Free field service software compared: 9 free plans and their limits (2026)

  • Deepsel makes this page. We sell free estimate, invoice and scheduling software for contractors, and it has a free plan, so it competes with every tool below. It isn't in the list, the table or the picks. It gets a section of its own near the end, with what it's missing.
  • Every limit and price comes from the vendor's own pricing page or help center, read on November 10, 2026, and links to it in the sources. I didn't sign up for any of these tools, so this compares published plans. It isn't a hands-on test.
  • No vendor paid to be on this page, and none of the links are affiliate links.

Short version: nine tools have free field service software plans that put a job on the schedule and invoice it, with no end date. Their limits are nothing alike. Zoho FSM Free suits a crew with lots of people and few jobs: 20 users, 30 appointments and 30 invoices a month. ServiceM8 Free suits one person on a phone, with 30 jobs a month. Opsler's free plan suits an owner and one tech, up to 50 jobs. Cloud Job Manager caps nothing at all, because the card processor that owns it makes its money on your payments. IndusTrack's office is free and each tech in the field is $125 a month. Lawn and pool routes get three of their own: LawnPro, ProBase and Yardbook. Jobber, Housecall Pro, Kickserv and Workiz only have trials.

Most of the free field service management software lists on Google's first page are written by vendors, and most put themselves first. This one doesn't rank anything. It shows each free plan's limits, how the vendor keeps it free, and what the next plan costs, so you can see which cap you'd hit first.

What counts as free on this page

A tool made the list if its plan passed three tests on November 10, 2026:

  • It costs $0 with no end date. A 7-, 14- or 30-day trial doesn't count.
  • The vendor prints the plan's limits on its own pricing page or help center, so you know the cap before you hit it.
  • On the free plan you can put a job on the schedule and send the customer an invoice for it. That loop is what a home-service shop runs all day.

Tools that pass the first two tests and do half of the third (a free scheduler with no invoices, or free invoices with no schedule) have their own section further down. So do the well-known names that only offer a trial, and the open-source software you host yourself. A few more I looked at and left out are listed with the reason.

Free field service software compared

Nine free plans, split by who they're built for, alphabetical within each group. The order isn't a ranking. "Field app" means a phone app for techs comes with the free plan.

Tool Free plan limits Schedule and dispatch Estimates and invoices Field app on free How it stays free, and the catch Next step up Fits
General field service
Clevra Free 1 seat, unlimited clients, 1 sales pipeline1 Yes Yes, with online payments and a customer portal Not yet: the technician app is "coming soon" on every plan Paid upgrades. Your estimates, invoices and portal carry Clevra's branding Pro, $49/mo or $39/mo billed annually, 5 seats A solo owner who works from a laptop
Cloud Job Manager None listed: unlimited users, every feature, no tiers2 Yes Yes, with card and ACH payments iPhone and Android Owned by Host Merchant Services, a card processor that earns on your payments. The rate is quoted, not printed None. There is no paid tier A crew that wants no caps and will process cards through HMS
IndusTrack Office Core Unlimited office users, no time limit3 Office scheduling and dispatch Yes No. The tech app is on Pro Each field tech who needs the app is paid. Card processing, QuickBooks and service contracts are on Pro Pro, $125 per field tech a month ($87.50 on a 3-year plan) A commercial shop moving its office off spreadsheets
Opsler Budding 2 seats (1 admin, 1 tech), 50 jobs a month, unlimited customers4 Yes, drag-and-drop board Yes An offline day view for the tech Paid upgrades. Recurring jobs and route optimization are Pro only Pro, $25 per seat a month, or $499 once for 5 seats An owner and one tech under 50 jobs a month
ServiceM8 Free 1 user, 30 new jobs a month, plus bonus jobs for card payments taken in ServiceM85 Yes Yes iPhone and Android Paid upgrades. Texts are 10¢ each on Free, and support is self-serve Starter, $29/mo, 50 jobs, unlimited users One person who takes cards on site
Zoho FSM Free Up to 20 users, 30 appointments and 30 invoices a month6 Yes, dispatch console Yes Yes Paid upgrades. A multi-day job uses one appointment per day, and customer equipment records aren't on Free7, 8 Standard, $30/mo or $25/mo billed annually, 60 appointments and 60 invoices A crew with many people and few jobs
Lawn care and pool routes
LawnPro Solo 1 user, up to 25 customers9 Yes Yes, with online payments and a client portal Yes Paid upgrades. 25 customers is a starter cap Startup, $39/mo or $29/mo billed annually, 3 logins, unlimited customers A lawn business signing its first customers
ProBase None listed: no customer cap, team access, every feature10, 11 Yes, with routes Yes, with tips and online payments iPhone and Android Takes a cut of optional marketplace jobs (LawnStarter, Lawn Love, Home Gnome). The card rate isn't printed None. There is no paid tier Lawn and pool routes
Yardbook Starter No caps published on customers or jobs12 Yes, with routing Yes, with card payments Android (no iPhone app listed) Ads, and a 1% Yardbook fee on every online payment on top of Stripe's13 Business, $34.99/mo, waives the fee Lawn care and landscaping

A few patterns stand out. The capped plans count different things: Zoho counts appointments and invoices, ServiceM8 and Opsler count jobs, LawnPro counts customers, and Clevra limits seats but not jobs. Two plans have no caps at all, and both say plainly how they get paid. And five of the nine include a phone app for techs on the free plan (Cloud Job Manager, LawnPro, ProBase, ServiceM8 and Zoho), with Yardbook's on Android only. If what you want is a free field service app your techs install on their phones, that narrows it fast.

