GorillaDesk vs Jobber (2026): what a 2-truck shop pays, which trades each one fits, and the gap they share

Published September 7, 2026 · Every price on this page verified on gorilladesk.com and getjobber.com on September 7, 2026 (GorillaDesk's two-to-four-route slider values on September 2, 2026)

• Deepsel is our product. It appears in one labeled section near the end and is not the answer to the GorillaDesk-vs-Jobber question.
• Every price was checked on the vendor's own pricing page. GorillaDesk's one-route prices, plan features and billing terms were re-read on September 7; its slider prices for two to four routes were read on September 2, 2026.
• Every claim about what breaks links to the Reddit comment, review or help article it came from, with the date.

GorillaDesk and Jobber cost the same for a 2-truck shop on the tiers most owners buy: $149 a month for GorillaDesk Pro (two routes) or Jobber Connect (up to five users). Trade decides it. GorillaDesk is built for pest, lawn and pool routes, with chemical logging on its $49 plan and free office logins. Jobber is the general tool for HVAC, plumbing and mixed shops, with more integrations and a free API. Neither keeps a maintenance-agreement ledger.

These two get compared because they sit in the same price band and sell to overlapping trades. GorillaDesk calls itself the "#1 Field Service Software for Pest, Lawn, & Cleaning Businesses," says its founders "were once field service pros" who ran pest and lawn companies, and has spent "the last 12 years" building for them.⁴ Its Android app shows 10,000+ installs.¹⁶ Jobber passed 100,000 customers in May 2026, with 400,000 service pros "in over 50 industries," and its Android app shows 1,000,000+ installs.^{15, 16} One is a specialist. The other is the biggest general tool in the small-shop market.

The owner googling this pair is usually a pest or lawn operator who has outgrown paper, or a mixed-trade shop (pest plus handyman, a pool route with the odd heater install) wondering whether Jobber's breadth costs them the pest-specific tools. I've tried to answer both.

Comparison table: GorillaDesk vs Jobber on the 14 things a 1-4 truck shop asks about

GorillaDesk vs Jobber pricing: what a 2-truck shop actually pays

On the tiers a 2-truck shop buys, the bills match. GorillaDesk Pro for two routes is $149 a month. Jobber Connect for up to five users is $149 a month on annual billing. Prepaid for a year, GorillaDesk is $1,639 and Jobber is $1,788. Month to month, GorillaDesk stays at $149 and Jobber goes to $199.^{1, 9}

The two pricing models look different and land in the same place at this size. GorillaDesk meters routes: $49, $99 or $149 for the first one, then $50 per route on Basic and Pro, with the office free.^{1, 2} Jobber meters logins: one user on Core, then bands of up to 5, 10 and 15, with $29 seats in between.⁹ Here's what each model produces for four common shop shapes. The Jobber figures are annual billing; add roughly a third for no-commitment monthly.

Two lines the plan cards leave out. Texting: GorillaDesk rents a number for $5 a month and sells outgoing texts in credit packs ($50 per 1,000), so 500 reminders a month adds about $30.¹ Jobber's automated texts are part of Connect.¹¹ Processing: both run 2.9% + 30¢ on a card charged online, so 250 monthly accounts at $45 ($11,250 of volume) cost about $401 a month on either.^{8, 9} Jobber's 1% bank-payment option is worth moving big commercial accounts to. GorillaDesk lists its Square card-on-file rate two different ways on its own pages, so check Square's sheet before you put 300 accounts on it.

So the 2-truck total is roughly $575 a month on GorillaDesk Pro ($149 plus texting plus processing) and $550 on Jobber Connect, or $600 if you won't prepay. The subscription is about a quarter of the bill either way. The line-item versions are in the GorillaDesk pricing breakdown and the Jobber pricing breakdown.

Per route or per user: how each one counts your people

GorillaDesk charges per technician who owns a schedule and lets office, admin and sales users in free. Jobber charges for anyone who logs in, in bands, with extra seats at $29 a month. Below four routes that favors GorillaDesk for office-heavy shops. At four routes and up, Jobber's five-user band wins.^{1, 2, 9}

GorillaDesk's own test is one question: "Do your technicians ride together or solo?" A two-man crew that rides together needs one schedule, assigned to the lead. Everyone else logs in free, and its help center says about 95% of customers end up on Pro, mostly for documents and e-signatures.^{1, 2} Jobber defines a user as anyone who accesses the account, office or field, so the owner who doesn't run a route still takes a seat.⁹

Run the shapes. An owner in the office, one office manager and two solo techs is two paid routes on GorillaDesk and four users on Jobber (the five-user band, $149). Same money. Add two trucks and GorillaDesk Pro is $249 while Jobber is still inside the band at $149. The crossover is four routes, and it's the most useful number on this page if you plan to grow.

