SimplyWise alternatives

Invoice Fly

Good fit for: Contractors and freelancers who set their own prices and want simple estimates and invoices plus time and expense tracking

Price: $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year; 3-day free trial

A phone-first estimate and invoice app with a web app. Estimates come from your saved items and markups, clients e-sign from a link, and estimates convert to invoices. Its e-signature page says its AI can generate an estimate. Payments run through your own Stripe or PayPal account. It adds automatic follow-ups and overdue reminders, recurring invoices, time tracking, an expense tracker with receipt scanning and reports. ^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Compared with SimplyWise: Invoice Fly prices estimates from your own saved items rather than drafting them with AI, at $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year. Like the SimplyWise Cost Estimator listing, it describes expense tracking with receipt scanning, and it adds time tracking, automatic follow-ups and overdue reminders. Payments run through your own Stripe or PayPal account at that account’s rates. ^{[6][4][1][10][9][8]}

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Contractor+

Good fit for: Contractors who want to start free and grow into CRM, scheduling and project management

Price: Free plan; Pro $49 a month, or $29 a month on the annual plan

A contractor business platform with a free plan of up to 5 estimates or invoices a month. From Pro, Estimatic AI drafts estimates from a description, photos, blueprints or another quote, priced from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index, using AI credits. Contracts and e-signatures also start on Pro. ^{[11][12][13][14]}

Compared with SimplyWise: Contractor+ has a free plan capped at 5 estimates or invoices a month. From its $49-a-month Pro plan, Estimatic AI drafts estimates from a description, photos, blueprints or another quote and prices them from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index, using AI credits. Pro also adds scheduling, where SimplyWise’s listings focus on the estimate, renderings and expenses. ^{[11][12][13][2][1]}

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Handoff

Good fit for: Residential builders and remodelers with a team who want AI estimating inside a project platform

Price: From $119 a month billed annually (2 users); 7-day free trial

Builds residential estimates with AI from a typed or spoken scope, photos or plans, priced from supplier catalogs and localized labor rates, then proposals, e-signatures, milestone invoices and payments, with two-way QuickBooks Online sync on every plan. Pro adds project management, time tracking and unlimited AI credits; Scale adds AI takeoffs. ^{[15][16][17][18]}

Compared with SimplyWise: Handoff also drafts estimates with AI from a typed or spoken scope, photos or plans, priced from supplier catalogs and localized labor rates, and it’s built for residential builders and remodelers with a team. It starts at $119 a month billed annually for 2 users, with QuickBooks Online sync on every plan and project management on Pro. Like SimplyWise, it makes renderings from photos. ^{[16][15][17][18][2]}

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Invoice Simple

Good fit for: Solo operators and small businesses who price their own work and send a handful of invoices a month

Price: From $6.99 a month (up to 3 invoices); unlimited at $21.99; 14-day trial of Premium

An invoicing and estimating app on iOS, Android and web, with plans set by how many invoices you send. Estimates convert to invoices; client signatures and deposits are on Premium. It takes cards, ACH, PayPal, Venmo and Stripe Tap to Pay; US Stripe card fees are 3.49% + 49¢. Bookkeeping and an AI Receptionist are paid add-ons in the US and Canada. ^{[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]}

Compared with SimplyWise: Invoice Simple is priced by how many invoices you send, from $6.99 a month for 3 to $21.99 for unlimited, and you price estimates from saved items rather than with AI. Like the SimplyWise Cost Estimator listing, it describes receipt scanning for expenses; it also sells an AI Receptionist as a paid add-on in the US and Canada. Its US card fee is 3.49% + 49¢. ^{[19][27][28][1][26][24]}

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Joist

Good fit for: Small home-service contractors who want low-cost estimates and invoices with room to grow

Price: From $10 a month billed monthly; 14-day free trial

An estimate and invoice app on iOS, Android and web. AI Estimate drafts an estimate from a typed or spoken description for you to review, and e-signatures are on every plan. Upper plans add reports, change orders and job scheduling, and it syncs with QuickBooks. Card payments are 3.49% + 49¢ in the US. ^{[29][30][31][32]}

Compared with SimplyWise: Joist starts at $10 a month billed monthly, with a 14-day trial. Its AI Estimate drafts an estimate from a typed or spoken description for you to review, on every plan, while prices come from your saved items. It states its US card rate, 3.49% + 49¢, and adds reports, change orders and job scheduling on higher plans. ^{[29][30][33][31]}

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BuildWell

Good fit for: Contractors who want each estimate priced from local store prices and wages, then signed and paid

Price: $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year; 3-day free trial

Describe a job by voice, text, photos or a floor plan; the AI picks the work and quantities, and prices come from stores near the job and BLS wages plus your overhead and markup. Clients sign on their phone, estimates become invoices with deposits and progress payments, and card or bank payments go through Stripe at cost. iPhone, Android and web; English or Spanish. Not a scheduling, CRM, time-tracking or accounting tool. ^{[34][35][36][37][38][39]}

Compared with SimplyWise: BuildWell is one plan at $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year. Like SimplyWise, its AI drafts the estimate from what you show it, photos included, and makes before-and-after renders; BuildWell prices every line from stores near the job and local wages, and card payments cost Stripe’s 2.9% + 30¢ with no BuildWell fee. It works in English or Spanish and doesn’t track receipts, expenses or mileage. ^{[34][35][40][2][38][39]}