No office, no crew, fifty pools and a phone. Most pool software is sold to companies with six trucks on the road. This page is for the one-truck business.
A real strip, photographed at the pool. The same photo is the proof of the visit.
You photograph the strip once. That one photo is your proof the test was done, and the photo the AI reads — free chlorine, pH, alkalinity and CYA come back with a confidence score, and anything the AI is unsure about is marked for you to confirm. You do not wait for it: the reading happens on our side after the photo is already saved. Fifty times a week, one tap.
This is the one thing here you cannot get anywhere else, so it is worth being blunt about it. The AI reads strips, not drops. If you test with a Taylor kit, there is a screen made for it: type the numbers, tap < or > when a reading is off the chart, and choose how often each reading is due. Everything else on this page still works the same. But you should know that before you start, not on day nine.
The photo trail is not for a supervisor. It is for the Tuesday a customer says nobody showed up in March — you open the date, the time and the picture, and the conversation ends there. Working alone does not make that call less likely; it makes it yours to answer with nobody else to check.
Route, house, photo, chemistry, send. That is the whole day for one person, and it is the right five. The menu has twenty destinations because the same product runs a company with six technicians — live routes, the route builder, the office board and Ready to invoice are for the day you hire someone. Nothing is hidden from you and nothing costs extra; it is simply not your day yet.
QuickBooks is optional, and the standard mode does not use it at all.
Profit per pool is the feature that earns its keep: at fifty pools it takes three houses priced below cost to cover the subscription for a year. But it cannot guess your salary, what your truck drinks or what you pay for chlorine. Somebody has to type that in once, and it takes about an hour. The product does not push you to do it, and if you never do, this page just sold you a number you will not see.
Route, house, photo, chemistry, send — in the order you use them, on the phone you already carry.
Today's houses in order, on the list and on the map, with the day's miles and driving time on top. Every house has its own Navigate button.
Everything about the house on one card: its pools, the last visits with the AI reading, filter and salt — and what it pays you, which only the owner and the office see.
One photo per service, and it is the proof of the visit. No photo, no visit. Pick what you did — chemical test, cleaning, filter, salt — and the photo goes with it.
The readings come from the strip in that photo. Each one says where it came from, and anything the AI is unsure about is marked for you to check.
Submit the visit and the house gets its check on the route. No signal? The photos wait on the phone and go up by themselves when it comes back.
That is the first number on our home page, and for once it is the number you actually pay. Here is the same comparison the pricing page makes, with nothing left out.
So we are $9 more than their cheapest plan and $41 less than the one they mark as most popular. What the cheap plan leaves out: route optimization, estimates, the schedule board, and photos capped at five per visit and twenty per location. Skimmer bills per serviced location — one address, however many bodies of water — while we bill per pool, so a house with a pool and a spa is one there and two here. Source: getskimmer.com/pricing, checked Sep 21, 2026.
Most solo operators have their route in their head, in a notebook and in text messages — not in a system that exports anything. So paste the list instead: one house per line, name and address, straight from your notes or a text message. And you do not have to paste all fifty. Start with five, run tomorrow, add the rest when you feel like it.
Hey — I'm Zappy. I live inside ZapRoute, and I'm the one who reads the test strip from your tech's photo.
Ask me anything — or take a look around. I answer in English, Portuguese and Spanish, same as the app.
Try me on your own pools. Thirty days, no card, and I'll read your first strip today.
Hey — I'm Zappy. I live inside ZapRoute, and I'm the one who reads the test strip from your tech's photo.
Tap a question:
No. Five screens carry a one-person day: route, house, photo, chemistry, send. The other fifteen are there for the day you hire somebody, and they cost you nothing until then.
Then the AI does nothing for you and the photo is one more tap. Everything else still works — the route, the proof, the chemistry typed by hand, profit per pool. Better to know now than on day nine.
$59 a month, which is the number on the front page. It covers up to sixty pools; from sixty-one to ninety-nine it is $99, and from a hundred on it is a dollar a pool.
Then paste the list — one house per line, name and address, straight from your notes or a text message. And start with five if you like; you can add the rest whenever.
Try me on your own pools. Thirty days, no card, and I'll read your first strip today.
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