Free lawn care software: what “free” really means

Free plans compared

Exactly what is free in Mowday

Everything Mowday does today is in the Free plan:

• Customer list. Name, phone, street address, and notes like the gate code, the dog, or where to park.
• Repeating mowing schedule. Set a service, a price per visit, and how often: every week or every 2 weeks.
• Today list. The day’s stops in order, with the address, the price and your notes. You can change the order by hand.
• Done and skipped visits. Tap a stop to mark it done, or skip it. The list shows how many stops are done and how much you have earned that day.
• Rain day button. Moves the day’s unfinished stops to tomorrow in one tap. It then writes a text for each customer whose stop moved, and you send it from your own phone.
• Quotes. From a customer’s page, write a quote with one or more lines. Price each line per visit or one time, like Mowing $45 each visit plus Spring cleanup $180 once, and add a note if you want.
• Quote link the customer answers. You copy or share the link yourself. The customer opens it with no sign-in and taps “Accept quote” or “No thanks”. Nothing is charged. The answer shows on the quote, the customer’s page and the Money tab, or you can mark it by hand.
• Invoices from completed visits. Finished visits show up as ready to invoice. Invoice one customer, or all of them at once.
• Invoice link for the homeowner. You copy or share a link. The customer opens it with no app and no login, and sees what they owe and how to pay.
• Venmo, Cash App and Zelle on the invoice. Your Venmo and Cash App buttons open with the amount filled in. Your Zelle phone or email is shown to copy.
• Payment tracking. Record cash, checks (with the check number), Zelle, Venmo and Cash App. Customers can tap “I’ve paid” and you confirm when the money arrives.
• Card payments (optional). Turn on cards through Stripe. The money goes straight to your Stripe account. Stripe’s standard card fee applies. Mowday adds no fee of its own today.
• Works without signal. Your data is saved on the device first. Sign in and it backs up and syncs when you are online.
• Web app. Open app.getmowday.com in a phone or computer browser. Sign in with a 6-digit code sent to your email. No password.

What is not free, or not there

• Card fees. If you turn on card payments, Stripe takes its fee from each card payment. Stripe’s standard card fee applies. Mowday adds no fee of its own today.
• Future paid plans. Pro ($29/month) and Crew ($79/month) are planned for things like texting, QuickBooks sync and crew logins. They are not built and have no date.
• Missing features. Quotes are basic, with no lot measurement, templates or deposits. No texting from the app, no route optimization, no crew logins, no app-store apps. See the fact sheet.

How Mowday makes money

Today it does not. Mowday is in early access and nobody pays for it. The plan is to charge businesses with crews for extra features later, through the Pro and Crew plans. What is free today stays free.

Which free option fits

• Pick Yardbook if you want the most features for $0, including estimates and routing, and you are fine with Android or a mobile browser.
• Pick LawnPro Solo if you have 25 customers or fewer and want a client portal and a mobile app along with quotes.
• Pick Mowday if you want a simple route list and invoices, more than 25 customers on a free plan, and good tracking of Venmo, Zelle, cash and check payments.
• Pick a paid tool such as Jobber if you need reminders, automatic payments and QuickBooks sync now.

Questions

Related pages

• Compare Mowday with Yardbook, Jobber and LawnPro
• Yardbook alternative
• Mowday pricing

Sources and dates

Every fact about another product on this page comes from the pages below. We link each one so you can check it. Prices and features change, so confirm on the vendor’s own site before you decide.

• Connecteam review of Yardbook, as of August 2026. A hands-on review by Connecteam, which sells its own software. Review updated August 13, 2026.
• SpotSaaS Yardbook pricing listing, as of May 2026. A software directory listing.
• LawnPro pricing page, as of November 2026. LawnPro’s own page, read November 13, 2026.
• Jobber pricing page, as of November 2026. Jobber’s own page, read November 13, 2026.

We make Mowday, so we have a stake in this comparison. If something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@getmowday.com and we will fix it.

Last updated: November 15, 2026