Updated 2026-09-13. No ranked winner.
MakeWash is pressure-washing-only software published as free today with a future $49/month per-business floor. CrewNest publishes Free Forever plus Pro with unlimited team members. Those units are not interchangeable, so this page does not name a winner. Figures are from vendor pages checked 2026-09-13. We have not tested either app.
Published 2026-09-13. Last checked 2026-09-13.
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Two products
This is a wash-native launch product with a published $0 bill and a stated later $49 floor versus a wash-native CRM with a capped Free Forever floor and a flat Pro team price. The products do not sell the same units.
See the MakeWash and CrewNest profiles for documented functions, still without a field test. This page is a two-product comparison only.
Wash-native versus Jobber stays on MakeWash vs Jobber and CrewNest vs Jobber. Wash-native versus QuoteIQ stays on MakeWash vs QuoteIQ and CrewNest vs QuoteIQ. CrewNest versus Opervo stays on CrewNest vs Opervo. Soft-wash chemistry notes stay on the soft wash guide. $0 language stays on the free software guide.
We did not copy CrewNest competitor dollar columns as MakeWash’s price. We did not treat CrewNest franchise or per-territory $29 copy as the solo Free or Pro floor.
How you pay
MakeWash publishes $0 today and a later per-business floor. CrewNest sells Free Forever plus Pro, with estimate and satellite caps on Free and unlimited team members on Pro. You cannot subtract one published dollar from the other and get a breakeven.
| Plan | Users | Monthly | Yearly (as published) | Caps / extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Forever | 1 | $0 | n/a | Up to 3 estimates/mo; up to 10 satellite measurements; customer management; scheduling; basic invoicing; offline PWA; service-specific tools |
| Pro | Unlimited team members, no per-user fees | $29 | $290/year | Unlimited estimates and satellite; booking portal; SMS included; email estimates/invoices; route optimization; advanced analytics |
The live pricing FAQ (retrieved 2026-09-13) states unlimited team members and no per-user fees. That supersedes older “3 seats then +$5” copy. The pricing page publishes Pro at $29/mo or $290/yr and states that annual billing saves $58. Every account is advertised with 14 days of Pro. A credit card is required up front. Cancel before day 14 and you are not charged. The pricing page also states a 30-day money-back guarantee on Pro and no contracts.
| MakeWash status | Users | Monthly | Yearly (as published) | Caps / extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free today | GAP | $0 | n/a | Calculator, playbooks, and early workflows. No card to start. Not a forever-free SLA. |
| When paid | GAP | $49/mo per business | No annual SKU published | One month of notice. FAQ: $49 per month per business. |
MakeWash processing percent, card / ACH / instant fees, and multi-seat paid rules are a GAP. How many seats sit on the paid $49 plan is a GAP. No published payment % rate card sits on the fetched MakeWash pages.
Worked examples (published units only)
These rows use only the subscription cards above. They are arithmetic on published floors, not a field test and not a winner.
A. MakeWash $0 today versus CrewNest Free Forever $0. MakeWash’s $0 bill is a launch floor with no published estimate or satellite cap on the fetched pages. CrewNest Free Forever is 1 user, up to 3 estimates/month, and up to 10 satellite measurements. Two $0 stickers are not the same stack.
B. MakeWash future $49 versus CrewNest Pro $29. MakeWash’s stated later floor is $49/month per business, with no annual SKU. CrewNest Pro is $29/month or $290/year with unlimited team members. A $20 monthly gap is not a like-for-like ops stack: seat rules, satellite, route, SMS, and booking claims differ.
C. CrewNest Pro unlimited seats versus MakeWash unpaid seat GAP. CrewNest Pro publishes unlimited team members and no per-user fees at $29/month or $290/year. MakeWash does not publish paid multi-seat rules. Do not invent a MakeWash multi-seat paid total.
Soft-wash / satellite / chem
The chemistry tools are different shapes. Do not equate them.
Payments
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QuickBooks Online
Direction, objects, unpaid invoices, and Desktop stay on the QuickBooks guide. This page locks the published gates.
Schedule, route, and booking
Trials and $0 language
Those offers are not interchangeable. A launch $0 product with a stated later $49 floor is not a card-required 14-day Pro trial.
When each is a reasonable fit
These are fit notes against published units and documented claims. They are not awards.
This page does not rank a winner. Quote MakeWash at the published $0 / $49 units and quote CrewNest at the plan that lists the feature you need, then compare the written totals. MakeWash versus Jobber stays on MakeWash vs Jobber. MakeWash versus QuoteIQ stays on MakeWash vs QuoteIQ. CrewNest versus Jobber stays on CrewNest vs Jobber. CrewNest versus Opervo stays on CrewNest vs Opervo. CrewNest versus QuoteIQ stays on CrewNest vs QuoteIQ. CrewNest versus Housecall Pro stays on CrewNest vs Housecall Pro. CrewNest versus Workiz stays on CrewNest vs Workiz. The wider solo set, including $0 tools and tools with pricing on request, stays on the solo operator guide.
What we did not do
We have not run these products on a live wash route. We are not recommending a single product. We are not publishing star ratings.
We did not redo the solo operator guide, the free software guide, the soft wash guide, MakeWash vs Jobber, MakeWash vs QuoteIQ, CrewNest vs Jobber, CrewNest vs Opervo, CrewNest vs QuoteIQ, CrewNest vs Workiz, or the QuickBooks guide. Those pages stay the workflow, $0 taxonomy, soft-wash taxonomy, other two-product bake-offs, and QuickBooks taxonomy. This page is the MakeWash versus CrewNest bake-off only.
We did not invent MakeWash card, ACH, or instant percent fees. We did not treat $0 today as a forever-free SLA. We did not invent an in-product satellite aerial measure SKU. We did not invent a MakeWash QBO integration. We did not invent a MakeWash multi-seat paid total. We did not invent MakeWash Soft Wash Chef, Satellite Scout, Pro route, or booking-portal parity. We did not declare that free-today has ended because home JSON-LD prints 49.00. We did not import CrewNest competitor price tables as our facts. We did not treat CrewNest’s franchise / per-territory $29 claim as the solo Free/Pro floor. We did not treat CrewNest’s self-authored best-of article as a QuickBooks product matrix. We did not treat Soft Wash Chef illustrative chemical dollars-per-job as subscription prices. We did not invent a CrewNest Stripe markup. We did not invent a breakeven from a launch $0 / later $49 floor and a Pro sticker. We did not reuse older CrewNest “3 seats then +$5” copy as live Pro. We did not wire affiliate CTAs or tracking URLs.
PressureWashStack does not earn commissions or affiliate revenue. Links on this page are ordinary vendor URLs, not tracking links. See the affiliate disclosure. Other directory listings stay on the directory.
Sources
- MakeWash home: retrieved 2026-09-13
- MakeWash software (pricing + FAQ): retrieved 2026-09-13
- MakeWash about: retrieved 2026-09-13
- MakeWash tools (free calculators): retrieved 2026-09-13
- Houseler pricing (parent $49 corroboration): retrieved 2026-09-13
- CrewNest pricing: retrieved 2026-09-13
- CrewNest pressure washing CRM: retrieved 2026-09-13
- CrewNest Soft Wash Chef (mix calculator): retrieved 2026-09-13
- CrewNest home: retrieved 2026-09-13
- CrewNest best pressure washing software (vendor article - QBO claim marketing-only): retrieved 2026-09-13