBooks Online sync and automated quote and invoice follow-ups start on Connect, and job costing needs Grow or Plus. There’s a 14-day free trial.
Jobber is a solid all-rounder for recurring maintenance. The catch for growing landscape companies is the math: job costing on Grow, plus a few extra users and an add-on or two, adds up quickly once a full summer crew is on it.
- ✓ Mature app with a big user base
- ✓ QuickBooks Online sync from Connect
- ✕ Job costing only on Grow and Plus
- ✕ Per-user fees and add-ons raise the total as you grow
More in Contruva vs Jobber and our Jobber alternatives roundup.
3. LMN
Who it suits: landscape companies that price from a budget, care about overhead recovery and want estimating built by landscapers. LMN is now part of Granum.
Price (USD, billed monthly): Starter is $297 a month for companies with fewer than 10 employees and includes 1 office or crew lead licence and 5 crew members. Professional is $648 a month for 10+ employees with 3 office licences and 15 crew members. Enterprise, for multi-location companies starting at 100 users, is quoted. Every plan carries a one-time onboarding fee that isn’t published, and extra licences cost extra.
All plans include estimating, scheduling, a crew app with GPS-verified clock-in, and route optimization. Real-time job costing, equipment and material costing and QuickBooks Desktop support are on Professional, not Starter.
- ✓ Budget-based estimating and overhead recovery
- ✓ Route optimization on every plan
- ✕ Highest published entry price on this list
- ✕ Job costing needs Professional; onboarding fee not published
4. Aspire
Who it suits: large commercial landscape companies with estimators, account managers and multi-year maintenance contracts. Aspire is part of the ServiceTitan family of products.
Price: not published. Aspire’s plans page says pricing varies by company size and complexity, that a single licence fee is billed monthly, and that there’s no limit on users. Electronic payments, payroll and GPS fleet management are priced separately, and pricing is set for the term of a contract. Aspire describes itself as built for enterprise-level landscape businesses, and it also offers a separate product, Crew Control, aimed at smaller companies.
- ✓ Deep commercial contract and estimating tools
- ✓ No limit on users
- ✕ Quote only, under contract
- ✕ More system than a small crew needs
5. Service Autopilot
Who it suits: lawn and maintenance companies that want lots of automation and are comfortable setting it up.
Price: the pricing page lists Startup at $49 a month (1 business user, 1 mobile user), Pro at $199 (1 and 2), Pro Plus at $499 (1 and 5) and Elite on request (2 and 8). It says all pricing is based on annual subscription rates, and each paid plan shows “+ sign up fee” without an amount. The page doesn’t name the currency. Route optimization starts on Pro, and the QuickBooks integration is listed only on Elite.
- ✓ Route optimization from the Pro plan
- ✓ Built around recurring maintenance
- ✕ Annual subscription basis and an unpublished sign-up fee
- ✕ QuickBooks integration listed only on Elite
6. Housecall Pro
Who it suits: residential service companies that do some lawn and landscape work alongside other home services.
Price (USD): Basic is $79 a month on monthly billing ($59 on annual) for 1 user, Essentials $189 ($149) for 5 users, and Max $329 ($299) for 8 users, with extra users on Max at $35 a month. No long-term contract, and a 14-day trial with no credit card. QuickBooks Online sync starts on Essentials. Route optimization and recurring service plans are on Max only.
For a lawn company, that last point matters: recurring service plans and route optimization are the two things a maintenance business leans on, and both sit on the top tier.
- ✓ Published prices, no long-term contract
- ✓ Job costing from the Basic plan
- ✕ Recurring service plans and route optimization only on Max
- ✕ Built for residential service more than design-build
See our Housecall Pro pricing breakdown.
7. Yardbook
Who it suits: solo operators and very small lawn businesses that mainly need scheduling and invoicing for the lowest possible cost.
Price: we couldn’t verify it. Yardbook’s site blocked our check in November 2026. Third-party listings describe a free core plan with optional paid tiers, but they disagree on the amounts, so confirm on Yardbook’s own site before you count on it.
- ✓ Low cost of entry, by most accounts
- ✓ Made for lawn and landscape work
- ✕ Pricing not verified for this page
- ✕ A lighter tool than an all-in-one app as the company grows
What does landscaping software really cost?
The headline price is rarely the price you pay. Here’s an illustrative example for a design-build company in its busy season: the owner, an office manager, two crew leads and four seasonal labourers, so 8 people who need the app, and the company wants job costing and QuickBooks sync.
On Jobber, job costing means Grow. Grow for 10 users is listed at $399 USD a month with no commitment, which covers all 8 people. Add the AI Receptionist add-on at $29 and the total is $428 USD a month before tax. On LMN, 8 people fit inside Starter at $297 USD a month, but job costing needs Professional at $648, plus an onboarding fee. Check each vendor’s current page, because tiers and user bands change.
Line up every option the same way:
Everyone who needs a login in June, not February.
Job costing, recurring service plans, route optimization and accounting sync often sit on different tiers.
Call answering, marketing, website, onboarding and sign-up fees.
Month to month, annual commitment or a multi-year contract.
If you’re pricing installs at the same time, the paver calculator and gravel calculator speed up takeoffs, and starting out is covered in our guide to starting a landscaping business.
Which landscaping software should you pick?
| If you are… | Look at |
|---|---|
| A solo lawn operator watching every dollar | Yardbook, or Jobber Core |
| A small to mid-size crew losing jobs to missed calls and slow quotes | Contruva |
| A design-build company with seasonal crews who don’t want seat fees | Contruva |
| A maintenance company with many mowing routes | Service Autopilot, Jobber or LMN for route optimization |
| A 10+ person company that estimates from budgets and overhead recovery | LMN |
| A large commercial company with multi-year contracts | Aspire |
If you want one app that answers the phone, sends the patio quote, collects the deposit, books the crew and shows you what the job made, with every crew member included, try Contruva. See how it works for landscaping companies or go straight to pricing. It’s free for 7 days, no credit card.