"But you said two-fifty!"
— the customer, standing in the driveway, holding up your text, next to a pile twice the size of the photo.
Free for one-truck operators. Photos in, and you get a defensible range, the questions to ask before the price firms up, and a reply that cannot be used against you.
Best for garage, curbside, and single-room piles. Whole-house cleanouts: run it room by room, and always do a walkthrough — no photo tool can see behind closed doors.
Bigger jobs take longer. It is looking at every photo properly rather than guessing.
Curious what these jobs actually sell for? 17 real jobs, charted ›
Name and phone show on quotes you send. Your email does not — it is where you get told the second a customer accepts or pays a deposit. Without it those alerts have nowhere to go.
Pick heaped unless you tarp flat to the rails every trip. Junk goes in mounded, and picking the level figure tells the calculator your rig is half its real size — which doubles your load count and your price.
This is the single most important number here — it turns cubic yards into your loads. It should be what you actually fit in one trip. A heaped 5x9 utility trailer is about 3.8, not 15.
What you charge per load. Most price cards are ranges — enter yours the same way. Low is the clean, easy, close-to-the-truck version of that load. High is the one with the carry, the stairs, or the rotted-in bottom layer.
Call your yard for today's shred price. Metal in a job is money back, not a cost, and it never shows to the customer.
Let customers pay a deposit when they accept. The money goes straight to your own Stripe account, not through me. I take nothing from it.
Stripe verifies you before you can take money: name, date of birth, address, SSN and a bank account, about five minutes. That is standard for anyone processing cards. It goes straight to Stripe and I never see any of it.
Free is 3 quotes/day. Pro ($29/mo) adds customer quote links, accept alerts, profit math, deposits, and unlimited quotes — details at the bottom.
⚠ These must be YOUR prices — what you actually charge per load in your market. Everything the calculator gives you is built off these numbers.
| Date | Est. range | Load | Actual $ | Notes |
|---|
What you get
Every quote comes back with the reasoning, not just a number.
It tells you what it used for scale, then what a tradesman would clock: the fridge is plugged in and working, weeds grown through the pile mean the bottom layer is rotted into the ground, the truck can't get closer than sixty feet. You see the reasoning, so you know whether to trust the number.
Two-person lifts when you're working solo. Freon appliances. Lithium batteries that shouldn't ride in your truck. Dense material where tonnage drives the cost instead of volume. Brush hiding half the pile.
Is the fridge empty? Is everything in the photos, or is there more behind the door? Ground floor or stairs? The questions are the product — a photo can't see behind a door, so it tells you what to ask instead of pretending it knows.
Crew hours, disposal tonnage at your dump rate, machine time when the job needs a machine. Then the number that matters: what you keep at the low end of your quote, with a warning when a job would lose money. Pro
The part nobody else does
Every other tool sells you a price. A price is a promise your customer will hold you to.
This one gives you a range, the questions that firm it up, and a customer reply with "anything additional or heavier than it appears is re-priced on arrival, before we start" written into it. So when the pile turns out bigger than the photo, you're having a conversation instead of an argument.
| Free — forever | Pro — $29/month |
|---|---|
| Photo estimate and a defensible range | A link your customer taps to accept |
| The questions to ask before you commit | An email the second they say yes |
| Copy-paste customer reply | Profit math: crew, dump fees, machine time |
| 3 quotes a day | On-site re-quote when the job is bigger |
| Most one-truck guys never hit the cap | A deposit paid into your own bank account |
| Unlimited quotes |
Everything above is live today. Nothing on this list is coming soon.
One job you don't underquote pays for the year. Cancel anytime.
Plenty of apps let you attach a photo to an estimate. This one reads the photo....measures the pile, prices it off your card, and gives you the questions to ask before the price firms up. Jobber $49, Kickserv $60, Housecall Pro $79, and that part isn't in any of them. Founding members lock $29 for as long as they stay.
Your access code lands in your inbox seconds after checkout. One tap and Pro is on.
Straight answers
Before you use it on a job.
No. This does estimating and the quote your customer accepts. Keep using whatever you run your scheduling and invoicing in — plenty of guys use this alongside Jobber or a notebook.
No. Set your truck capacity and what you charge per load once, and it translates the pile into your loads at your prices. If you price by the quarter-load, it quotes by the quarter-load.
Honestly? No photo tool beats walking the job — including yours. A photo can't see behind a door, under a tarp, or through brush. That's exactly why it gives you a range and the questions to firm it up instead of one confident number. It's built for the guy who doesn't have ten years of eyeballing yet, and whose alternative right now is a guess.
Four places, all traceable. Your price card sets the dollars. The photos set the volume, measured off things in the shot with known sizes. Published material weights set the tonnage (concrete runs about 2,400 lb a yard, and it knows that). And the prices page tracks what this tool says against what real jobs closed at. The math runs the same way on every quote....the photo only tells it what's sitting there.
There's a page for that: what junk removal jobs actually sold for. It's 17 real jobs posted in the groups, charted against what the room guessed and what the job closed at. Curbside piles at $150 up to hoarder houses at $6,800. Four of them came back with a confirmed price, and the ones that didn't say so instead of guessing.
Because a single number becomes a promise. The customer screenshots it, and when the pile turns out bigger you're arguing on the driveway. A range plus "re-priced on arrival before we start" in writing is the difference between a conversation and a fight.
Partly. It flags when a job looks like it needs an excavator or skid steer and estimates the hours, and you can set your machine rate so it shows in the cost check. But demo pricing is driven by machine time and tonnage more than volume — treat those quotes as a starting point and walk the job.
They're used to generate your estimate and nothing else — not stored, not sold, not used for anything after. Quote links you send are stored for 90 days so your customer can open them, and those don't include photos.
One guy. I'm not a hauler — I build tools, and I built this one out of the pricing threads in the junk removal groups, mostly by reading operators argue about tonnage. If something's wrong, email me and I usually fix it the same day.
I'm one guy, and this got built out of the pricing threads in the junk removal groups. If a quote came out wrong, or something is missing, drop your email and tell me. I read every one and I usually fix things the same week.
I also add real closed prices to the pricing page as operators send them in, so I'll let you know when it grows. No spam, no drip sequence, just me.