The best Tradify alternatives
for Australian tradies.
Fair warning: we make one of these. QuickPrice is ours, it's first on the list, and we'll tell you exactly when it's the wrong pick. Tradify is a genuinely capable job-management app — but if you're here, something's not fitting. Usually it's per-user pricing that climbs every time you add someone, price rises landing at renewal, or paying for a whole job-management platform when all you really do in it is quote and invoice. Here are five alternatives, what each is actually best at, and who should pick which.
Why tradies switch
The three reasons this search exists.
None of these makes Tradify a bad product. They're just the friction points that come up again and again when Aussie tradies talk about moving on. Details change, so verify the current position on tradifyhq.com before you decide.
Per-user pricing climbs with headcount
Tradify charges per user per month, billed in USD for Australian customers. Simple to understand with one login — but put an apprentice and an office admin on it and the bill multiplies. After the 2026 pricing changes, the paid tiers commonly work out at around A$70+ per user per month. Check current rates on their site, but that's the maths driving most of this search.
The price keeps moving
Price rises have landed more than once, and because Australian customers are billed in USD, the AUD figure drifts with the exchange rate even in months when the sticker price doesn't change. Plenty of tradies would rather pay one flat amount in Australian dollars and know what leaves the account each month.
Paying platform money for quoting work
Tradify's scheduling, timesheets and job tracking are the point of the product — if you use them. A quoting-focused sole tradie who opens the app to send a quote and an invoice is paying job-management platform money for features that never get tapped. Reasonable model, wrong shape for that customer.
The alternatives
Five Tradify alternatives, honestly ranked.
QuickPrice
Our pick — and yes, it's oursBest for: tradies who mostly quote and invoice, and want it done from the ute in about a minute
QuickPrice attacks the exact bit of Tradify most sole tradies actually used: getting a priced, professional quote out the door. Stand in the driveway, talk the job through — hot water system swap, switchboard upgrade, split-system air con install — or snap photos, film a walkthrough, or just type it. The AI drafts an itemised, GST-ready, branded PDF quote in about a minute, and Quote DNA learns your pricing from quotes you've already sent, so it prices like you, not like an average. The customer accepts online, one tap turns the quote into an invoice, and auto-chase reminders plus notify-on-view handle the following-up. It runs natively on iOS and Android with a web dashboard, and pricing is flat per business in Australian dollars, not per user: free plan, then A$14.99 to A$59.99 a month, whether one person uses it or three. The honest limit: there's no scheduling, timesheets, GPS or purchase orders. If you need full job management, pick one of the platforms below.
- AI quote from voice, photos, video or text in about a minute (manual quoting too)
- Quote DNA learns your rates and phrasing from past quotes
- GST-ready branded PDF quotes; customer accepts online
- One-tap quote-to-invoice, auto-chase reminders, notify-on-view
- Native iOS and Android apps plus a web dashboard
- Flat A$ pricing, not per user: Free A$0, Starter A$14.99/mo, Pro A$29.99/mo (14-day trial), Advanced A$59.99/mo
ServiceM8
Best for: iPhone crews that want an Australian-made field-service platform
The other name every Aussie tradie knows. ServiceM8 is Australian-made and covers the full field-service loop: scheduling, dispatch, online bookings, forms and checklists, job history, quoting and invoicing. Two caveats before you jump. The field app has historically run on iPhone and iPad only, with no native Android app for the crew (confirm the current position on servicem8.com), and pricing is tiered on how many jobs you run each month, with some capabilities sold as add-ons on top. Best for an established service business on Apple hardware that wants the whole job lifecycle in one place.
See QuickPrice vs ServiceM8Fergus
Best for: Plumbing and electrical teams that want job costing and back-office visibility
Fergus is a trades job-management platform out of New Zealand with a strong following among plumbers and sparkies on both sides of the Tasman. Its pitch is visibility: job costing, status boards and back-office workflow so you can see which jobs are actually making money. It runs on iOS and Android and is generally priced per user — so the same headcount maths that pushed you off Tradify applies; run the numbers. It's a business-management tool first and a quoting tool second: more setup than a quoting app, more control once it's in. Best for an established team with office admin who wants margins tracked job by job.
AroFlo
Best for: Larger established operations with compliance and asset requirements
AroFlo is one of the longest-running Australian field-service platforms, and it's deep: job management, compliance documentation, asset management, inventory and integrations, configurable to how your operation runs. That depth is the point — and the caveat. It's generally suited to bigger, established businesses with someone in the office to own the setup, and it's typically priced per user. If you found Tradify heavy, AroFlo is heavier. Best for operations that have outgrown app-sized tools, not sole tradies who just want quotes out faster.
