General contractor estimates that already know the line items.
Load the template for the job, fill in your prices, and watch what you'll make on every line. The client gets a clean itemized quote. You get your evening back.
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 a template: kitchen, bath, roofing, deck, the works. Or start from scratch. Every line a real job needs is already there, demo through cleanup. You'd have forgotten the permits. Everyone forgets the permits.
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.
One switch shows exactly what the client gets: scope, prices, one total. Send it as a PDF, Excel file, or link. No awkward questions on the driveway.
A screenshot of the actual builder. Not a mockup. We checked.
Built for the person who actually watches the budget
Generic quoting tools fit no one in particular. Estimatery starts from how construction jobs are actually priced: real numbers for you, a clean itemized quote for the client.
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.
Never rebuild the same job from scratch
Each template is the line-item checklist for that kind of job, demo through cleanup. Prices stay blank because they're yours, and they vary by market anyway. Load one, delete what doesn't apply, price the rest.
Demolition to final walkthrough. The job clients always swear will be quick.
Small room, forty line items. Waterproofing included, regret optional.
Foundation to finish on the part of the house that didn't exist yet.
Footings, framing, railings. Everything between the client and a lawsuit.
Tear-off through cleanup. Priced by the square, because of course it is.
The entire house. Bring coffee. Bring a contingency line.
Prep, prime, two coats. The prep is the part nobody wants to pay for.
Old floor out, new floor in, transitions that actually meet the wall.
Tear-off, wrap, trim, done. Same house, minus the leaking.
Excavation through cure. Priced by the yard. Measure twice, pour once.
More trades on the way. These are the ten that get quoted most. Yours isn't here? Say so.
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 truck. 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 and lifts the cloud-save cap. We've been told this is a bad business model. Repeatedly.
Construction software wants $99 a month and a demo call. A spreadsheet is free right up until you email the client your costs by accident. Estimatery ships with the templates, quotes the way trades actually bill, and keeps the P&L where only you can see it. Also it's free. Read that again.
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. Fewer moving parts, fewer callbacks.
No. You pay $39 once. No renewal, no monthly fee, no surprise change order from us. 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. Math, not magic.