Does Jobber work offline?

Partly. Jobber added an Offline Mode in January 2026. Jobber's help center says that with no connection you can start and stop timers, fill out job forms, and add notes or attachments, and that the app saves what you enter on the device and syncs it when you reconnect. It also says some features are limited offline, naming location-based timers and reports, and coverage of the launch reported that offline mode does not handle editing existing records or capturing customer signatures. Mowbius takes the other approach, keeping every customer, job, and payment on the phone, so the whole app works with no signal and syncs your changes the next time it connects.

What does Jobber cost for one person?

On Jobber's pricing page in August 2026, the one-user Core plan is $49 per month billed monthly with no commitment, or $29 per month billed annually, with an introductory annual rate of $21 per month for the first year. Payment processing is 2.9% plus $0.30 on cards, 2.7% plus $0.30 on Tap to Pay, and 1% on bank transfers, and add-ons such as the Marketing Suite are billed on top. There is a 14-day free trial and no free plan. Mowbius is $12.99 per month or $59.99 per year with no tiers, seats, or add-ons.

Does Jobber work in Australia, and does it support GST?

Yes, Jobber is available in Australia and its tax settings let you add a GST rate and a tax ID that appear on invoices, which is what an ATO tax invoice needs. Two caveats are worth knowing. Jobber lists and bills its own subscription in US dollars, so your software cost moves with the exchange rate, and its support and marketing are North America centric. Mowbius is billed by the App Store and Google Play, so Australian customers pay in Australian dollars, but Mowbius has no invoicing and no GST handling at all.

Does Mowbius do invoicing like Jobber?

No. Mowbius has no invoicing, no estimates, no payment processing, and no customer reminders. You track jobs and revenue in the app and use Mark Paid on a closed job to record money you have collected. If you bill through software, Jobber is the better fit. If you are paid on site, by bank transfer, or through something you already use, Mowbius covers scheduling and revenue tracking for one flat price.

How do I leave Jobber?

Export first, then cancel. Jobber's account settings include CSV exports of clients and other records, and cancellation is done by the account owner in the billing settings. One thing to check before you cancel mid-term. On an annual plan or a one-year commitment you keep access until the end of the term, but the prepaid amount is not refunded, so the practical time to leave is at renewal. Moving to any other app means entering your customer list again.

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A Simpler, Cheaper Jobber Alternative for Solo Mowers

Jobber is the most polished platform in the category, and it is priced for a business with staff. Here is the honest comparison for a one-person lawn business: what Jobber does better, what a solo actually pays, and who should switch.

Prices and platform facts verified August 2026. Software pricing changes often — check Jobber's own pricing page before you decide.

Stay on Jobber if you invoice through software, take card payments, want a client portal and automated customer reminders, or expect to put a second person in a truck.

Switch to Mowbius if you are a solo mower who only uses the scheduling and money-tracking half of Jobber, and you want it on a phone that keeps working with no signal for a fraction of the bill.

Jobber and Mowbius at a glance, verified August 2026.
	Jobber	Mowbius
Price	$49/mo monthly or $29/mo annual (1 user)	$12.99/mo or $59.99/yr
Built for	Solo to 15 users	Solo operators
Platform	Web + well-rated mobile apps	Native iOS + Android apps
Works offline	Partial since January 2026	Fully offline-first
Ads	None	None
Invoicing & payments	Yes, full invoicing and payments	No; payments are tracked manually
Per-seat fees	~$29/user/mo beyond the tier	None; one flat price
Contract	Annual prepay is non-refundable mid-term	None; cancel anytime in the store

What Jobber Is, and Who It’s Really Built For

Jobber is the best-known field service platform for small home service businesses: quoting, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, payments, a client portal, automated reminders, QuickBooks sync, and well-rated iOS and Android apps. It serves landscaping, lawn care, cleaning, HVAC, and plumbing companies, and Jobber’s own site says more than 250,000 home service pros use it.

It is also, in most head-to-head reviews, the most polished product in the category. This page is not going to argue otherwise. On features, Jobber beats Mowbius almost everywhere, and if you want one system that quotes a job, schedules it, invoices it, and takes the card payment, Jobber does that and Mowbius does none of it.

The catch is who the product is shaped for. Jobber’s tiers are built around teams of up to fifteen, and its value comes from the office half of the business: the portal, the reminders, the dispatching, the reporting. A solo mower with a phone, a trailer, and forty accounts typically uses the schedule and the money tracking, and pays for all of it.

Jobber’s Pricing in 2026, Fully Broken Down

Verified on Jobber’s own pricing page in August 2026. Jobber restructured its tiers in early 2026 around flat included-user counts.

