Free Handyman Software,
Forever.
· Pricing verified June 14, 2026
Price the honey-do list from a photo, set a trip minimum so the truck doesn't roll for $20 jobs, sell TV mounting and ceiling fan installs as one-tap menu items, and let Menutize text the customer a Google review link the second the last screw goes in. $0/month. Unlimited users. Forever.
Free CRM, invoicing & payments — forever. Save $348–$6,348/yr vs Jobber, Housecall Pro & Kickserv subscription fees.
Free handyman software, explained plainly
Menutize is free handyman software for one-truck operators, two-person repair crews, and solo general contractors. It runs the office side of a handyman business — customer CRM, photo-based estimates, a fixed-price task menu, trip minimums, half- and full-day labor blocks, invoicing, online card and ACH payments, automated Google review requests, tip collection, recurring honey-do billing, and two-way Google Calendar sync — for $0 per month with unlimited users. There is no monthly fee, no per-seat fee, and no credit card required to start.
That matters in this trade because handyman work is high-volume and low-ticket, and it lives or dies on admin speed. A handyman might quote a $95 fixture swap, a $150 ceiling fan, and a $650 full-day honey-do block in the same afternoon, then field three "while you're here, can you also..." add-ons before lunch. The tools that win those jobs are fast photo estimates that close on the homeowner's phone, a trip minimum that keeps the truck from rolling for $20, a task menu that ends the quote phone tag, and a steady flow of fresh Google reviews that keep you in the local Map Pack. Menutize was built around exactly those moments.
The paid platforms most handymen evaluate — Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, and the SMB-focused Kickserv — all charge a monthly subscription, most charge per additional user, and none offer a genuine free-forever plan (only 14-to-30-day trials or sales demos). For a solo handyman or a two-person crew, those subscriptions add up to roughly $350–$6,000+ per year before a single screw is turned. Menutize earns instead through a transparent 0.5% fee on payments you actually process, so the software costs you nothing in a slow week.
One more shift worth naming: how handyman customers find you is changing. A growing share of homeowners now start with an AI answer — asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overviews "how much does it cost to mount a TV" or "best handyman near me" — before they ever click a website. Those answers are assembled from structured, factual, citation-ready content and from your local presence: your Google Business Profile, your review count and recency, and your visibility in the Map Pack. The practical takeaway for a handyman is that the two highest-return investments are (1) a steady, automated flow of recent Google reviews and (2) fast, photo-rich estimates that convert the leads you do get — instead of renting shared leads from Angie's List or Thumbtack at $15–$30 a pop. Menutize is built to drive both, which is why it's a better fit for where local search is heading than a heavier platform that bills you monthly for dispatch features you'll never open.
The rest of this page covers what's free, the four handyman-specific workflows Menutize is built around, a full side-by-side comparison against Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, and Kickserv with verified 2026 pricing, a plain-language read on each competitor, real handyman task and labor pricing, a five-question buying guide, a day-in-the-workflow walkthrough, an honest section on when a bigger platform is the right call, and the questions one-truck handymen actually ask before signing up.
What's Free, Forever
Everything you need to run a handyman business — not a feature gated behind an upgrade. No credit card to start. No "trial expired" email in 14 days.
Customer CRM
Every customer, job, photo of the broken thing, and note in one place. Searchable. Unlimited users, no per-seat fees.
Photo Estimates & Quotes
Send branded estimates with photos and line items from your phone. Customer approves with one tap.
Invoicing
Auto-generate clean invoices the moment a job closes. No separate QuickBooks license required.
Card & ACH Payments
Customers pay online. Money lands in 1-2 business days. Standard processing rate, no monthly fee, no platform markup.
Google Review Requests
Auto-text every happy customer a one-tap review link the moment you mark the job done.
Tip Collection
Built-in tip prompts at checkout. The handyman keeps the cash because tips route to the operator.
Built for the way handyman work actually happens.
Handyman work isn't billable hours on a clean clock. You're pricing a project the customer agrees to up front from a photo of the broken thing, you're a one-truck operator who's also the salesperson and the dispatcher, half your jobs turn into "while you're here, can you also..." and the other half are honey-do households who book you again every other month. The free plan accounts for all of it.
