A free scheduling app for cleaning businesses, built for recurring cleans

A cleaning schedule is not a list of appointments. It is the same homes on the same days, week after week, with a few changes every week: a client away, a cleaner off sick, a deep clean squeezed in before a move-out. A scheduling app earns its place by making those changes quick. Hold any free app to this list, ours included:

Everything on the scheduling side is in the free plan. When you book a client you pick how often they repeat, and the price fills in from your price list. From any visit you can skip just that one, change just that one, or change this visit and every later one (a new time, a new cleaner, a new price from next month).

The calendar shows a month, a week or a day, with a column per cleaner and the hours they do not work shaded. Drag a visit to another time, day or cleaner, or pull its edge to change the length. You get a warning for a double booking or a gap that is too short to drive, and you can undo any move for 6 seconds before the client is told.

Your business hours, breaks, each cleaner’s working days and time off all feed the booking page, so a client can only pick a time the crew is free, with the drive between visits kept clear. You and each cleaner can add a private feed of your visits to Google Calendar or Apple Calendar.

Clients get an email confirmation and a day-before reminder, each with their own link to move a visit to a free time, skip a recurring visit or cancel a one-off up to 12 hours before. Changes land in your Messages inbox.

3 users: you plus 2 cleaners. 40 visits a month on the calendar, about 9 cleans a week. When a month is full, bookings your clients make online still get through; what stops is adding visits by hand until the next month or until you move to Pro.

Reminders go by email on the free plan. Text (SMS) confirmations and reminders to clients are on Pro, at $39/mo flat for up to 10 users with unlimited visits. The limits are set out line by line on the pricing page.

If your clients only ever answer texts, that is the one thing to weigh. Maidily Free includes SMS notifications, with a cap of 10 jobs a month.

These are the free schedulers cleaning business owners most often try. Limits come from each vendor’s own pricing page, linked under Sources with the date we checked.

It depends on three things: whether you have a crew, how many cleans you do a month, and whether reminders must be texts.

A solo cleaner with fixed regulars who book by text can stay on Google Calendar or FieldVibe Solo. A business doing 10 or fewer cleans a month that wants free texts fits Maidily Free. An owner who mainly needs a booking link with text reminders, and already takes cards with Square, fits Square Appointments Free.

For a cleaning business with a cleaner or two and more than 10 cleans a month, Broombook Free covers the most: recurring cleans with skips, a crew app, online booking with prices and 40 visits a month. We compare every free plan in one table in best free cleaning business software.

You do not have to retype your week. Export your Google Calendar, or put your visits in a spreadsheet, and Broombook imports past and upcoming visits with their clients. Nobody is texted or emailed during an import, and running it twice does not create duplicates.

Then set each regular client’s pattern once (weekly, every 2 weeks, every 4 weeks or monthly), add your cleaners with their working days, and send each cleaner their private link. Most owners are running the next week from it the same evening.

If you are still deciding how to lay out your week, the guide on how to schedule cleaning jobs covers zones, travel time and how many homes a cleaner can do in a day.