Chemical tracking, bait stations and route density: where GorillaDesk earns its pest-control reputation

GorillaDesk logs materials and chemicals from the field on its $49 plan, barcodes devices such as bait stations on Pro, and routes up to 25 stops on Basic. Jobber has chemical tracking too, on select plans, but records go in from jobber.com because, in its help center's words, "There is no chemical tracking in the mobile app."^{1, 12}

Several comparison posts say Jobber has no chemical tracking at all. That's wrong, and the real difference is more specific. Jobber's feature records the chemical name and concentration, the applicator, the date and time, the weather and the service address, and exports it all as a CSV for the jurisdictions that want records kept for up to seven years.¹² What it can't do is take that entry from the tech at the stop. So the office keys it in at night, from the tech's notes. A pest owner who moved from Jobber to GorillaDesk in January 2025: "I also don't remember easily being able to modify chemicals used on each job and everything."¹⁹

Routing cuts the other way, a little. GorillaDesk caps basic routing at 25 stops on Basic and sells the drive-matrix version on Pro; Jobber optimizes a day or a week for the whole team from Connect.^{1, 9, 11} A lawn applicator who has used PestPac, GorillaDesk and Real Green wrote in October 2025 that GorillaDesk "is pretty user friendly. Doesn't do a fantastic job with routing."²⁶ For a dense residential route it's fine. For a rural 40-stop day, trial the routing before you commit.

Recurring billing: GorillaDesk subscriptions vs Jobber automatic payments

Both charge a saved card on a schedule. GorillaDesk does it two ways, invoice-frequency autopay on Basic and Pro and Stripe or Square subscriptions on Pro, with either processor. Jobber does it through Automatic Payments on Connect and up, using Jobber Payments. Neither ties the charge to the visits it paid for.^{6, 11}

The GorillaDesk version is a payments feature and its help center says so plainly: subscriptions "are primarily used when a customer is being charged a fixed amount for their services over a duration of time," and "a new invoice will be generated every time your customer has been charged."⁶ Invoice Frequency, the cheaper cousin, lets an invoice "repeat on its own frequency, separate from your job's frequency," which is how a Basic-plan shop bills monthly for quarterly service.⁶ The visits come from a separate recurring-job series that only generates the next stop when the current one is marked Complete or Canceled.⁷ Jobber's Automatic Payments charge the card for recurring work; the visits come from recurring jobs; nothing links the two.^{9, 27}

Operators have settled the billing question themselves. In a June 2026 r/PestControlIndustry thread on enforcing 12-month agreements: "Put a credit card on file, auto bill at time of service, or preferably monthly. If it's $135 for a service, charge $45 a month. No more problems." Then, from the same thread, the part autopay doesn't fix: "even when on AutoPay the card brands now allow to easily turn on and off cards so we get declines when we attempt payment. It's a recurring billing nightmare!"²⁵ A decline in GorillaDesk flips the invoice to FAIL and the help article on declines suggests the customer call their bank.⁸ Jobber emails a payment reminder with a pay link. In both, the chasing is a person's job.

Integrations: QuickBooks, Zapier, the API and the app marketplace

Jobber is the deeper integration platform. QuickBooks Online and Xero sync from Connect, Zapier from Connect, an App Marketplace, and a free open API on any plan. GorillaDesk puts its QuickBooks push (one way, to QuickBooks Online only), Zapier and its open API all on the $99 Pro plan.^{1, 5, 9, 11, 14}

