Toby User Reviews

Toby – Hire Local Service
Toby – Hire Local Service
New Frontier Technology Limited

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews
Neutral7.1% of reviews
Negative experience42.9% of reviews

~ Based on 14 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Toby Safe?

Toby – Hire Local Service appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Toby is 83/100.

This assessment is based on 75 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

82.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 74 App Store ratings for Toby.

Is Toby Legit?

Toby – Hire Local Service appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Toby is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Even app support doesn’t work

What’s going on with this app. It just freezes when I try to launch. Even the app support freezes.

Good if it works. Terrible when it doesn’t.

Plenty of choice of different kinds of merchants but god forbid you or the merchant cancels. You will then be trapped in the middle. The merchant will tell you to call Toby. Toby will make it as difficult as possible to contact them and you just have to cross your fingers and hope a refund drops out of the sky.
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Do not use

Do not use this service - you cannot delete the account, and as a result of using my number am getting random WhatsApp message multiple times a day. Support has not helped. DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR NUMBER ON THIS PLATFORM!!!!!!

Great app but would be much better if emails in language chosen

While I think this app is great, when email confirmations are sent they are mainly in Chinese most of the time. For instance even a survey emailed had the main part of the survey in Chinese which I cannot read so could not give any proper feedback. On certain parts of the app it also changes to Chinese even though I select English as the default language.
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Such a rip off service

Such a rip off company. My wife and I paid to have our Covid sample picked and we were charged an extra $50 for Remote Area. I live in Mid-Levels and do consider this to be a remote area. Their explanation afterwards was:

"the remote areas additional fee is decided by the pick-up address distance from the nearest MTR station but not the clinic, so it will have the extra charges for that."

You need to make this clear before we pay in the payment screen because "Remote Area" is so misleading, why don't you just say what you mean? You can't because you want to mislead people.

I think a lot of companies here need to learn from the West about customer service; it's as if we are doing you a favour.
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Great app

This app works great and is useful for me to find work especially during a difficult time like this when it is difficult to go in person and meet clients I can meet them online or digitally through hellotoby. It is basically a marketplace for me to find services that I need and to advertise my own services and so it is convenient
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Taiwan English

Please add English settings for Taiwan region! I downloaded the app but couldn’t use it for Taiwan region because of the language.

Response from developer

Hi, thank you for your feedback, we will feedback it to the team and hope will have the English version soon.

support!

perfect apps.nice place for matching coaches. I am going to invite other to download this apps cya!

Brilliant and Necessary Idea Marred by Poor Design Execution

I am really struggling with this app. The problem as I see it is that the communication UI / UX is marred and frustrating. The idea should be very simple. I advertise my services, I am then directed to people who want to buy those services, and then they hire me or they do not. But so many things get in the way:

1. User is forced to have to choose on how they interact with the query. You can interact within the shell of the quotation interace, or you can contact them on the phone. If you contact on the phone, you obviously lose the "tracking" ability of the interaction in the app. If you track in the app, it gets more complicated.

2. The interaction in the app -- at the quotation level -- is simple a dialogue box. But each time a notification is sent, it is listed as a completely different episode in the app, meaning that you could be interacting with ONE customer, but you end up having several notifications, and inside of the sleeve of the app forum, you have four different or two different windows to click on. Really, why not just a thread, instead of separate windows each time?

3. The experience across platforms is fragemented. You can open this up on the web, or in the app, but if you do, not all of the information is compartmentalised in the experience, and it is not often carried over, meaning you lose the thread sometimes.

4. There needs to be consistency and limits / boundaries to credit use. I have seen people requesting services, who set their credits to somehting like 15 to answer. If you are already paying money to answer someone's request, it seems unfair that you would pay almost three times what other services are asking, especially if the specific request is in your specialty area.

5. Notifications don't go away sometimes.

There is a lot more, but that's what I experienced so far. This is a case where the design is the experience, and the design of the experience is the business, but the team seems to not be able to make this leap in logic. This leaves the user with a feeling of frustration, and lack of business.
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Response from developer

Hi, thank you so much for sharing the feedback :). At HelloToby, we strive to provide the best user experience that we can, therefore we're really happy to hear your feedback and working hard to improve it. Regarding the communication channel, both suppliers and consumers have the choice on how to interact with the query, they won't be forced to choose either one but they have full control on choosing which channel (through HelloToby Chat, Whatsapp or Call). All depend on which one they think are the best for them. For the tracking, you're right that you will lose the tracking if interaction happens outside the App. However, you may use the " Tag Feature " to categorize your customers and track the request status. Hope it helps. :) About the features on Web and App, we're really sorry for the inconvenience caused, as we really want to keep bringing the new good features to our users after collecting their feedbacks. Therefore we introduce all the new features after tested immediately on App or Web version but not to wait until finish all the setup on both Web or App version as which take much longer time and not good for our users. Therefore you might found that some of the features are only available on App but some on Website for a short period of time. However, our teams go all out to synchronize the features on App and Web version. For the quotation fee which is set up based on the industries, the marketing rate and project size and etc, to maximize the profits of every credit you spend, kindly refer to our Help Center for Pro Tips. Last but not least, for the second feedback, could you please share more details of the different episode and several notifications for the same customer message at prosupport@hellotoby.com so that we can further check on it? Same as the Notification issue that some time don't go way so that we can understand what went wrong. Once again, thank you for taking your valuable time to share it with us which is highly appreciated. Please always feel free to contact us if you have any further comment, we're more than to listen and enhance the service for You! Have a good day!

Expensive coins 代幣好貴

報個價都要用錢,有時人一打開對話講毫無關係嘅話題,好寃枉!

Response from developer

你好,我們收取的Toby金幣報價費是作為介紹費,而專家與客人達成生意交易之後我們並不會收取佣金。這是我們「報價服務」的模式,有很多專家們以此模式成功獲得更多客人和生意。歡迎你再試用。

Get things done. Quick & Good!

This app connected me with various freelancers on my projects. To my surprise, they're all very professional and in high quality.

Useful

Saves me time, money and most importantly, the hassle.

Nice app

I'm a busy mum and I'm constantly doing errands for my son and husband. This app has helped me loads.

HelloToby is a busy man/woman's best friend

I love HelloToby. Through the app, I now have access to hundred of services in Hong Kong. I just hired a mover and got my iPhone fixed through hellotoby. No hassle. A few clicks and a few minutes later, I am able to hire the best and the most suitable pros for me in Hong Kong!