Core, $49 per month billed monthly with no commitment, for one user. Billed annually it is $29 per month, with an introductory rate of $21 per month for the first year.
Connect, $139 per month monthly, or $99 per month annually with a $70 introductory year. Adds automated client reminders and automatic payment collection.
Grow, $199 per month monthly, or $149 per month annually with a $105 introductory year. Adds route optimization, job costing, and two-way texting.
Plus, $499 per month monthly, or $399 per month annually with a $280 introductory year. Includes the Marketing Suite and the AI Receptionist. Connect, Grow, and Plus also come in larger team versions with more users included, at higher monthly rates.
Extra users, $29 per month each, on every plan.
Add-ons, billed on top. The pricing page lists a Marketing Suite at $99 per month, an AI Receptionist at $29 per month, and Pipeline at $49 per month. Other pages on Jobber’s site have listed different figures for the first two, so check the plan you are actually buying.
Payment processing, 2.9% plus $0.30 on cards, 2.7% plus $0.30 on Tap to Pay, and 1% on bank transfers.
Trial and contract. 14 days of the Grow plan, no card required, and no free plan. On an annual plan or a one-year commitment the prepaid amount is not refunded if you leave mid-term.

For one person, the honest number is $49 a month if you want the freedom to stop, or $348 a year if you commit for the year. Card processing sits on top of that, and it is charged on your revenue rather than your software budget.

Where Jobber Frustrates Solo Operators

These are the recurring themes in public reviews, reported as reviewers describe them rather than asserted here:

The real cost lands well above the headline. Reviewers on the software directories describe the bill climbing quickly once extra users, processing fees, and add-ons are counted, and note that the plan you start on is rarely the plan you end on.
The breadth is a lot at the start. A common note in reviews is that the feature set takes real time to learn, which is a fair price for a full platform and a poor one if you use a quarter of it.
Some everyday flows feel fiddly. A Capterra reviewer in Australia describes setting up repeat jobs and finding the right job to invoice as more awkward than expected.
The annual commitment cuts both ways. The annual rate is a large discount, and the prepayment is not refunded if the season goes badly and you want out in month five.

None of this makes Jobber a bad product. It makes it a business platform, with the overhead a business platform carries.

What Jobber Does Better Than Mowbius

This section is the point of the page. Mowbius has none of the following, and if you need any of them, stay on Jobber:

Quotes and estimates
Invoicing, including recurring invoices and reminders
Card and bank payment processing
A client portal where customers see and approve work
Automated customer reminders and two-way texting
Crew and dispatch tools, and any second user at all
QuickBooks sync and job costing
A web app for desk work, and CSV import or export of any kind
Marketing tools and lead capture

Jobber is a whole office. Mowbius is a phone app for one person. If you are hiring, or if invoicing through software is how you get paid, that decision is already made.

Where Mowbius Wins

For a solo who does not need the office, the trade goes the other way.

Price, spelled out. Mowbius is $12.99 per month or $59.99 per year. Jobber’s one-user Core plan is $49 per month, or $348 a year on the annual rate. That is roughly four times the monthly price and around six times the yearly one, for a product whose expensive half you would not open.
One price, permanently. No seats, no tiers, no add-ons, no sign-up fee, no processing percentage, no annual commitment. The subscription is billed by the App Store or Google Play and cancelable anytime in your store settings.
Fully offline-first. Your contacts, properties, jobs, and payments live on the phone. The app works with no signal at all, and syncs your changes the next time it connects. Jobber’s Offline Mode covers a defined set of tasks; Mowbius has no online half to be cut off from.
Built for the phone, not ported to it. Native iOS and Android apps with a Schedule tab, Daily View and Weekly View, Contacts with color labels, and a Revenue tab showing Today’s Revenue, Unpaid Payments, and a Forecast report.
Less to run. Jobs are built from a reusable list under Manage Tasks & Prices, contacts can be set to Automatically Reschedule Jobs so recurring visits keep filling the route, and a finished job is closed and marked with Mark Paid. No ads, ever.

How to Switch

Export before you cancel. Jobber’s account settings include CSV exports of your clients and records, and cancellation is done by the account owner under billing. If you are on an annual plan or a one-year commitment, check your renewal date first: access runs to the end of the term and the prepayment is not refunded, so leaving at renewal costs you nothing extra.

Nothing imports into Mowbius. There is no CSV import, so setting up means entering your customers and their properties by hand, which for a typical solo route is an afternoon. Add each customer, set the recurring schedule once, and let auto-rescheduling keep the calendar filled. The 14-day trial includes every feature.

If you are weighing the whole field rather than just this one comparison, the comparison of every major lawn care app covers the rest, and the offline question gets its own answer if that is the part that decides it for you.