Most "free" small-business software is a generic invoice template with a Stripe button bolted on. It works fine for a freelance designer and falls apart the second a homeowner texts you a photo of a sagging gutter on Tuesday night and asks if you can swing by Friday to also hang a TV, swap the kitchen faucet, and replace two outlets. Menutize was built around the four workflows below — the ones that actually decide whether a one-truck handyman is making real money or just running a busy schedule into the ground.
Photo-Based Project Estimates
Stop driving across town for a free in-person quote on a $200 job. The homeowner texts you a photo of the broken thing — sagging gutter, hole in drywall, ceiling fan still in the box, deck board with rot — and you drop it straight into a Menutize estimate from your phone. Add line items, set the price, send the estimate back. The customer sees the photo, the scope, the price, and a tap-to-approve button. The photo lives on the estimate so when the customer says on Saturday "wait, I thought you were also doing the second fan," there's no debate — the original photo is on the line item. Photo upload is unlimited on the free plan, so you never ration shots on a multi-room walkthrough.
Trip Minimums & Half-Day Labor Blocks
A one-truck handyman can't afford to roll for a $20 job. Set a trip minimum on your booking page (most handymen run $150 trip + first hour, then $X per additional hour, or a flat half-day block at $350 for up to 4 hours of general repairs). Sell Half-Day or Full-Day Labor Blocks as fixed-price products: the customer books the block, knocks down their honey-do list (replace the bath fan, swap two outlets, hang the gallery wall, fix the closet door), and the deposit hits before you pull out of the driveway. Tire-kickers self-select out, your truck only rolls when there's enough money on the ticket to cover gas and drive time, and you stop being the cheap option for somebody who needed a YouTube video and a screwdriver.
Estimate & Invoice Open-Tracking
A $480 deck repair quote sitting unread is a different problem than one the homeowner has opened twice but hasn't approved. Menutize logs the moment the customer opens the estimate email, the moment they view the live estimate page, and does the same on every invoice through to the moment they pay. You stop guessing whether the spouse has actually seen the quote, you stop chasing leads who already gave the job to the cheaper handyman, and your follow-up calls land on the right people at the right time. The estimate that's been viewed twice but unsigned is the one to text now — not the one that hasn't been opened in 5 days (probably went to spam, re-send by SMS). Most field-service tools gate this behind a higher tier; Menutize ships it on the free plan because nothing else moves close rate as much.
Fixed-Price Task Menu & Multi-Task Day Bundling
List your high-margin staples on a public booking page as fixed-price clicks: Ceiling Fan Install ($150), TV Mounting ($120 standard, $180 above-fireplace), Smart Thermostat Install ($95), Standard Fixture Swap ($95), Furniture Assembly ($85/hr), Door Re-Hang ($165), Gallery Wall Hang ($110). Customers stack tasks into one booking and Menutize bundles them into a single multi-task day with one combined invoice at the end. The classic "while you're here, can you also..." add-on? Open the booking on your phone mid-job, drop in the new line item (replace the smoke detector, install the under-cabinet light), and the customer pays one bill on a tip-prompted screen when you mark the day done. No three separate Venmo requests. No forgetting the $40 add-on you knocked out before lunch. Quick clicks, quick cash — and the customer-supplied vs handyman-supplied flag on every line keeps the parts and tax clean.
Three Things Every Handyman Pro Wishes They Had
Most "free" software either nags you to upgrade or leaves out the features that actually move the needle. Menutize makes the three biggest ones core to the free plan.
Auto Google Reviews
The moment you mark a handyman job complete, the customer gets a one-tap review link by text. No copy-paste, no "I'll do it later." Handyman work is brutally review-driven on Google — the next homeowner who searches "handyman near me" picks the 4.8 with 80 reviews over the 4.5 with 12. Review count and recency are among the strongest local-ranking signals, so automating the ask after every clean job compounds your Map Pack position month over month. Stop renting leads and start owning your review channel.
Included free, forever.
