Trade Bid Tools is a collection of free bid calculators for trade contractors — painters, landscapers, and handymen. The goal is simple: give small trade businesses access to professional estimating tools without subscription fees, account creation, or software to install.
Every calculator on this site runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server. Your job details, rates, and estimates stay on your device.
Most estimating software is built for large contractors and priced accordingly — $50–$150/month for features a solo painter or two-person landscaping crew will never use. The free alternatives are usually clunky spreadsheets or generic calculators that don't understand trade-specific costs like paint coverage, mulch yardage, or labor pacing.
Trade Bid Tools fills that gap. Each calculator is purpose-built for a specific trade, with sensible defaults and the right input fields — so you can generate a real bid in about a minute.
Questions, feedback, or a trade you'd like to see added? Reach out at hello@tradebidtools.com or visit the contact page.