Landscape design and build software: 13 tools ranked by cost

How we ranked them

• The crew. Five users: one in the office and the rest in the field.
• The figure. The monthly price for five users on the lowest plan that holds them, read on the vendor’s own pages, in US dollars. A plan sold on yearly billing shows its monthly equivalent.
• The order. Lowest price first. Tools that publish no price for five users come after.

The prices come from our field service software cost study, November 2026. How we check listings: methodology.

The tools, ranked by monthly cost for five users

What we found

• Flat fees win as the crew grows. Lawn Buddy and Yardbook charge a flat fee: $39 and $49.99 a month for ten users too. The median for ten users is $300, across 11 of 23 tools, and LMN by Granum costs the most at $648.
• Jobber sits in the middle. Across all the field service tools we track, 10 of the 30 with a public 5-user price cost less than Jobber’s $199. Among landscaping tools that is Lawn Buddy, Yardbook and ServiceM8, and fieldd matches it.
• 10 of 23 publish no price for five users. Among them, Arborgold, CLIP and FieldRoutes are priced by their sales teams.

Each tool, with our verdict

1. Lawn Buddy: $39 a month

Lawn Buddy is built for lawn care and landscaping alone. It measures a lawn from satellite imagery, with irregular shapes and several surfaces, and works out volume for mulch, gravel or soil. Estimates carry your logo and photos, can be part prepaid and turn into a scheduled job without retyping.

Verdict: the first one to try for a small design and build crew that quotes from measurements.

2. Yardbook: $49.99 a month

Yardbook covers customers, estimates, scheduling, routing, timesheets, chemical tracking and invoicing. Its core plan is free and ad-supported. It measures lots from satellite, prices by property or matrix, and estimates can carry optional add-on items the customer approves on a phone with a signature.

Verdict: the low-cost pick when maintenance rounds pay the bills between design jobs.

3. ServiceM8: $149 a month

ServiceM8 serves many trades, with its own pages for lawn care. Several priced options can go to the customer to choose between, and an accepted quote becomes the live job. Auto Routing reorders a day’s stops in one click on every plan, the free one included.

Verdict: a fit when you send clients two or three versions of a design to pick from.

4. fieldd: $199 a month

fieldd joins online booking, a map view for sending jobs out, a worker app, invoicing and marketing. Quotes go out by text or email and the customer approves with a signature.

Verdict: suits a maintenance business whose customers book and pay online.

5. Jobber: $199 a month

Jobber has its own lawn care and landscaping pages. Quotes are built from templates, approved by the client online with a deposit if you want one, and turn into a scheduled job in one click. Pesticide logging records the applicator’s licence number.

Verdict: the safe middle choice for a crew that wants quote, job and invoice in one flow.

6. ServiceMonster: $199.99 a month

ServiceMonster is built mainly for cleaning and exterior washing firms, with a lawn care page of its own. Its price list takes custom units such as square footage, and customers approve estimates online. Routing helps the office assign the nearest crew but does not reorder stops by itself.

Verdict: worth a look for firms that also wash patios and driveways.

7. QuoteIQ: $224.99 a month

QuoteIQ measures a property from satellite and keeps a price book on every plan. Options estimates put basic, recommended and premium tiers side by side for the customer to choose, and the customer signs with a finger.

Verdict: the one to pick for selling a design in three tiers.

8. RazorSync: $225 a month

RazorSync gives every plan estimating, with quotes built in the field and exported to QuickBooks with job-cost margins. Recurring service requests create maintenance visits by themselves. No online approval step for the customer is described.

Verdict: for a crew that already runs its books in QuickBooks.

9. GorillaDesk: $249 a month

GorillaDesk tracks quote status and follows up on unanswered quotes by itself. Chemical and material records come on every plan.

Verdict: for a lawn treatment business more than a design studio.

10. Workiz: $275 a month

Workiz has its own landscaping pages and adds a phone system and an AI suite that answers calls and books jobs. Customers approve estimates in a client portal. Every plan now runs through a sales request.

Verdict: for a team that takes most of its work by phone.

11. Crew Control: $295 a month

Crew Control is Aspire Software’s lighter product, billed per crew. It sends each day’s jobs to crew leaders’ phones and takes a job from proposal to payment. You can sign up online and set it up yourself.

Verdict: a step up for a landscaping firm with a few crews and a small office.

12. LMN by Granum: $297 a month

LMN serves lawn and grounds work alone, with its own pages for design and build firms. Estimates come from your own operating budget, with material and labour calculators and production rates. Clients read, comment on and sign proposals in their own portal, and a signed contract becomes a job plan for the crew. Buying starts with a demo and a one-time onboarding fee.

Verdict: the strongest fit for a design and build firm that prices to a target margin.

13. Service Autopilot: $528 a month

Service Autopilot runs recurring crew work for lawn care, landscaping, snow and cleaning firms, billed against ongoing maintenance agreements. Pro Plus is sold on yearly billing through its sales team.

Verdict: for a large maintenance operation more than design work.

Arborgold, CLIP and FieldRoutes

Arborgold serves lawn, tree and grounds firms, with proposals the customer signs electronically. CLIP builds estimates on desktop or phone and collects a deposit when the customer accepts. FieldRoutes serves pest control and lawn care, with quotes signed on the spot. All three are priced by their sales teams.

How to choose

• You quote from measurements: Lawn Buddy, Yardbook or QuoteIQ, which all measure from satellite.
• You offer clients versions of a design: QuoteIQ’s tiers or ServiceM8’s priced options.
• You bid design and build work to a margin: LMN by Granum.
• Maintenance rounds are most of your work: Yardbook, or Service Autopilot at a larger scale.

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