# Checkatrade for Trades — user reviews > 86 indexed App Store user reviews of Checkatrade for Trades by Checkatrade.com, rated 4.80/5 from 17,266 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/checkatrade-for-trades/id1498194074/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/checkatrade-for-trades/id1498194074.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 15,167 · 4★ 1,359 · 3★ 395 · 2★ 77 · 1★ 268 ## Newest reviews (10 of 86) ### 3/5 — Getting jobs *2026-08-09, version 2.40.0* Get a fair amount of jobs but a lot of false leads, customers do not reply to messages or answer the phone then they withdraw there job. Wastes a lot of my leads. ### 2/5 — Mr *2026-07-26, version 2.40.0* Great experience with Checkatrade I will definitely recommend this up awesome ### 5/5 — Airtech *2026-05-26, version 2.38.0* 5 Star Company ### 1/5 — Totally a scam app *2026-04-22, version 2.37.0* Please, please Don’t sign to any 12 month contract. They will tie you with a fixed term ones and will not give you a single job. We have to legally battle this app since they scam people’s money without giving a true job. I recommend you to keep yourself from it. ### 1/5 — Mrs *2026-04-15, version 2.37.0* This is by far the worst company I have ever worked with. Their services are absolutely useless and not worth even £1. All they care about is taking money. They charge for customer referrals and services, but I received neither proper service nor the number of clients promised in our one-year contract. I’m honestly so relieved that the contract is finally over, and I won’t be wasting any more money on them. ### 5/5 — Painter *2026-04-09, version 2.36.0* Finally set up working well ### 5/5 — Ceramic craft tiling *2026-04-08, version 2.36.0* Checkatrade gives me a steady stream of jobs keeps me in work ### 1/5 — WARNING – Don’t Waste Your Money or Time *2026-04-05, version 2.36.0* The Checkatrade service is a complete disaster: • After jobs are assigned, I can’t see the photos a few days later, making it impossible to remember what I quoted. • The new interface is confusing and clunky – the old simple design was much better. • For over a month, I’ve had no notifications: no emails, SMS, or push alerts. Support admitted the problem is on their side but did nothing. Completely unprofessional and careless. • High volume of fake or irrelevant customers wastes both your time and money. When you report these issues, they don’t take them seriously. • On top of that, I was added to the directory without consent, couldn’t cancel, and ended up paying around £1000 with zero customer response. You get nothing for your money. Don’t use this service ### 5/5 — Roofsan *2026-03-14, version 2.34.1* I’ve been using Checkatrade from 2024 and for my buisness it’s a perfect fit. ### 5/5 — Great service *2026-03-07, version 2.34.1* Great service easy to youse ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Never work for these scammers *2026-08-13, version 2.40.0* Never work for these scammers they made me sign up to a membership on a free, they told me it will never go up in price so I got charged 0 pounds every month for a year. then suddenly they locked me into a contract now I have to pay 500 pounds for a year contract ### 1/5 — Horrible app *2026-07-24, version 2.40.0* Took genuine effort to get this app past the signup screen, constant restarts just to get to the next slide as the done button doesn’t work, then trying to put a profile photo took effort, same thing, and creating an album of my work every photo fails to upload 😂, nothing near 20mb either, been on it 5 minutes and this is the standard ### 1/5 — Absolute TRASH *2026-07-11, version 2.39.0* As you can see from other reviews, been with checkatrade for 2 years and simply a scam, you will pay money and barely find any work with them all they want is your money and offer nothing in return ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your money *2026-07-05, version 2.39.0* Supposed to get you more work and leads but totally wasted nearly £5 K and only returned less than %10 Do not sing a contract with them ### 1/5 — Scammers *2026-06-29, version 2.39.0* Don’t sign up trust me these are scammers i didn’t not sign up and they asking me you made a contract for 12 months 😂😂😂 and even i don’t no about that keep calling me every day ### 1/5 — Total con don’t use. I’m not wasting my money with them next year! *2026-06-07, version 2.38.0* I’ve been with checkatrade since 2014 and have the highest amount