Yardbook is free, and for a lot of people it's the right price. This page is about the point where free stops being free: the invoice that landed in spam, the yard you've been underpricing for two summers, and the ads. Here's the honest version.
| LawnMow IT | Yardbook | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for 10 yards, then $29 a month flat | Free, with sponsored ads |
| Paid tiers | One | $34.99 and $49.99 a month |
| Per-user fees | None | None |
| Ads in the product | None | On the free plan |
| Which yards pay your hourly rate | After three timed visits | Not that we could find |
| Rain measured on each lawn since the last cut | Yes, on the free plan too | Not on the feature list |
| Customer portal | Every customer, with photos and invoices | Not on the feature list |
| QuickBooks sync | No | On the $49.99 tier |
| Chemical tracking | No | Yes |
| Mobile | Responsive web app, nothing to install | Android app; iOS in beta |
| Built for | Lawn care | Landscaping, broadly |
Yardbook's free plan and ad model are from yardbook.com. Their pricing page isn't public, so the paid tier prices are from two independent 2026 reviews, read September 2026. If you find they've changed, tell us and we'll fix the table.
We mean that. If you mow ten yards on Saturdays and Yardbook holds the list and sends the invoices, you don't need us, and we're free for 10 yards too, so it's a wash. Over 20,000 companies use Yardbook and it got there by being genuinely usable.
Yardbook is free because it's paid for by sponsored ads, the same way Google and Facebook are. That's their own description, not ours. It's a fair trade at ten yards. It gets less fair as the yards add up.
The complaint Yardbook's own users make most often is that invoices land in the customer's spam folder. We can't see their mail setup and we won't guess at why. What we can say is what it costs: a bill nobody saw is a bill nobody pays, and you find out three weeks later on the phone.
The quieter cost is the one no free tool tells you about. You quoted a yard two summers ago off the top of your head. It's taken fifty minutes every week since, and nothing in your software has ever said so. That's not a Yardbook problem. It's a free-software problem, because measuring it is the part that costs money to build.
Every invoice lands in the customer's own portal next to the before and after photos from that visit, so the email is never the only copy. The crew taps Start and Done, and after three visits the customer's page shows what that yard is paying you an hour next to the rate you wanted. When the gap matters, it suggests a price. It never changes one on its own.
And we measure how much rain has fallen on each lawn since you last cut it, so Wednesday after a storm is a list of which yards grew and which are too soft, not a morning of phone calls. How the rain read works. None of that is on the free plan anywhere else, and the rain part is on ours.
If you need QuickBooks sync, chemical application tracking, or you want to stay on a free plan with no yard limit at all, Yardbook has those and we don't. If you're a landscaping company that does more than maintenance, their feature list is broader than ours and you'd feel the edges of ours quickly.
If it's one or two trucks, all you cut is grass, and you'd like to know which yards are quietly costing you, that's the job we built this for. Compare the same numbers against Jobber too, and check what a yard is really paying you with the free pricing calculator.
Yes. Yardbook's own site says it runs on a sponsored-ad model, like Google or Facebook, which is how the core product stays free, with optional paid tiers for larger companies. As of September 2026 the reviews we checked put those at $34.99 and $49.99 a month, and none of the tiers charge per user.
There's an Android app, and reviewers in 2026 describe the iOS app as still in beta, with most of the product living in the browser either way. LawnMow IT is a responsive web app, so it works the same on a phone in the field as on a desktop, with nothing to install.
We can't see their mail setup, so we won't guess at the cause. What we can say is that it's the complaint Yardbook users make most often, and a bill nobody saw is a bill nobody pays. LawnMow IT invoices sit in the customer's portal next to the photos from that visit, so the email is never the only copy.
If ten yards and a free tool is all you need, probably not, and we'd rather say so. The reasons to move are the ones free doesn't cover: timing every visit so you know which yards are underpriced, rain measured on each lawn since you last cut it, and a portal where the invoice and the photos live together. Free for 10 yards here too, then $29 flat.
Your customer list, yes. Export it from Yardbook as a CSV, and the importer matches the name, email, phone and address columns and shows you a preview before it writes anything. Job history and old invoices don't come across, so keep your Yardbook login until the season's billing is settled.
Same as Yardbook to start, no ads, and it doesn't expire. Past 10 yards it's $29 a month flat, however many people are on the truck.