QuoteIQ alternative
Built for how window cleaning is measured, priced, and run, not a generalist app with a wash add-on.
Window cleaning is a counting business. In-and-out runs $8 a window, exterior-only $5, French grids price per divided-light pane, screens per screen, and a two-story house adds 15%. QuoteIQ's $29.99 plan has you type every one of those counts as a hand-keyed line item, and the satellite measurement that might help sits a tier up at $74.99, where it measures the roof and lot, not the panes you actually bill. The floor price is real. It stops being the reason you stay the first time you undercount a house of grids and eat the difference.
Why window cleaning crews switch
Window cleaning is billed by the count, not a surface a satellite reads. Hoseworks quotes in-and-out per window ($8, $150 min), exterior-only ($5, $125 min), French panes per pane ($2, $125 min), and screens per screen ($3, $75 min), each with its own floor, on every plan. QuoteIQ gates automatic measurement to its $74.99 Beginner tier, and even there it sizes the roof and lot from above, not the panes and screens you count on the ground. The $29.99 plan leaves you hand-keying every count.
Stand under a two-story run of divided-light panes and a count done by eye is where the money slips off the sill. Hoseworks adds the 15% second-story access surcharge on its own and parks ladder/hard-to-reach (15%) and post-construction cleanup (30%) one tap away for the jobs that earn them. QuoteIQ bundles AI on every tier yet models no trade surcharge, so that height charge is one more thing you key in from memory each quote, or notice once you're already on the ladder.
Exterior glass streaks and spots in the rain, so a wet forecast should move the job, not waste the trip. QuoteIQ has no weather-aware scheduling at any price, and your recurring storefronts (flat $75 a visit, weekly or monthly) only batch into a tight downtown loop on its $299 Elite plan. Hoseworks flags the forecast and clusters route-dense recurring accounts on plans well under Elite, so a Tuesday of storefront stops collapses into one efficient circuit instead of crosstown backtracking.
When a property manager points at a chip in the glass and looks at your crew, you need the before shot. The Hoseworks walkaround checklist prompts the crew to photograph cracked or damaged panes before a squeegee touches them, and that photo stays on the property through every recurring visit. QuoteIQ tethers each photo to the single job, so last quarter's proof ends up spread across separate visits rather than gathered on the account you clean every month.
QuoteIQ's tiers cap the seats you get, so putting a second cleaner on the payroll can bump you to a higher plan just for the login. Hoseworks prices per truck from $49 a month, so a two-person window crew (one working the ladder, one detailing sills and re-hanging screens) rides a single plan. You add trucks as routes grow, not seats as you add hands.
Total cost of ownership
Prices verified verified July 2026. Third-party add-on pricing is indicative and changes.
| Hoseworks | QuoteIQ + add-ons | |
|---|---|---|
| Satellite / surface measurementQuoteIQ gates it to the Beginner tier | Included, every plan | $74.99/mo tier |
| Route optimizationQuoteIQ's is an Elite-tier feature | Included from Crew | $299/mo tier |
| Weather-aware scheduling | Included | Not available |
| Photo history on the property | Included | Job-centric |
QuoteIQ is genuinely low-priced and bundles AI on every tier, so the gap here isn't add-ons. It's exterior fit and tiering. Satellite measurement sits in the $74.99 tier and route optimization in the $299 tier, while weather-aware scheduling and property-anchored photos aren't there at any tier. QuoteIQ is flat-rate with a set number of seats per tier. Pricing read from myquoteiq.com.
Built in for window cleaning, not bolted on
| Hoseworks | QuoteIQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Surface-based estimating (sqft / window / linear ft) | Higher tier | |
| Weather-aware scheduling | – | |
| Photo history anchored to the propertypersists across every recurring visit | Job-centric | |
| Per-trade rate cards for exterior work | – | |
| Per-truck pricing (not per-user) | Flat tiers, capped seats |
Where QuoteIQ still wins
QuoteIQ genuinely wins on price and on the phone. Its $29.99 floor undercuts Hoseworks Solo at $49, and the AI call-handling that answers and books a job while you're up a ladder ships on every tier. Its satellite measurement (the $74.99 tier) is real too, though for window work it sizes the roof and lot rather than counting the panes and screens you bill, so you enter counts on either tool. If cheapest sticker and bundled AI matter most, QuoteIQ earns the look.
Switching from QuoteIQ
Export your clients and properties from QuoteIQ as CSV and import them, then choose the window-cleaning rate card (per-window in-and-out and exterior-only, per-pane French grids, per-screen, flat storefront) and set your rates and minimums. Your QuoteIQ history stays readable. Two things don't travel: QuoteIQ kept no window or pane counts, and its job-anchored photos won't rebuild a property timeline, so a property earns its counts and first damage shots on the first Hoseworks clean.
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