Comparison

Work Orders For Business vs TradesKit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Work Orders For Business

Streamline your business operations with a powerful tool for creating and managing work orders and estimates. Track team tasks, inventory, and customer details in real-time. Highly customizable for small businesses and organizations.

Highlights
  • Create work orders and estimates on the go
  • Real-time access to work orders and inventory
  • Define custom categories and services
  • Assign tasks to team members
  • Generate customizable PDF reports
  • Secure user management and access control
Features
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Work Orders for Business is a work order, field service, and estimate management app for service teams, contractors, maintenance operations, and small businesses. Create work orders and estimates, assign jobs to workers, track services and replacement parts, calculate taxes and discounts, and send professional documents from iPhone, iPad, and Mac. WORK ORDERS • Create work orders for services, repairs, maintenance, and on-site jobs. • Build work orders manually or from existing estimates. • Assign work orders to employees, technicians, or other workers. • Reuse previous selections to speed up recurring jobs. • Email, print, or share work orders with customers and team members. SERVICES & TASKS • Create reusable services and task templates. • Use fixed-amount tasks, rate-based tasks, and replacement-part costs. • Define default services for common jobs. • Calculate taxes, discounts, and surcharges automatically. FIELD SERVICE MANAGEMENT • Keep workers informed with current work order and customer information. • Organize jobs by customer, service, worker, and status. • Coordinate recurring service, repair, installation, and maintenance work. REPORTS & CUSTOMIZATION • Create, print, email, and share professional PDF reports. • Import and export CSV files. • Add custom attributes and personalize reports with fonts, colors, headers, footers, and logos. TEAM & SECURITY • Manage users, roles, branches, and access lists. • Limit access to specific tasks, branches, or data. • Authorize individual devices before account access. • Use biometric authentication supported by your device. STARKODE FOR BUSINESS Part of the Starkode business suite for teams working across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Need help? Contact support@starkode.com. SUBSCRIPTION Starkode membership is month-to-month with no long-term contracts or cancellation fees. Cancel anytime from your device. Privacy Policy: https://starkode.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://starkode.com/terms/

About

TradesKit

Manage your entire trade business from your phone. Schedule jobs, track work orders, send estimates and invoices, and manage customer information all in one place. Designed for solo operators and small shops to streamline operations and get paid faster.

Highlights
  • Job scheduling and dispatch
  • Work order tracking
  • Customer history management
  • Field estimates and invoices
  • Customer list management
  • Shop-wide communication
Features
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Built for the trades, not adapted for them. TradesKit gives solo operators and small plumbing, HVAC, and electrical shops one app to run the whole job — from the first call to getting paid. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Schedule and dispatch jobs in seconds - Track work orders, notes, and full history per customer - Send estimates and invoices right from the field - Manage your customer list in one place - Keep your whole shop on the same page, wherever the work is PRICING THAT RESPECTS YOUR BUSINESS Simple, flat per-shop pricing. No per-transaction cut of your payments — what you charge is what you keep. No enterprise pricing games, no bloat, no features you'll never use. BUILT FOR SMALL SHOPS Most field service software is built for big operations and priced that way. TradesKit is different. It's for the solo tech and the 1–5 person shop who need to look professional, stay organized, and get paid faster — without a steep learning curve or a fat monthly bill. Download TradesKit and run your trade business from the device that's already in your pocket.

Screenshots

Work Orders For Business4 screens
TradesKit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TradesKit at none against Work Orders For Business's 4. Work Orders For Business's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Work Orders For Business sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. TradesKit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Work Orders For Business against 5.0 for TradesKit. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Work Orders For Business has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Work Orders For Business versus TradesKit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWork Orders For BusinessTradesKit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStarkode Limited CompanyGarrett Coughlin

Customer experience

Work Orders For Business

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TradesKit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Work Orders For Business

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Worker - Create Repair Form7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • 3 Users - Make Maintain X Plan7 Days trial$34.991 Month
  • 6 Users - Hours Time Mobile7 Days trial$59.991 Month
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  • 10 Users - Property Building7 Days trial$89.991 Month
None

TradesKit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Work Orders For Business free?
Work Orders For Business is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TradesKit free?
TradesKit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Work Orders For Business or TradesKit?
TradesKit is rated higher. Work Orders For Business averages 4.9 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while TradesKit averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Work Orders For Business or TradesKit have ads?
Neither Work Orders For Business nor TradesKit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Work Orders For Business or TradesKit?
Work Orders For Business ships an update every 3 weeks, and TradesKit every 3 weeks. Most recently, Work Orders For Business was updated on November 3, 2026 and TradesKit on October 31, 2026.

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