The QuickBooks difference is direction and depth. GorillaDesk's sync "is a one-way push" of customers, invoices and payments, "supported for QuickBooks Online only," per its May 2025 help article.⁵ Owners are blunt about it. A pest company that moved 13,000 customers over from PestPac, October 2025: "DO NOT sync QBO with Gorilla Desk! You will continue to have sync problems and your books will be a nightmare! If you have a good bookkeeper that is familiar, they will work inside QBO and GD." Another in the same thread: "I would fix in qb and sync or manually upload which isnt really as bad as it seems."²⁰ Jobber's sync gets its own set of help articles and error guides, and its Zapier connector exposes triggers for new clients, quotes, jobs, completions and invoices, with actions to create clients, requests, quotes and jobs.¹³

Then there's the API. Jobber's developer program is free, with no plan gate and no partner fees, which is why third-party tools (ours included) build against Jobber first.¹⁴ GorillaDesk's Open API Access is a Pro feature with a much smaller ecosystem around it.¹ Jobber has also shipped AI features GorillaDesk doesn't have (voice notes with translation, an assistant that answers from your business data, a Receptionist add-on).⁹ Whether a 2-truck shop needs any of that is a fair question. Whether it will need an integration it can't get is the better one.

What owners who have used both say

Threads on r/PestControlIndustry and r/LawnCarePros, pulled live on September 7, 2026. Nearly every switcher went the same direction, and I've included the Jobber holdouts so you can weigh them. Keep in mind these are pest and lawn subreddits; Jobber's biggest industry on Software Advice is construction, and those owners aren't in these threads.¹⁷

• Pest owner, 2 techs, April 2025, Jobber to GorillaDesk: "After switching from jobber to gorilla desk my life became simpler and more professional with less effort... It takes a minute to figure out just like any other software, but I'm loving it with 2 techs- looking to get a third, fourth, fifth. I won't change."¹⁸
• Pest owner, January 2025, Markate to Jobber to GorillaDesk: "Jobber became a pain when having to setup custom invoices for customers if they had different payment time frames... I had calls with Fieldroutes and PestPac back in December but both were 3-4x what I pay for GorillaDesk."¹⁹
• Pest owner, October 2025: "I started with qb, then jobber and have used gd for the last year." And: "Gorilla desk is great once you have it squared away and can keep it squared away. It helped me grow my business a ton."²⁰
• Pest operator, February 2026: "GorillaDesk is very user friendly but lacks a few features. FieldRoutes is not as easy to learn but is very capable. Jobber is not specialized for our industry - would not recommend for anyone larger than a couple employees."²¹
• The Jobber holdout, six years in, April 2025: "I have about 6 years of experience using Jobber. If you can set it up correctly, it beats every other software easily. Problem is migration is never an easy process."²² In the same thread, a multi-tech operator: "Jobber is too generic IMO."²²
• Lawn care, November 2025: "Jobber is good for small businesses but it's not industry specific, so we found there was a lot of bloat with it."²³
• The GorillaDesk gripe, February 2026: "Gorilladesk is pretty decent. Their invoicing system is a little bit clunky in my opinion. I highly recommend not doing what I did and just jump in assuming you can figure it out without the training."²¹
• Both, May 2024: "Gorilla desk or jobber are great options. Highly recommend both. Using paper these days is an awful idea."²⁴

Pest people who tried Jobber found it generic and moved. The people who defend Jobber talk about what it does once it's set up. Nobody in these threads went from GorillaDesk to Jobber, but it's a sample of one industry, and the industry GorillaDesk was built in.

Which should a 1-4 truck shop choose?

Decision rules, in order:

• Pest control, 1-4 routes, state application records required? GorillaDesk. Basic at $49 if you bill at the time of service; Pro at $99 the day you want e-signed agreements, the customer portal or subscriptions.
• Lawn, pool or cleaning routes, the same customers every week or month? Either works. GorillaDesk if office logins outnumber trucks (they're free) or you want chemical logging from the truck. Jobber if you want the wider app marketplace, deeper QuickBooks sync and a bigger app.
• HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or a pest shop that also sells installs and one-off jobs? Jobber. Optional line items and markups on quotes, job costing on Grow, and the free API for whatever you bolt on later.
• Four trucks or more? Price Jobber Connect's five-user band ($149) against GorillaDesk Pro at four routes ($249). GorillaDesk Growth ($349 at four routes) only if you need Service Plans, multi-branch or its sales pipeline.
• Half or more of your revenue on recurring plans? Whichever you choose, the plan ledger isn't in it. Read the next section before you decide it's solved.

For the HVAC-side platforms (Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, Service Fusion), the roundup is the best HVAC maintenance agreement software by shop size.

