Cleaning Business Software in 2026: The 8 Best Tools Compared, With Real Prices

The short version: the best cleaning business software depends on the schedule you run

For a solo residential cleaner the cheapest trade-specific pick is Maidily, free for up to 10 jobs a month and $29 for 50, the most established is ZenMaid at $19 a month for up to 40 appointments, the safest general pick is Jobber Core at $29 a month on annual billing, and the only tool on this list built to get you found on Google is ServicePro, which is free. Commercial and janitorial companies are a different list, and Swept is the one built for them.

Here is the whole field, with prices taken from each vendor's own pricing page on September 5, 2026.

Every tool above except ServicePro manages the schedule after the client exists. The section after the reviews covers the other half: how a cleaning company gets found when someone searches, which none of the seven do.

What cleaning software has to do that general contractor software does not

A cleaning business runs on recurring slots rather than jobs. A plumber's software is built around a ticket that opens and closes; a cleaner's has to handle a client who is cleaned every other Thursday for three years, by the same team, with a key code and a note about the dog.

The features that matter, in the order they save time:

• Recurring scheduling that survives a skipped week. Biweekly, weekly, every four weeks, with holidays shifted and the client notified automatically.
• Team assignment and consistency. The same cleaners on the same client, with the day's route in the right order.
• Automatic charging. A card on file, charged after the visit, with the receipt sent. Invoicing a biweekly client twelve times a year is how cleaning companies lose money to unpaid visits.
• Online booking with instant quotes. Bedrooms and bathrooms in, price out, slot booked, without a phone call. This is the feature the residential tools compete on.
• Client notes and checklists. Alarm codes, preferences, the products a client is allergic to, and a checklist the team ticks on the phone.
• Visit notes back to the client. Photos and a line after every clean, which is the retention tool our cleaning business marketing guide covers.

What cleaning companies are commonly upsold and rarely need in year one: GPS tracking of teams, inventory, payroll, and a CRM pipeline built for quoting big projects.

Maidily: the cheapest way to start

Maidily is a residential cleaning tool priced by jobs rather than by users, which is the right axis for a cleaning company: a two-person team and a five-team company both need every cleaner on the app.

Pricing as of September 2026, from Maidily's pricing page: free forever for up to 10 jobs a month, Start is $29 a month for 50 jobs, Grow is $49 for 150, and Scale is $99 for 250, with extra jobs sold in blocks of 50 on each paid plan. Every plan has unlimited users and unlimited clients.

Best for: a new cleaner who wants recurring scheduling, online booking and card charging without paying before the first client exists, and a growing company that wants the price to track volume.

What to know: a job is any scheduled appointment, so a biweekly client uses two jobs a month, and a three-team company doing eight cleans a day will be on Scale or above quickly. Maidily lists no website and no local search features.

ZenMaid: the established residential pick

ZenMaid has been the default maid-service software for a decade, and its scheduling calendar, automatic reminders and cleaner app are built around the biweekly client.

Pricing as of September 2026, from ZenMaid's pricing page: Starter is $19 a month for up to 40 appointments, Pro is $39 for unlimited appointments, and Pro Max is $49 with GPS tracking, integrations and priority support. All three have a 14-day trial, and the page shows monthly prices only.

Best for: a residential company past its first few clients that wants the scheduling to be the thing it never thinks about, at a price that stays under $50 no matter how many cleaners it adds.

What to know: 40 appointments a month is about twenty biweekly clients, so Starter is a first-season plan. ZenMaid is scheduling-first; the online booking form is simpler than Launch27's, and there is no website or local search feature.

Launch27: for the company that sells online

Launch27 was built around the online booking form: a homeowner picks bedrooms, bathrooms, frequency and extras, sees a price, and books without a call. Everything else follows from that form.

Pricing as of September 2026, from Launch27's pricing page: Base is $75 a month, Pro is $150, and Plus is $299, each 15% less on annual billing, with unlimited users and bookings on every plan and a 14-day trial. Pro adds customisation and integrations; Plus adds the mobile apps, automatic charging and multi-location support.

Best for: a residential company that gets most of its clients from its website and wants the quote-to-booking step fully automated.

What to know: at $75 it is the most expensive entry tier of the residential tools, and automatic charging sits on the $299 plan. The booking form embeds in a site; it does not produce one, and it does nothing to make the site rank.

Swept: the commercial and janitorial pick

Commercial cleaning is a different business: contracts by the location, night shifts, time tracking for payroll, inspections and supply management. Swept is built for that and priced by it.

Pricing as of September 2026, from Swept's pricing page: Launch starts at $30 a month for scheduling and time tracking, Optimize at $150 adds inspections, geofencing and compliance, and Scale at $225 adds profitability reports, supply management and client portals. Plans are priced in bands by the number of locations managed, with 20% off on annual billing.

Best for: a janitorial contractor with cleaners clocking in at client sites, where proof of attendance and inspection reports are what keep the contract.

What to know: Swept is not for residential work, and the location bands mean the price steps up as the contract list grows. No online booking, no website, no local search features; commercial contracts are won by bid rather than by search.

Jobber: the safe general-purpose choice

Jobber is not built for cleaning, but its recurring jobs, client hub and payments are polished enough that a lot of cleaning companies run on it and never look at a trade tool.