of good reviews in my area. When I first joined checkatrade it was about getting the best tradesmen with high reviews and they would be shown first to potential customers. Now it’s all changed so the more money you pay the more exposure you get so the good tradesmen don’t get shown. Every job is shown to 3 tradesmen and the customer isn’t shown the qualified and best tradesmen automatically. Checkatrade has been sold many times and lost its way and now just about squeezing as much money out of the tradesmen as possible. I’ve known a lot of local experienced tradesmen quit through the sham practices who’s been with them for many years. Years ago you could have multiple skills listings and postcodes for nothing extra and now you get charged for each heading and postcode! You could end up paying £1000’s per month. In 2022 I had 82 profile views in a month and 55 quality leads may 2026 I got 2 leads and they didn’t reply! DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY. Next year I’m gone! ### 1/5 — Private equity company only want profit *2026-06-03, version 2.38.0* Checkatrade have been bought out several times and are now owned by a Canadian private equity company, Brookfield’s. There main goal is to create profit, get you to sign a contract, and promise you the world. I’ve been on this platform for 7 years. It’s now more expensive, for less. They will try and charge you for so many different revenues of advertising, and now also pay for leads on top of your membership fee which is 3k a year. Stay away from them, better off sign writing or paying for a optimised google search. Complete scammers now! You’ve been warned. I’ll be leaving when my contracts up for renewal used to love this platform now I hate them! ### 1/5 — Worst ever *2026-05-18, version 2.37.0* Ropes you into things you don’t agree with then the customer service is a disgrace after. They try force you and scare you to pay for things you don’t want or don’t agree to. Embarrassing Any tradesmen please don’t waste your time ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-05-15, version 2.37.0* Empty leads, no one answering for my message ### 1/5 — Do not sign up *2026-04-23, version 2.37.0* I signed up with Checkatrade expecting a steady flow of quality leads, but my experience has been very disappointing. I was not clearly told at the start that leads are shared with multiple traders (up to three). This makes it much harder to win work and significantly reduces the value of the service. I’ve been paying £490 per month, and over three months I’ve only secured one job worth £150. On top of that, many of the leads I receive don’t respond at all. When I try calling, a lot of them go straight to voicemail, which raises serious concerns about the quality and validity of the leads. Overall, the service has not delivered what was expected based on the sales process. I would strongly advise others to fully understand how the lead system works before committing to a contract. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Big opportunity *2026-08-23, version 3.1.0* Checkatrade give us big opportunity, and plenty of customers. Definitely high recommended if you want to grow up with your business ### 5/5 — JARB Design *2026-08-04, version 2.40.0* Best platform for gaining the best work, top tier customers ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-07-30, version 2.40.0* Very good experience ### 5/5 — Bedroom deep cleaning *2026-07-20, version 2.40.0* Highly recommended, quality and efficient. Abrahamcleaning services. ### 5/5 — Mr Durtygood *2026-07-14, version 2.39.0* Great level of greatness ### 5/5 — Great customer service and good jobs *2026-06-27, version 2.39.0* Customer service is always happy to help and show you what you can do to tweak your profile. The job that has come through are good customers that are ready for work to be done. ### 5/5 — RJWater pipes ltd. *2026-06-15, version 2.39.0* They came to my house at 8.45 and worked non stop till 14.45 job done fantastic difficult to see where they had been ,I paid on the spot with a bonus from quote . Brilliant father and son firm many thanks Roger &Henry . ### 5/5 — First time experience *2026-06-11, version 2.39.0* This really looks good. Just waiting to see more of its advantages. ### 5/5 — WL.maintenance *2026-06-10, version 2.39.0* Finally signed up with ease. Let’s get the ball rolling. 👌🏼 ### 5/5 — Review *2026-06-01, version 2.38.0* Perfect --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*