Is there a free house cleaning app for a cleaning company?

Process: Reminders and texting. Trade: Residential cleaning (maid service). Reviewed 2026-10-07.

Short answerFree apps can share schedules and take bookings for a cleaning company, but client texting, reminders and payments often sit on paid plans. Square Appointments does not offer text message marketing on its Free tier, and Setmore places SMS reminders on a paid tier ^[1]^[2]. Verify messaging before moving clients.

The explanation

A cleaning company talks to clients more than most trades: arrival times, key instructions, cancellations and skipped weeks. If the app cannot message them, every one of those becomes a personal call or text from your own phone, which is both time and a privacy problem.

Free plans protect their cost by limiting texts, since each message costs the vendor money. Look at the plan page for the word SMS and for any per-message pricing. Email reminders are a partial fix, but cleaning clients usually answer texts faster.

Payments matter next. If clients pay by card through the app, check the processing rate and who can see it. Also confirm that a client can reschedule without calling you. Between messaging and self-service rescheduling, those two features usually remove half of a cleaner's phone time.

Steps

Search the plan page for SMS and per-message pricing.
Send a test reminder and a test reschedule link.
Take one test card payment and read the rate.
Decide which paid feature would save the most phone time.

What to watch for

Texts quietly limited or absent on the free plan.
Business messages sent from your personal number.

In residential cleaning (maid service)

Cleaning clients get a reminder, a heads-up about access and a thank-you note, so the messaging stack is part of the service itself. All residential cleaning (maid service) scheduling questions.

How Apex does it

Built, rolling out

Built. A real server path exists; only setup steps remain before customers can use it. Status as of 2026-10-07; the badge shows the least-built feature involved.

Apex lists appointment reminders and a customer reschedule or cancel link, each with its own status badge. Texting needs your own provider account connected first, or a prepaid wallet that is rolling out, and carrier number registration.

CM03Appointment reminders (SMS/email)(Built, rolling out)
BK24Reschedule / cancel link for customer(Built, rolling out)

Apex Flow Scheduler is in early access. See how we label status.

Sources

Square Appointments pricing page (read 2026-10-07)
Setmore pricing page (read 2026-10-07)

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