Honest Comparisons
ProBase vs Jobber, Yardbook, LawnPro, Skimmer, Pool Brain, and Spreadsheets — no cherry-picked features, no spin. We'll tell you when they're better.
Start Free TodayBuilt by the team that scaled home service operations to 500,000+ customers. We're a marketplace, not a software company. Through ProBase, you can pick up marketplace jobs if you want. We take a percentage of those. That's how we make money. You're never required to take a single marketplace job. Every tool — scheduling, invoicing, payments, customer management — is free whether you take zero jobs or a hundred.
Jobber is great software — deep scheduling, QuickBooks sync, GPS fleet tracking. But at $49/month for just one user and $169/month the moment you add a helper, most 1–5 crew operations are paying for features they never touch.
Yardbook is the original free lawn care software. It works — for Android users who don't mind ads and can live without tip collection. ProBase is what free looks like when built by a team that's processed half a billion home service transactions.
LawnPro has been around since 2004. But a 25-customer ceiling on the free tier, documented support complaints, and a mobile app that hasn't shipped a meaningful update in over a year tell a different story about where it's headed.
Skimmer is the feature-rich paid option for pool pros. For 100 pools it runs $200/month — $2,400/year — and still lacks tip collection, review automation, and mobile invoicing. ProBase does all three for $0.
Pool Brain goes deep on chemistry tools and fleet management. Great if you're running 50+ pools with a team of techs. But at $65+/month to start — and with no tip collection, no review automation, and a steeper learning curve — it's a lot of software for a 1–5 crew operation.
Google Sheets and Excel are great tools — for spreadsheet problems. Running a service business on them means manually updating customer lists, rebuilding routes every week, and sending invoices by hand. ProBase automates all of that. For $0.
The complete picture — lawn care and pool service.
| Feature | ProBase | Jobber | Yardbook | LawnPro | Skimmer | Pool Brain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||||||
| Monthly cost (typical) | $0 | $169–$349 | $0 | $0–$30+ | $200 | $65+ |
| Annual cost | $0 | $2,028–$4,188 | $0 | $0–$360+ | $2,400 | $780–$2,100 |
| Free customer limit | Unlimited | N/A | Unlimited | 25 | N/A | N/A |
| No annual lock-in | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Core Operations | ||||||
| Mobile invoicing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Desktop only | ✓ |
| Route management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Job scheduling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quotes & estimates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service reports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI service notes | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Offline mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Growth & Revenue | ||||||
| Tip collection | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Automated review requests | Coming soon | $39/mo add-on | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ad-free experience | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced (paid tools) | ||||||
| QuickBooks sync | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GPS fleet tracking | Coming soon | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chemical logging | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LSI / water chemistry calculator | Coming soon | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Two-way SMS with clients | ✗ | Grow+ only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Zapier integrations | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Pricing reflects publicly listed rates as of mid-2026 for typical 1–5 crew operations. Some features marked "Coming soon" are in active development. Jobber pricing based on Connect Team plan.
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