Invoice Koi

Invoice Koi vs Jobber

You should not have to pay to find out.

Jobber starts at $29 Core, with no free plan behind it. Invoice Koi is free for a hundred invoices a year, with 33 of the 59 features compared here in the free app, and one paid plan at $99.99 a year.

Last checked 7 September 2026. US list prices.

Decision summary

Jobber runs a company. Invoice Koi bills for a day's work.

Invoice Koi Free then $99.99 a year for Pro Make and send an invoice before deciding whether you like it.
$29 Corethe cheapest way in There is no free plan, so this is what the first invoice costs.

What Jobber is good at

Jobber is the most capable thing on this list by a distance. Scheduling, routing, a client hub, quotes, invoices, payments, a booking page and a website, built for a field service business with people out in vans.

The catch

Core is the first of four plans, and time tracking, expense tracking and job costing all start a plan above it. Every extra user is another $29. It is a business system, and it is priced and shaped like one.

Jobber runs a company. Invoice Koi bills for a day's work.

The ten rows that decide it

Two questions, and they have different answers: what you get for nothing, and what the least you can pay actually buys. Pick one.

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What each one gives away, before any money changes hands.
Feature Invoice Koi Jobber
What it costs Free, 100 invoices a year No free plan
Invoices 100 a year No free plan
Estimates or quotes Included No free plan
Clients Included No free plan
No vendor branding on it Included No free plan
Accept card payments Not offered No free plan
Receipt scanning 5 a day No free plan
Jobs and job organisation Included No free plan
Users on the account 1 user No free plan
Web access Not offered No free plan
Sync and backup across devices books; pictures on Pro No free plan
What the cheapest paid plan holds. A paid plan includes its own free tier, so anything free is in here too.
Feature Invoice Koi Jobber
What it costs $99.99 a year $29 Core
Invoices Included Included
Estimates or quotes Included Included
Clients Included Included
No vendor branding on it Included Included
Accept card payments Not offered 2.9% + 30c
Receipt scanning Included Included
Jobs and job organisation Included Included
Users on the account 1 user 1, +$29 ea
Web access Not offered Included
Sync and backup across devices Included Included
All 59 features, and the tier each one sits in

A paid tier includes its own free tier, so a mark means available at that price or below. 28 rows go our way, 16 theirs, 5 are the same in both, and 10 are neither or unstated.

Invoice Koi's free tier against Jobber's cheapest way in. A paid tier includes its own free tier, so a mark means available at that price or below.
Feature Invoice Koifree, then $99.99 a year Jobber$29 Core Cheaper for a tradesperson
Documents
Invoices 100 a year Invoice Koi
Estimates or quotes Invoice Koi
Clients Invoice Koi
Turn an estimate into an invoice Invoice Koi
Recurring invoices Invoice Koi
Credit notes · Not stated
Work orders Them
Change orders Them
Client contracts Them
Document or project templates Invoice Koi
Price book of saved items Invoice Koi
How the document looks
Your logo on the document Invoice Koi
Your brand or accent colour Invoice Koi
Choice of templates Invoice Koi
No vendor branding on it Level
Rename the field labels Invoice Koi
Photos and attachments Invoice Koi
Terms and conditions block · Not stated
Licence and insurance details · Not stated
Your own signature · Not stated
Client e-signature Level
Getting paid
Accept card payments 2.9% + 30c Them
Bank transfer or ACH 1% Them
Tap to Pay in person 2.7% + 30c Them
Deposits or milestone payments Level
Record partial payments Invoice Koi
Pass processing fees to the client · Not stated
Tips Them
Automatic payment reminders Invoice Koi
Overdue alerts to you Invoice Koi
Know the invoice was opened Them
A link the client opens Them
Client statements · Not stated
Homeowner financing · Not stated
Lending or capital for you Them
Running the business
Expense tracking Invoice Koi
Receipt scanning 5 a day Invoice Koi
Time tracking Invoice Koi
Jobs and job organisation Invoice Koi
Schedule visits or a calendar Invoice Koi
Routing or GPS Them
Reports Invoice Koi
Export CSV, spreadsheet or PDF Invoice Koi
Accounting sync Them
Bank feed import · Not stated
Barcode scanner · Not stated
Leads or a CRM Them
Track client activity Level
Request client reviews Them
A marketing site for you Them
An AI assistant 5 a day Invoice Koi
Voice note into an invoice 5 a day Invoice Koi
Read a document and answer on it 5 a day Invoice Koi
Account and scale
Mobile app Invoice Koi
Web access Them
Sync and backup across devices books; pictures on Pro Invoice Koi
Users on the account 1 user 1, +$29 ea Invoice Koi
More than one business · Not stated
Priority support one to two days Level
  • In the free tier
  • In the cheapest paid plan
  • Only on a higher plan
  • Not offered
  • · Not stated on their page
  • 3 a month Included, but capped or charged at this rate

