Tree service estimates priced the way tree work actually bills.
Per tree, by species and size, with the crane, the storm premium, and the cleanup as their own lines. The client gets a clean itemized quote. You get to price the red oak from the truck, correctly.
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: removal, trimming, stumps, clearing. Every line the job needs is already there, the utility locate through the rake-out. Per-tree lines carry species, height, and DBH, because that's what the price actually is.
Add what each part costs you and it shows what you'll actually make, updated as you type. Only you see this part. The client sees the quote, not your crane rental.
One switch shows exactly what the client gets: scope, prices, one total. Send it as a PDF, Excel file, or link, before you've left 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 tree work is actually priced: per tree, per inch, per acre. 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 price the same tree twice
Each template is the line-item checklist for that kind of job, assessment through cleanup. Prices stay blank because they're yours, and no two backyards have the same access anyway. Load one, delete what doesn't apply, price the rest.
Per tree, by size and lean. The fence gets a line item before it gets a story.
Crown work priced per tree. The tree keeps growing. That's the business model.
Priced per inch of diameter, which the stump cannot argue with.
Per acre, by density. The brush hog has opinions about your slope.
Four templates covering how tree work actually gets quoted. An ISA cert number fits nicely in the notes, arborists. Landscaping has its own templates.
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 the glovebox. 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. Free, like the estimate you just gave the homeowner. Unlike that one, this stays free.
Field service apps charge monthly for dispatch, routing, and a CRM, with estimating buried in a submenu. A spreadsheet is free right up until you email the client your costs. Estimatery ships with the tree work templates, prices per tree, per inch, and per acre the way the trade actually bills, and keeps the P&L where only you can see it. Also it's free. Genuinely.
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 per-crew seat math. 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.