Hard Hat Way
stu crompton Social Networking iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Hard Hat Way is a free Social Networking app for iPhone and iPad by stu crompton. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 3, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 156 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 3
- 2026 · v1.5.6
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About Hard Hat Way
Find work near you, send quotes that look the part and show your work to people who know a proper job when they see one. Need a trade? Post your job free, ask local trades for quotes, look at their work, check for the Verified trade badge and pick who you want. Nothing to pay, ever. WORK NEAR YOU. NO PAYING TO BE IGNORED. • No lead fees, no contract. Site Calls are jobs posted by customers near you. See how quickly a customer usually replies before you quote. • You always hear back, won or lost. If a job closes with no one picked and your quote was never opened, you get that free quote back. • Asked for by name? Quoting it never uses a free Site Call quote. • Trades post work for trades too: a labourer for the week, a sparky for a first fix. • Not your kind of job? Pass it on to a mate. QUOTES THAT LOOK THE PART Put your measurements in and ProQuote works out the materials, adds your labour, builds your markup into the prices and makes a clean PDF your customer can accept from a link. Accepted? Turn it into a job without retyping a thing, and on Pro, a matching invoice. RUN THE JOB Job Manager keeps each job's diary, crew and site photos. TradeCalc has calculators for 20 trades, from brick counts to cable sizing. Trade Docs does toolbox talks, site checklists, permits and accident reports, with RAMS and COSHH on Pro. RESPECT FROM YOUR OWN TRADE • Post your best work, before-and-afters too, for people who know what they're looking at. No explaining. They get it. • Message other trades free and talk shop in the Yard: rooms for your trade, your area, kit and banter. • SiteCred is your reputation on site: the quality of the work you post, as judged by other tradespeople, and the jobs you complete. Trades rate trades. It can't be bought. WHAT THE BADGES MEAN Verified trade means we've checked your trade card or qualifications. It's free, and it's the one customers should look for. The blue tick is a status badge, not an identity check: pass the free check and you get it too, established members earn it, or Pro Verified gets it straight away. BREW CABIN Put the kettle on. Top Trade of the Week. Price It: say what you'd charge for the day's job and see what your trade said. Brick Run: a new course every day, the same for every trade, with a leaderboard. Plus #LookUpHistory: old buildings and the trades who built them. FREE AND PRO Free for trades: the feed, the Yard, messaging, TradeCalc, SiteCred and Brew Cabin, plus every month 3 ProQuote quotes (with our branding), quotes on 3 Site Calls within 10 miles, and 3 jobs in Job Manager. Pro: unlimited quotes and jobs, your logo on PDFs, invoices and expenses in Job Manager, Site Calls up to 100 miles with drive times, Job Radar alerts, seeing when your quote's been read, and RAMS, COSHH, risk assessments and method statements. Pro Verified: everything in Pro, plus the blue tick straight away and your documents checked first. Both are one flat monthly or yearly price. No per-lead charges, ever. BUILT FOR THE UK ProQuote, TradeCalc, Trade Docs and Skills Hub (CSCS test practice) only show when your device region is the UK. The feed, the Yard, messaging, Site Calls and Job Manager work anywhere. BUILT ON THE TOOLS, NOT IN A BOARDROOM Made by Stu Crompton, a Wigan bricklayer with over two decades on the tools. Pride beats speed. Quality beats greed. SUBSCRIPTIONS Pro and Pro Verified (monthly or yearly) and Brand & Supplier and Professional Services (monthly) are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is taken from your Apple Account at confirmation. They renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and renewal is charged in the last 24 hours. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. The Bricklaying Masterclass is a one-off purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://hardhatway.com/eula.html Privacy Policy: https://hardhatway.com/privacy.html
What’s new
Version 1.5.6 · Updated October 3, 2026
Hashtags are here, and posting is quicker. HASHTAGS • Tap any tag on a post to see everything under it: top this week, newest, or near you. • Follow the tags you care about, and post straight into them. • Your trade and town are added to your posts for you, so local work gets found. Add your own as well, up to 10 a post. • Discover now shows what's trending this week, plus a Tag of the Week. NEW POST • Two clear steps: grab it, then post it. • Tap the shutter for a photo, hold it for video. • Nothing to show? Tap Write for a text post, or to Ask the trade a question. No photo needed. • Fixed photos from your camera roll sometimes not reaching your post. CUSTOMERS • A new Community tab, so you can see real work from real trades before you hire. BRICK RUN • An all-time leaderboard, alongside Today and This week. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • New Level names, from New Face to Hard Hat Elite. Your Level no longer reads like a job title. • Clearer badges: the green Verified trade chip means your documents have been checked. The blue tick is separate. • ProQuote: conservatory bases now count brick courses by gauge, so 600mm is 8 courses. • Bigger screenshots in the how-to guides.
App privacy
The developer, stu crompton, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name, Phone Number
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Customer Support, Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: App Functionality
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