Yoley vs Tradify

Pricing: the main reason people switch

Tradify’s entry plan is around £29/user/month (roughly $34 USD). For a sole trader, that’s £348 a year before you’ve sent your first invoice. Add a second user and you’re looking at £696/year.

Yoley’s Free plan is £0/month, forever, with unlimited quotes, invoices, expenses, customers, CIS and the job diary. You only pay when you collect a card payment — 1.49% per transaction on Free, or 0.99% on Tap to Pay if you upgrade to Pro at £9.99/month.

Over three years, a sole trader using Tradify pays around £1,044. A sole trader using Yoley’s Free plan pays £0 in subscription — they only pay percentage fees on card payments, which they’d pay with Tradify too (Tradify settles through Stripe at ~2.9%).

Where Tradify wins

Tradify is older, more established, and has a web/desktop interface in addition to its mobile app. If any of these matter to you, Tradify is the stronger pick:

• Desktop/web client. Yoley is iPhone-only. Tradify has a Windows/Mac browser experience for back-office staff.
• Multi-user teams. Tradify is built for teams with shared diaries, roles and permissions. Yoley today is single-user (team features are on the roadmap).
• Android. Tradify runs on Android. Yoley does not — it’s built specifically for iPhone.
• Xero/QuickBooks integration. Tradify has deep two-way accounting integrations. Yoley exports to CSV and PDF but doesn’t yet push directly into accounting packages.

Where Yoley wins

For a UK sole trader or small business on iPhone, Yoley has several advantages that aren’t about price:

• 1.49% card payments built in. Tradify uses Stripe at ~2.9%. Yoley’s payments are processed by Monek, a UK FCA-regulated processor, at nearly half the fee.
• Tap to Pay on iPhone at 0.99%. Turn your phone into a card reader. Tradify doesn’t support this.
• CIS subcontractor management, free. Yoley includes CIS deduction rates and UTR management on the Free plan. Tradify doesn’t have a dedicated CIS module.
• On-device receipt OCR. Yoley reads receipts using Apple Vision on-device — no cloud upload. Tradify has expense tracking but no OCR.
• HMRC SA103 categories. Yoley maps each expense to its SA103 self-assessment box automatically. Tradify doesn’t.
• Face ID / biometric lock. Built in on Yoley.
• UK-built, UK-supported. Tradify is a New Zealand/Australian company.

Who should pick which

Pick Tradify if…

• You run a multi-person team and need shared scheduling with roles and permissions today.
• Your office staff work on a desktop/laptop and need a web interface.
• You or your team use Android phones.
• You already use Xero or QuickBooks and need tight two-way sync.

Pick Yoley if…

• You’re a sole trader or small-team UK trade business on iPhone.
• You want to stop paying £29/month for software.
• You need CIS handled without upgrading to a paid tier.
• You’d like lower card fees and Tap to Pay on your iPhone.
• You want an iPhone-native experience with Face ID, iCloud sync and on-device OCR.

Switching from Tradify to Yoley

There’s no import wizard yet — Yoley’s customer base is typically smaller-team sole traders for whom a manual switch takes under an hour. Export your customers and open invoices from Tradify as CSV, add customers into Yoley (or use the quick-add on first use), and raise any open invoices against them directly. The Quick Start Guide walks through the five things you need to set up on day one.

Related comparisons

• Yoley vs Powered Now — the closest UK-built competitor.
• Yoley vs ServiceM8 — the other Apple-first trade app.
• Yoley vs QuickBooks — trades-first versus accounting-first.