Tip Requests at Checkout
Customers see a 15/20/25% tip prompt right at payment — the same flow they're used to from Square or DoorDash. It lands especially well after a long honey-do day where the homeowner watched you knock out 7 nagging items their spouse has been bugging them about for two years. The prompt makes the thank-you effortless for them and tactful for you — money that was being left on the table simply because nobody was asking. The tip routes to whichever account the operator chooses, so you keep what the customer left.
Included free, forever.
Google Calendar Two-Way Sync
Every booking lands in your real Google Calendar. Block time on your phone — hardware-store run, kid's game, your own honey-do list at home — and Menutize won't let customers book over you. Move a job on the Google Calendar app and Menutize updates the customer's confirmation. Jobber, Housecall Pro, and Kickserv reserve their richer scheduling features for paid tiers; Menutize includes two-way Google Calendar sync at $0/mo.
Included free, forever.
Menutize vs Jobber vs Housecall Pro vs ServiceTitan vs Kickserv
A feature-by-feature comparison for handyman businesses, with pricing verified directly from each vendor's pricing page on June 14, 2026. Menutize is the only option with a genuine free-forever plan and unlimited users.
| Feature | Menutize Free | Jobber | Housecall Pro | ServiceTitan | Kickserv |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $0/mo, forever | $29/mo annual ($49 m/m), Core | $59/mo annual ($79 m/m), Basic | Quote only ("Request Pricing") | $60/mo, Start |
| Most-popular / mid tier | n/a — one free plan | Grow $149–$299/mo annual ($199–$399 m/m) | Essentials $149/mo annual ($189 m/m) | Essentials — quote only | Run $119/mo |
| Top tier | n/a | Plus $529/mo annual ($699 m/m) | MAX $299/mo annual ($329 m/m) | The Works — quote only | Scale $199/mo |
| Free-forever plan | Yes | No (14-day trial) | No (14-day trial) | No (demo only) | No (30-day trial) |
| Users included / add-on | Unlimited, $0/user | 1–15 by tier; +$29/user/mo | 1–8 by tier; MAX +$35/user/mo | Per-technician pricing (quote) | 5–20 by tier (Start/Run/Scale) |
| Annual contract required | No | No (annual prepay = lower price) | No (annual prepay = lower price) | Typically ~12-month contract | No (annual prepay = 20% off) |
| Photo-based estimates | Yes, unlimited photos — free | Yes (paid plan) | Yes (paid plan) | Yes (mobile estimates, paid) | Yes (paid plan) |
| Fixed-price task menu / online booking | Yes — free | Online booking (paid plan) | Online booking (paid plan) | Web scheduling (paid plan) | Online booking (paid plan) |
| Estimate & invoice open-tracking | Yes — free | Higher tier | Higher tier | Yes (paid plan) | Limited |
| Trip minimum / deposit collection | Yes (card & ACH) — free | Yes (paid plan) | Yes (paid plan) | Yes (paid plan) | Yes (e-payments, paid plan) |
| ACH at 0.8% (capped $5) | Yes — free | Card-focused; varies | Card-focused; varies | Varies | Card-focused; varies |
| Automated Google review requests | Yes — free | Add-on / higher tier | Higher tier | Yes (marketing module, paid) | Varies / integration |
| Tip collection at checkout | Yes — free | Rarely supported | Rarely supported | Rarely supported | Rarely supported |
| Two-way Google Calendar sync | Yes — free | Higher tier | Higher tier | Yes (paid plan) | Yes (paid plan) |
| Recurring honey-do household billing | Yes — free | Yes (paid plan) | Yes (paid plan) | Yes (memberships, paid) | Yes (recurring jobs, paid) |
| Customer-supplied vs pro-supplied parts on the invoice | Yes — per-line flag, free | Via custom line items (paid plan) | Via custom line items (paid plan) | Via pricebook (paid plan) | Via custom line items (paid plan) |
| Est. 1st-year software cost (1 owner + 1 helper) | $0 | ~$348+ (Core annual; +$29/mo for 2nd user) | ~$708+ (Basic annual; 2nd user needs Essentials ~$1,788) | Quote only (3rd-party est. $245–$500/tech/mo + implementation) | ~$576+ (Start, annual 20% off; covers up to 5 users) |
Pricing verified from each vendor's official pricing page on June 14, 2026. Jobber: Core $29/mo annual ($49 month-to-month), Connect $99–$149/mo annual, Grow $149–$299/mo annual, Plus $529/mo annual; +$29/user/mo; 14-day trial only. Housecall Pro: Basic $59/mo annual ($79 m/m), Essentials $149/mo annual ($189 m/m), MAX $299/mo annual ($329 m/m, +$35/extra user); 14-day trial only. ServiceTitan: tier names Starter / Essentials / The Works are published but no dollar figures are; pricing is per-technician and quote-only after a sales demo. Third-party estimates ($245–$500/tech/mo plus a one-time implementation fee) are unverified and shown for context only. Kickserv: Start $60/mo (up to 5 users), Run $119/mo (up to 10 users), Scale $199/mo (up to 20 users), 20% off on annual; 30-day free trial, no free-forever plan. Card-processing fees apply on all platforms; Menutize uses standard Stripe rates plus a transparent 0.5% fee on payments processed. First-year estimates assume annual-prepay pricing and do not include processing or implementation fees.
