Honest comparison
DripJobs is a sales CRM built around best-in-class automated follow-up (40+ stage-triggered drip sequences) for exterior and painting contractors. It closes leads well, but it's a front-of-funnel tool: no surface measurement, no property photo history, no weather-aware scheduling, no route optimization, and it's priced per user with texting, job costing, and AI as paid add-ons on top of the base.
Switch to Hoseworks if
Your bottleneck is running the jobs (measuring, scheduling around weather, dispatching crews, and keeping the property's photo history), not just following up on leads, and you'd rather not stack texting, job-costing, and AI add-ons on a per-user base.
Stay on DripJobs if
Your single biggest problem is lead follow-up, and you want DripJobs' 40+ prebuilt drip sequences and polished good/better/best proposals. That is genuinely what it's best at. You can even keep it and hand the won job to Hoseworks to run.
Total cost of ownership
Prices verified verified 2026. Third-party add-on pricing is indicative and changes, so check each vendor for current rates.
| Hoseworks | DripJobs + add-ons | |
|---|---|---|
| Field management base | Included | $97/mo (Pro, 1 user) |
| Two-way textingDripJobs Chat | Included | +$25/mo |
| Job costing | Included | +$49/mo |
| Measured estimatingDripJobs Production Rates | Included | +$99/mo |
DripJobs starts at $97/mo (Pro, 1 user), but two-way texting (+$25), job costing (+$49), and AI (~$39) are extra, so a realistic solo operator who wants texting lands around $122–$160/mo. Measured estimating comes from its Production Rates add-on (+$99/mo); it has no automatic/satellite measurement, route optimization, or property-anchored photos. Pricing per dripjobs.com and QuoteIQ's verified comparison.
Feature by feature
Both tools cover the table stakes: estimates & proposals, scheduling & calendar, online payments, customer portal, and more. The difference is what's built in for exterior work:
| Hoseworks | DripJobs | |
|---|---|---|
| Surface-based estimating (sqft / window / linear ft) | Add-on ($99/mo) | |
| Weather-aware scheduling | – | |
| Photo history anchored to the propertypersists across every recurring visit | – | |
| Per-trade rate cards for exterior work | – | |
| Per-truck pricing (not per-user) | Per user |
Switching from DripJobs
Export your contacts and deals from DripJobs and import your clients and properties into Hoseworks, then pick your trade's rate card. You can keep DripJobs running your nurture sequences if you like it, and use Hoseworks to measure, schedule, dispatch, and document.
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