Clevra Free: one seat, no cap on clients

Clevra's free plan is one seat with unlimited clients. Clevra says every plan, Free included, "covers the core workflow": clients, requests, estimates, jobs, scheduling, invoicing, online payments and the customer portal.1 For a one-person shop that's the whole day, with no job count to watch.

Two things hold it back. Your estimates, invoices and portal carry Clevra's branding instead of your logo. And Clevra lists its technician mobile app as "coming soon" on every plan, so for now you work from a browser. Pro, at $49 a month or $39 billed annually, gives 5 seats, your logo, two-way texting, checklists and QuickBooks sync.1

Cloud Job Manager: no caps, paid for by card processing

Cloud Job Manager is the one general-purpose tool here with no limits anywhere. No seat count, no job count, no tiers: quotes, scheduling, dispatch, time tracking, invoicing, payments, two-way texting, reporting and the iPhone and Android apps are all in, and in its own words "there is no upgrade button, because there is nothing above this."2 The home page also lists recurring jobs and recurring billing for maintenance plans.14

The same pricing page explains the catch, which I'd rather see on a pricing page than find later. Cloud Job Manager is built by Host Merchant Services, a payments company, and "HMS earns its revenue when businesses process card payments." Giving the software away "is how we earn the right to ask for your processing business."2 The rate is described as interchange-plus, not printed as a number. Get it in writing and hold it against what you pay per card today before you move your payments over, because that rate is the real price of the software.

IndusTrack Office Core: free for the office, $125 a month per tech in the field

IndusTrack splits the bill by where people work. Office Core is $0 with unlimited office users, no card and no time limit, and it covers customers and job history, office scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoices, customer equipment records, basic inventory and reports.3

Field techs are the paid part. Anyone who needs the mobile app to receive jobs and close out work orders needs Pro: $125 per tech a month, $112.50 on a 1-year plan or $87.50 on a 3-year plan. Pro is also where payment processing, QuickBooks sync, service contracts and the customer portal live.3 So the free plan is an office system. IndusTrack says it's built for commercial service contractors, and that's who it fits: a mechanical, plumbing or electrical shop where dispatch and billing happen at a desk. For a residential shop where the tech invoices in the driveway, it's a paid product from the first tech.

Opsler Budding: two seats and 50 jobs a month

Opsler's free plan, Budding, is two seats with a fixed mix, one admin and one technician, and 50 jobs a month that reset with the month. Customers are unlimited; inventory stops at 100 items in one stock location.4 Opsler says "the whole loop from a booking to a paid invoice is there," and its feature table backs that up. The dispatch board, work orders with checklists, invoice generation and an offline day view for the tech are on both plans.

What's missing on Budding: recurring job series, route optimization and an office-staff role for a dispatcher, all Pro only.4 That makes it a weak fit for route work (weekly pool, quarterly pest) and a good fit for an owner and one tech doing on-demand calls. Pro is $25 per seat a month with no minimum, so three people pay $75. There's also a $499 one-time deal for five seats "while founding-member pricing lasts," but Opsler says its refund and licence-transfer terms are "still being written," so read those before you pay once for years.4

ServiceM8 Free: one user, 30 jobs a month

ServiceM8's free plan is built for a sole trader: 1 user and 30 new jobs a month. A quote that you turn into a work order doesn't use a second job credit, and taking card payments through ServiceM8 earns bonus jobs, with no cap on the bonuses.5 Texts cost 10 cents each on Free (paid plans include them), the AI writing helper stops at 10 uses a day, and support is self-serve.5

Go past 30 and you can keep working for 7 more days before it asks you to upgrade. Starter is $29 a month for 50 jobs with unlimited users, and Growing is $79 for 150.5 ServiceM8's pricing FAQ now says its Android app is "almost identical" to the iPhone one. Every tier, the card and text fees and a 3-truck cost example are in our ServiceM8 pricing breakdown, and ServiceM8 vs Jobber covers the per-job vs per-user question.

