Easy Invoice & Estimates Maker

Review by eFreeware

If you work in the trades, the paperwork tends to pile up at the worst possible time. Easy Invoice & Estimates Maker, published by Lefage, LLC and better known as InvoiceOwl, is built for exactly that situation: contractors, electricians, plumbers, roofers, HVAC technicians, painters and similar trades who need to put an estimate or an invoice in front of a client without going back to a desk. The app's job is to take the quoting and billing side of a job and compress it into a few taps on a phone.

What you get is a toolkit for the money side of contracting work. You write estimates and quotes, send them to clients by email, convert them into invoices, request deposits, take card payments and watch what has been paid and what has not. The developer says more than 20,000 businesses use it, and the app has been installed over 50,000 times on Google Play, where it holds a 4.2 average from 976 ratings. It is free to install and offers in-app purchases, and there are no ads.

That combination makes the most sense for someone whose business runs on quotes and invoices rather than on a full accounting suite. A two-person painting crew, a handyman juggling several small jobs a week, or a landscaper who bills monthly for maintenance work all fit the shape of what this app does. Larger firms with bookkeeping staff may want more, but for the solo operator or small crew, the appeal is that the whole billing loop lives on the phone in your pocket.

Writing a quote while the job is still fresh

The estimate side is where this app starts earning its place. You build a quote from ready-made templates, add your company logo and details, and send it to the client by email. The developer pitches this as a way to produce estimates in a minute rather than hours of paper forms, and the claim to weigh is simply whether the templates and reuse of client details save you that time in practice.

Repeat business is handled with less retyping. Client details are stored in the app and reused, so the second quote for the same homeowner does not mean entering the same address and contact information again. Those details sync across devices, which matters if you quote from a phone on site and then sit down with a tablet or computer in the evening to tidy things up.

Once a quote is accepted, the app can turn it into an invoice with one tap. That single step is the part I would value most in a tool like this, because it removes the usual gap between winning a job and actually billing for it. You can also attach photos, spreadsheets and documents to estimates and invoices, which is useful when a client wants to see the scope of work or a material list alongside the price.

Invoices, deposits and getting paid

On the invoice side, the app supports unlimited invoices built from free templates, and it also handles credit memos and credit notes for the times when a bill needs adjusting. Invoices go out by email to a valid client address, so the sending step is quick once the document itself is ready. If you take deposits before starting work, you can request one on an invoice with a single action and let the client complete that payment online.

Payments are accepted in the app through credit and debit cards, including American Express, MasterCard and Visa, along with Apple Pay and Google Pay. The developer describes this as secure, which is the kind of claim worth treating as a promise rather than a guarantee; the practical point is that clients have several familiar ways to pay without you setting up anything separate.

The tracking features are what keep the money side from drifting. Notifications tell you when a client has received, opened or paid an estimate or invoice, so chasing people by phone becomes less of a routine. Reports cover monthly, quarterly and yearly views of profit and loss, taxes and sales broken down by item or client, and they also help you keep an eye on paid and unpaid invoices and budgets. For a contractor who wants a clear picture of which jobs and which customers are actually profitable, that is a meaningful amount of information to have on hand.

Making the documents look like your business

Branding is handled more thoroughly than I would expect from a free billing app. You can put your company logo, information and details on estimates and invoices, and choose from more than 50 colors so the documents match the rest of your materials. Tax and markup percentages can be set so the numbers come out right without recalculating by hand on every job.

Estimates can also be exported as PDFs, which is handy when a client or a supplier wants a file rather than an email body. Attachments work the same way here as on invoices, so photos of a site, spreadsheets of materials or other documents can travel with the quote. None of this is unusual on its own, but together it means the paperwork you send out can look consistent whether you are quoting a small repair or a full renovation.

What you need before the first invoice goes out

A valid email address for the client is required, since estimates and invoices are sent that way. If you regularly deal with customers who only want paper in hand, that is worth thinking about before you commit to billing through the app.

The app is free to install and carries in-app purchases, and it shows no ads. The developer does not lay out what the purchases cover, so I would treat the free download as the way to see whether the templates, reports and payment options match how you already work. Client details sync across devices, which suggests you will want to sign in on each device you plan to bill from rather than treating the phone as a standalone notebook.

Because the app runs on a phone as well as a computer, the realistic workflow is to write the quote on site, send it before you leave the driveway, and handle the invoice and any deposit request later. That is the pattern the feature set is shaped around, and it is worth checking that it lines up with how your customers actually agree to work and pay.

Where this fits among contractor tools

The clearest fit is a trade business where one person handles both the work and the billing. If you are an electrician, plumber, roofer, painter, carpenter, drywaller or pest control operator quoting jobs yourself, the estimate-to-invoice flow, the stored client list and the payment options cover most of what you need without a separate bookkeeping program. Renovators and home builders running several jobs at once will get more use out of the reporting and the unpaid-invoice tracking.

Businesses with an office administrator or an existing accounting system may find the app overlaps with tools they already pay for. The app targets contractors who want to save time and win more jobs, and its features serve that audience. It is not trying to be a general-purpose accounting platform, and judging it as one would miss the point.

The 4.2 average from 976 ratings suggests a generally satisfied but not unanimous user base, which is normal for a free app with in-app purchases.

A billing app that suits tradespeople on the move

Easy Invoice & Estimates Maker is a focused tool for the quoting and invoicing side of contract work, and it does that job with a reasonable amount of depth: templates, branding, deposits, card and wallet payments, notifications and periodic reports. The one-tap conversion from estimate to invoice and the reuse of client details are the features that would save the most time for someone billing several customers a week.

The trade-offs are the ones that come with a free app of this type. There are in-app purchases, and sending documents depends on having a client email address. The app is also clearly aimed at contractors, so its value depends on whether your work is quoted and invoiced job by job.

If you run a small trade business and want to stop losing evenings to paperwork, this is worth installing and trying on a real job. If you already have a billing system that handles estimates, invoices and payments the way you like, there is less here to pull you away from it. Released in October 2020 and updated as recently as March 2026, it is a mature app rather than a new experiment, which is reassuring for something you would trust with your invoices.