The best app for tradespeople, compared
Bizzy Day vs Tradify, Powered Now, TradeMore, Mucka and Billdu — side by side on features, ease of use and monthly price, using each provider's published UK pricing and feature pages.
Full disclosure: Bizzy Day is our product. So we've kept this factual — every claim below comes from each provider's own published pages, and we've dated everything. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
One difference matters more than any other
All five alternatives are back-office tools: they help you manage work you've already won. None of them gives you a public profile customers can search, or shows your availability to the public. Bizzy Day does both — it's where customers find you and where you run the job afterwards.
Get found
Customers search by trade, postcode and date — your profile appears, free
Show availability
Your live calendar tells customers when you're free before they call
Keep costs flat
£6.99 or £9.99/month — no per-user billing, no commission, no lead fees
Feature comparison at a glance
From each provider's published UK pages, July 2026. Scroll sideways on mobile.
| Feature | Bizzy Day | Tradify | Powered Now | TradeMore | Mucka | Billdu |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public profile customers can search | Core feature — free | |||||
| Live availability calendar visible to customers | AM/PM precision | |||||
| Free plan (not just a trial) | Free listing | 14-day trial | 14-day trial | Solo plan | Limited free tier | 7-day trial |
| Cheapest paid plan | £6.99/month flat | £34/user/month | £28/user/month | £50/month | £29/month | ≈£4/month*, no GBP pricing |
| Job scheduling & diary | Drag-and-drop on top tier | Booking slots, not job diary | ||||
| Quotes & invoices | Incl. credit notes & deposits | |||||
| Expense & receipt tracking | ||||||
| AI features (voice quoting, OCR, etc.) | From £9.99/month | £44/user tier only | AI text; receptionist £29+ add-on | £50/month tier | AI-first, £29/month | None advertised |
| Review platform links on your profile | Checkatrade, Trustatrader, Rated People, Google | Review request nudges only | ||||
| Google Calendar / ICS sync | Bidirectional + webcal feed | Google Calendar | Not listed | Not listed | Google / Microsoft 365 | Booking app only |
| Accounting software sync | Xero & QuickBooks coming soon | Xero, QuickBooks, Sage | Xero | Xero & QuickBooks announced | Xero, QuickBooks, FreeAgent | Xero |
| Flat price (no per-user billing) | Per user | Per user | Team tiers £200+ | Team £39/user | Seats capped by tier |
* Billdu publishes pricing in USD/EUR only; GBP figure is an approximate conversion. Competitor prices exclude VAT where the provider states so.
What a sole trader pays per month
Cheapest plan that includes each product's headline features, published monthly prices, July 2026.
Bizzy Day Pro AI
£9.99/month
Public profile, live calendar, jobs, quotes, invoices, expenses + all AI tools
Bizzy Day Standard
£6.99/month
Public profile, live calendar, jobs, quotes, invoices, expenses
Billdu Standard
≈£11.50/month*
Invoices, estimates & expenses only — 50-client cap ($14.99 billed monthly)
Powered Now Business
£28/month + VAT
Certificates need £32 tier; drag-and-drop diary needs £40 tier
Mucka Solo
£29/month + VAT
All AI features included
Tradify Lite
£34/month
AI tools need the £44 Plus tier
TradeMore Solo Pro
£50/month
The free Solo plan has no AI features
* Billdu publishes USD pricing only; approximate conversion shown. Annual billing discounts (where offered) reduce competitor prices — e.g. Powered Now Business drops to ≈£23.33/month + VAT billed annually.
The alternatives in depth
What each app does well — and what to check before you commit.
Tradify
Established job management softwareA mature all-in-one job management platform from New Zealand (owned by the UK's Access Group since 2024), used by around 20,000 trade businesses. It covers the full enquiry-to-payment workflow: quoting, scheduling, job tracking, timesheets, invoicing and payments.
