# Lawn Buddy review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Scheduling, routing and invoicing for lawn care businesses

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Lawn Buddy is software for lawn care and landscaping businesses that handles customer records, job scheduling, estimates, invoicing and card payments. Higher plans add route optimization, a separate crew app and time tracking. There is a free plan, and no plan charges per user.

- **Category:** Field Service Software
- **Made by:** Lawn Buddy
- **Website:** https://lawnbuddy.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, with no estimates, routing or branded invoices.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Lawn Buddy has a free plan, and paid plans start at $12 per month, billed monthly ($140 billed annually).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Lite plan at $0 a month: customer records, messaging, job scheduling, digital payments and subscriptions, with a 4.8% + $.30 card fee.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lite | $0 | Customer management, jobs, invoices and payments; no estimates, branded invoices or routing. Card fee 4.8% + $.30. |
| Standard | $12 per month, billed monthly | Adds custom invoices and estimates with photos, aerial measurement and PDFs. Card fee 3.8% + $.30. |
| Pro | $39 per month, billed monthly | Adds crew assignment, route optimization, a crew app with no pricing shown and unlimited crew members. Card fee 2.9% + $.30. |
| Exclusive | $78 per month, billed monthly | Adds time tracking, timesheets and check-in and out at job sites, plus on-the-way texts. Card fee 2.9% + $.30. |

Read from https://lawnbuddy.com/features-pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Lawn Buddy before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Annual plans save up to 23%** (Annual discount): Billed annually, Standard is $140, Pro $360 and Exclusive $720 a year, against $12, $39 and $78 a month. Source: https://lawnbuddy.com/features-pricing/

## Key features

- **Job scheduling:** Jobs can be recurring, one-time or multi-day, viewed as a list, map or calendar, with urgent jobs moved to the top.
- **Route optimization:** On Pro and above, daily routes are ordered for the shortest drive, adjustable by hand, printable and viewable on a map.
- **Invoicing and payments:** Automatic invoices after a job, late fees, resend of overdue invoices, subscriptions and card or ACH payments.
- **Estimates with site measurement:** Estimates carry photos and your branding, and a measurement tool uses aerial views of the property.
- **Separate crew app:** Crews see jobs, routes and checklists without financial details; crew members are unlimited on Pro and Exclusive.
- **QuickBooks integration:** Financial data can be kept in step with QuickBooks, and all data can be downloaded as a CSV file.

## Good for

- Solo lawn care operators who want a free starting plan
- Small landscaping crews that need route planning without per-user fees
- Owners who want card fees to fall as they move up a plan

## Worth knowing

- Card processing fees are 4.8% + $.30 on the free plan and fall to 2.9% + $.30 on Pro and Exclusive; the fee can be passed to the payer.
- Time tracking and on-the-way texts are limited to the Exclusive plan, and routes and the crew app start at Pro.
- The pricing page shows annual totals (not monthly figures) in its toggle.
- Built for lawn care and similar outdoor service work.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Lawn Buddy has a $0 Lite plan with customers, jobs, invoices and payments, then $12, $39 and $78 a month. The free plan has no estimates or routing and a 4.8% + $0.30 card fee, and routing and the crew app need the $39 plan.

- **Value for money: B.** Lite is free, Standard is $12 a month, under 60% of the cheaper quarter's $34. But routing and the crew app start at $39 and time tracking at $78.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Lite is free with customers, jobs, invoices and payments. No estimates, branded invoices or routing, and the card fee is 4.8% + $0.30, so you will hit the edge.
- **Features: C.** Scheduling, invoices, estimates with aerial measurement, routes and a crew app, but each is gated: estimates on $12, routes and crews on $39, time tracking on $78.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. It needs QuickBooks and payments to be connected, and plans to be chosen.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus phone apps and a separate crew app, with QuickBooks and Global Payments. No desktop app is listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Lawn Buddy's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among field service apps

- Lawn Buddy's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 68 of the 87 other field service apps we grade, and level with 9.
- It stands best on value for money (B, above 73 of 87) and worst on features (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $12 a month, against a middle price of $50 for the category: 1 of the 53 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/field-service

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Lawn Buddy you could make: job scheduling, quotes and estimates, invoicing, time tracking and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 1 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 68 of the 87 other field service apps we grade. It costs $144 a year.

- You could make: Job scheduling, quotes and estimates, invoicing, time tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

QuickBooks, Global Payments

**Tags:** Job scheduling, Quotes and estimates, Invoicing, Time tracking, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Jobber](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jobber): Quotes, scheduling and payments for home service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/jobber-vs-lawn-buddy)
- [LMN](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lmn): Landscaping software with budgeting, estimating and job costing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lawn-buddy-vs-lmn)
- [GorillaDesk](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gorilladesk): Field service software for pest control, lawn care and pool routes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gorilladesk-vs-lawn-buddy)
- [Service Autopilot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/service-autopilot): Scheduling and invoicing software for lawn, cleaning and pest firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lawn-buddy-vs-service-autopilot)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://lawnbuddy.com/features-pricing/
- https://lawnbuddy.com

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