Powered Now Job Software & App vs Work Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Powered Now Job Software & App
This app provides job management software for tradespeople and small businesses. It allows users to create invoices, quotes, and estimates, manage team schedules, and track job progress. Features include cloud backup, GPS tracking, and MTD readiness.
- Create and send invoices, quotes, and estimates
- Manage team appointments and tasks
- Track employee location via GPS
- Capture customer signatures
- Create certificates and forms
- Cloud backup and synchronization
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Award-winning and MTD ready (Making Tax Digital) job management software. Invoice, quoting and scheduling app for small businesses, tradesmen, contractors and self-employed professionals. Manage your business from your iPad, iPhone and Mac. Create invoices, estimates and quotes. Manage your team’s job sheets, appointments, dairy, all securely backed up to the cloud. “Powered Now has made life much easier. Everything is in a single place and most importantly it’s easy to see what’s been sent, and to whom!” John Atkinson, Atkinsons Joinery “I had been searching for ages for an app to do my quoting and invoicing and this fits the bill really well, there is also good customer support when help is needed.” Anthony Sanders, Southwater Fix • Quickly create and send invoices, quotes and estimates from your iPad and iPhone with all your documents securely backed up to the cloud. Supports CIS and MTD • Create certificates and forms on the go. Including Gas and Electrical certificates. • Manage your employee's appointments and tasks with the inbuilt diary and drag and drop. • Create expenses and supplier invoices and get approval. • Track your employee’s location live using GPS. Please Note this feature can be disabled. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. • Capture customer's signatures and record your hours against your appointments. • Select your invoice template, add your logo and go! • Built for all mobile businesses and tradesmen including plumbers, gas engineers, electricians, tilers, carpenters and builders. • Get notified in real time when documents are opened. • Send documents to customers online and as a PDF attachment by email and text message. • Easy to use interface and quick to set up. • Handles multiple rates of tax and staged payments, surcharges and discounts calculated automatically. • Export your data for accounting and send to your accountant or bookkeeper. • Fully backed up and synchronised between devices. You can use Powered Now for free, we also include a trial of our Pro Subscription account included with every registration so you can use Powered Now unlimited for seven days. Once the trial is complete you can either move to the free account or subscribe. -- Subscription Details -- The Powered Now Subscription comes in three flavours Business, Professional and Premium. All plans are auto renewing monthly subscriptions. Additional users can be purchased for both Professional and Premium plans. Extra users are valid for 12 months of purchase. These are non renewing. Further details: • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • Any cancellation of the current subscription takes effect at the end of the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Powered Now Privacy Policy is available to read at http://www.powerednow.com/privacy Powered Now Terms of Use is available to read at https://www.powerednow.com/terms-and-conditions/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Work Planner
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Work Planner helps service businesses stay on top of jobs, customers, and day-to-day work from one shared app. Schedule recurring jobs, replan work quickly, create worksheets, track completion in the field, and keep customer records, invoices, and payments up to date. Whether you're a small service business or managing a growing team, Work Planner gives you the visibility you need to stay organized and keep work moving. With Work Planner, you can: • Schedule one-off and recurring jobs • View work in a planner and move jobs when plans change • Organize jobs by round, area, or service type • Manage customers, addresses, notes, and job history • Create worksheets and assign work to team members • Mark jobs complete, missed, or overdue • Create invoices, record payments, and track outstanding debts • Monitor business performance with clear dashboard insights • Keep office and field teams aligned across desktop and mobile Work Planner is built for practical service businesses that need a simpler way to plan work, manage customers, and stay in control of daily operations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Work Planner at none against Powered Now Job Software & App's 18. Work Planner also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 weeks). Powered Now Job Software & App's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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. Powered Now Job Software & App sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Work Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Powered Now Job Software & App ships an update every 4 weeks, Work Planner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Powered Now Job Software & App | Work Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Powered Now LTD | Work Planner Ltd |
Bugs and requests
Powered Now Job Software & App
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes frequently, especially without signal
- Login credentials not remembered between sessions
- Read receipts stopped working without user notification
- Contact import feature not working on iPhone for 6+ months
- Session kicks out users mid-task
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- Slow performance and lag when navigating screens
- Upload failures for certificates and pictures
- Invoice sent to wrong account details
- System timeouts on contact detail updates
- Tap payment creates duplicate charges
- App freezes on startup with loading screen
- Incompatible with US phone number formats
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to send invoices and certificates together without extra steps
- Contact import functionality from phone
- Better search functionality for customer contacts
- Dark mode option
- Tap payment duplicate prevention
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- Itemized deductions/credits option
- Better offline synchronization
- More flexible phone number validation for international users
Work Planner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Powered Now Job Software & App
- Powered Now Starter$5.991 Month
- Premium Subscription$6.991 Month
- Powered Now Starter$7.991 Month
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- Business Subscription2 variants$39.991 Month
- Business Subscription 1 Month$39.991 Month
- Professional Subscription2 variants$49.991 Month
- Premium monthly$59.991 Month
- Pro Subscription1 Month trial$64.991 Month
- Premium Subscription$74.991 Year
- Powered Now Starter$79.991 Year
- Business Subscription 1 Year$299.991 Year
- Pro Subscription$449.991 Year
- Extra Pro User 1 Month$44.99
- Professional Extra User$44.99
- UK$59.99
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- Additional Team Member$159.99
Work Planner
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Powered Now Job Software & App free?
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