Pricing: £34–£44 per user per month in the UK (Lite £34, Pro £37, Plus £44). AI tools (SmartRead bill scanning, SmartWrite descriptions) need the £44 Plus tier. Optional website add-on £10/month. 14-day free trial, no free plan.
Where it shines
- Deep job management — timesheets, subcontractors, purchase orders, job costing
- UK gas and electrical certificates (CP12, EICR, EIC, PAT) on Pro tier and up
- Xero, QuickBooks and Sage accounting sync
- Strong ratings: 4.7 on Capterra, 4.8 on Trustpilot and the App Store
Worth knowing
- No public profile, directory or marketplace — customers can't find you through Tradify
- No availability visible to customers, and no lead generation beyond its £10/month website add-on
- Per-user pricing adds up fast for teams; reviewers flag cost at 10+ staff
- Cheapest way in is £34/month — about 5× Bizzy Day Standard
Powered Now
UK field service management veteranA UK company (Isle of Wight, founded 2012) building strongly UK-centric field service software: quotes, invoices, work diary, 80+ digital forms and certificates, Making Tax Digital VAT submission, CIS support and full offline mode.
Pricing: £28–£40 per user per month excluding VAT (Business £28, Professional £32, Premium £40; two months free on annual billing). Gas certificates need the £32 tier; drag-and-drop scheduling, customer portal and automated chasing need the £40 tier. AI Receptionist is a £29–£39/month add-on. 14-day free trial, no free plan.
Where it shines
- The most UK-compliance-focused option: MTD VAT returns, CIS/DRC, 80+ certificates
- Full offline mode — works with no signal, syncs later
- Excellent support reputation (4.9/5 support score on Capterra)
- Customer portal for existing clients on the Premium tier
Worth knowing
- No public profile, marketplace or customer search — back-office software only
- No availability visible to customers; its Here Is My Work portfolio product explicitly avoids being a directory
- Key features are gated behind higher tiers — scheduling drag-and-drop costs £40/user/month
- Reviewers describe pricing as high versus alternatives; mobile apps rate lower (~4.1) than its web reviews
TradeMore
Checkatrade's AI job management appLaunched by Checkatrade in September 2025, TradeMore combines a unified message inbox (Checkatrade leads, email, WhatsApp Business), AI quoting from chat or voice, automated quote follow-ups, team scheduling and an AI receptionist that answers missed calls 24/7.
Pricing: Free Solo plan (quoting, invoicing, inbox — no AI). Paid plans jump to £50/month for Solo Pro (75 AI calls, AI quoting), then £200/month for teams up to 4 users, rising to £520/month for 15 users.
Where it shines
- Genuinely free entry plan with quoting and invoicing
- Unified inbox pulling Checkatrade leads, email and WhatsApp into one feed
- AI receptionist answers your missed calls around the clock
- Gas and electrical certificate generation
Worth knowing
- No public profile or customer search within TradeMore itself — discovery stays on the separate Checkatrade marketplace with its own membership costs
- No availability visible to customers and no Google/Apple calendar sync listed
- No expense tracking
- Steep jump from free to £50/month; early App Store rating of 3.7 from a small number of reviews
Mucka
AI-first admin assistantA Brighton startup (founded 2025) building an AI 'operating system' for trades: capture jobs by voice note, phone or WhatsApp, and the AI drafts quotes, chases payments, books work and briefs your team — everything approved with one tap before it sends.
Pricing: Limited free tier (30 AI replies/month, manual documents). Solo £29/month excluding VAT with unlimited AI features and 60 AI receptionist minutes; Team £39 per user per month. 14-day free trial.