Pricing as of September 2026, from Jobber's pricing page: Core is $29 a month on annual billing for one user, Connect is $99 for one user and $149 for five, and Grow is $149 for one and $229 for five, with review requests and campaigns sold as the $99-a-month Marketing Suite add-on. Our Jobber pricing guide has every tier, the processing rates and the add-ons.

Best for: a cleaning company that also does windows, carpets or organising and wants one tool for all of it, or an owner who wants the most mature app and does not mind configuring recurring visits themselves.

What to know: Core is one user, so the second cleaner on the app means Connect at $99, and the cleaning-specific conveniences (instant quotes from bedroom counts, team consistency) are things you build with Jobber's general tools rather than switch on.

Housecall Pro: for the company that will grow into teams

Housecall Pro sits a step above Jobber in price and in the amount of automation switched on by default, and its review requests are on the entry tier.

Pricing as of September 2026, from Housecall Pro's pricing page: Basic is $59 a month on annual billing or $79 month to month for one user, Essentials is $149 for up to five, and MAX is $299, with marketing campaigns sold as an add-on whose price is not published. Our Housecall Pro pricing guide has the tiers, the per-user steps and the processing fees.

Best for: a company with two or more teams that wants dispatch, review requests and automatic reminders working from day one, and expects to add users.

What to know: Basic is one user, and the jump to Essentials is the largest in this list. The website is an add-on, and like Jobber's it is a place to send clients who already know your name.

ServiceM8: free for the solo operator

ServiceM8 is an Australian field-service app with a genuinely free tier, priced by jobs rather than users, which suits a solo cleaner the way Maidily does.

Pricing as of September 2026, from ServiceM8's pricing page: free for one user and 30 jobs a month, Starter is $29 for 50 jobs, Growing is $79 for 150, and Premium is $149 for 500, with unlimited users on every paid plan and a 14-day trial. Text messages are unlimited on paid plans and ten cents each on the free one.

Best for: a solo cleaner who wants a real scheduling and invoicing app for nothing, and does not need a cleaning-specific booking form.

What to know: it is a general trade tool, so recurring scheduling and client notes are there but the bedroom-and-bathroom quote form is not. Job limits count every visit, so a biweekly book of twenty clients is over the free tier's 30 jobs.

The half none of these cover: showing up when someone searches

All seven tools above start working after the client exists. Someone books, the software schedules the team, charges the card and sends the reminder. Every one of those is downstream of the client finding you.

When a homeowner needs a cleaner they search Google, or they ask a neighbourhood group, and either way they pick from the companies with a real profile, recent reviews and a page that says what a biweekly clean costs. Our cleaning business marketing guide covers the whole system; the point here is that being visible for "house cleaning near me" and "move out cleaning [your town]" is what fills the slots the software then manages.

Some of the tools gesture at this. Launch27's booking form embeds in a site, Jobber includes a basic one, Housecall Pro sells one as an add-on, and Housecall Pro's Basic tier sends review requests. Each is a place to send people who already know your name. None of them tracks whether you rank, builds the town-by-town pages that earn map placement, or posts to your Google profile and social accounts for you.

Where ServicePro fits

ServicePro covers the getting-found side, and it is designed to sit alongside whichever scheduling tool you pick from the list above. We do not do recurring scheduling, team dispatch or card charging, so there is nothing to migrate.

The free plan builds a full website from your Google Business Profile in about five minutes, on your own domain, with up to five service pages (recurring, deep, move-out, short-term rental, office), a booking page with your price range that a door-hanger QR code opens, an inbox for every call and message, a review widget with five review requests a month, and no per-lead fees at any volume.

Pro is $99 a month with no contract, and adds the pieces a marketing agency would otherwise charge a retainer for: Google Map rank tracking across your whole service area, up to 25 location pages so you rank in every town you cover, a tracked phone number with two-way texting and missed-call text-back, 100 automatic review requests a month with AI-drafted replies, posts written and published for you to your Google Business Profile and to Facebook and Instagram, and analytics that show which searches turned into slots. The cleaning page shows what the site and the rank tracking look like for this trade.

How to choose, by the schedule you run

• Solo, first clients. Maidily free or ServiceM8 free for the schedule, ServicePro free for the site, booking page and reviews. Total: $0.
• Solo to two teams, residential, biweekly book. ZenMaid Starter at $19 or Maidily Start at $29 for the schedule and the card charging, ServicePro free or Pro for the phone. Move to ZenMaid Pro at $39 past twenty biweekly clients.
• Residential, most clients book online. Launch27 Base at $75 for the form, ServicePro Pro at $99 for the site the form lives on and the rank tracking that tells you which town to add a team in.
• Two to five teams, growing, mixed services. Housecall Pro Essentials at $149 or Jobber Connect at $149 for five users, plus ServicePro Pro.
• Commercial and janitorial. Swept Launch from $30, plus ServicePro for the site that wins the bid's credibility check.

Whichever you pick, price it by the slot rather than the user. Maidily, ServiceM8 and ZenMaid count appointments; Jobber and Housecall Pro count users; Swept counts locations. A three-team residential company is cheap on the first group and expensive on the second, and a janitorial contractor is the reverse.