If you are weighing up Tidy and SKEDS, here is a fair comparison to help you choose. Both are capable tools, and the right one depends on how you work.
What Tidy is good at
Tidy is a UK mobile business admin app aimed at sole traders and very small businesses: schedule jobs, send invoices and take card payments on your phone, with a capped monthly fee and pay-as-you-go simplicity. For a one-person band that mainly needs bookings and getting paid, it is a deliberately light tool, team dispatch boards, safety packs and deeper job workflows are beyond its brief.
Where SKEDS focuses
SKEDS is a job scheduling and management platform built around a live dispatch board, an offline field app, and site safety and invoicing in one place, localised for 11 markets. If recurring maintenance, built-in health and safety, and local tax and accounting matter to you, that is where SKEDS puts its weight.
Compare them point by point
Here is what SKEDS offers against the things worth checking on any tool. We have filled in our own column and left Tidy for you to confirm, because their plans and features change over time.
| Capability | SKEDS | Tidy |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling & dispatch | Drag-and-drop board with day, week and team views, plus travel time | Check Tidy’s current plan |
| Field app & offline | iOS, Android and web; crews can open jobs, add photos and complete safety checks offline, then sync | Check Tidy’s current plan |
| Health & safety | SWMS, hazard boards, incident reports and PPE checks built in and attached to each job | Check Tidy’s current plan |
| Invoicing & accounting | Quote to job to invoice, syncing both ways to Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks and local ledgers | Check Tidy’s current plan |
| Recurring & repeat jobs | Repeat-job templates and scheduled series for maintenance contracts | Check Tidy’s current plan |
| Inventory | Track materials and allocate stock to a job as parts are used | Check Tidy’s current plan |
| Local fit | 11 markets with local currency, tax handling and language | Check Tidy’s current plan |
| Migration | Guided import of clients, jobs, quotes and price lists, plus generic CSV | Check Tidy’s current plan |
| Pricing model | Per user, per month, no lock-in, with a 14-day free trial | Check Tidy’s current plan |
How to decide
If you are a sole trader who wants the lightest possible admin tool, Tidy's simplicity is its point. If you are running a crew, or plan to, and need scheduling, safety and invoicing to scale with you, that is where SKEDS comes in. The honest answer is still to try the one you are leaning toward on a real week of your own work. SKEDS offers a free 14-day trial and a guided import, so you can move your clients and jobs across and compare like-for-like rather than from a feature list. Not sure where to start? Our comparison guide walks through the criteria.
A note on fairness
We have described Tidy in general terms and our own product specifically. Features and pricing for other products change often, so confirm the current details on Tidy’s own site before deciding. SKEDS is not affiliated with Tidy, and nothing here is meant to disparage it.
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