Buyer's guide · 2026
For the 1–5 truck gutter cleaning operator, here's how the real options stack up, ranked for a gutter cleaning business specifically, with the total-stack-cost math, not generic feature lists.
A gutter run bills by the linear foot, and the price climbs with every story up the ladder. Flat-rate a two-story colonial like a single-story ranch and you either lose the bid or lose the margin. When a customer calls after the next storm swearing the run was never cleared, you need a dated photo. Most field-service tools price by the job, not the foot, so gutter crews bolt on measurement and a photo app. Here is how the real options rank for a 1-5 truck operator.
The ranking
Built for exterior crews, so gutter work prices the way you bid it: cleaning, guards, and face brightening all run per linear foot over one measured run, each with its own rate and minimum. The two-story surcharge auto-applies so you stop eating it on the ladder, and the checklist prompts a photo of clean gutters and downspout flow that lives on the property for the next storm callback. It is exterior-only and newer than the incumbents, so if you also run HVAC or handyman work, look elsewhere.
Gutter cleaning softwareThe most mature generalist in the set, and it earns it: the largest integration marketplace, polished scheduling and dispatch, solid invoicing and card payments. But nothing in it speaks linear-foot gutter runs or the two-story bump. You quote gutters as manual line items, bolt on CompanyCam for photos, and pay per user, so a two-tech truck costs more than a per-truck plan. The right call if you run several trades beyond gutters.
Compare to HoseworksPolished and popular, with the best consumer-facing booking and payments in the group, genuinely strong if homeowners book you online. Same generalist gap as Jobber, though: no linear-foot gutter pricing, no auto two-story surcharge, photos come from a CompanyCam add-on, and it is priced per user. The sales proposals and recurring plans a gutter route wants sit in higher tiers. Best if your work spans more than exterior cleaning.
Compare to HoseworksCheap and sticky, a flat $44.95/mo for unlimited seats with deep roots in the window and pressure-washing community that gutter crews come from, plus a QuickBooks Desktop sync few modern tools match. It is a records-and-invoicing CRM, though: no linear-foot measurement, no auto surcharge, and photos live on the job rather than the property, so recurring-visit history is harder to track. A fair pick if you run QuickBooks Desktop and quote by hand.
Compare to HoseworksNothing in QuoteIQ prices a gutter run by the linear foot, which is the gutter job, though at $29.99/mo with AI on every tier and an exterior-niche focus the price is genuinely low. But its satellite measurement is aimed at surface area and gated to the $74.99 tier, it has no weather-aware scheduling, and photos hang off jobs, not the property. For gutter-specific linear-foot pricing you are still building it by hand. Strong on price and bundled AI, thinner on measured gutter fit.
Compare to HoseworksTotal cost of ownership
Add-on pricing verified 2026-07; third-party figures are indicative and change.
| Hoseworks | Generalist + add-ons | |
|---|---|---|
| Field management | Included | Base plan |
| Photo job recordsvs. CompanyCam | Included | +$63/mo |
| Surface-based estimatingvs. ResponsiBid | Included | +$179/mo |
| Review requestsvs. NiceJob | Included | +$75/mo |
| Purpose-built for gutter cleaning | – |
Add-on pricing is third-party, indicative, and changes. Check each vendor. The comparison is about stack vs. single plan.
What to look for
A gutter run is the natural unit: cleaning, guard installation, and face brightening all price per linear foot over the same measurement, each with its own rate and minimum. Tools that only do flat job pricing force you to guess, and you either underbid the colonial or overbid the ranch.
Second-story access is about a 15% bump, and it is the easiest thing to forget when you are already up the ladder. Look for a system that auto-applies it on two-plus-story properties instead of relying on you to remember it mid-job.
The classic callback is a customer swearing the gutters were never cleared after the next downpour. You want a checklist that prompts a photo of clean gutters and confirmed downspout flow, stored on the property so it is there across every recurring visit, not buried inside one job.
Heavy compacted debris (about +20%) and a steep roof or hard access (about +25%) are real cost drivers a flat rate hides. Your quoting should let you add those as optional surcharges on top of the base run, so a genuinely hard job actually pays.
Gutter cleaning rarely sells alone; it rides along with a house wash or roof treatment. The software should let you add a gutter line to any quote, priced on its own linear-foot basis, and total the whole thing correctly rather than making you split the job.
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