A Powered Now alternative, built only for gas.
Powered Now is a capable, compliance-minded app for the trades. Manifold narrows the focus to one job: the UK gas engineer's compliance lifecycle, with the Gas Safe check flow, camera capture and automated renewals built in, from £15 per engineer.
Powered Now and Manifold, side by side.
Powered Now is one of the closer tools to Manifold: quotes, invoices, certificates and offline working across the trades. The question is whether you want that breadth, or a tool shaped end-to-end around Gas Safe compliance.
| Capability | Powered Now | Manifold |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | All trades, compliance-focused | UK gas engineers, specifically |
| Job management, quotes, invoicing | Included | Included |
| Certificates and forms | Included | Included |
| Works offline | Included | Built for no-signal lofts and vans |
| Published entry price | Tiered plans | From £15 / engineer / mo |
| Free trial | Free trial | 30-day free trial, no card |
This comparison reflects Powered Now's publicly described product and pricing as of 8 July 2026. Features and prices change, so check their current details before you decide. Manifold is a workflow and record-keeping tool, not a regulator; gas safety work must be carried out by an appropriately Gas Safe registered engineer, and camera capture suggests values you confirm.
Why gas engineers pick Manifold.
Powered Now covers a lot of the same ground. These are the gas-specific reasons an engineer picks Manifold, all live today.
The Gas Safe check flow, end to end
Not a generic form set, but the actual check an engineer works through, with appliance registers, defects and immutable CP12s generated from the completed check.
Camera capture that confirms, never auto-trusts
FlueScan reads the flue-gas analyser and PlateScan reads the appliance data plate; you check and confirm every value before it reaches a record.
Renewals that chase themselves
The full compliance lifecycle, 60, 30 and 7-day reminders then overdue, with a worklist, so nothing depends on you remembering.
Open by default
A read-only API and signed webhooks come as standard, with a Power BI / OData connector on Growth and up, so your data is never locked in.
A clear entry price
From £15 per engineer per month, with a 30-day free trial and no card. Try it on your own jobs before committing.
Already in Manifold? Bring your customers and properties across from a CSV export on the Clients and Properties importers, with a dry-run preview, duplicate handling and one-click undo.