The state of the Australian tradie app market

This page tracks 49 products that sell job management or AI quoting software into the Australian trade market and have a reachable website with observable facts. A further 9 names tracked since August 2026 have gone dark. The count is a floor, not a ceiling: new names appear faster than any list can close.

As at 19 August 2026: ServiceM8 (30 jobs a month for 1 user, plus unlimited bonus jobs for accepting card payments), Chippie (20 jobs a month), QuoteMate (permanent free plan), HiTradies, AxiomBlue (up to 10 jobs a week), Sendatradie (30 jobs a month), Toolbelt (25 invoices a month), OneBookPlus, QuoteBolt (5 quotes a month), Velix, Billdr (3 jobs), Tradie AI, and Taskr while it is in beta. Tradify, Fergus, Ascora and Jobber have no free plan, only trials.

Entry prices in this table run from free to about $99 a month for small-business plans, with two distinct models. Per-user pricing (Tradify from $48, Fergus from $53, Ascora from $45) multiplies with every person you add. Flat per-business pricing (Chippie $25, HiTradies from $22, Stringline $40, Trade Track $49, traqR $99) does not. Enterprise platforms sit far above this: ServiceTitan is around US$245 to US$500 per technician per month.

Most established platforms do: Tradify, Fergus, Ascora, AroFlo, Simpro, Jobber and Housecall Pro all ship native apps on both. Three notable exceptions as at 19 August 2026: ServiceM8's full app is iOS-only and Android users get a cut-down Lite app; Billdr, Jobbit and Tradie AI are iOS-only; and Stringline's iOS listing was not available at last check. Around a third of the newer entrants are web-only with no app-store presence at all.

Offline support is thinner than marketing suggests and is worth testing before you buy. ServiceM8 documents offline on all plans for already-synced jobs, but not for generating final PDFs or sending. Ascora and AxiomBlue advertise offline. Fergus documents offline for time entries only. Tradify's own help centre states it has no offline mode. Most of the 2026 entrants make no offline claim.

All the products listed as Live on this page were reachable on their verified date. 9 tracked names had already gone dark by 19 August 2026, through parked domains, dead DNS, 404s or no findable product. That is an early figure: most of the 2026 entrants are only months old, and independent software base rates suggest attrition in this field will keep rising over the next two years.

Three reasons we can evidence. Directories lag: Capterra and GetApp listings for Fergus and Ascora carried figures the vendor pages had already moved past. Pricing pages geo-serve: Tradify's default pricing page shows US dollars, so an Australian figure has to come from its Australian page. And affiliate listicles repeat each other rather than the vendor, which is how claims like a Fergus free plan for sole traders spread. Always check the vendor's own regional pricing page and note the date.

Five checks that cost ten minutes. Is there a published price, or only a demo request? Is there an app-store listing for the phone you actually use? Does it export your data, and in what format? Is the invoicing GST-correct for Australia? And can you find the business behind it, with an ABN. None of these are guarantees, but a product missing several of them is one you should be able to leave quickly.

Yes, as one row among 49, with its real prices: free for 20 jobs a month, $25 AUD a month including 2 users, $45 including 4. Chippie publishes this page. We've deliberately kept the table to facts anyone can check on a vendor's own website, and left out our internal assessments of any competitor.

Every row carries the date its facts were last checked, and the Updates section above records each pass. Prices and platform claims are re-verified quarterly against vendor pages, with a monthly glance at the fastest-moving entrants. If you find a figure here that's out of date, tell us and we'll check it against the vendor's page.