Make an estimate that looks like you have an office.
Unlike the government, you actually care about your budget. Pick a template for your trade, watch your profit on every line, and send a client quote with the costs quietly left out. Balanced books, finally.
You could keep fighting the spreadsheet.
Spreadsheets are free, and they price accordingly. Delete one row and the formulas give up. The version history lives in the filename. After all that, it still prints like a bank statement. Estimatery already knows the shape of an estimate. You fill in the numbers.
How it works
Pick the template for your kind of work, or start from scratch. Every part of a typical job is already listed. You just fill in prices.
Add what each part costs you and it shows what you'll actually make, updated as you type. Only you see this part. Your books, not a press release.
Preview exactly what the client gets: clean prices, one total, none of your costs. Send it as a PDF, Excel file, or link.
A screenshot of the actual builder. Not a mockup. We checked. This exact estimate, but editable →
Built for the person who actually watches the budget
Generic quoting tools fit no one in particular. Estimatery starts from how your kind of work is actually priced: real numbers for you, a clean quote for the client. Fiscal oversight, but voluntary.
Tell it what each part costs you and it shows what you'd actually take home, updated as you type. No second spreadsheet. No midnight math.
The client PDF gets a real letterhead and totals that line up. The Pro version adds your name and logo. Your logo. On documents. Living the dream.
Your working version has your costs and profit. The client's version has prices and a total. Same estimate, nothing copy-pasted between files, nothing to forget.
Pick your industry, skip the blank page
Every industry gets its own templates: checklists of what to price for that kind of job. Prices are left blank because they're yours, and we'd rather not know.
Commercials, documentaries, music videos, corporate, social, and events.
Kitchens, baths, additions, roofing, decks, and trade work.
Sod, irrigation, lawn care, design and install, and hardscape.
Removal, trimming, stump grinding, and land clearing, priced per tree.
Weddings, portraits, events, commercial, real estate, product, headshots.
Weddings, corporate, BBQ, holiday parties, and food trucks, per person.
Weddings, corporate events, and private parties, vendors included.
Quote something else? Tell us what you price and we'll build the templates. We read every email. Reading is free.
Each new industry ships with its own page and templates. Patience is a virtue. So is emailing us.
Everyone else makes you give something up.
A spreadsheet is free, but you do everything. An invoicing app hides your costs, then bills you monthly forever, like a gym. We’re the only column without a catch. We checked twice.
| Estimatery | Spreadsheet | Invoicing app | Template PDF | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industry line items, built in | ● | —blank page | ○generic | ○generic |
| Live margin while you price | ● | ○by hand | — | — |
| Client never sees your costs | ● | ○if you remember | ● | ● |
| Pay once, no subscription | ● | ●free | —monthly | ○ |
● built in · ○ manual or partial · — not really
Free is the whole tool
Nothing in the builder or the exports is held back. Pro exists to put your name on the paperwork. The national debt is not our business model.
Questions
The full guide (units, tax math, deposits, exports) lives on the Help page. It’s genuinely thorough. We’re as surprised as you.
No. The whole builder and every export work without one. Your estimate autosaves in this browser, which means it lives on your machine, which means it's already more organized than your inbox. A free account adds one cloud-saved estimate. Pro makes that unlimited.
Yes. Unlimited sections and lines, all templates, all modifiers, the live P&L, and every export format. Pro only changes whose name is on the paperwork, lifts the cloud-save cap, and adds a Saved Items catalog for your standard lines. We're aware this is a questionable business model. Thanks for your concern.
Invoicing tools charge monthly and still make you rebuild your line items from scratch. A spreadsheet is free right up until you email the client your costs. Estimatery ships with templates for your industry, quotes the way your field actually bills, and keeps the P&L where only you can see it. Also it's free. We covered this.
No. Client views, exports, and share links are built from a copy that only ever contained client-facing fields. Costs, margins, and internal notes are never in the file. There's no toggle to forget because there is no toggle. We removed the human element. You're welcome.
No. You pay $39 once. No renewal, no monthly fee, no email in six months announcing our exciting new pricing. It puts your branding on client-facing exports, removes our footer, makes cloud saves unlimited, and adds a reusable catalog of your saved line items.
Anonymous estimates live in your browser's local storage. Nothing leaves your machine unless you share, export, or save to an account. Share links carry a compressed, client-safe copy inside the link itself. Yes, inside the link. It's fine. It's math.