Menutize vs each platform, in plain language
The table above is the quick scan. Here is the honest, vendor-by-vendor read for a handyman deciding where to put the office work — what each tool costs, who it's actually for, and where Menutize wins or loses.
Menutize vs Jobber
Jobber is the default starter platform for home-services trades, and it's a solid product. The friction for a handyman shop is the pricing ladder. Core is $29/mo on an annual plan ($49 month-to-month) but includes only one user. The popular Grow tier — the one Jobber's own trial drops you into — runs $149–$299/mo annually ($199–$399 month-to-month) and includes ten users, and the top Plus tier is $529/mo annually. Every additional user beyond a plan's cap is $29/mo. There is no free-forever plan; you get a 14-day trial and then the card is charged.
For a one-truck or two-person handyman business, the math rarely favors Jobber. A solo handyman who just needs photo estimates, a task menu, payments, reviews, and a calendar is paying $348/yr minimum on Core, or stepping up to Grow's four-figure annual cost for features Menutize includes free. Menutize matches Jobber on the core handyman workflow — photo estimates, online booking, payments, scheduling — and adds estimate open-tracking, tip collection, and Google review automation on the free plan rather than gating them. Pick Jobber if you want its broader integrations ecosystem and don't mind the subscription. Pick Menutize if you want the same job-winning workflow at $0/mo with unlimited seats.
Menutize vs Housecall Pro
Housecall Pro is polished and popular with residential service businesses. Its Basic plan is $59/mo annually ($79 month-to-month) for a single user, Essentials is $149/mo annually ($189 month-to-month) for up to five users, and MAX is $299/mo annually ($329 month-to-month) for up to eight users with additional MAX seats at $35/mo each. Like Jobber, there is no free tier — only a 14-day trial.
The catch for a small handyman crew is that the single-user Basic plan is too thin once you add a helper, so most shops that need two logins land on Essentials at roughly $1,788/yr. That's a meaningful fixed cost for a business whose week-to-week revenue swings with how many honey-do lists came in. Menutize gives a solo-plus-helper operation unlimited logins at $0/mo and includes the review automation and open-tracking Housecall Pro reserves for higher tiers. Pick Housecall Pro if you specifically want its consumer-financing and marketing add-ons. Pick Menutize if you want to keep that $700–$1,800/yr and run the same daily workflow free.
Menutize vs ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan is the enterprise standard for large field-service operations, and it's genuinely powerful. It does not publish prices: the Starter, Essentials, and The Works tiers each show a "Request Pricing" button, pricing is per-technician and quote-only after a sales demo, and no free trial length is stated. Unverified third-party reports place it at roughly $245–$500 per technician per month, usually on a 12-month contract plus a one-time implementation fee that can run from $5,000 to $50,000 or more.
