LawnGuru Pro vs Local Roots Landscaping
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LawnGuru Pro
This app helps landscaping and snow removal professionals grow their businesses. Easily view, bid on, and accept new jobs in your service areas. Features include fast payments, route planning, and in-app messaging with customers and support.
- View, bid, and accept new jobs
- Claim lawn mowing and snow plowing jobs
- Bid on landscaping jobs
- Fast payments
- Route planning
- In-app messaging
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LawnGuru Pro - Built to help lawn, snow and landscape professionals grow their businesses. With LawnGuru Pro, you’ll be able to easily view, bid and accept new jobs in the neighborhoods you’re already working in. The All New LawnGuru Pro App has been designed from the ground up to help medium and small business owners efficiently grow their bottom line. Features: FREE to join for qualified Pros Instantly claim new lawn mowing and snow plowing jobs. Qualified Providers can bid freely on new landscaping jobs such as yard clean ups, mulch instals, bed weeding and much more. Fast Payments- Money in your bank two days after completing every job. NEW Route Planning- Pros can now organize their daily routes. -A daily offering of On Demand, Recurring and Custom Quoted Jobs with the tools and flexibility to fit into your existing routes. In App Messaging- Easily stay organized in touch with your customers and LawnGuru support all form inside the app. LawnGuru only works with exceptional business owners and operators. Our top providers have built routes that generate over $85,000 in additional recurring revenue for their business each year! If you’re a dedicated, hard working landscaper who provides high quality service and excellent communication skills we can guarantee similar results.
Local Roots Landscaping
This app connects clients with a landscape construction firm for seamless project management. Communicate with your team, share files, and conduct virtual walkthroughs all within a secure portal.
- Client-team communication
- Document and file sharing
- Virtual walkthroughs
- eSignature capabilities
- Video conferencing
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Local Roots Landscaping is the premier landscape construction firm serving the southwest Pennsylvania region. This app is command central for bringing your designs and projects to life! Use Local Roots to communicate with our team throughout the design and construction process via text, audio, and video messaging. The secure portal also supports video conferencing, eSignature, document and file sharing, virtual walkthroughs, and more collaboration capabilities all in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Local Roots Landscaping at 5.0 against LawnGuru Pro's 3.5. Local Roots Landscaping also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). LawnGuru Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (170 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Local Roots Landscaping holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LawnGuru Pro has 170 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LawnGuru Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, Local Roots Landscaping every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LawnGuru Pro | Local Roots Landscaping |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (170 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 170 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guru Ventures, Inc. | Local Roots Landscaping |
Customer experience
LawnGuru Pro
Local Roots Landscaping
Bugs and requests
LawnGuru Pro
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes frequently, requires reinstall
- Severe lag when claiming jobs or uploading pictures
- Picture upload failures and random photo selection
- App freezes during storms and high-traffic periods
- Job notifications fail to open properly
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- App fails to load jobs before competitors claim them
- Inconsistent payment tracking and documentation
- Scanner functionality not working for ID verification
- Email verification links redirect incorrectly
- App performance degrades with poor data connection
Requested features
10 requests- Improved app stability and performance optimization
- Better picture upload functionality with offline storage
- Clearer overgrowth fee calculation and payment transparency
- Ability to move jobs forward in schedule
- More detailed app information and job descriptions
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- Emergency/illness policy with flexibility
- Better communication system for job updates
- Reduced commission rates or transparent fee structure
- Automatic picture upload retry mechanism
- Wider geographic coverage areas
Local Roots Landscaping
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LawnGuru Pro
No in-app purchases
Local Roots Landscaping
No in-app purchases
Questions
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