Is there free lawn care scheduling software?
Short answerFree options exist for a solo mower: ServiceM8 lists a free plan with 30 jobs a month for one user. [1] A lawn route needs more than a job list, though, so check for recurring stops, drive order and weather skips before relying on a free tier. [1]
The explanation
Count your stops. A one-person lawn route with forty weekly customers would exceed thirty jobs a month in the first week, since each cut counts as a job. [1] That is the main squeeze on free tiers.
Routes matter more to lawn care than to most trades. Cutting drive time is your profit. A tool that lets you drag stops into an order, or generates one, saves more than a lower subscription.
Weather is the other test. When rain moves a whole day, can you move every stop at once and notify customers? If not, a free tool costs you evenings. Run the free plan for two weeks, then price the paid version against the hours you saved. Prices were read on 2026-10-07 and can change.
In lawn care
Lawn routes repeat weekly with seasonal pauses. Look for recurring stop lists and a one-action way to push a rained-out day. All lawn care scheduling questions.
How Apex does it
In progress
Part of this is built. The rest is not. Status as of 2026-10-07; the badge shows the least-built feature involved.
Apex builds daily route ordering, and weather reschedule and route-based recurring stop lists are in progress. There is no permanent free plan; the 14-day trial needs no card.
- SC05Route optimization (daily)(Built)
- SC11Skip / pause / weather reschedule(In progress)
- RC10Route-based recurring routes (stop lists)(In progress)
Apex Flow Scheduler is in early access. See how we label status.
Sources
- ServiceM8 pricing page (read 2026-10-07)
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