A straight comparison for UK tradespeople deciding between Yoley’s free iPhone app and Tradify’s £29/month job management platform.
Tradify is a mature, feature-rich job management platform used by trade businesses worldwide. Its pricing starts at around £29/month per user. Yoley is a newer, free UK-built iPhone app that covers the same core workflow — quote, invoice, schedule, expense — with card payments at 1.49% and CIS included, all on the Free plan. If you’re a sole trader or small UK trade business on iPhone, Yoley almost certainly gives you 95% of what you actually use in Tradify for 0% of the cost.
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%).
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:
For a UK sole trader or small business on iPhone, Yoley has several advantages that aren’t about price:
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.
| Feature | Yoley | Tradify |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price (entry) | £0 free | £29 / user |
| Quotes & invoices | Yes | Yes |
| Card payment rate | 1.49% | ~2.9% (Stripe) |
| Tap to Pay on iPhone | 0.99% (Pro) | No |
| Receipt OCR | On-device | No |
| HMRC SA103 mapping | Yes | No |
| CIS subcontractor management | Free | No |
| Job diary / scheduling | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-user team | Roadmap | Yes |
| Web / desktop client | iPhone only | Yes |
| Xero / QuickBooks sync | Export | Two-way |
| Face ID / biometric lock | Yes | No |
| Built in the UK | Yes | NZ/AU |
Try Yoley free — no credit card, no trial timer, no lock-in. If you don’t like it, delete the app.
Yes. Yoley's core app is free forever with unlimited quotes, invoices and expenses, whereas Tradify is a paid subscription (around £29/month at the time of writing). Most tradespeople switch to Yoley specifically to stop paying a monthly fee just to send quotes.
Yoley is free for the core app — you only pay 1.49% when you take a card payment, and an optional Pro plan is £9.99/month for extras like Tap to Pay on iPhone and Open Banking. Tradify charges a recurring monthly subscription per user regardless of usage.
Yes. You can start sending quotes and invoices from Yoley straight away, and keep records of past jobs as you go. Because Yoley is free, many tradespeople run it alongside Tradify for a week before switching fully.
For most UK sole traders and small trade businesses, Yoley covers the essentials — quoting, invoicing, expenses, CIS and card payments — without a monthly fee. Tradify offers deeper job-management and team scheduling, so larger teams may prefer it. If your main need is quoting and getting paid, Yoley does it free.