Quick answer: the best snow removal software depends on how much of your work is snow. Snow-only contractors who want to start free lean toward Icey (ours) or Plowdesk, crews with subcontractors toward Yeti, a live view for customers toward Aurora Suite, mixed-trade businesses toward Jobber or QuoteIQ, and large landscape-plus-snow companies toward LMN or Aspire. The table below compares all twelve.
Full disclosure: we make Icey Software, one of the twelve tools on this list. So instead of pretending to be a neutral review site, we wrote the version we would want to read — what each tool is best at, where the others beat us, and what each one costs.
Every price and plan below comes from the vendor’s own website, checked on October 3, 2026 — Yeti’s, QuoteIQ’s and Jobber’s again later in October, and CrewTracker’s, Aurora Suite’s and RealGreen’s too, dated where they appear — and each row links to the page we read. Prices change, so confirm on the vendor’s site before you buy. Where a vendor names its currency we show it; where it doesn’t, we show the number as listed.
The 12 tools at a glance (as of October 2026)
| Tool | Best for | Published starting price | Free plan | Snow-specific strengths |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icey Software (ours) | Snow and ice contractors who want to start free | Free; paid plans from $119 CAD a month for 11–35 sites, every driver included — pricing | Yes — up to 5 operator seats and up to 10 sites | Per-event rate cards and seasonal quotes, salt in the price or listed separately, signed online; storm board; crew app with GPS, photos and material logs; a site report for every visit |
| Yeti | Snow removal companies with crews and subcontractors | From $66.50 USD a month on an annual plan ($798 USD a year) for 1–25 sites, or $95 USD paid monthly; priced by sites, not users — yetisoftware.com/pricing | None listed on its site | GPS-stamped photos and breadcrumbs, an exportable audit report, work-order access for subcontractors |
| Plowdesk | Smaller snow operations, especially residential | Free; Contractor $95/month — plowdesk.com | Yes — unlimited users and customers, up to three storm routes | Seasonal and per-event quotes with materials, shared routes, site photos, GPS route history |
| CrewNest | One-person businesses doing pressure washing, lawn care and snow | Free; Pro $29.99 USD/month or $290 a year — crewnest.app/pricing | Yes — one user, up to three estimates a month | Salt and de-icer calculators, per-push and per-event invoicing, seasonal flat rates |
| QuoteIQ | Small multi-trade businesses that sell on quotes | From $29.99/month (1 user) to $699.99/month (20 users); extra users $25/month each — myquoteiq.com/pricing | No — 14-day free trial | Snow removal is one of many trades; quoting and estimating come first |
| Jobber | Businesses where snow is one service among many | Core from $29 USD/month billed yearly ($49 USD month to month), 1 user — getjobber.com/pricing | No — 14-day free trial | Routes visits at the start of each snow event, add-on de-icing quote lines, invoicing after each visit or monthly; routing and syncing with QuickBooks Online from the Connect plan up, add-on lines from Grow |
| LMN (Granum) | Landscape companies that also plow and estimate by budget | Starter from $297 USD/month, billed monthly — granum.com/lmn/pricing | No | Budget-based estimating, with a Snow & Ice offering alongside landscaping |
| Aspire | Large landscape and commercial cleaning companies | Not published — quoted by company size; unlimited users — youraspire.com/aspire-plans | No | Snow plans built from aerial imagery, crews and subs scheduled on the fly, work tickets in real time |
| CrewTracker | Established snow and ice operations that want guided setup | Tier 1 from $250 a month (no currency named), priced by number of properties, plus a one-time purchase fee it doesn’t price — crewtracker.com/pricing2024 | No | Snow-and-ice focus, white-glove setup and team training, connects to QuickBooks |
| Aurora Suite | Snow operators who want customers to watch the crew live | Not published — a base monthly fee plus a price per active operator seat — try.aurorasuite.ca | No | Half-second live GPS customers can see, a customer portal with ETAs and proof photos, Stripe billing, an operator app on the App Store and Google Play |
| Service Autopilot | High-volume recurring-service companies that want automation | Startup from $49/month plus a sign-up fee, at yearly rates — serviceautopilot.com/pricing | No — free trial | Snow dispatch, route optimization, automations |
| RealGreen (WorkWave) | Lawn and landscape companies that add snow | Not published — a quote after a demo — realgreen.com/pricing | No | Billing by contract or per push, snow routes, a crew app on iOS and Android that works offline and sends service reports, a one-way export to QuickBooks |
Free plans differ more than the word “free” suggests. Plowdesk’s is unlimited users with up to three storm routes; CrewNest’s is one user and three estimates a month; Icey’s covers up to 10 sites and 5 crew. Check the limit that will bind you first.
What these tools do, and how they differ
Each tool on this list covers some or all of the same work, from the estimate to the invoice: quotes and contracts, storm dispatch and routes, a crew app that records the time, GPS and photos at each site, salt and de-icing logs, and invoicing. General field-service tools cover some of this for many trades. Snow-specific tools are built around storms, trigger depths and per-event or seasonal contracts.