Zoho FSM Free: 20 users, 30 appointments and 30 invoices a month

Zoho's free edition gives the most seats of any capped plan here: up to 20 users, with 30 appointments and 30 invoices a month. It's ad-free, needs no card, and the mobile app is included.6 Requests, estimates, work orders, the dispatch console, service reports, invoicing and payments are all on it.7

Two details decide how far 30 goes. Unused appointments don't carry over to next month, and an appointment covers one business day, so a three-day job counts as three.7 Customer equipment records aren't on Free either; a Zoho support reply on its pricing article says "Assets are not supported in this edition."8 When you outgrow it, Standard is $30 a month billed monthly or $300 a year for 60 appointments and 60 invoices, and 100 appointments is $50 a month. Equipment records, maintenance plans and multi-day appointments are one tier higher, on Professional, $45 a month at 60 appointments.7, 8

LawnPro Solo: one user and 25 customers

LawnPro's Solo plan is $0 for 1 user and up to 25 customers, with job scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments, a client portal, time tracking at each job and the mobile app.9 The customer cap is the limit that matters. Twenty-five weekly mowing customers is five lawns a day over a five-day week, so the cap arrives early for anyone mowing full time.

Startup is $39 a month, or $29 billed annually, and lifts customers to unlimited with 3 employee logins, automated invoicing and tip collection.9 That's a reasonable second step for a lawn business; just know the free plan is a starting ramp, not a place to stay.

ProBase: free lawn and pool software paid for by marketplace jobs

ProBase has no subscription, no trial and no customer cap, and says every feature is unlocked from day one: scheduling and routes, quotes, invoicing and online payments, tips, Google review requests, team access, and chemical logs and water testing for pool routes.10 It runs on iPhone and Android.11

The money comes from a marketplace. Inside ProBase you can pick up jobs from LawnStarter, Lawn Love and Home Gnome, and ProBase takes a percentage of those jobs. It's optional: "You're never required to take a single marketplace job."10 The card rate isn't printed. The home page promises "standard processing rates only," so ask what that is in numbers before your customers start paying through it.11

Yardbook Starter: free lawn care software with ads and a 1% payment fee

Yardbook's Starter plan is free and lists customer management, jobs and scheduling, estimates, invoices, routing, expenses, reports, lot measurement, employee access and card payments, with no published cap on customers or jobs.12 For a lawn or landscaping business that's a full kit.

The terms explain how it pays. Free accounts see ads (Enterprise is the plan billed as "no ads"), and every online payment on a free account carries a 1% Yardbook fee on top of Stripe's own fees.12, 13 On $5,000 a month of online payments that's $50 a month, more than the $34.99 Business plan that waives it. The pricing page lists web, desktop and Android app access on every plan, and doesn't mention an iPhone app.12 Enterprise, at $49.99, adds QuickBooks sync.

Free tools that cover half the job

These four are free with no end date and print their limits, but on the free plan they do either the schedule or the invoice, not both. Each one can still be the right answer if you already have the other half.

Connecteam: free scheduling for up to 10 users, no invoices

Connecteam's Small Business Plan is "free for life" for up to 10 users, with all its hubs: GPS time clock, job scheduling, forms and checklists, chat.15 Its pricing page lists nothing for estimates, invoices or payments. As free field service scheduling software for a crew that bills from QuickBooks it's hard to beat; past 10 users the Operations hub starts at $29 a month billed yearly for the first 30 users.15

Square Free: estimates and invoices, no schedule

Square's free plan, $0 a month per location, includes invoices and recurring invoices, estimates, contracts and projects. Card payments cost 3.3% + 30¢ online and 2.6% + 15¢ in person.16 There's no job schedule or dispatch in that list. Square Plus, $49 a month per location, adds payment schedules and custom invoice templates.16

Contractor+ Freedom: 5 estimates or invoices a month

Contractor+'s free plan is a basic CRM for up to 250 leads and clients, with up to 5 estimates or invoices a month. The job schedule is a premium feature you can trial for 14 days. Pro Team is $58 a month for the first 2 users plus $20 for each extra, and the FAQ says all sales are final.17

Dusk FSM Launch: free scheduling, with invoices on a $699 plan

Dusk's Launch plan is free for up to 25 completed work items a month, with unlimited staff and contractors, iPhone and Android apps and no card.18 Its plan comparison shows Quotes & Invoices only on Growth, $699 a month; Launch and Essentials ($199) don't have them. Launch has no overage either, so at 25 completed jobs you upgrade.19 Dusk's industry menu leads with utilities, engineering, solar and facilities teams, and its pricing reads that way.18

Free plan, free trial or open source: what each one means

The three get mixed together in search results, and they're different deals.

  • A free plan is yours for as long as you stay inside its limits. Everything in the table above is one.
  • A free trial is the full product for 7 to 30 days, then you pay or stop. Some trials fall back to a free tier: Zoho moves you to its free plan, and Opsler to Budding.4, 7 Most trials need no card now, so you won't be charged by surprise. Your setup work does sit in an account you'll pay to keep using.
  • Open source means the code is free to download, change and run on your own server. You pay in hosting and in someone's time to install, update and back it up.

One more distinction matters more than the label. Some free plans are free because the vendor wants you to upgrade (most of the list), and some are free because the vendor earns another way: card processing for Cloud Job Manager, marketplace jobs for ProBase, ads and a payment fee for Yardbook. Ask how a free tool makes its money. The answer tells you what it will push you toward.