Which one to buy

Buy Jobber if

  • You have staff to schedule and routes to plan, which Invoice Koi does not do.
  • You want card payments, Tap to Pay and a client hub.
  • You are big enough that the software is worth learning.

Buy Invoice Koi if

  • You are the one doing the work, and the paperwork happens between jobs.
  • You want the whole app at one price, with nothing above it and no per-user maths.
  • You want to write the invoice in ninety seconds and get on.

What is free, and what Pro buys

The same on all eleven of these pages. One price, billed once a year, with no seat maths and no plan above it. Free is one person and their own books, counted at 100 invoices a year and at nothing else. Pro is what leaves the phone: the photographs on a server, the reading, and the paperwork a client signs or opens.

Free $0 no card, no trial clock
  • 100 invoices a year
  • Unlimited estimates and clients
  • All nine templates, reports and the jobs schedule
  • Time tracking and recurring invoices
  • Your books backed up, plus a portable backup file
Pro $99.99 a year, about $8.33 a month
  • Unlimited invoices and estimates
  • Every photograph backed up, on any phone
  • Unlimited reading, and voice notes into invoices
  • Signatures, deposits and statements
  • Priority support, in one to two working days

Everything in Free is in Pro too. Pro is sold through the App Store, so the price you are shown is your own country's.

Common questions

Is Invoice Koi cheaper than Jobber?
Yes. Jobber has no free plan, so its cheapest way in is $29 Core. Invoice Koi is free for a hundred invoices a year, with no cap on estimates or clients, and Pro is $99.99 a year if you want it.
What does Invoice Koi do that Jobber charges for?
27 of the 59 features compared here are free in Invoice Koi and cost money in Jobber, including invoices, estimates or quotes, clients.
What does Jobber do that Invoice Koi does not?
16 things, including work orders, change orders, client contracts. If one of those is what you need, Jobber is the better app for you and we would rather say so here than after you have downloaded ours.
Does Invoice Koi take card payments?
No. Payments are recorded rather than processed: you say how a client paid you and the invoice settles. There is no card processing in the app, and no page a client pays on.

Free, and it stays free

No trial clock, no card, and no invoice with somebody else's name at the bottom of it. If Pro is worth $99.99 a year to you, it will still be there in a month.

iPhone and iPad, iOS 16.4 or later.

Where these numbers come from

Every Jobber cell was read from their own pricing page on 7 September 2026, at US list prices in US dollars. Jobber is read from its published plan comparison, at the annual-billing price. Core is the cheapest of four plans and a good deal sits above it: time tracking, expense tracking and job costing all start at Connect, and review requests are part of a $99 a month Marketing Suite add-on. Additional users are $29 each on every plan. A blank means they do not name the feature on the page where they ask for money, and we count that as not included rather than guessing in our own favour. Processing rates appear only where the vendor is itself the processor: read a missing rate as unstated, never as free. If we have a line wrong, tell us and we will change it.

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