Where it shines
- The most ambitious AI feature set — proactive chasing, WhatsApp briefings, voice receptionist
- Live quotes customers can e-sign online
- Gas CP12 certificates; Xero, QuickBooks and FreeAgent sync
- Ships updates every week or two
Worth knowing
- No public profile, marketplace or customer-visible availability — assumes you already have customers
- No expense or profit tracking (it tracks money owed to you, not your costs)
- Very new: tiny review base (a handful of App Store ratings) and its headline AI receptionist was still in early access
- £29/month entry — about 3× Bizzy Day Pro AI for the AI tools
Billdu
Budget invoicing appA Slovakia-built invoicing and estimates app (founded 2011, part of the team.blue group) aimed at small businesses generally rather than trades specifically. Polished mobile apps for invoices, estimates, expenses and card payments, with add-on booking and website tools.
Pricing: No UK pricing published — plans are listed at $4.99–$27.99/month (roughly £4–£21) depending on tier and annual vs monthly billing. Lower tiers cap your client list (10 clients on Lite, 50 on Standard). 7-day trial, no free plan.
Where it shines
- Cheapest paid option of the five if you only need paperwork
- Excellent app-store ratings at scale (4.8 App Store, 4.6 Google Play)
- Solid invoicing polish: templates, e-signatures, open tracking, card payments
- Expense tracking with a receipt scanner
Worth knowing
- Not trade software: no job diary (its booking app is salon-style appointment slots), no certificates, no CIS or Making Tax Digital support
- No public profile, marketplace or customer search — and no AI features at all
- Client caps on cheaper tiers are restrictive for a working tradesperson
- Support is its weakest review dimension, with recurring complaints about slow responses
Ease of use — what reviewers say
Published review scores at July 2026. Review volume matters as much as the score — newer apps have far fewer ratings.
Tradify
Thousands of reviews across platforms
Capterra 4.7 · Trustpilot 4.8 · App Store 4.8 · Google Play ~4.4
Powered Now
Hundreds of reviews; support especially praised
Capterra 4.7 · G2 4.9 · Trustpilot ~4.5 · App Store 4.1
TradeMore
Around 20 ratings — launched September 2025
App Store 3.7
Mucka
A handful of ratings — launched November 2025
App Store 5.0
Billdu
Tens of thousands of app-store ratings
App Store 4.8 · Google Play 4.6 · Capterra 4.2 · Trustpilot ~4.0
Where's Bizzy Day's score? We're newer than most of these apps and don't yet have a large published review base — so rather than quote a number that means little, we'd suggest judging for yourself: listing is free, with no card required.
So which is best?
Honestly — it depends what your business needs most.
You issue gas or electrical certificates every week
Powered Now or Tradify are the strongest picks — digital CP12s, EICRs and MTD/CIS compliance are their home turf. Budget £28–£44 per user per month.
You only need invoices and estimates, as cheap as possible
Billdu is hard to beat on price for pure paperwork — just check the client caps, and know it does nothing for scheduling, compliance or getting found.
You miss calls constantly and want AI to run your admin
Mucka (£29/month) and TradeMore (£50/month) both put an AI receptionist and AI quoting at the centre. Both are very new — check the review volume before committing.
You want more customers — and to run the business you've got
Bizzy Day is the only one of the six where customers can actually find you: a searchable public profile with your live availability, plus jobs, quotes, invoices, expenses and AI tools from £6.99–£9.99/month flat.
And they're not all mutually exclusive: because Bizzy Day's listing is free, plenty of tradespeople use it for discovery alongside whatever back-office tool they already run — then consolidate later if the built-in job tools cover what they need.
Try the only app that brings customers to you
List free today. Upgrade to Standard (£6.99/month) for the live calendar and job tools, or Pro AI (£9.99/month) for voice quoting, receipt OCR and more. Cancel any time.
All competitor information was checked on 29 July 2026 against each provider's published UK website, pricing pages and public app-store listings. Prices exclude VAT where the provider states so, and may have changed since — always confirm on the provider's own site. Tradify, Powered Now, TradeMore, Mucka, Billdu, Checkatrade, Trustatrader, Rated People, Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and FreeAgent are trademarks of their respective owners; their use here is for factual comparison only, and no affiliation or endorsement is implied. If you own one of these products and something above is wrong or out of date, contact us and we'll correct it promptly.