Either way: what neither does about maintenance agreements

GorillaDesk has four features that each hold one piece of an agreement and nothing that ties them together. Subscriptions charge a fixed amount on a calendar. Recurring jobs put the next visit on the calendar when the current one is closed. Service Plans, Growth only since March 28, 2025, chain a series of visits so each triggers after the last. Documents hold the signed terms. No feature counts visits owed against visits delivered per agreement year, no list shows who's due to renew this month, and a failed card is an invoice status with no retry.^{6, 7, 8} The six workarounds shops use inside it are on the GorillaDesk pricing page.

Jobber has no membership object at all, and the feature request has been open in its community for years.²⁷ The workaround is a recurring job for the visits, a client tag for the tier, a custom field for the renewal date and a recurring invoice with Automatic Payments for the money, and it leaks in the same places: no owed-vs-delivered count, discounts applied from memory, renewals you have to ask for.^{11, 27} The click-by-click build is in how to run maintenance plans in Jobber.

This is the part I have a product in, so weigh it accordingly. Deepsel is an agreement ledger that runs beside the FSM you keep: plan, tier, covered equipment or property, card on file, and visits owed vs delivered per unit. It auto-charges renewals with retries and failed-payment flags, emails each member who's due a booking reminder every season (texts on Pro), and warns you before a paid visit expires. Starter is $79 a month, Pro $159 a month (coming soon), unlimited users on both. With Jobber, Starter imports your customer list and the reminder emails carry your Jobber booking link; Pro syncs through Jobber's free API and writes booked visits back as jobs. With GorillaDesk there is no integration today: you import an export, and the office keys booked visits back in as normal jobs, the way it does now.

Stack cost for the 2-truck shop: GorillaDesk Pro at $149 plus Deepsel Starter at $79 is $228 a month, and Jobber Connect at $149 plus Deepsel is the same $228. If your whole program is 25 agreements and the owner enjoys the calls, the free tracking spreadsheet is the right tool.

Frequently asked questions

Is GorillaDesk or Jobber better for pest control?

GorillaDesk, for most pest shops under about five routes. It was built by pest operators, logs materials and chemicals on its cheapest plan, barcodes bait stations on Pro, and lets office staff log in free. Jobber sells to more than 50 industries, and its chemical tracking works only from jobber.com, not in the app. The pest owners on Reddit who ran both mostly moved from Jobber to GorillaDesk. The ones who stayed on Jobber point to its setup depth and its wider app marketplace.

Is GorillaDesk cheaper than Jobber?

For one or two routes, about the same. Past four routes, Jobber gets cheaper. GorillaDesk is $49, $99 or $149 a month for one route and adds $50 per route on Basic and Pro. Jobber is $29 a month for a solo Core seat on annual billing, $149 for Connect with five users, and $29 for each extra user. A 2-route shop pays $149 on GorillaDesk Pro and $149 on Jobber Connect. A 4-route shop pays $249 on GorillaDesk Pro and still $149 on Jobber Connect.

Does GorillaDesk have service plans or memberships?

It has a Service Plans feature on the Growth plan, added March 28, 2025, but no membership record. A Service Plan chains a series of visits so each one triggers after the last is completed. Billing lives separately, in Stripe or Square subscriptions on Pro or invoice-frequency autopay on Basic and Pro. Nothing links the money to the visits, counts visits owed against visits delivered, or lists who is due to renew. That ledger stays in a spreadsheet or a companion tool.

Can I use GorillaDesk for HVAC or plumbing?

You can, and its site lists handyman and inspection work among its industries, but the fit is weaker than for pest, lawn and pool routes. GorillaDesk is organized around recurring route stops, chemical and material logging, and per-route pricing. HVAC and plumbing shops lean on quotes with optional line items, job costing and a long integration list, which is where Jobber's Grow plan and free API are stronger. Neither one tracks maintenance agreements.

Does Jobber track chemicals like GorillaDesk does?

Partly. Jobber has a Chemical Tracking feature on select plans that records the product, concentration, applicator, weather and job, and exports a CSV for the records some states want kept for seven years. Its help center says there is no chemical tracking in the mobile app; records go in from jobber.com. GorillaDesk's Material Tracking and Reporting is on its $49 Basic plan and works from the truck. If your state wants application records from every stop, that difference decides the day.