An all-in-one tool does all of it in one account; some tools do one part, such as route planning or photo records, and work alongside other software. Every “Icey vs” comparison we have written is in one table on our comparison page, and Icey’s snow and ice management software shows one all-in-one snow tool from the quote to the invoice.
Icey Software (ours) — best free start for snow-only contractors
Icey is snow and ice management software from North Vancouver, BC. It is built around how snow work is sold and proven: per-event rate cards, where plowing and de-icing are priced as separate visits, or seasonal contracts paid in monthly instalments, with the salt included in the price or listed separately and the client signing online. Storms run from a dispatch board with routes optimized for traffic and priority sites first, and crews use a phone app that records GPS, timers, photos at every site and per-site material logs, and keeps working with no signal. Every completed visit makes a site report for the client.
Where Icey is weaker, honestly. The Free plan has up to 5 operator seats (office users are unlimited), while Plowdesk’s free plan has unlimited users; past 5 operators, you need an Icey paid plan, which includes every driver. It is a younger product — self-serve since July 2026 — with fewer reviews than the older tools here. Accounting is a QuickBooks CSV export with no direct sync, the Android app is still in testing (Android crews use the web app), and new accounts get no subcontractor tools. See pricing and what Icey Software is.
Yeti — best for subcontractors
Yeti, from Langley, BC, is built for snow removal companies. Its pricing page, checked October 27, 2026, has one plan priced by the number of sites, not users — from $66.50 USD a month on an annual plan ($798 USD a year) for 1–25 sites, or $95 USD paid monthly — so adding drivers doesn’t raise the bill. It lists tools for managing subcontractors, an integration with QuickBooks Online, weather reporting as an add-on and a 60-day money-back guarantee, and its homepage says subcontractors get controlled access to complete work orders. Its site lists no free plan.
Both price by sites, and neither charges per driver on a paid plan. We compare the two in detail, with a worked example, in Icey vs Yeti.
Plowdesk — best free plan for a crew
Plowdesk, from New Hampshire, is built for snow contractors. Its free Operator plan has unlimited users and customers with up to three storm routes, site photos, service logging, quotes and invoices. The Contractor plan, $95 a month, adds unlimited storm routes (for residential customers), automated customer notifications, a customer portal and payment integrations. If you have several drivers and only a few routes, its free plan goes further than Icey’s.
CrewNest — best free start for a one-person, multi-trade business
CrewNest, from Oakville, Ontario, covers pressure washing, lawn care and snow removal. Its free plan is one user with up to three estimates a month and unlimited customers and jobs; Pro is $29.99 USD a month or $290 a year with unlimited team members. For snow it offers salt and de-icer calculators, per-push and per-event invoicing and seasonal flat rates.
QuoteIQ — best for multi-trade businesses that sell on quotes
QuoteIQ is quoting-first field-service software for many trades, snow removal among them. Its pricing page, checked October 25, 2026, lists five plans from $29.99 a month for one user (Essentials) to $699.99 a month for 20 users (Max), with extra users at $25 a month each (up to 100 more) on any plan, and a 14-day free trial on every plan. It suits a small business doing several services that wants fast estimates; it isn’t snow-specific.
Jobber — best when snow is one service among many
Jobber is broad, mature field-service software across dozens of trades: quotes, scheduling, invoicing, online booking and payments. On its pricing page, checked October 28, 2026, Core is $29 USD a month billed yearly ($49 USD month to month) for one user, and it syncs with QuickBooks Online from the Connect plan up. It has a 14-day free trial and no free plan.
It does real snow work. Its snow removal page describes mapping out visits and building a route at the start of each snow event, assigning jobs to your team when it snows, quotes with add-on de-icing services, and automatic card charges for monthly contracts; its invoicing prompts you to invoice after each visit or once a month; and its chemical tracking form, written for chemicals and pesticides, records each treatment with the property address and weather conditions. Route optimization and automatic payments start on the Connect plan and optional add-on quote lines on Grow, not on Core. Its pages don’t describe a storm board or name a salt log for each visit. See Icey vs Jobber.
LMN — best for landscape-plus-snow estimating
LMN, now part of Granum, is landscaping software first, known for budget-based estimating, with a Snow & Ice offering. Starter is $297 USD a month billed monthly, with one office or crew-lead licence and five crew licences; Professional is $648 USD a month. You book a demo to start. A snow-only contractor may pay for breadth they don’t use.
Aspire — best for large landscape and commercial operations
Aspire, part of the ServiceTitan family, serves landscaping and commercial cleaning companies, with a snow and ice module that builds plans from aerial imagery and schedules crews and subs. Pricing isn’t published: it is quoted by company size and complexity, as one monthly licence fee with unlimited users, under a contract. It is aimed at larger companies.