Is Jobber free? The big names have trials, not free plans

More people search "is Jobber free" or "Jobber free trial" than search for free field service software itself, and the answer is no. Here's what each well-known tool without a free plan gives you instead, from its own pricing page on November 10, 2026.

Tool Free plan Free trial Cheapest published plan
Jobber No 14 days on the Grow plan, no card Core, $29/mo billed annually or $49 month to month, 1 user; extra users $29/mo each20
Housecall Pro No 14 days, no card Basic, $59/mo billed annually or $79 monthly, 1 user21
Kickserv No 30 days Start, $60/mo billed annually, 5 users22
Workiz No (the free Lite plan is gone) 7 days, no card None published; every plan says "Request pricing"23
GorillaDesk No 14 days, no card $49-149 per route, unlimited users24
Joist No longer 14 days, no card Basics, $10/mo, 5 documents a month25
FieldPulse No None; a demo instead Not published26

Jobber's trial runs on Grow, which starts at $149 a month billed annually, so you spend two weeks with features the $29 Core plan doesn't have.20 Joist's FAQ says its free plan "is no longer available."25 Workiz listed a free Lite plan as late as May 2025; the history is in the Workiz breakdown. The full plan tables, card fees and real totals for a 2- or 3-truck shop are in the Jobber, Housecall Pro, Kickserv, Workiz, GorillaDesk and FieldPulse pricing breakdowns.

If you searched for free apps like Jobber or free Jobber alternatives, the closest matches above are ServiceM8 Free for one person and Zoho FSM Free for a crew. Both run quotes, a schedule and invoices from a phone app at $0.

Open-source field service software

Searches for field service software open source mostly land on roundups that treat free plans and open source as the same thing. I found three real open-source routes. All of them mean running a server.

  • OCA Field Service. A set of field service modules for Odoo Community, maintained by the Odoo Community Association under the AGPL-3.0 license. Separate modules cover invoicing, agreements, recurring orders, a customer portal and repairs.27 It's the most complete open-source option I found, and it assumes someone who can install and upgrade Odoo.
  • Odoo. Odoo's own Field Service app isn't in the open-source Community edition; Odoo's comparison marks it Enterprise only.28 Odoo's hosted One App Free plan is a different deal: one app with unlimited users, free, with the apps it depends on included.29 That's a free plan, not open source.
  • Dolibarr. An open-source ERP and CRM (GPL-3.0) covering contacts, invoices, orders and stock,30 with an Interventions module, "a form for service / maintenance orders," that ships with it and supports signatures and recurring interventions.31 It's back-office software with work orders more than a dispatch board.

The license costs $0. A server is a monthly bill, and setup, updates, backups and connecting a card processor are your time or a consultant's. For most 1-5 truck shops that time costs more than the paid plans above. If you like running servers, start with OCA Field Service.

What happens when you outgrow a free plan

Every capped plan handles the limit differently. ServiceM8 gives you 7 more days of normal work, then asks you to upgrade.5 Dusk stops at 25 completed jobs, with no overage.19 Zoho's unused appointments don't roll over, so a slow month doesn't bank anything for a busy one.7 Opsler's Pro removes the job cap entirely.4

To make it concrete, say three people need a login (an owner and a tech in the field, one person in the office) and the shop does 60 jobs a month. Here's what each tool on the list costs at that size, from the same pricing pages:

Tool Still free at 3 people and 60 jobs? Monthly cost Plan
ClevraNo (1 seat)$49, or $39 billed annuallyPro, 5 seats1
Cloud Job ManagerYes$0, plus card processing through HMSThe only plan2
IndusTrackOffice person yes, field no$250, or $175 on a 3-year planPro for 2 field techs3
OpslerNo (2 seats, 50 jobs)$75Pro, 3 seats at $254
ServiceM8No (1 user, 30 jobs)$79Growing, 150 jobs; Starter stops at 505
Zoho FSMNo (30 appointments)$30, or $25 billed annuallyStandard, 60 appointments and 60 invoices8
LawnProNo (1 user)$39, or $29 billed annuallyStartup, 3 logins9
ProBaseYes$0The only plan10
YardbookYes$0, plus 1% of online paymentsStarter; Business at $34.99 waives the fee12, 13

None of these is a big bill. The bigger cost of outgrowing a free plan is moving: re-entering customers and retraining the crew in the middle of a season. So before your customer list goes into any free tool, check two things. Can you export it as a spreadsheet? And what will the first paid plan cost at your next hire, not today's headcount? For contrast, three logins on Jobber Core come to $87 a month billed annually (one user plus two at $29 each), and Housecall Pro's cheapest plan with more than one user, Essentials, is $149 for five.20, 21 Every band is in the Jobber and Housecall Pro breakdowns, and what 14 paid tools cost at 1, 3 and 8 users is in our field service software for small business comparison.

Free field service software by trade

The same caps hit trades differently, because a pest route and a panel upgrade count very differently against a job limit.

