Referral Buddy vs RevLink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Referral Buddy
This app helps organize business referrals and connections to grow your network. Track referrals, build your customer base, and manage payments for successful connections. It facilitates sending and receiving job referrals between trusted vendors.
- Organize referrals and connections
- Track referral status
- Build customer base
- Send and receive instant payments
- Accept or reject new referrals
- Manage project status updates
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Do you struggle to organize your referrals and connections? Do you want to grow your business from your connections? If yes, then Referral Buddy is the tool for you. Referral Buddy is your one stop shop for referral networking, which allows you to track referrals, build your customer base, and send and receive instant payments from referrals made and received. Referral Buddy is the fast and easy way to refer customers and jobs to trusted vendors as well as accept new referrals to bolster your own business. All you need to become a Vendor or Referrer is your, or your connection’s, email address. When referring a customer to a vendor, the vendor will review the referral and accept or reject it. You will be updated on the project status through the app and will receive a payment when the project is complete. If you are a vendor, you will receive referrals for potential new customers and can accept or reject a new project. If accepted, and upon completion of the job, you can send a referral fee to the referrer. Want to change the way you network? Download the app today and let Referral Buddy be your friend in business!
RevLink
Connect with other tradespeople to send and receive job leads. Set your own rates, organize projects, and communicate directly within the app. Pay only a small fee after completing a job.
- Send and receive job leads
- Set custom rates per lead
- Organize projects and leads
- Project-specific chat
- Exclusive leads for contractors
- Pay only after job completion
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### Send a job ### So easy you can do it on a ladder - Pass it on or sub it out. Hand the whole job over for a cut, or keep the customer and bring someone in to do the work. - Get paid for work you pass on. Set your cut before you send it, a percentage or a flat amount. - Put a clock on it. If they don't accept by your deadline, send the same job to someone else in a tap. - One link does the paperwork. Text your customer a link, they fill in their own details, and the job lands with the contractor you picked. ### Get a job ### Real work from other contractors, right on your phone - One contractor per job. No bidding, no getting undercut. - The whole story upfront. What the work is, what it pays, photos, and who it came from, before you say yes. - The customer is yours the moment you accept. Phone, email and address unlock, and you move the job along as you go: contacted, scheduled, done. ### You don't pay until you get paid ### - No subscription. No pro version. Nothing worth having sits behind an upgrade. - Sending and taking jobs is free, for everyone, always. - No subscriptions or Pro versions, RevLink takes 2%, and only once the job is finished and you have been paid. - No home owners, no marketers, no resold leads. Contractors only. ### Get answers fast ### - A chat on every job. Photos, questions and the price stay with the work, not scattered through your texts. - Direct messages too, for the conversations that are not about one job. ### Money you can see ### - Invoice, pay and settle up in the app. Your cut, their cut and what you cleared, on one screen. - Straight to your bank. Add your payout details once and the money follows the work. - Rate the contractor when it is done, so the good ones are easy to find again. ### Find the right trade ### - A directory of real contractors. Search by trade and area, see their profile and their work, and add the good ones to your network. - A board of open jobs near you, filtered by trade and how far you will drive. - Your own network on top, so the job you send goes to someone you already trust. - On iPad, the list sits beside the job, so you can work a day's worth without leaving the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RevLink at 100% against Referral Buddy's 0%. RevLink also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months). Referral Buddy's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RevLink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Referral Buddy's written reviews are positive against 100% of RevLink's.
Referral Buddy ships an update every 4 months, RevLink every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Referral Buddy | RevLink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | North South 804 Apps LLC | david bergeron |
Customer experience
Referral Buddy
RevLink
In-app purchases
Referral Buddy
No in-app purchases
RevLink
No in-app purchases









