The lead-generation way
Your details go to everyone who paid for them. Four tradies ring you, three of them lose, and you field the calls.
5 tradies contacted · 4 wasted their time
Australia-wide · free · no account to look
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A map of tradies who can come today.
See who's free before you ring. Pick one, ask one. Not ten.
No ringing round
No bidding war
No account just to look
Free for customers and tradies alike, on iPhone and Android. If nobody covers your street yet, the app says so rather than showing you an empty map.
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trades in the app, from sparkies to cleaners
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the closest you see a tradie before one is on the way to you
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to answer an urgent job, then it moves on
01 — How asking works
Ask one. Not ten.
Your job goes to the tradie you picked, and they have a set time to answer. Nobody else is asked while it is theirs. No auction, and no five callbacks from people you never rang.
Tradie2U
One job, one tradie at a time, held for them alone. If they pass, it moves on to the next tradie nearby or comes back to you — the job never quietly dies.
1 tradie asked · 15 min to answer
02 — What the map tells you
Three answers, and none of them is "leave a message".
Every tradie on the map has already said when they can come. That is the whole product — you stop guessing who is going to pick up.
Now
todayOn the tools and able to come straight away.
Today
later onFree later. Worth asking if it can wait a few hours.
Tomorrow
booked outFull today, open tomorrow. Still worth a look.
04 — Start to finish
From "no hot water" to someone on the way.
Open the map.
See who works around you and whether they are free, before you type a single word. No sign-up to look — the account only comes when you actually ask someone.
Ask the one you want.
Photos, a line about the job, send. It is held for that tradie alone and they have minutes, not days, to answer. You will know either way.
Watch them turn up.
They accept, you get their name and number, and they set an arrival time. Once they are on the way, if they share their location, you can watch them coming instead of ringing to ask.
Illustrations of the app — tap a step to change the screen. Businesses shown are examples.
05 — Why you can believe it
Checkable, not vouched for.
Ratings
A score that had to be earned twice.
You rate the tradie and the tradie rates you, only on jobs that actually finished. However many jobs it is built on is printed right next to it, because five stars from one job is not five stars from forty.
The two scores never get averaged together, and neither is a tradie rating another tradie. One is what households thought of the work; the other is what a tradie thought of the job they were sent to.
Licences
We point. We don't vouch.
Every licence on a profile shows its number beside a link to the register that can confirm it. Ten seconds, and you are checking with the regulator instead of trusting a tick we drew ourselves.
Energy Safe Victoria, the Building and Plumbing Commission and ARCtick are wired up today. Outside Victoria a licence still shows with its number, but it will not carry a check link until we have added that state's register.
An expired licence is shown and flagged, never hidden. Hiding one would make a lapsed ticket read as no ticket at all — a decision about somebody's professional standing that we are not entitled to make quietly.
06 — For tradies
On the tools?
No lead fees, and the other trades are on here too.
07 — Where it works
Open right across Australia.
Tradie2U started in Melbourne and it is open everywhere now. Coverage is thicker where more tradies have joined — and where nobody covers your street yet, the app tells you so rather than showing you an empty screen and letting you guess.
Anywhere in the country
Open your map and you see whoever works near you, wherever that is. No waiting for us to launch in your city.
A few trades so far
Sparkies, plumbers, chippies, tilers, brickies and crane operators have tradies on the map today. Every other trade in the app goes live the moment somebody joins.
An empty map says so
We are not in every street yet and the app will not pretend otherwise. Where nobody covers you, it says so plainly instead of leaving a request nobody is going to see.
08 — Straight answers
The questions people actually ask.
What does it cost me?
Nothing. The app is free, for customers and for tradies. What the job costs is between you and the tradie — they quote you directly and you pay them directly, exactly as you would if you had rung them. Tradie2U never takes a payment and never asks for a card.
Do I have to sign up just to look?
No. You can open the map and browse without an account. You only make one when you actually ask a tradie for something — and whatever you were doing carries over.
What happens if the tradie doesn't answer?
The offer runs out on its own — 15 minutes if you need someone now, two hours for today, twelve for tomorrow. A job for now or today then moves on to the next matching tradie nearby, one at a time, never all at once. If nobody can take it, or it was for tomorrow, you are told and you pick again. A job you send to your own tradie never moves on: it comes back to you. Either way, it never sits there looking live when nobody is coming.
Is it only electricians?
Not only — but it is close, and we would rather say so than let you find out. Electricians, plumbers, carpenters, tilers, bricklayers and crane operators have tradies on the map today. Every other trade in the app goes live the moment somebody joins. Whatever you search for, the map shows you who actually covers you rather than a promise.
Can a tradie see exactly where I live?
Not until they have accepted your job. Before that they see your suburb and a rough distance — no name, no phone number, no address. Those appear the moment they say yes, and not a second earlier.
What do customers see of a tradie?
A circle, not a pin on a doorstep. Positions are snapped to a fixed ~500 m grid before they ever leave the server, and distance and radius are measured from that snapped point — so no amount of searching narrows it down. A tradie is on the map only in the work hours they set, and around their home it is a wide area, never their street. The one exception is a job of yours: once the tradie who took it taps "On my way" and chooses to share, you see where they are until they mark the job done, or sooner if the app sees them arrive.
Can I get it now?
Yes, both. It is on the App Store and on Google Play, and every button on this page goes straight to the listing for the phone you are holding. It is free, there is no card to enter, and you can look at the map before you make an account.
Someone near you can come today.
Open the map and see who.
Free. On the App Store and on Google Play.