GorillaDesk and CrewLink both take driving seriously. They are built for different kinds of days. GorillaDesk is aimed at route-based service businesses such as pest control, lawn care, pool service and cleaning, where many short stops make up the day. CrewLink is aimed at companies running 5 to 50 trucks where jobs are booked one at a time and the risk is promising a slot the truck cannot reach.
This page covers what each one says it does, how each treats travel, and who should pick which.
What GorillaDesk is
As of October 2026, GorillaDesk's homepage presents it as field service software for "Pest, Lawn, & Cleaning Businesses." It lists CRM, invoicing and billing, scheduling and dispatching, route optimization, a customer portal, a mobile app, GPS tracking and more, and names industries including pest control, lawn care, pool service, landscaping, tree care, cleaning, window washing and pressure washing.
GorillaDesk's route planning page (as of October 2026) describes visual route planning, route optimization, dispatching routes to the team, a traffic view to "Navigate around known traffic delays," and GPS tracking. It says you can "plan and dispatch optimized routes in seconds" and that route planning is available on all plans. Its scheduling page describes a drag-and-drop calendar for resolving scheduling conflicts.
Where the real difference sits
Route planning and booking-time feasibility act at different moments.
A route planner takes the stops on a day and finds a good order. For pest, lawn and pool companies, where the same accounts are serviced on a regular cycle and a technician may run many stops a day, ordering the route is where most of the drive savings live. That is real value, and it is the core of route planning.
CrewLink works one step earlier. When a job is being booked, it checks feasibility before a slot is offered, with live travel computed from where the truck will actually be at that hour: the previous job on that crew's day, not the shop. If the drive does not fit, the slot is not offered. Drive time sits on the board next to the job. That is travel time scheduling.
If your day is built from a recurring route, optimizing the order is most of the job. If your day is built from calls that arrive in random order, the drive was decided when each call was booked. Our page on CrewLink vs route optimization software walks through how to tell which situation you are in.
What CrewLink does and does not do
CrewLink does a short list of things:
- Builds live travel time into availability, so the only slots offered are ones a crew can reach.
- Checks feasibility before a slot is offered, with travel computed from the previous job.
- Schedules crews around the drive, not the calendar.
- Gives you a dispatch board.
- Is built for companies running 5 to 50 trucks.
CrewLink is not a route planner, and it does not do CRM, invoicing, payments, customer portals, chemical or material tracking, GPS tracking, texting or a mobile app. A contractor network is on the roadmap and not live.
Side by side
| CrewLink | GorillaDesk | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Scheduling and dispatch built around travel feasibility | Field service software for "Pest, Lawn, & Cleaning Businesses" (homepage) |
| How travel is used | Checked before a slot is offered, from where the truck will be | Route planning and optimization on all plans (route planning page) |
| Traffic view | Not claimed | Traffic view for known delays (route planning page) |
| Invoicing & customer portal | No | Listed on its homepage |
| GPS tracking | No | Described on its route planning page |
| Pricing | Discussed in a walkthrough | Priced per route; Basic $49, Pro $99, Growth $149 a month for one route (pricing page) |
| Best fit | 5 to 50 trucks booking one-off jobs ahead | Route-based pest, lawn, pool and cleaning businesses |
All GorillaDesk details as of October 2026.
Who should pick GorillaDesk
Pick GorillaDesk if you run a route-based business like pest control, lawn care or pool service, with many recurring stops per technician per day, and you want routing, invoicing, a customer portal and a mobile app in one product. Its pricing page publishes plans priced by number of routes, with Basic at $49, Pro at $99 and Growth at $149 a month for one route, and says there are no setup fees or contracts, as of October 2026.
Who should look at CrewLink
Look at CrewLink if your work is mostly one-off visits booked by phone or online, days ahead, across 5 to 50 trucks. In that kind of business, the problem is rarely the order of stops. It is that each booking was placed in an empty block without anyone checking the drive from the job before, so the day was already broken before anyone routed it.
The example is illustrative. You can estimate what drive time costs you with the windshield time cost calculator.
What to take away
- GorillaDesk is field service software for route-based pest, lawn, pool and cleaning businesses. CrewLink is a scheduling product only.
- GorillaDesk's site describes route planning and optimization on all plans, with published per-route pricing.
- Route planning orders a day that already exists. CrewLink checks travel before a slot is offered.
- If your work is recurring stops on a route, GorillaDesk is likely the better fit.
Common questions
Is CrewLink a GorillaDesk alternative?
Only for scheduling, and mainly for companies whose jobs are booked one at a time rather than run as recurring routes. CrewLink does not do invoicing, CRM, customer portals or route planning, which GorillaDesk lists on its site as of October 2026.
Does GorillaDesk optimize routes?
Yes. Its route planning page, as of October 2026, describes route planning, route optimization and a traffic view, available on all plans.
How much does GorillaDesk cost?
As of October 2026, its pricing page lists Basic at $49, Pro at $99 and Growth at $149 a month for one route, with pricing scaling by number of routes and annual options available.
Who should choose GorillaDesk over CrewLink?
Pest, lawn, pool and cleaning businesses with recurring routes that want routing, invoicing and a customer portal in one product.