That cost structure makes sense for a 20-truck operation with a dispatch desk, fleet tracking, and board-level reporting — and it's overkill, financially and operationally, for a one-truck handyman. ServiceTitan is the rare competitor we'll actively point you toward: if you've crossed into multi-crew enterprise scale, it earns its price. Below that scale, Menutize covers the job-winning workflow without a contract, an implementation project, or a per-technician bill. Pick ServiceTitan if you're a large operation. Pick Menutize if you're not yet one.
Menutize vs Kickserv
Kickserv is general field-service software popular with handyman and small home-services shops, and it's a reasonable mid-market option. Its published tiers (live pricing page, June 14, 2026) are Start at $60/mo for up to 5 users, Run at $119/mo for up to 10 users, and Scale at $199/mo for up to 20 users, with 20% off on an annual subscription. It offers a 30-day free trial but no genuine free-forever plan, so after the trial the monthly bill begins regardless of how many jobs you booked.
Kickserv covers the bread-and-butter — scheduling, estimates, invoicing, QuickBooks sync, and online payments — competently. Where Menutize pulls ahead for a one-truck handyman is the cost floor and the close-rate features: $0/mo with unlimited users versus Kickserv's $60/mo Start, plus estimate open-tracking, tip collection, and automated Google review requests included free rather than left to integrations or higher tiers. Pick Kickserv if you specifically want its deeper QuickBooks Desktop sync and you're comfortable with a monthly base fee. Pick Menutize if you want the same daily workflow plus reviews, tips, and open-tracking at $0/mo with no contract.
What handyman tasks actually cost — and how to quote them fast
Handyman work is one of the broadest trades in home services: a single visit can mix a $95 fixture swap, a $150 ceiling fan, and a half-day block. Price depends on the task, the parts source, access, and your local labor rate. The figures below reflect common handyman menu pricing — use them as a starting framework, then build your own task line items into a Menutize service menu so you can quote on-site in two taps.
| Job type | Typical menu price | What moves the number |
|---|---|---|
| Standard fixture swap | $95–$150 | Faucet, light fixture, outlet, or switch. Customer-supplied part keeps it labor-only; pro-supplied adds parts + markup. |
| Ceiling fan / TV mounting | $120–$180 | Above-fireplace mounts, in-wall cord conceal, and existing-box vs new-box installs push the number up. |
| Half-day labor block | $300–$400 (up to 4 hrs) | Best fit for a honey-do list of small tasks; the block sets a floor so the truck doesn't roll for $20. |
| Full-day labor block | $600–$700 (up to 8 hrs) | Multi-room punch lists and bigger honey-do days; materials haul-away is a common paid add-on. |
These are illustrative menu ranges, not Menutize quotes — your real numbers depend on your market, your overhead, and the specific task. The point is structural: handyman pricing has too many small line items to quote reliably over the phone, which is exactly why an on-site photo estimate with pre-built task line items closes more work than a verbal number a homeowner half-remembers. In Menutize, set up "Standard Fixture Swap," "Ceiling Fan Install," "TV Mounting," "Half-Day Labor Block," and "Full-Day Labor Block" as menu items with your own base prices, then adjust per job and attach photos before you send.
The same logic applies to the trip minimum and the parts question that come up on nearly every call. A trip minimum (commonly a $150 trip + first hour, then an hourly rate after) keeps small jobs from eating a Saturday, and the booking page enforces it so you're not the one having the awkward "I have a minimum" conversation. On parts, flag every line as customer-supplied (the fan they ordered from Amazon, the closet door from Home Depot — labor-only on the invoice) or handyman-supplied (drywall, fasteners, the thermostat you grabbed on the way — cost plus your markup, with tax handled per your state's rules). That single flag keeps your margin honest, keeps the customer from arguing about whether the fan price "included the box," and makes the year-end roll-up one clean CSV your bookkeeper hands the accountant.
How to choose handyman software
Most buying guides bury the decision under a feature checklist. For a handyman business, five questions settle it. Answer these and the right tool is usually obvious.
