ToolBerry Pro
ToolBerry Pro is priced per business, not per seat. Adding crew never raises the bill. Tell us your size and needs and we will send a straight answer within one business day. ToolBerry Free stays free forever underneath it.
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ToolBerry Pro vs Housecall Pro
Housecall Pro is strong where the office meets the homeowner: online booking, review management, marketing and built-in payments. ToolBerry Pro is built from the field outward, and two structural differences show up fast: extra seats cost $75 to $100 a month there and nothing here, and their app cannot edit a job without a connection.
Quick verdict
If online booking and review marketing drive your lead flow, Housecall Pro is the stronger product and it is not close. What you are trading for it is headcount cost and field resilience. Their own help center states that editing without cell service or WiFi is not supported, and that jobs are the only part of the app stored on the device. Extra users run $100 a month on Essentials and $75 on Max. ToolBerry Pro costs the same whether you have three techs or thirty, and every feature is editable with no signal because the database is on the device.
The short version
Three differences a feature table can't show
Priced per business, not per seat
One price covers your whole crew. Hiring tech number 11 changes your schedule, not your software bill. Service Fusion is the one vendor here that does the same, and their page says so.
Offline everywhere, not just on the phone
Several of these products have real offline in their mobile app. What none of them has is the office: ToolBerry runs the same local database on desktop too, so a dropped connection at the shop is as harmless as a basement with no bars.
Free forever underneath, no trial clock
Not one of the six has a free tier. ToolBerry Free is a full product your crew can run real jobs on today, and Pro is the layer you add when the team features are worth paying for.
At a glance
| What matters when the crew grows | ToolBerry Pro | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per business. Crew size never changes the bill | Basic $79/mo, or $59/mo annually, for 1 user. Essentials adds $100/mo per extra user, Max $75/mo (August 2026) |
| Offline, office and field | Local database on web and mobile. Create and edit anything, zero signal | View previously opened jobs only. "Editing without cell service or WiFi connection is not supported" (Housecall Pro help center, August 2026) |
| Language coverage | Whole product, per person, admins and office included | Spanish on mobile, Android 13+. Statuses, alerts and notifications stay in English (Housecall Pro help center, August 2026) |
| Booking and review marketing | Not built, and not on the near roadmap | Online booking from web, social, Google Search and Maps, plus reviews and campaigns |
| Getting started | We set your business up and train the crew | Self-serve onboarding with paid support plans, 14-day trial |
| Best fit | Crews whose day happens away from reliable signal | Residential shops that grow on booking and reviews |
Pricing model
ToolBerry Pro Per business. Crew size never changes the bill
Housecall Pro Basic $79/mo, or $59/mo annually, for 1 user. Essentials adds $100/mo per extra user, Max $75/mo (August 2026)
Offline, office and field
ToolBerry Pro Local database on web and mobile. Create and edit anything, zero signal
Housecall Pro View previously opened jobs only. "Editing without cell service or WiFi connection is not supported" (Housecall Pro help center, August 2026)
Language coverage
ToolBerry Pro Whole product, per person, admins and office included
Housecall Pro Spanish on mobile, Android 13+. Statuses, alerts and notifications stay in English (Housecall Pro help center, August 2026)
Booking and review marketing
ToolBerry Pro Not built, and not on the near roadmap
Housecall Pro Online booking from web, social, Google Search and Maps, plus reviews and campaigns
Getting started
ToolBerry Pro We set your business up and train the crew
Housecall Pro Self-serve onboarding with paid support plans, 14-day trial
Best fit
ToolBerry Pro Crews whose day happens away from reliable signal
Housecall Pro Residential shops that grow on booking and reviews
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Where ToolBerry Pro is the better fit
Offline that lets you actually work
Housecall Pro's help center is explicit: you can view a job you already opened, and you cannot edit one without a connection. That is the difference between reading a work order in a crawl space and completing it there. ToolBerry runs a real database on the device, so creating a job, adding photos, capturing a signature and closing it out all work with the phone in airplane mode.
The eleventh hire is free
Essentials includes five users and charges $100 a month for each one after that; Max includes eight and charges $75 (August 2026). A crew of twelve on Essentials is $700 a month in extra seats alone. ToolBerry Pro is one price for the business, so headcount and software stop being the same decision.
Spanish that covers the whole product
Housecall Pro ships Spanish on mobile, which is real and worth acknowledging, but their documentation notes that statuses, alerts and notifications stay in English, and that it needs Android 13 or newer. ToolBerry translates the entire product, phone and desktop, and the setting follows the person rather than the device, which matters when crews share tablets.
Where Housecall Pro is stronger
Housecall Pro is genuinely excellent at the consumer-facing half of this business, and we are not close. Their online booking takes jobs from your website, your social profiles and Google Search and Maps, and can collect a deposit at the time of booking. Their review management and marketing campaigns are built to turn one job into the next one. Built-in card processing and financing are mature. If your growth comes from being easy to book and easy to recommend, that is their product, not ours.
The honest test is your own jobs.
Feature tables only go so far. Apply for Early Access and run the pilot on your crew, your sites, your dead zones.
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Choose ToolBerry Pro if…
- Your crews finish work in basements, crawl spaces and rural routes where editing has to work offline.
- You are hiring, and per-seat pricing is punishing it.
- Your team runs in more than one language, office included.
- You want roles, permissions and audit logs without an enterprise contract.
Choose Housecall Pro if…
- Online booking and review marketing drive your lead flow today.
- Built-in payments and consumer financing are must-haves right now.
- You would rather have a large established platform than a direct line to the builders.
Whichever way you go: your crew already knows ToolBerry if they've used the free app, going Pro is a login, not a migration. And the pilot guarantee covers your exit costs if we're wrong for you.
Pricing, plainly
Housecall Pro
Housecall Pro publishes its prices. Basic is $79/mo, or $59/mo billed annually, for one user. Essentials is $189/$149 and includes five users, with extras at $100/mo each. Max is $329/$299 and includes eight, with extras at $75/mo. There is a 14-day trial and no free tier. Card processing fees are separate (housecallpro.com/pricing, read August 2026).
Prices change. Check their pricing page for the current numbers before you decide.
Switching from Housecall Pro
Keep Housecall Pro running and put one crew on ToolBerry Pro for a few weeks. The test that matters is a job completed end to end in a basement with no bars, and a month where you hire someone and the bill does not move. If your techs already use the free ToolBerry app, going Pro is a login rather than a migration. Export your data any time, including on the way out.
FAQ
Can ToolBerry Pro edit jobs offline?
Does ToolBerry Pro do online booking?
How much does an extra technician cost?
$0 per extra user, ever.
Ready to put your whole crew on one system?
Tell us about your business and we'll take it from there.
No migration, no retraining, it's the same app your crew already uses.