HVAC

An HVAC service shop needs equipment records (model, serial, filter size) and a way to run maintenance agreements, and that's where free plans thin out. Zoho keeps customer equipment and maintenance plans on Professional, $45 a month.7, 8 IndusTrack's free office plan has customer equipment tracking, with service contracts on Pro.3 Cloud Job Manager lists recurring jobs and recurring billing for maintenance plans on its free platform.14 Summer is where a 30-job cap hurts: two techs running 4 calls a day each use 30 in four working days. And "free HVAC software" on Google mostly means load-calculation and duct-design tools, a different product. If agreements are why you're shopping, the HVAC maintenance agreement software comparison covers that by shop size.

Plumbing

Plumbing runs on lots of short calls, so a job cap matters more than a seat cap. One plumber doing three calls a day uses ServiceM8's 30 free jobs in two working weeks and Opsler's 50 in a little over three.4, 5 Clevra and Cloud Job Manager don't count jobs at all, and neither does IndusTrack's free office plan, though its field app is paid.1, 2, 3 Google's results for "free plumbing software" are mostly piping layout and drawing tools. If you send a handful of invoices a month, our free plumbing invoice template may be all you need for now, and what plumbers charge per hour helps you fill it in.

Electrical

Electrical service mixes one-hour calls with multi-day jobs (panel upgrades, rewires, remodel rough-ins), and that mix is what to test free electrician software against. On Zoho, each day of a multi-day job counts as its own appointment, and multi-day appointments are a Professional feature.7 A commercial electrical shop with office staff should look at IndusTrack's free office plan, with the field app at $125 a tech.3 "Free electrical estimating software" is a different search, for takeoff from plans on bid work. For permit and inspection lines on a service invoice, there's our free electrician invoice template.

Pest control

Pest control is route work, and visits add up fast, which is why free pest control software is hard to find. One truck at 12 stops a day is about 250 visits a month over 21 working days, far past every plan here that counts jobs. That leaves the ones that don't: Cloud Job Manager, which lists recurring jobs and recurring billing,14 Clevra's one-seat plan for an owner running the route alone,1 or a paid pest tool. GorillaDesk, priced per route, has a 14-day trial and no free plan;24 the GorillaDesk pricing breakdown has the per-route math, and the pest control pricing guide covers what to charge per visit.

Pool service

Pool service is weekly routes with chemical logs. ProBase is the only free pool service software on this list, with chemical logging and water testing on its free plan.10 Many of the pool-specific paid tools price per pool. Skimmer is $1 per serviced location a month from $49, with the first month free on its Scaling Up plan.32 PoolTrac is $1 per visited location with a $30 minimum and a 30-day trial.33 At 49 pools, both come to $49 a month. Rates per pool are in the pool service pricing guide, and 16 pool tools, priced per pool, per tech or free, are compared at three route sizes in our pool service software comparison.

Lawn care

Lawn care has the most free options, because three of the nine are built for it. Pick by the catch you mind least: LawnPro's 25-customer cap, ProBase's marketplace, or Yardbook's ads and 1% payment fee.9, 10, 13 Watch the search results too, because "free lawn care app" and "free landscaping software" mostly return apps for homeowners and garden-design tools. Pricing per cut and per visit is in the lawn care pricing guide. Four more lawn tools with free plans, Lawn Buddy, LawnBoss, CrewNest and LawnBook, are in our free lawn care software comparison.

Handyman

A handyman business is usually one person with many small jobs, which suits the one-seat plans. For a free app as a self-employed handyman, ServiceM8 Free (1 user, 30 jobs, bonus jobs for card payments) and Clevra Free (1 seat, unlimited clients) both run quotes, a schedule and invoices.1, 5 If you only need to bill, Square's free plan sends estimates and invoices, and you pay only processing fees when customers pay through it.16 Rates by task are in the handyman price list, and eleven free handyman apps, including Swivl, Wave and PunchProfit, are compared in free handyman apps for the self-employed.

Looked at and left off the list

FieldCamp ranks for "free field service software" with its roundups but has no free plan; its pricing page has no prices and quotes after a walkthrough.34 FieldServicely and Easy Field Services came up in the same results, and both sell paid plans after a trial (FieldServicely from $9 per user a month; Easy Field Services prices in rupees).35, 36 MrTask and QuoteIQ have 14-day trials only.37, 38 FieldOrbit lists a $0 plan with "10 Jobs per month and all other basic features" but doesn't say what those features are or how many users, so it failed the published-limits test.39 MaintainX has a real free plan with unlimited work orders, but it's maintenance software for a building's or plant's own equipment, with no customer invoicing, so it's the wrong tool for a home-service shop.40

Deepsel, our own software, and why it isn't in the list

We build Deepsel, so it sits here instead of in the table. A list that picks its writer's own product isn't worth much. Deepsel is free estimate, invoice and scheduling software for home-service contractors: scheduling and dispatch, quotes, invoicing, card payments, and customer and equipment records.