1. How many small, repeatable tasks make up your day?
Most of them. Handyman work is a stream of $95–$180 tasks and the odd half-day block, not a single big project. That makes a fixed-price task menu and photo estimates the single highest-leverage feature — far more important than dispatch routing or fleet tracking for a one-truck shop. Any tool you pick must let customers click pre-priced tasks on a booking page and let you attach photos to an estimate the homeowner approves from a phone.
2. How lumpy is your week-to-week revenue?
Lumpy. A full week of honey-do lists can be followed by a quiet one, and a fixed monthly subscription is a worse fit for that than a pay-on-payments model, because the bill arrives whether or not you booked a job. This is the core reason Menutize's 0.5%-on-payments model fits a solo handyman better than Jobber's, Housecall Pro's, or Kickserv's flat monthly fees.
3. How many people need a login?
Count yourself, a helper, and the bookkeeper. On per-seat platforms that's $29–$35 per extra user per month on top of the base plan. Even a solo-plus-helper setup pays a recurring tax just to give two people access. Unlimited-user pricing changes the total cost materially — which is where Menutize's free unlimited seats pull ahead.
4. Do you depend on Google reviews to get found?
If "handyman near me" is how customers find you — and for most local shops it is — then automated post-job review requests are not optional. Review volume and recency drive the local Map Pack, and they're the channel that gets you off the Angie's List / Thumbtack lead tax. A tool that fires a one-tap review link the moment you mark a job complete, included rather than bolted on as a paid add-on, compounds your local ranking month after month.
5. Do you need enterprise dispatch or deep accounting tooling?
This is the honest dividing line. If you run a 20+ truck operation needing dispatch, routing, and board-level reporting, ServiceTitan is built for that. If your bookkeeper lives in QuickBooks Desktop and you want a deep two-way sync, Kickserv leans that way. If you're neither — a solo-to-small repair shop — you don't need either, and a free tool that nails the estimate-payment-review loop is the smarter call.
The right pick by business stage
Just you and the truck
You're the technician, salesperson, and dispatcher. You need a task menu, photo estimates, a trip minimum, payments, reviews, and a calendar — not a dispatch board. Menutize Free covers all of it at $0/mo, and a fixed subscription is dead weight at your volume.
You + a helper
Now you're giving a second person a login and maybe a bookkeeper a third. Per-seat fees start to bite on the paid platforms. Menutize Free still fits — unlimited users, multi-task day bundling, recurring honey-do households — with no per-seat tax.
Multi-truck operation
Dispatch desk, fleet tracking, payroll and commission automation, board-level reporting. This is where a free tool stops being enough. ServiceTitan (enterprise dispatch) or Kickserv (deeper accounting sync) is the right investment at this scale.
A day in the workflow
It's 7:10am and your phone buzzes with a text from a homeowner across town: a photo of a sagging gutter and a one-liner asking if you can "also look at a couple other things." Instead of writing it on a coffee-cup sleeve, you add the customer in Menutize on the way to the truck, drop the gutter photo onto an estimate, and add a Half-Day Labor Block line item with a note to confirm scope on site. Two more bookings land on your public task menu before 9am — a TV mount and a ceiling fan install — and both drop straight onto your Google Calendar without colliding with the full-day job already set for Thursday.
At the gutter house you walk the punch list: the gutter, a closet door that won't latch, two outlets, and a gallery wall the wife has been asking about for a year. You build the estimate on your phone as a Half-Day Block with the closet door and gallery wall as add-on line items, flag the homeowner's own gutter brackets as customer-supplied (labor-only) and your fasteners as handyman-supplied, set a 40% deposit, and send it before you're back in the truck. By the time you reach the TV-mount appointment, Menutize has notified you the homeowner opened the estimate twice.
Mid-morning the gutter homeowner taps approve and pays the deposit by ACH; the $5 cap means you keep nearly the whole deposit instead of losing card points on a few hundred dollars. The block locks onto Friday's calendar automatically. The TV mount and ceiling fan run back-to-back off the task menu — fixed prices, no haggling — and when the homeowner says "while you're here, can you also swap the smoke detector?" you open the booking, drop in the $40 line, and it all rolls into one combined invoice.