CrewTracker — best for established snow operations that want hand-holding
CrewTracker sells to snow and ice, landscaping and custodial businesses. On its pricing page, checked October 28, 2026, pricing is tiered by number of properties — Tier 1 from $250 a month (no currency named) — and the subscription includes white-glove setup, team training and a QuickBooks connection. The page also names a one-time purchase fee, which it waived until August 1, 2025, without giving the amount, so ask for the full first-year cost. It suits an established operation with office staff to run it. See Icey vs CrewTracker.
Aurora Suite — best customer-facing experience
Aurora Suite’s strength is what your customers see: a live portal with ETAs, service status and proof photos, backed by GPS updates every 0.5 seconds that customers see too, with billing and payments through Stripe (per visit, per hour, by square footage or a seasonal flat rate) and an operator app on the App Store and Google Play. On its site, checked October 28, 2026, pricing isn’t published — a base monthly fee with unlimited admin users plus a price per active operator seat — and you start by booking a demo. It offers a 60-day performance guarantee, and says it runs lawn and landscaping work from the same system year-round. See Icey vs Aurora Suite.
Service Autopilot — best for automation at volume
Service Autopilot is built for recurring-service companies that want the back office to run itself: route optimization, snow dispatch and triggered automations. Startup is $49 a month and Pro $199 a month, each plus a sign-up fee at yearly rates; Pro Plus, at $499, adds the automations. QuickBooks Online two-way sync and a customer portal are add-ons priced on request.
RealGreen (WorkWave) — best for lawn companies adding snow
WorkWave’s snow removal software is RealGreen, its lawn-care and landscaping platform, which runs snow work with the same software as the lawn business: online measuring with a suggested price, snow routes, billing by contract or per push, payments in the field or through a self-service customer portal, and a crew app on iOS and Android that works offline and sends service reports to customers when a job is done. Accounting is a one-way export to QuickBooks: you export a general ledger report as an IIF file and import it. On its site, checked October 29, 2026, pricing is quote-based and starts with a demo, and it lists no free plan. See Icey vs RealGreen.
How to choose
- Decide how much of your business is snow. Snow-only or snow-first points to Icey, Yeti, Plowdesk, CrewTracker or Aurora; several trades point to Jobber, QuoteIQ, CrewNest, LMN, Aspire, Service Autopilot or RealGreen.
- Work out what you would pay for your crew. Yeti, Plowdesk, Aspire and Icey’s paid plans don’t charge per user (Icey’s Free plan has up to 5 operator seats). Jobber and QuoteIQ charge by user count, and LMN by licence.
- Decide how you want to buy. Icey, Plowdesk, CrewNest, QuoteIQ and Jobber let you sign up yourself; Aspire, Aurora, LMN and RealGreen start with a demo.
- If commercial clients or insurers ask for records, look closely at proof of service and salt logs — and ask each vendor to show you a real storm’s records, not a demo account.
- Shortlist two and run a real storm on each. Several have free plans or trials, so it costs little to find out.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which snow removal software is the best overall?
There is no single best. Snow-only contractors who want to start free lean toward Icey or Plowdesk; crews with subcontractors toward Yeti; a polished customer view toward Aurora Suite; mixed-trade businesses toward Jobber or QuoteIQ; large landscape-plus-snow companies toward LMN or Aspire.
Is there free snow removal software?
Yes. As of October 2026: Icey Software (up to 5 operator seats and up to 10 sites), Plowdesk (unlimited users and customers, up to three storm routes) and CrewNest (one user, up to three estimates a month). Yeti’s site lists no free plan. Jobber (14 days, no credit card) and QuoteIQ (14 days) offer free trials.
Which tools publish their prices?
As of October 2026: Icey, Yeti, Plowdesk, CrewNest, QuoteIQ, Jobber, LMN and Service Autopilot publish prices, and CrewTracker publishes its entry tier. Aspire, Aurora Suite and RealGreen don’t publish prices.
Which is cheapest for a crew of several drivers?
Look at how each one counts. Yeti and Icey’s paid plans price by sites, and Plowdesk and Aspire include unlimited users, so a bigger crew doesn’t raise the bill. Icey’s Free plan has up to 5 operator seats, and Jobber and QuoteIQ price by number of users. Our Icey vs Yeti comparison works an example for a crew of four.
Is this roundup biased, since Icey wrote it?
We make Icey and said so up front. We linked every price to the vendor’s own page and named where others beat us — Plowdesk for a free plan with unlimited users, Yeti for subcontractors and accounting sync, Aurora for the customer view, Jobber for breadth. Use it as a starting point, then trial your shortlist.
Which is best for salt and de-icing records?
Icey logs salt and de-icer per site at every visit and keeps the amounts off the client’s report. CrewNest’s Snow Log records the material type and pounds applied at each visit, and it has salt and de-icer calculators. Plowdesk quotes can include materials. Whatever you pick, ask the vendor to show you the material records from a real storm.
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