The Free plan has unlimited users, 30 estimates and 30 invoices sent a month (counted in your calendar month), unlimited customers and every core feature, with no card. Core means scheduling and dispatch with recurring job series, quotes, invoicing, card and bank payments, customer and equipment records, visit checklists, and customer import from Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Service Fusion and FieldEdge. Pro is $29 a month for the whole shop with no cap on estimates or invoices, and adds the service plans module for maintenance agreements, Google review requests and online booking. Max, at $59, adds two-way texting with customers. All of it is on the pricing page.

Against the nine: Cloud Job Manager and ProBase cap nothing, and Opsler allows 50 jobs a month to our 30 invoices, on two seats. Zoho matches the 30 and stops at 20 users; ServiceM8 gives 30 jobs to one person. Where Deepsel fits is the shop with more people than invoices, and the shop that expects to outgrow free soon. In the worked example above, three logins and 60 jobs a month, Deepsel is Pro at $29.

What it's missing today. No iPhone or Android app yet; they're coming to Max, so techs use the phone's browser for now. Texting with customers is on Max only. No QuickBooks sync yet, also coming to Max. Online booking, review requests and service plans are on Pro, not Free. Card payments are 3.3% + 30¢ on every plan, the same as Square Free's online rate and above Stripe's own 2.9% + 30¢. No payroll, and no phone system. It's also newer than most tools on this page, so you won't find years of forum threads about it. If one of those is the blocker, tell us.

Free up to 30 estimates and 30 invoices a month, then $29 a month for your whole team. No credit card required.

How I checked

On November 10, 2026, I read each vendor's pricing page, plus its help center or free-plan page where the pricing page left a limit out, and saved what each said. Every limit, price and quote above links to the page it came from. I didn't sign up for any of these tools or run a job through them, so this compares published plans; where a page was vague (a card rate, a feature's plan) I say so instead of guessing. The starting list came from Google's results for "free field service software," "free FSM software" and close searches in November 2026, the free plans named in the roundups ranking there, and the lawn, pool and pest tools that rank for those trades. I build Deepsel, a competitor with a free plan, which is why it has a section and no row. Prices change. If one here is wrong, email me and I'll fix it.

Frequently asked questions

Is there free field service software that's actually free?

Yes. Nine tools have a plan with no end date that puts jobs on a schedule and invoices them: Clevra, Cloud Job Manager, IndusTrack (office users only), Opsler, ServiceM8 and Zoho FSM for general field service, and LawnPro, ProBase and Yardbook for lawn and pool routes. Most cap something: users, jobs, invoices or customers. Cloud Job Manager and ProBase cap nothing, because they earn from card processing and marketplace jobs instead.

What's the best free field service management software?

It depends on which limit you'd hit first, which is why this page doesn't rank them. Lots of people and few jobs: Zoho FSM Free (20 users, 30 appointments and 30 invoices a month). One person on a phone: ServiceM8 Free (30 jobs a month). An owner and one tech: Opsler Budding (50 jobs a month). No caps at all: Cloud Job Manager, if you're fine processing cards through the company that owns it. Lawn and pool routes: LawnPro Solo, ProBase or Yardbook. Our own product is described separately and isn't one of the picks.

Is Jobber free?

No. Jobber has a 14-day free trial on its Grow plan with no card, then you pick a paid plan. The cheapest, Core, is $29 a month billed annually or $49 month to month for one user, and each extra user is $29 a month.

Is Housecall Pro free?

No. Housecall Pro has a 14-day free trial with no card. Its cheapest plan, Basic, is $59 a month billed annually or $79 month to month, for one user.

Does Zoho FSM have a free version?

Yes. Zoho FSM's Free edition allows up to 20 users with 30 appointments and 30 invoices a month, and the mobile app is included. Unused appointments don't carry over, and a job that runs several days counts one appointment per day. Customer equipment (assets) isn't on Free.

What's the best free field service app for a one-person business?

ServiceM8 Free if you want a phone app: one user, 30 new jobs a month, and bonus jobs when you take card payments through it. Clevra Free has no cap on clients, but its technician app isn't out yet and your documents carry Clevra's branding. For lawn routes, LawnPro Solo, Yardbook and ProBase all have free plans.

Is there open-source field service management software?

Yes, but you run it yourself. The Odoo Community Association's Field Service modules add field service to Odoo Community under the AGPL-3.0 license, and Dolibarr (GPL-3.0) ships with an Interventions module for service orders. Odoo's own Field Service app is in the paid Enterprise edition only.

What's the catch with free field service software?

Every free plan pays for itself somehow. Most cap users or jobs so a growing shop upgrades. Cloud Job Manager earns on card processing, ProBase takes a cut of optional marketplace jobs, and Yardbook shows ads and takes 1% of online payments on free accounts. Ask how a free tool makes its money before you move your customer list into it.