Can I switch between GorillaDesk and Jobber without losing my recurring accounts?

Customers, addresses and notes move cleanly in either direction, and both vendors import them free. The recurring machinery does not move. GorillaDesk's free migration covers contact info, addresses, notes and a starting balance, not service or billing history, and Jobber has no membership object to receive plans. Every subscription, saved card and recurring job gets rebuilt by hand, and members re-enter card details. Move the agreement ledger into a tool that survives the switch first.

Which works better with QuickBooks, GorillaDesk or Jobber?

Jobber, on paper. Its Connect plan and up sync with QuickBooks Online and Xero, and its help center documents the sync in depth. GorillaDesk's sync is a one-way push of customers, invoices and payments to QuickBooks Online only, on the Pro plan. Owners on r/PestControlIndustry warn against turning it on with messy books. One wrote in October 2025 that syncing QuickBooks Online and GorillaDesk will leave your books a nightmare; another said to fix QuickBooks first, then sync or upload by hand.

Sources

1. GorillaDesk pricing page: Basic "$49/mo" and "$539/year," Pro "$99/mo" and "$1089/year," Growth "$149/mo" and "$1639/year" for one route; Basic features including "Unlimited Admin Users," "Advanced Invoice Frequencies," "Basic Routing (limited to 25 stops)," "Square & Stripe Integration," "Material Tracking & Reporting," "Automated Emails & SMS," "Unlimited Support"; Pro adds "Customer Online Portal," "Online Booking," "Stripe & Square Subscriptions," "Routing with Drive Matrix," "Document & e-Signatures," "Device Tracking & Barcoding," "Quickbooks Online Sync," "Zapier Integration," "Open API Access"; Growth adds "Drive Time," "Best Available Time," "Estimate Packages," "Sales Pipeline," "Custom Fields," "Multi-Branch Support"; "only users who are assigned to a specific schedule need a paid seat. This means you can have unlimited free users"; "all of our plans are month-to-month with no contracts, no setup fees, and no hidden gimmicks"; SMS "$5 per month" plus credits "$50 for 1000"; free data import. gorilladesk.com/pricing, retrieved September 7, 2026. Slider prices for two to four routes ($99/$149/$179 Basic, $149/$199/$249 Pro, $249/$299/$349 Growth) read on the same page September 2, 2026.
2. GorillaDesk help center, "Plans & Pricing": "GorillaDesk charges per each technician who has a route with your company"; unlimited free admin, manager, sales and crew users; "it's an extra fifty dollars for each schedule that you add"; "about ninety five percent of my customers do end up going with the pro plan... specifically for the documents and e-signatures." intercom.help/gorilladesk, retrieved September 2, 2026.
3. GorillaDesk support page: "For 14 days you get full access to all of GorillaDesk's features" with "no credit card required"; monthly "you can cancel your subscription at any time without penalty"; annual "billed for the entire year at the start of your subscription"; "There will be no refunds or credits for partial months of service"; phone (855) 536-7470 and chat listed. gorilladesk.com/support, retrieved September 7, 2026.
4. GorillaDesk homepage: "#1 Field Service Software for Pest, Lawn, & Cleaning Businesses"; "Over the last 12 years, our team has developed a software platform to solve the challenges you're facing"; founders "were once field service pros"; "has helped thousands of owners like you"; industry list including landscaping, pool service, window cleaning, pressure washing, handyman and inspections. gorilladesk.com, retrieved September 7, 2026.
5. GorillaDesk help center, "Sync to QuickBooks Online," updated May 21, 2025: "you can now sync your customers, invoices, and payments from GorillaDesk into QuickBooks. This process is a one-way push and is supported for QuickBooks Online only." intercom.help/gorilladesk, retrieved September 7, 2026.
6. GorillaDesk help center, "Stripe and Square Subscription Billing" (Pro; "A new invoice will be generated every time your customer has been charged... They are primarily used when a customer is being charged a fixed amount for their services over a duration of time") and "Automatic Payments Using Invoice Frequency" ("available for the Basic and Pro Plans and both Stripe and Square"; an invoice can "repeat on its own frequency, separate from your job's frequency"). Subscription Billing and Invoice Frequency autopay, retrieved September 2, 2026.
