TradeCatch vs Tradify and Jobber: job management app or office manager?
Tradify and Jobber are job management apps: you run your jobs, quotes, diary and invoices in them yourself. TradeCatch is an AI office manager for UK trades: it answers the phone and does much of that work for you. If you’ve got a team and want proper job management, Tradify or Jobber will suit you better. If you’re a small outfit drowning in calls and admin, TradeCatch does more of it for you.
Tradify vs Jobber: what each is good at
Both are well-established apps for running a trade business. You schedule jobs, send quotes, raise invoices and keep customer records, and both connect to accounting software. Checkatrade’s free TradeMore is another option; we compare it with TradeCatch here.
Tradify charges per person: £34 a month on Lite, £37 on Pro and £44 on Plus, with a 14-day free trial and no contract. It syncs both ways with Xero, and the higher plans add online quote acceptance and appointment reminders.
Jobber publishes its prices in US dollars, from $49 a month on its Core plan for one user. It also sells a Receptionist add-on, at $29 a month for 30 conversations, that answers calls and texts and books jobs into Jobber. See how it compares with other AI receptionists.
Where TradeCatch is different
With a job management app, the app holds the work and you run it. Both speed up quoting, and Jobber can draft quotes from new requests and chase them for you. Unless you add Jobber’s Receptionist, you still answer the phone and book the job in yourself. TradeCatch does those steps for you:
- Your AI receptionist answers the calls you miss, in your business’s name, and texts or WhatsApps you the job.
- The quote is drafted from what the caller said. You check it and it goes.
- When they say yes, it books them in and a draft invoice lands in Xero.
- After the job, it asks for the review. Next year, it reminds the customer their service is due.
A receptionist worth putting your name to
It answers in your business’s name, so it has to sound right. We test every voice on real calls over real phone lines and listen to them blind before a customer ever hears one. TradeCatch is powered by AI from OpenAI and Anthropic, and we keep testing as better ones arrive.
Side by side
| TradeCatch | Tradify | Jobber | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £99 a month, or £79 locked for life for the first 25 UK trades, with 60 days free, whole business | £34 to £44 per person a month | From $49 a month (US dollars) |
| Free trial | 60 days | 14 days | 14 days |
| Answers your phone | Yes, included | Not listed in its plans | With the $29 Receptionist add-on |
| Quotes | Drafted from the call for you | You build them, from templates | Drafts quotes from new requests, and follows them up by email or text |
| Xero | Accepted quotes become draft invoices | Two-way sync | Connects to accounting software |
| Best for | One to ten person trades who want the admin done | Teams who want to run jobs in one app | Field service teams who want jobs and calls in one app |
Which should you pick?
Pick Tradify or Jobber if you have staff to schedule and someone in the office to run it all. They’re built for that, and they do it well.
Pick TradeCatch if the office is you, at nine at night. It costs one price for the whole business, not per person, and it does the work rather than giving you somewhere to do it. Today that’s one login for the business, with logins for your team on the way.
What else you get with TradeCatch
- Ask Catch from Claude or ChatGPT, or from the Ask bar in the app. “What’s in the diary tomorrow?” gets a straight answer.
- A morning rundown on the phone. Ring Catch in the van and it reads you your day.
- Customer records that fill themselves in. It does the job of a CRM without anyone typing.
- Leads on WhatsApp or text, and accepted quotes become draft invoices in Xero.
- UK rules built in for each trade, in British English.
- The founder’s number. Rich Suplee has built voice and AI products for more than a decade, including launching Alexa in the UK, and led product at Xero working with small businesses. The first 25 trades talk to him directly.