What CalenJob is
CalenJob is a drive-time-aware calendar for anyone who drives from job to job. You add a job with an address, or let a customer book one through your page on calenjob.com. The app calculates traffic-based drive time from your previous stop and inserts it into your schedule. When it is time to leave, a push notification tells you. At the end of the week, your mileage log is already filled out.
It is a decision-support tool, not a field service management platform. You stay in control of your schedule. The app removes the mental burden of estimating travel time and prevents unrealistic planning.
- Automatic traffic-aware drive time between every job
- A public booking page customers use to schedule with you, with drive time factored in automatically
- Push notifications when it is time to leave for the next stop
- Mileage tracking with your own custom per-mile rate
- A route map that shows your whole day at a glance
- Recurring schedules for weekly maintenance clients
What it is not:
- An invoicing or CRM tool
- A full field service platform like Jobber or ServiceTitan
- A dispatching platform for managing crews
- $50 per month
One tool, one problem, done well. At $14.99 a month, or $119.99 a year, the price is small enough to feel automatic and the feature set is narrow enough to stay out of your way.
Why we created it
A family member of mine runs a pest control company. Watching how he plans his day taught me something that most software misses: the hardest part of the job is not the job. It is the drive time between the jobs.
Every morning he would open Google Maps, type in each address one by one, check traffic, do mental math, and try to figure out when he needed to leave each stop to make the next appointment. Miss an estimate by ten minutes and he would be apologizing to the next customer. Stack a few of those, and by two in the afternoon the whole day was a scramble.
That kept bothering me. Drive time is not a side problem for anyone who drives from job to job. It is the thing. And it was being solved with a notepad, a clock on the dashboard, and three separate apps that did not talk to each other.
So I went looking. Reddit threads on r/plumbing, r/electricians, r/HVAC. Facebook groups for contractors. Trade-specific forums. The same complaint came up over and over: manually cross-referencing Google Maps and the calendar eats real hours every week. Nobody wants to tap through live traffic data between every job, but nobody had a better option either.
The software that actually solved it — Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan — cost $50 to $200 per month and came bundled with invoicing, a CRM, dispatching, client portals, and a dozen other features most independent tradespeople do not need. They were paying for all of it to get the scheduling piece.
Who we are, and why we care
CalenJob is built by one developer (me, Sam) in my evenings and weekends. It is a solo indie project, which means every decision about what goes in the app and what stays out is made by one person who actually has to answer to the users. No feature bloat by committee. No quarterly priorities shifting under pressure from a sales team.
Why do I care? I watched a family member lose hours every week to a problem a calendar should have solved years ago. Independent tradespeople deserve tools that respect their time and their wallet. And I would rather build something small and useful for a specific group of people, and get it right, than ship something generic to everyone.
If something in the app breaks or does not feel right, you can email me directly. It gets fixed.
hello@calenjob.com