Jobber
Best for: Home-service businesses that want polished client-facing tools
Jobber is a North American home-services platform with scheduling, quoting, invoicing and a well-liked client hub where customers approve quotes and pay online. It runs on iOS and Android and works fine in Australia, but it isn't built here: plans are billed in USD (which, converted, has commonly worked out somewhere around A$58 to A$420 a month depending on plan and team size — check current pricing), and the defaults lean North American. If USD billing is part of why you're leaving Tradify, note that Jobber has the same trait. Best for service businesses that want slick customer-facing workflow and don't mind where the bill comes from.
See QuickPrice vs JobberAt a glance
The short version of the whole page, side by side.
| App | Best for | Platforms | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuickPrice | AI quoting + invoicing, fast, on any phone | iOS, Android + web | Flat per business: free plan, paid A$14.99–59.99/mo |
| Tradify | Small teams, full job management | iOS + Android | Per user/month, billed in USD (commonly ~A$70+/user on paid tiers — check current) |
| ServiceM8 | Full field-service platform on iPhone/iPad | iOS field app; web office | Tiers based on monthly job volume, plus add-ons |
| Fergus | Plumbing/electrical teams, job costing | iOS + Android | Generally per user, per month |
| AroFlo | Larger operations, compliance & assets | iOS + Android | Generally per user, per month |
| Jobber | Home services, client-facing polish | iOS + Android | Tiered plans, billed in USD |
Competitor pricing, platform support and features change — check each vendor's site for current details. QuickPrice pricing is on the pricing page.
Moving over from Tradify
Bring your clients. Bring your quoting voice.
Export your client list from Tradify as a CSV and drop it into QuickPrice. Then upload up to five quotes you've already sent — Quote DNA reads how you price and how you write, so the first quote you generate already sounds like the ones your customers know. There's no catalogue to rebuild and no per-user seats to buy, and because QuickPrice runs on iOS and Android with a web dashboard, the whole crew gets on it, whatever phone is in the ute. Most tradies are up and running inside an hour.
FAQ
Things tradies ask
Why are so many tradies looking for a Tradify alternative?
Mostly pricing. Tradify charges per user per month, billed in USD for Australian customers, and after its 2026 pricing changes the paid tiers commonly work out at around A$70+ per user per month — check tradifyhq.com for current rates. That's manageable solo, but the bill multiplies every time you add an apprentice or an office admin. On top of that, plenty of sole tradies find they only ever use the quoting and invoicing side, which means they're paying job-management platform money for scheduling, timesheets and job tracking they don't open. None of that makes Tradify a bad product — it's a capable platform — but it explains the search.
What's the cheapest Tradify alternative?
Of the apps on this list, QuickPrice is the cheapest way in: there's a genuinely free plan (A$0, includes AI quotes each month), and paid plans run A$14.99 to A$59.99 a month flat per business — not per user, so the price doesn't climb as you add people. The trade-off is scope: QuickPrice covers quoting and invoicing, not scheduling or timesheets. The full job-management platforms (ServiceM8, Fergus, AroFlo, Jobber) price per user, per plan tier, or on job volume, so their real cost depends on your headcount and workload — check each vendor's site for current AU pricing.
Can I import my clients from Tradify?
Generally yes. Tradify lets you export your client list, and most alternatives — QuickPrice included — accept a CSV import, so your client book comes across in one go rather than being retyped. In QuickPrice you can also upload up to five quotes you've already sent, and Quote DNA reads them to learn your rates, your phrasing and the line items you always include, so your first quote on the new app already reads like one of yours.
Do these alternatives handle quoting and invoicing?
Yes — every app on this list does both quotes and invoices. QuickPrice is built around exactly that loop: the AI drafts an itemised, GST-ready quote from a voice note, photos, video or a typed description, the customer accepts it online, and one tap turns the accepted quote into an invoice with auto-chase reminders so you're not the one sending the awkward follow-up. ServiceM8, Fergus, AroFlo and Jobber all quote and invoice too, as part of broader job-management platforms with scheduling, timesheets and job tracking on top.
Does QuickPrice do scheduling and job management like Tradify?
No, and it's worth being straight about that. Tradify is a full job-management platform — scheduling, timesheets, job tracking, purchase orders, accounting sync. QuickPrice deliberately covers the money documents: AI quoting, online acceptance, one-tap invoicing and payment chasing, on iOS, Android and a web dashboard. If you're leaving Tradify because of the per-user bill but still need job management, look at ServiceM8 (on iPhones), Fergus or AroFlo. If you're leaving because you mostly used it to quote and invoice and the rest was overhead, QuickPrice is the closer fit.