Yoley vs Powered Now

Pricing difference over three years

Powered Now’s entry plan is around £22/month/user. For a sole trader, that’s £264/year, or roughly £792 across three years. Yoley is £0/month on the Free plan, with an optional Pro plan at £9.99/month that adds Tap to Pay, Open Banking, WhatsApp enquiries, Yoley Capital and a 5-day weather forecast in the diary.

Even if you upgrade to Yoley Pro, you’re paying £120/year, still less than half of Powered Now. On card payments, Powered Now’s integration via its partners is typically 2.6% + 20p; Yoley is 1.49% on Free, 0.99% on Pro Tap to Pay. On a £2,000 invoice paid by card, Yoley saves you about £22 on that transaction alone.

Where Powered Now wins

Powered Now has been around longer and has more features aimed at multi-person operations:

• Multi-user team. Shared diaries, driver tracking, office/field roles — these are mature features in Powered Now. Yoley is single-user today; team features are on the 2026 roadmap.
• Android. Powered Now is available on Android. Yoley isn’t — it’s an iPhone-only app.
• Web / desktop client. Powered Now has a browser back-office. Yoley doesn’t.
• Accounting integrations. Powered Now has deeper direct integrations with Xero, Sage and QuickBooks. Yoley exports to CSV/PDF.
• Purchase orders across the whole product. Powered Now’s PO workflow is mature; Yoley’s PO feature is currently Pro-tier.

Where Yoley wins

If you’re a sole trader or small-team operator on iPhone, Yoley has several concrete advantages:

• £0 monthly. The obvious one — £264/year saved on day one.
• 1.49% card payments vs Powered Now’s typical 2.6% + 20p — meaningful over a year of turnover.
• Tap to Pay on iPhone at 0.99% — turn your iPhone into a card reader with zero hardware. Powered Now doesn’t offer this.
• On-device receipt OCR. Apple Vision pulls totals and VAT from your receipts without sending the image to any server.
• HMRC SA103 category mapping for self-assessment. Powered Now has expenses but doesn’t auto-map to SA103 boxes.
• Face ID / biometric lock to protect the app if your iPhone is unlocked by a customer, family member or a mate on site.
• iCloud sync via CloudKit. Your data lives in your Apple account, not on a trades-app vendor’s server.

Who should pick which

Pick Powered Now if…

• You have more than 2–3 people on the tools and need shared scheduling today.
• You or anyone in the business uses Android.
• You need a desktop/browser back-office for an office manager.
• You need deep Xero/Sage/QuickBooks two-way sync.

Pick Yoley if…

• You’re a sole trader or small team, all on iPhone.
• You want to stop paying for software.
• You want lower card fees and Tap to Pay without hardware.
• Free CIS subcontractor management matters to you.
• You prefer an iPhone-native, Face-ID-protected app over a cross-platform web product.

Related comparisons

• Yoley vs Tradify — the international competitor at £29/month.
• Yoley vs ServiceM8 — the Apple-first Australian alternative.
• Yoley vs QuickBooks — accounting-first vs trades-first.