Comparison · Garten vs Jobber
Garten or Jobber? Here's the honest answer.
Both will run your jobs: quotes, the schedule, a crew app, invoices and card payments. The difference is everything before the job. Jobber starts once a customer calls you. Garten also gets you found on Google, works your reviews, and turns your crews' work into content, so more customers call in the first place.
Garten is best for
Contractors who want one company behind the whole thing: the website and Google profile that bring the call, and the CRM that runs the job after it. Built by a contractor who ran crews for 12 years. The CRM starts at $150/mo, and Garten Pro is free for 7 days.
Jobber is best for
Contractors who already have steady demand, are happy with their marketing, and want the most established field service software with the longest list of integrations. Jobber has been at it since 2011 and it shows.
Where Garten wins
What Jobber can't do.
What you get with Garten that Jobber does not do for you.
A website that ranks in your towns.
A site built from your jobs and photos, with a page for every town and service you work, up to 40. Built before you pay, and yours either way.
Your Google profile and reviews, worked by hand.
Categories, service areas and photos set up right, and every review tracked and answered, so you look like the obvious pick when someone compares you.
Your jobs turned into content.
On the Get famous plan, your crews send clips from the job and we cut them, caption them and post them, so the town knows who you are before they need you.
Know what every visit really took.
Crews clock in at the property and Garten lines the minutes up against what you charged, so the mow priced at 15 minutes that takes 30 stops hiding.
The founder answers his phone.
Garten is run by a contractor. You text Ty, not a ticket queue.
Where Jobber wins
Where Jobber still wins.
We would rather tell you than have you find out later.
Years in the market.
Jobber has been running service businesses since 2011, with a big support team behind it. Garten is newer and smaller, which is why you deal with the founder.
Native apps in the app stores.
Jobber's crew and owner apps are in the App Store and Google Play. Garten's crew app runs from the home screen of any phone, and the native app is still being built.
A longer list of integrations.
Jobber connects to more outside tools. Garten covers card payments, Gusto, a payroll file for ADP or QuickBooks, and a customer import from Jobber or a spreadsheet.
Side by side
Feature by feature.
Jobber feature availability based on Jobber's public pricing pages as of 2026.
Questions
What contractors usually ask.
Yes, for most crews. Quotes, the schedule, routes, a crew app, invoices and card payments are all in the Garten CRM. Bring your customer list over from Jobber and their open balances come with it. Try Garten Pro free for 7 days before you decide.
Yes. Get found is $297/mo on its own: the website, the Google profile, reviews and the lead alert. Plenty of contractors start there and move the jobs over later, or never.
Export your customers from Jobber as a CSV and import them into Garten. Open balances come too. If you want it done for you, Garten Max includes Ty setting it up the way you run your business.
Jobber's advertised pricing starts at $29/mo, and the plans most crews need run $99 to $249/mo before add-ons. Garten's CRM is $150/mo for up to 3 people or $297/mo for up to 10 with every tool, no per-person fee.
Still on the fence? See it first.
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