7. GorillaDesk help center, "Recurring Jobs" ("All jobs must be toggled to Complete or Canceled for the next recurring service to be generated") and "Software Change Log and Updates," entry dated March 28, 2025 ("NEW FEATURE: Service Plans... automate a series of services that trigger after each completed job... Subscribe to our Growth Plan to unlock this feature"). Recurring Jobs and Change log, retrieved September 2, 2026.
8. GorillaDesk help center, "Stripe vs. Square" (Stripe 2.9% + 30¢; Square 2.9% + 30¢ card-not-present, 2.6% + 15¢ in the field; invoice status FAIL); GorillaDesk Square integration page (2.6% + 10¢ tapped, dipped and swiped; 3.5% + 15¢ keyed and card-on-file); "Declined Credit Cards & Failed Payments" ("it is best to have your customer contact his or her bank"). Stripe vs. Square, Square integration, Declined cards, retrieved September 2, 2026.
9. Jobber pricing page: Core $49/mo no commitment, $39 on a 1-year commitment, $29 billed annually, 1 user; Connect $139/$119/$99 for 1 user and $199/$169/$149 for 5 users; Grow $199/$169/$149 for 1 user, $299/$259/$229 for 5 users; "Save up to 25% with annual billing"; "No credit card required"; 2.9% + 30¢ online, 2.7% + 30¢ in the app, 1% bank payments, "additional 1% fee" for instant payouts on all plans; "Unlimited live chat, phone, and email support"; "Sync with QuickBooks Online and Xero"; Zapier "7,000+ apps"; "iOS and Android mobile apps. Also available in Spanish for select team members"; Receptionist, Pipeline and Marketing Suite marked "Add-on"; onboarding "Unlimited," "3 sessions Up to 3 hours," "2 sessions Up to 2 hours"; voice notes "in any language, with instant note translation"; FAQ: monthly no-commitment cancels at period end, the 12-month monthly term keeps billing if you cancel, annual "billed for the full term at the start"; "For 14 days you get full access to all of Jobber's features on the Grow plan" with "no credit card required." getjobber.com/pricing, retrieved September 7, 2026. The plan-card line "Add users for $29/mo each" and Plus from $399/mo annual were read on the same page September 2, 2026.
10. Jobber help center, "The Core Plan": "The Core plan supports one user and an unlimited number of quotes, jobs, and invoices"; includes Requests & Online Booking, Lead Management, Jobber Payments, Instant Payouts; "Optional line items and on my way text messages are not available on Core." help.getjobber.com, retrieved September 7, 2026.
11. Jobber help center, "The Connect Plan": up to 5 users; Requests & Online booking, Routing, Live GPS tracking (powered by FleetSharp), Jobber Payments, Automatic Payments, QuickBooks Online Integration, Automated emails and texts, Custom fields, Task Automation powered by Zapier, email and live support. help.getjobber.com, retrieved September 7, 2026.
12. Jobber help center, "Chemical Tracking": "Chemical Tracking allows you to track chemical and pesticide usage"; "Chemical tracking is available on select plans"; "There is no chemical tracking in the mobile app. Chemicals must be recorded from jobber.com"; fields for chemical name and concentration, applicator, date and time, weather; CSV download. help.getjobber.com, retrieved September 7, 2026.
13. Jobber help center, "Jobber and Zapier Integration": "Zapier is available on select plans"; triggers including New Client, New Quote, Quote Approved, New Job Created, New Job Completion, New Invoice; actions including Create Client, Create Request, Create Quote, Create Job. help.getjobber.com, retrieved September 7, 2026.
14. Jobber Developer Center: free developer program, GraphQL API, no plan gate or partner fees for connected apps. developer.getjobber.com, retrieved September 2, 2026.
15. PR Newswire, "Jobber surpasses 100,000 customers," Toronto, May 12, 2026: "surpassed 100,000 customers, with more than 400,000 service professionals using it daily"; "in over 50 industries," listing landscaping, plumbing, cleaning and contracting. prnewswire.com, retrieved September 7, 2026.