Sources

  1. Clevra pricing: Free "$0 free forever," 1 seat, 1 sales pipeline, unlimited clients, "Estimates, invoicing, and payments," customer portal, "Clevra branding on estimates, invoices, and portal"; Pro $39 a month billed annually or $49 monthly with 5 seats, your logo, two-way SMS, checklists and QuickBooks sync; plan table lists the technician mobile app as "Coming soon" on every plan. clevra.ai, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  2. Cloud Job Manager pricing: "$0 a month, billed never"; no per-user pricing; "There is no upgrade button, because there is nothing above this"; iOS and Android apps; two-way SMS and email; "Cloud Job Manager is built by Host Merchant Services, a payments company. HMS earns its revenue when businesses process card payments"; "giving it away is how we earn the right to ask for your processing business"; "transparent interchange-plus pricing." cloudjobmanager.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  3. IndusTrack pricing: Office Core $0, "Unlimited office users. No credit card. No time limit," with CRM, office scheduling and dispatching, estimates, invoices, customer equipment tracking, basic inventory and reports; Pro $125 per field tech a month ($112.50 on a 1-year plan, $87.50 on a 3-year plan) adds the technician mobile app, QuickBooks, payment processing, service contracts and the customer portal; "Built for commercial service contractors." industrack.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  4. Opsler pricing: Budding "2 — one admin and one technician," 50 jobs per month, unlimited customers, 100 inventory items, 1 inventory location, "$0, forever," no card; "the whole loop from a booking to a paid invoice is there"; feature table marks recurring job series and route optimization Pro, the dispatch board, per-job checklists, invoice generation and the offline field day view on both plans; the office staff role is Pro only; Pro $25 per seat a month; Lifetime $499 for five seats, refunds and licence transfer "still being written"; the Pro trial ends with "you either subscribe or move to Budding." opsler.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  5. ServiceM8 pricing (US): Free $0, 1 user, 30 new jobs a month, text messages 10¢ each, AI helper 10 uses a day, self-serve support; Starter $29 (50 jobs), Growing $79 (150), Premium $149 (500), Premium Plus $349 (1,500+), unlimited users on every paid plan. FAQ: "you can earn unlimited bonus jobs by simply accepting card payments"; past the limit "You'll still be able to create new jobs and work as normal for another 7 days"; an accepted quote changed to a work order "won't consume another job credit"; the Android app is "almost identical to the ServiceM8 iOS app"; 14-day trial with no card. servicem8.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  6. Zoho FSM, "Free end-to-end FSM platform" (Free Edition page): "This edition supports up to 20 users and includes 30 appointments and 30 invoices every month"; ad-free, no credit card; "The Zoho FSM mobile app is fully included." zoho.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  7. Zoho FSM pricing page: Free US$0 for 30 appointments a month, Standard US$25 and Professional US$35 a month billed annually; asset management, maintenance plans and multi-day appointments listed under Professional. FAQ: up to 20 users on Free and 200 on Standard; "You cannot carry appointments over to the next month"; "One appointment can span one business day. Any appointment duration that exceeds one day will be calculated based on the number of days the appointment spans"; after the trial "your account will be moved to a free plan." zoho.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  8. Zoho FSM help center, "Editions and Pricing": Standard 30.00 USD billed monthly or 300.00 USD billed annually for 60 appointments and 60 invoices; Professional 45.00 USD billed monthly; Standard at 100 appointments 50 USD a month; "The number of invoices available will be equal to the number of appointments." A Zoho staff reply on the same article: "You are now using the Free edition of Zoho FSM. Assets are not supported in this edition." help.zoho.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  9. LawnPro pricing: Solo $0 a month, 1 user, up to 25 customers, job scheduling, quotes, invoices and online payments, client portal, time tracking, mobile app; Startup $39 a month ($29 billed annually) with unlimited customers, 3 employee logins, automated invoicing and tip collection. lawnprosoftware.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  10. ProBase pricing: "$0 per month, forever"; scheduling and route management, invoicing and online payments, tips, quotes, customer management, Google review requests, team access, chemical logging and water testing for pool; "ProBase is free because of optional Marketplace partnerships, starting with LawnStarter, Lawn Love, and Home Gnome... We take a percentage of those jobs"; "You're never required to take a single marketplace job." probaseapp.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  11. ProBase home page: "No customer cap," "Works on iPhone and Android," "Standard processing rates only." probaseapp.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  12. Yardbook pricing: Starter free with customer management, jobs and scheduling, estimates, invoices, routing, expenses, reports, lot measurement, employee access and credit card payments; Business $34.99 a month ("Yardbook Processing Fee Waived"); Enterprise $49.99 a month ("Quickbooks sync, no ads"); "All plans include web & desktop access, and Android mobile app access." yardbook.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  13. Yardbook terms: "In addition to transaction fees charged directly by Stripe, you will also be charged a processing fee by Yardbook... The Yardbook processing fee for non-premium accounts is 1% of each transaction," waived on the Business and Enterprise plans. yardbook.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  14. Cloud Job Manager home page: "Recurring Jobs & Billing: Manage repeat visits and set up recurring payments for maintenance plans and ongoing service agreements"; payments "powered by Host Merchant Services." cloudjobmanager.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  15. Connecteam pricing: Small Business Plan, "all hubs and all features*, entirely free for up to 10 users," "Free for life"; the Operations hub (time clock, job scheduling, forms, quick tasks) from $29 a month billed yearly for the first 30 users; no estimates or invoices listed. connecteam.