The AI for your tradeSeven trades. Seven different weeks.
Your notebook, your calendar, WhatsApp, your quote template, the reminders, the camera roll, Google and everything in your head: one thing you talk to, and it knows the lot. Whatever your trade, each page starts where your week does, with the rules you work under.
iPhone. First month free, no card.
Pick your trade
Where your week starts
- ElectriciansRemedials quoted from the hallway, reminders when the agent pays late, photos of every board.
- PlumbersThe invoice ready before you’ve left the doorstep, with the ten-minute extras on it.
- Heating engineersBoiler quotes sent from the drive, deposit, stage and balance from one job, the install remembered.
- Bathroom fittersThe quote, the deposit, the stages and the balance for one big job, with the extras written down.
- BuildersCIS and the reverse charge set by customer, a build invoiced in stages, variations written down.
- RoofersThe week moved when it rains, photos the customer can’t take, deposits for the scaffold.
- Gas engineersLandlord gas safety records with no signal, and next year’s check already lined up.
The same on every trade
What every trade gets
Ask it anything.
“What did I say about Mrs Jones’s board?” The answer comes from your own jobs, with the photos you took. Say it once, and it’s there when you ask.
Tell it anything.
“Quote Sarah £1,850 plus VAT for the kitchen rewire.” It’s made in your business’s name, yours to check before it goes. Bookings, invoices and reminders the same way.
It tells you what you’d miss.
When an invoice goes late, or rain’s due on tomorrow’s outdoor job, it says so. Each morning, what’s on and what’s overdue; each evening, what’s finished but not invoiced and which quotes are still waiting.
- Ask it anything about your work, and tell it what needs doing: customers, jobs, the Diary, quotes, invoices, reminders and expenses.
- Quotes on a page the customer accepts in one tap.
- Invoices with your bank details on them, as a link or a PDF, so customers pay by transfer. A big job billed in parts: a deposit, a stage, then a final invoice that takes them all off.
- Payment reminders at 3, 7 and 14 days: emailed for you, or ready to send from your phone.
- Photos filed on the job, and anything you said, found again by asking.
- A morning brief with what’s on and what’s overdue, and an evening wrap with what’s finished but not invoiced and which quotes are still waiting, so you know where you stand.
- Expenses from receipt photos, and everything exported, any time.
Coming from Tradify, Fergus, ServiceM8 or Jobber? See nine apps side by side, with every fact sourced.
Price and the free plan
Made for one. Priced for one.
£29.99 a month including VAT, or £24.99 if you reclaim VAT. One person, no minimum, no setup fee, no training.
- Your first month is free, with no card.
- After that you’re on the Free plan: 50 messages a month to Tools Down, and every screen keeps working.
- Tools Down Pro is paid monthly through Apple. It lifts the message limit.
- Fair use applies on every plan, with limits set far above what one person books or asks for in a month.
Tools Down for iPhone
Coming soon on the App StoreFirst month free, no card.
Straight answers
Before you download
Will it understand me?
Say it the way you’d say it on site: “Quote Mrs Jones for the board, £650.” Type it or say it. Tools Down shows you the quote or invoice it made, and you share it when you’re happy.
What can I ask it?
Anything. About your own work: “What did I charge Dave last time?” or “What did I say about Mrs Jones’s board?” Something to write: “Write me a text saying I’m running late.” Or something to look up, like when the wholesaler shuts.
What does it tell me without being asked?
At 07:30 on a working day, what’s on and what’s overdue; at 18:00, what’s finished but not invoiced and which quotes are still waiting. It also speaks up when a quote goes quiet, when two jobs clash, and when rain’s due on tomorrow’s outdoor work. The morning brief and evening wrap.
What happens after the free month?
Every screen keeps working, and payment reminders carry on. The Free plan gives you 50 messages a month to Tools Down, and Tools Down Pro lifts that limit for £29.99 a month including VAT, or £24.99 if you reclaim VAT. What counts as a message.
I use another app now. Is switching a faff?
Export your customers and records from the old app before you cancel it. Then tell Tools Down the jobs as they come in; customers are saved as you mention them. What Tradify, Fergus, ServiceM8 and Jobber say about leaving is on our comparison pages.
What about my data?
It’s yours. Export everything, any time, and your expenses in Xero and FreeAgent layouts or as a plain CSV for QuickBooks and Sage. Tools Down is made by Blue Ocean Code Ltd in Wimborne. Questions go to hello@toolsdown.app. Where it’s kept, and who else sees it.
Paperwork and rules
The rules every trade works under
Information, not advice. Open a rule to read it, with its source; check the source for your own job.
The right to cancel a job agreed at homeUK
A customer can cancel a contract agreed at their home within 14 days without giving a reason, and for up to 12 months longer if they weren’t told about the right. A visit they asked for to carry out urgent repairs is outside it.
Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, reg 29reg 31Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, reg 28(1)(e)
Interest on late paymentUK
On business-to-business debts, statutory interest is 8% plus the Bank of England base rate, plus a fixed £40, £70 or £100.
VAT registrationUK
You must register when your taxable turnover for the last 12 months goes over £90,000, or you expect it to in the next 30 days.
A court claim for an unpaid billEngland and Wales
Money claims go through the county court. Disputed claims of £10,000 or less go to free mediation first, and fees start at £35 for claims up to £300.