Compared
Glide by Blade vs Yardbook
Yardbook's free tier has been real for a decade, and for a solo mower watching every dollar it is a fair place to start. The comparison below is about what happens when the business grows past it.
Side by side
The facts, in two columns.
| Glide by Blade | Yardbook | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Lawn care and landscaping, solo through multi-crew, programs and treatments included | Solo mowers and small maintenance crews |
| Pricing model | Simple per-account pricing. No per-seat fees.* No per-seat fees, no ads, unlimited logins. | Free tier supported by ads; Business $34.99 and Enterprise $49.99 per month, unlimited users, published |
| Routing | Route building that groups nearby stops and cuts drive time | Job lists rather than optimized routes |
| Estimating | Measure the lawn from the map with adjustable zones and price it on the spot | Manual estimating |
| Phone and texting | Phone system included: business lines, IVR, call recording, transcripts, two-way texting on the customer record | No phone system; texting costs extra |
| E-sign contracts | Built in, with templates, renewals, and a paper lane | Assembled separately if you need it |
| Field app | Android app that works fully offline, with thermal receipt printing and crew time tracking. Runs in English, Spanish, and 16 more languages. iOS in progress. | Web-first; the mobile experience is dated |
| Spray compliance | Spray records with weather snapshots built in | Not a focus |
| Your data | Isolated single-tenant server for your company. Your data is never sold, and nothing is ad-supported. | Free tier is funded by ads shown in the product |
| Migration | Full history from RealGreen: invoices, payments, A/R, attachments, measurements, programs and pricing. CSV from anything else. | CSV imports |
* Base fee plus cents per active account. Communications usage (calls, texts, postage) is metered and billed as used. No per-seat fees, unlimited office and field logins.
Yardbook pricing as published in October 2026; verify current details with the vendor. All product names and trademarks belong to their owners. Glide by Blade and NorthReeve Software are not affiliated with or endorsed by Yardbook.
Credit where due
Where Yardbook is genuinely strong.
Free has been Yardbook's promise for over a decade, it has a huge installed base, and an active community. If you mow a handful of lawns on weekends, it costs nothing and that is hard to argue with.
The gap opens when you run treatment programs, a second truck, or an office: routes instead of lists, measured quotes instead of guesses, a phone line that lands on the customer record, and compliance records an inspector will accept. That is the work Glide by Blade is built for, at pricing you can add up yourself on our pricing page.
Straight answers
What to know before you switch.
Two things we are upfront about. The field app is Android-first; iOS is in progress, and the office side runs in any browser on any device. And we are a newer vendor: we build Glide by Blade hand in hand with a landscaping company that has run crews since 1974, and we proved it against a book of more than 38,000 customer records before offering it to anyone else.
Free walkthrough
See it running on your own customer list.
Bring your Yardbook export and we will show your business inside Glide by Blade, routes and all, in about 15 minutes.
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