Quick answer: pick ZenMaid for booking forms and automated messaging in a maid-service-native package; Jobber or Housecall Pro if you run several trades under one roof; Maidily for a free start; Launch27 if online booking drives the business; MaidCentral for an established multi-location company; and Cleanr if you want scheduling, dispatch, and invoicing together in one $299-a-year plan. Details and sourced prices below.
About this roundup
Cleanr is our product, and it appears in this list. To keep the comparison useful anyway: every competitor price links to that company's official pricing page with the date we checked it, each competitor's section names the situation where it is the better choice, and Cleanr's section states its limitations as plainly as anyone else's.
How to choose software for a 1–10 cleaner business
A small cleaning company lives or dies on a short list of workflows: recurring schedules that survive reschedules, a day view your cleaners actually open, a record of the work (time on site, photos, notes), and an invoice that goes out the day the clean is done with a way to pay it online. Judge every product on this list against those four before you look at anything else. The longer version of this checklist, with a price-checked table of all seven, is on the cleaning business software page.
Then read each pricing page for the four things that change the real total:
- Per-user pricing. If the price climbs when you hire, model the cost at the team size you expect next year, not today.
- Tier gating. Some products put GPS tracking, checklists, or reports on higher plans, so the advertised starting price may not include the features you came for.
- Usage caps. Appointment or job limits sound generous until you notice a recurring route books dozens of visits a month.
- Messaging billed separately. SMS-heavy automation can add a variable line on top of the subscription.
Every product here offers a trial or a demo. Run one representative week of your actual schedule through the finalists before you commit.
The seven at a glance
| Product | Starting price | Pricing model | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZenMaid | $19/month | Three tiers ($19–$49/month); SMS charges extra; Starter capped at 40 appointments/month | Maid services that want booking forms and automated messaging |
| Jobber | ~$24/month (annual billing, one user) | Plans with included users, ~$24–$699/month; extra users $29/month | Mixed-trade home-service businesses |
| Housecall Pro | $59/month (annual billing, one user) | Tiers with included users, $59–$299+/month | Multi-trade teams that want a broad ecosystem |
| Maidily | Free (up to 10 jobs/month) | Job-volume tiers, $0–$99/month; unlimited users | New businesses that want a free start and self-booking |
| Launch27 | $75/month | Three tiers, $75–$299/month; annual plans discounted | Booking-first operations |
| MaidCentral | $450/month | Scales by locations and completed jobs, plus a one-time onboarding fee | Established, multi-location cleaning companies |
| Cleanr | $299/year or $39/month | One plan, same features either way; 7-day free trial on both | 1–10 cleaner shops that want the whole workflow in one plan |
ZenMaid — the established cleaning-native choice
ZenMaid has served maid services longer than anything else on this list, and the specialization shows: booking forms, an automated email and SMS library for customers and cleaners, payroll tools, QuickBooks integration, and a free 1:1 migration of contacts and calendar on paid tiers. Its features are spread across three tiers — Starter at $19/month (capped at 40 appointments a month), Pro at $39/month, and Pro Max at $49/month — with SMS charges billed separately on every plan, per its official pricing page, checked August 9, 2026. The Starter cap is roughly one cleaner's workload, so most teams live on Pro or Pro Max.
Choose ZenMaid if booking forms and a deep automated-messaging library are central to how you win and keep customers, or you want an established vendor with a supported migration path. Full comparison: ZenMaid vs. Cleanr.
Jobber — the broad field-service platform
Jobber is the general-purpose system many home-service companies grow up on. Its strengths are breadth: a mature ecosystem of integrations, job costing, a lead pipeline, and marketing tools that work as well for lawn care or handyman work as for cleaning. Pricing is by plan and team size: Core starts around $24/month for one user on annual billing, team plans include 5–15 users and run up to $699/month at list, and each additional user is $29/month, per its official pricing page, checked August 9, 2026. A five-person cleaning team on its mid-tier Connect plan pays $1,788–$2,388 a year.
