Honest comparison

Routely vs. Jobber

I'm Brandon — I run a one-man home-service business and built Routely to book my own jobs. So take this for what it is: a comparison written by the competition. I'm going to be straight with you anyway, because you'll figure it out in a week either way.

The short version: Jobber is an office in your pocket. Routely is a booker and dispatcher for people who don't want an office at all.

Jobber
Routely
What it is
Full field-service suite: CRM, quoting, invoicing, dispatch, payments
AI booker + dispatcher that lives in your Google Calendar
Built for
Crews and growing teams
Solo pros and owner-operators who drive to their work
Price
$49–$349/mo by plan
$35/mo or $299/yr, flat (founding pricing)
Customer booking
Online booking on higher plans
Plain-English booking link — AI sizes the job, no service menus
Drive time
Routing tools on team plans
Every offered time slot is drive-time-aware by default
Where your schedule lives
Jobber's app
The Google Calendar you already use
Invoicing & payments
Yes — deep
No — keep what already works: Venmo, Zelle, your invoices
Learning curve
A real onboarding
If you can use Google Calendar, you already know it

Choose Jobber if…

  • • You run a crew and need to dispatch other people
  • • You want quoting, invoicing, and payments in one system
  • • You're ready to run your business inside its app

Choose Routely if…

  • • You're solo, and the truck is the office
  • • You want bookings handled — scoped, routed, on your calendar — without running a suite
  • • Your invoicing already works and you don't want to move it

One more honest note: Jobber has been at this for a decade and does a hundred things Routely doesn't. Routely does one thing — turn a customer's message into a correctly-sized, route-sane job on your calendar — and it does it for $35 flat because I priced it for the person I was two years ago.

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