Jobber alternative
Built for how window cleaning is measured, priced, and run, not a generalist app with a wash add-on.
A window cleaner leaves Jobber the day a job gets mispriced. In-and-out and exterior-only are different services at different rates, French-grid panes and screens each carry their own count and minimum, and a two-story house adds a surcharge. Jobber quotes off flat line items you type by hand, so the pane count and the second-story bump live in your head, not the estimate. Hoseworks prices by window count, divided-light pane count, and screen count, each service with its own minimum, and auto-applies the 15% second-story surcharge, so the quote matches how the glass actually gets billed.
Why window cleaning crews switch
Window cleaning is counted, not measured in square feet. Hoseworks quotes in-and-out at a per-window rate, exterior-only at a lower one, French/divided-light panes per pane, and screens per screen, each with its own minimum ($150 in-and-out, $125 exterior-only, $125 panes, $75 screens). In Jobber every one of those is a line item you rebuild and remember by hand.
A two-story house of French panes is exactly where the napkin count undercharges you. Hoseworks auto-applies a 15% second-story access surcharge, and lets you add ladder/hard-to-reach (15%) or post-construction cleanup (30%) per job. Jobber has no trade surcharge logic, so the two-story bump is something you remember to type in, or you eat it.
Storefront accounts are flat per-visit (around $75) and repeat weekly or monthly. Hoseworks keeps them on recurring service plans and packs them into tight routes by density, so a downtown Tuesday run is one loop, not six stops scattered across the week. Jobber schedules recurring jobs but does not route your window accounts geographically for you.
When a customer points at a cracked pane and blames the crew, you need the before shot. The Hoseworks walkaround checklist prompts the crew to note and photograph damaged glass before work starts, and those photos stay on the property across every recurring visit. In Jobber, photo history is a CompanyCam add-on (about $63/mo) that hangs off the job, not the property.
Jobber is priced per user, and the pieces a window pro needs are add-ons: CompanyCam for photos (~$63/mo), a bidding tool, a reviews tool. Hoseworks is per truck at $49/mo with per-window quoting, photo records, and recurring routing in the box, so two techs on one van do not cost you two seats.
Total cost of ownership
Prices verified verified July 2026. Third-party add-on pricing is indicative and changes.
| Hoseworks | Jobber + add-ons | |
|---|---|---|
| Field management (base plan) | Included | from $49/mo (Core, 1 user) |
| Photo job recordsincumbents bolt on CompanyCam | Included | +$63/mo (CompanyCam) |
| Surface-based estimatingincumbents bolt on ResponsiBid | Included | +$179/mo (ResponsiBid) |
| Review requestsincumbents bolt on NiceJob | Included | +$75/mo (NiceJob) |
Jobber is priced per user (each plan includes a set number of seats and additional users cost extra) and the low prices it advertises need an annual commitment. Add-on pricing (CompanyCam, ResponsiBid, NiceJob) is third-party and changes. The point isn't the exact figure. It's that the incumbent needs a stack, and per-seat pricing, to match one per-truck Hoseworks plan.
Built in for window cleaning, not bolted on
| Hoseworks | Jobber | |
|---|---|---|
| Surface-based estimating (sqft / window / linear ft) | – | |
| Weather-aware scheduling | – | |
| Photo history anchored to the propertypersists across every recurring visit | Add-on (CompanyCam) | |
| Per-trade rate cards for exterior work | – | |
| Per-truck pricing (not per-user) | Per user |
Where Jobber still wins
Jobber genuinely wins if window cleaning is one of several trades you run. Its client management, payments, and mobile app are mature and battle-tested, and its integration marketplace (CompanyCam, ResponsiBid, Zapier, QuickBooks) is far larger than anything Hoseworks offers. If you also do gutters, pressure washing, and handyman work under one roof, or you have already wired Jobber into other tools, that breadth and ecosystem are real advantages a window-only tool will not match.
Switching from Jobber
Export your clients and properties from Jobber as CSV and import them into Hoseworks, then pick the window-cleaning rate card (per-window, per-pane, per-screen with minimums) and set your prices. Your Jobber invoices stay in Jobber for the record. Because Jobber never stored window, pane, and screen counts as counts, each property picks up its counts on the first visit, then re-quotes off them.
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