You mark the TV-mount job complete from the field. The auto Google review request texts that homeowner a one-tap link while you're packing the drill, and the tip prompt is right there on the payment screen — the homeowner adds 20% on a clean above-fireplace mount. Friday you knock down the gutter-house honey-do list, mark it done, and the same review + tip flow fires.
By the weekend you've got two fresh five-star reviews, three paid invoices, a tip you weren't expecting, and a recurring agreement set up for the gutter household to come back every quarter — all run from a phone, all on the free plan, with nothing billed to your card for software in a week that happened to be slow on Wednesday.
When not to use Menutize for handyman work
Menutize is built for solo handymen and small two-to-three-person repair crews — roughly one to a handful of people. It is honestly the wrong tool for a large operation. If you're running a multi-truck handyman franchise with a full-time dispatch desk, and you need GPS fleet tracking, automated multi-crew routing, call-center integration, commission and payroll automation, and board-level financial reporting, you should look at ServiceTitan. That depth is exactly what its per-technician, quote-only pricing and implementation onboarding are designed to deliver, and it will pay for itself at that scale.
Similarly, if your bookkeeping lives in QuickBooks Desktop and you need a deep, mature two-way accounting sync with years of job-costing history, Kickserv leans further into that integration than Menutize does today. Menutize exports cleanly to CSV but isn't trying to be your full accounting suite.
For everyone else — the owner-operator who is also the technician, salesperson, and dispatcher — Menutize covers the workflow that wins jobs at $0/mo. Start free, and move up only if you actually outgrow it.
Why the free-plan math works in this trade
Three things the public data makes clear about handyman economics — and why a $0/mo tool with reviews and a task menu built in is a structural advantage, not a gimmick.
Annual subscription you avoid
The range of first-year base subscription fees across Jobber, Housecall Pro, and Kickserv (verified pricing pages, June 2026). Menutize's free plan removes the fixed software bill entirely — you pay only the 0.5% on payments you actually process.
Where homeowners click
Local "handyman near me" searches are dominated by Google's Map Pack, where review count, rating, and recency are among the heaviest ranking factors per published local-SEO research. Automated review requests after every job are the cheapest way to climb it — and to stop renting leads.
Per shared lead on the marketplaces
Angie's List and Thumbtack commonly charge $15–$30 per shared lead, often sent to three or four handymen at once. A 4.8-star Google profile fed by automated review requests brings direct calls with no per-lead fee — the channel that replaces the lead tax.
Figures above are composites drawn from public vendor pricing pages (verified June 14, 2026), published lead-marketplace pricing, and local-SEO research — not testimonials from named businesses. Your results depend on your market, your pricing, and how consistently you use the review and estimate tools.
Handyman Software Questions, Answered
The ones one-truck handymen actually ask before they sign up.
Is Menutize really free for handyman businesses? What's the catch?
How does Menutize compare to Jobber for handyman businesses?
How does Menutize compare to Housecall Pro for handyman businesses?
How does Menutize compare to ServiceTitan for handyman businesses?
How does Menutize compare to Kickserv for handyman businesses?
Can I price a handyman job from a photo the customer texts me?
Can I set a trip minimum so I don't show up for $20 jobs?
Can I sell half-day or full-day labor blocks for honey-do lists?
Can I sell common tasks as fixed-price menu items?
Can I see when a customer opens an estimate or invoice?
How do customer-supplied parts vs handyman-supplied parts work on the invoice?
What about multi-task days when the customer keeps adding things while I'm there?
How does the automated Google review request work for handyman jobs?
Can my recurring honey-do households go on auto-billing?
Does Menutize replace the Angie's List or Thumbtack leads I pay for?
Does it work for solo handymen and two-person crews?
How does Menutize make money if it's free?
What happens to my customer data if I leave Menutize?
How long does setup take for a handyman business?
Free handyman software is finally good.
Photo estimates, trip minimums, half-day blocks, task menu, invoicing, payments, Google reviews, tips, calendar — all on the free plan, all the time, with unlimited users. Setup takes 10 minutes. No credit card.
Start free — no credit cardSet up in 10 minutes. Free forever. Cancel anytime (but there's nothing to cancel — no contract, no monthly bill).