16. Apple App Store via the iTunes Search API: "GorillaDesk" by GORILLADESK LLC (id 978627591), average rating 4.41 from 59 ratings; "Jobber Field Service Software" by Octopusapp Inc (id 1014146758), 4.81 from 20,787 ratings. Google Play: GorillaDesk (com.gorilladesk.app), 4.23 from 400 ratings, 10,000+ installs; "Jobber: Field Service Software" (com.getjobber.jobber), 4.43 from 6,716 ratings, 1,000,000+ installs. apps.apple.com (GorillaDesk), apps.apple.com (Jobber), play.google.com (GorillaDesk), play.google.com (Jobber), retrieved September 7, 2026.
17. Software Advice, "GorillaDesk vs Jobber - 2026 Comparison": GorillaDesk 4.8 based on 278 reviews (ease of use 4.8, value for money 4.8, customer support 4.8, functionality 4.6; "97% of users recommend this product"; "Top use cases: Pest Control (17%)"); Jobber 4.6 based on 1,478 reviews (ease of use 4.6, value for money 4.4, customer support 4.6, functionality 4.3; "80% of users recommend this product"; "Most common industries: Construction (33%)"). softwareadvice.com, retrieved September 7, 2026.
18. r/PestControlIndustry, "Field Routes vs Gorilla Desk," comment by a pest control owner-operator, April 26, 2025: "After switching from jobber to gorilla desk my life became simpler and more professional with less effort... I'm loving it with 2 techs- looking to get a third, fourth, fifth. I won't change." reddit.com, pulled September 7, 2026.
19. r/PestControlIndustry, "Routing/payment software," January 31, 2025: "I used Markate, then Jobber and now GorillaDesk. Jobber became a pain when having to setup custom invoices for customers if they had different payment time frames. I also don't remember easily being able to modify chemicals used on each job and everything. I had calls with Fieldroutes and PestPac back in December but both were 3-4x what I pay for GorillaDesk." reddit.com, pulled September 7, 2026.
20. r/PestControlIndustry, "Switching to GorillaDesk," October 12, 2025: "I started with qb, then jobber and have used gd for the last year"; "I would definitely avoid syncing qb and gorilla desk... I would fix in qb and sync or manually upload"; "DO NOT sync QBO with Gorilla Desk! You will continue to have sync problems and your books will be a nightmare!" (a company that "merged 13k customers" from PestPac). Pulled September 7, 2026.
21. r/PestControlIndustry, "Best CRM/Software for medium sized business," February 16-17, 2026: "GorillaDesk is very user friendly but lacks a few features... Jobber is not specialized for our industry - would not recommend for anyone larger than a couple employees"; "Their invoicing system is a little bit clunky in my opinion... Definitely do the training". Pulled September 7, 2026.
22. r/PestControlIndustry, "PestPac to Jobber?", April 8-10, 2025: "I have about 6 years of experience using Jobber. If you can set it up correctly, it beats every other software easily. Problem is migration is never an easy process"; "Jobber is too generic IMO". Pulled September 7, 2026.
23. r/LawnCarePros, "Best software tools for lawn care pros -- Thoughts on Jobber, Deeplawn, Gorilla Desk, etc.?", comment of November 21, 2025: "Jobber is good for small businesses but it's not industry specific, so we found there was a lot of bloat with it." reddit.com, pulled September 7, 2026.
24. r/PestControlIndustry, "Brio," May 26, 2024: "Gorilla desk or jobber are great options. Highly recommend both. Using paper these days is an awful idea." reddit.com, pulled September 7, 2026.
25. r/PestControlIndustry, "Operators, how are you enforcing your 12 month agreements & delinquent accounts?", June 6-8, 2026: "Put a credit card on file, auto bill at time of service, or preferably monthly. If it's $135 for a service, charge $45 a month. No more problems" (June 6); "even when on AutoPay the card brands now allow to easily turn on and off cards so we get declines when we attempt payment. It's a recurring billing nightmare!" (June 8). Pulled September 2, 2026.
26. r/lawncare, "Lawn Care CRM," October 31, 2025, from a lawn applicator who has used PestPac, GorillaDesk and Real Green: "Gorilla desk isn't terrible for the price and is pretty user friendly. Doesn't do a fantastic job with routing." reddit.com, pulled September 2, 2026.
27. Jobber Community, "Maintenance contract feature" request thread, community.getjobber.com; Jobber help center, "Automatic Payments" (available to Jobber Payments users on select plans), help.getjobber.com; "Create a recurring job," help.getjobber.com. Retrieved September 2, 2026.