Choose Jobber if you run several trades under one roof — cleaning plus lawn care, for example — and need one horizontal system across them, or you depend on a specific Jobber integration. Full comparison: Jobber vs. Cleanr.
Housecall Pro — the multi-trade ecosystem
Housecall Pro is another broad home-services platform, with tools most cleaning-native products don't attempt: consumer financing, a price book, job costing, route optimization, and open API access. It advertises Basic at $59/month for one user, Essentials at $149/month for five users, and MAX at $299/month for eight users on annual billing, with extra users available on MAX and monthly billing running higher, per its official pricing page, checked August 2026. At the advertised annual rate, Essentials totals $1,788 a year.
Choose Housecall Pro if you operate across several trades or genuinely need financing, price books, or route optimization — for a multi-trade operation that breadth is a real advantage. Full comparison: Housecall Pro vs. Cleanr.
Maidily — the free way to start
Maidily is cleaning-native with the friendliest entry point here: a Free plan covering up to 10 jobs a month, then Start at $29/month for 50 jobs, Grow at $49/month for 150, and Scale at $99/month for 250 — all with unlimited users, per its official pricing page, checked August 2026. It brings customer self-booking, automated reminders, two-way messaging, QuickBooks integration, short-term-rental calendar integrations, and API access. One caution: each occurrence of a recurring clean counts as a job, so weekly routes consume an allowance faster than the tier names suggest.
Choose Maidily if you are just getting started and want a free plan to grow out of, or your business leans on vacation-rental turnovers and their calendars. Full comparison: Maidily vs. Cleanr.
Launch27 — booking forms first
Launch27 is built around online booking: deeply configurable booking forms, location-specific pricing and availability, automated card charging, and integrations including Google Calendar, Zapier, QuickBooks, and Twilio. It advertises Base at $75/month (or $765/year), Pro at $150/month, and Plus at $299/month, with annual billing discounted and mobile apps arriving on the Plus plan, per its official pricing page, checked August 2026.
Choose Launch27 if "book online in 60 seconds" is the center of your growth model and you want the most configurable booking form in the category. Full comparison: Launch27 vs. Cleanr.
MaidCentral — the operations platform
MaidCentral is enterprise-grade software for residential cleaning companies: KPI dashboards, revenue planning, payroll management, marketing automation, customer and employee portals, and supported onboarding. It says pricing starts at $450/month — $5,400 a year — scaling by physical locations and completed jobs, with a one-time onboarding fee, per its official pricing page, checked August 2, 2026. That investment only makes sense when a management team will actively use the reporting and automation.
Choose MaidCentral if you run an established or multi-location company and want deep operational tooling with hands-on onboarding rather than a self-serve app. Full comparison: MaidCentral vs. Cleanr.
Cleanr — the whole workflow in one plan
Cleanr is our product, so weigh this section accordingly — and start with the honest part. Cleanr is the newest entrant on this list. It has no public review history yet, and it is built by a solo founder. We would rather tell you that here than have you discover it mid-trial; what we offer in exchange is a product you can fully evaluate in an afternoon and pricing with nothing to decode.
What it does: recurring scheduling for weekly and biweekly cleans, crew dispatch with time on site, before-and-after photos and access notes on every appointment, quotes that convert to appointments, and invoices with online payment links after connecting Cleanr Pay through Stripe — in an iOS app and web dashboard. The price is $299/year or $39/month, one plan with the same features either way, and both start with a 7-day free trial. The whole crew is included: there is no per-seat pricing, so the subscription stays put when you hire cleaner number four.
What it doesn't do: booking forms, an SMS template library, payroll, or QuickBooks integration. If any of those is a must-have, choose ZenMaid or Maidily above.
Choose Cleanr if you want the scheduling-to-payment core of a 1–10 cleaner business in one focused app, and you are comfortable trading review history for a product you can test directly — start the free trial and run a real week through it.