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  16. Square Invoices pricing: Square Free $0 a month per location with invoices and recurring invoices, estimates and contracts, and projects; processing 3.3% + 30¢ online and 2.6% + 15¢ tap, dip or swipe; Square Plus $49 a month per location. squareup.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  17. Contractor+ pricing: Freedom, "Free forever," basic CRM, "Manage up to 250 leads & clients," "Up to 5 estimates or invoices per month"; Pro Team $58 a month with the first 2 users included and $20 a month per additional user; FAQ: "14 day trials of most premium features (such as the job schedule and the team chat)" and "all sales are final." contractorplus.app, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  18. Dusk FSM, "Free Field Service Management Software": Launch "is free for up to 25 completed Work items per month," unlimited staff and contractors, iOS and Android apps, no credit card; the industry menu lists utilities and mining, engineering, facilities services, solar, drone operations, property and construction, and transport and logistics. duskmobile.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  19. Dusk FSM plans: Launch free (25 completed Work items), Essentials $199 a month (150), Growth $699 a month (300); the plan comparison marks "Quotes & Invoices" on Growth and Enterprise only; "Launch does not include overage billing." duskmobile.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  20. Jobber pricing: Core $29 a month billed annually, $49 with no commitment, 1 user, "Add users for $29/mo each"; Grow from $149 a month; FAQ: "For 14 days you get full access to all of Jobber's features on the Grow plan—no credit card required." getjobber.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  21. Housecall Pro pricing: "Try 14 days free. No credit card required."; Basic $59 a month billed annually ($79 monthly), 1 user; Essentials $149 a month billed annually ($189 monthly), 5 users. housecallpro.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  22. Kickserv pricing: Start, 5 users, $60 a month billed annually; "Start free for 30 days"; no free plan listed. kickserv.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  23. Workiz pricing: Standard, Pro and Ultimate all "Request pricing"; FAQ: "Workiz offers a 7 days free trial... No credit card is required for the trial period." workiz.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  24. GorillaDesk pricing: "$49–$149 per route," unlimited users on every plan, "14-day free trial, no credit card." gorilladesk.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  25. Joist pricing: FAQ "Joist's free plan is no longer available, but all users can try Joist with the 14-day free trial"; Basics, up to 5 documents a month, $10 a month billed monthly. joist.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  26. FieldPulse pricing FAQ, "Does FieldPulse offer a free trial?": "No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we offer instead is a real demo." fieldpulse.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  27. Odoo Community Association, field-service repository: "Field Service Management" modules for Odoo including fieldservice, fieldservice_account, fieldservice_agreement, fieldservice_recurring, fieldservice_portal and fieldservice_repair; AGPL-3.0 license. github.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  28. Odoo editions comparison: Field Service marked unavailable in Community and available in Enterprise. odoo.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  29. Odoo pricing: "One App Free... One app, unlimited users"; FAQ: "you can start with any app, and we guarantee that its usage is free for unlimited users, forever, whatever the dependencies of the app." odoo.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  30. Dolibarr repository: "Dolibarr ERP CRM is a modern software package to manage your company or foundation's activity (contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders, stocks, agenda, accounting, ...)"; GPL-3.0 license. github.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  31. Dolibarr wiki, "Module Interventions": "Interventions are a form for service / maintenance orders"; "This module is included with the Dolibarr distribution"; signature on validated interventions; "Convert into a recurring intervention." Page last edited August 19, 2024. wiki.dolibarr.org, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  32. Skimmer pricing: Getting Started, $1.00 a month per serviced location, "Starts at $49/month," includes 49 serviced locations; the Scaling Up plan's first month free. getskimmer.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  33. PoolTrac pricing: "$1 per visited location per month," "Minimum monthly charge: $30," 30-day trial, no credit card. pooltrac.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  34. FieldCamp pricing: no prices on the page; "Why isn't the price on the page?... we configure the platform to your operation"; a written quote after a walkthrough. fieldcamp.ai, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  35. FieldServicely pricing: Standard $9 per user a month, Elite $12, Enterprise by quote, each with a free trial; no free plan. fieldservicely.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  36. Easy Field Services home page: "start your free trial. No credit card required"; Starter ₹899 a month. easyfieldservices.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  37. MrTask pricing: "Every plan includes a 14-day trial with no credit card required"; Solo $39.99 a month billed monthly. mrtask.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  38. QuoteIQ pricing: "Every plan has a 14-day free trial"; Essentials $29.99 a month, 1 user. myquoteiq.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  39. FieldOrbit pricing: "Basic Plan $0 per month | 10 Jobs per month and all other basic features"; FAQ answer "From £10." fieldorbit.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
  40. MaintainX pricing: Basic, "Free forever. For small teams who need to digitize and track work orders," unlimited work orders, 2 active repeating work orders. getmaintainx.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.

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