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GoRoadie alternatives for UK driving instructors

GoRoadie Pro is £15 a month with a 60-day trial, and the costs that make instructors leave sit outside the subscription: 1.9% on payments you raise, and a fee for every pupil the marketplace sends you. Here is what else is out there.

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The short answer

The best all-round alternative to GoRoadie for most UK instructors is Passly, at £14.99 a month with online booking, card payments, pupil records, progress tracking, lesson gap filling and a free marketplace listing on one plan, plus a published flat 1.5% fee on lesson payments.

But the right alternative depends on why you are leaving. If the problem is cost alone, ADI Network is free. If you run four cars or more, MyDriveTime gets cheaper per head as you grow. And there are cases, below, where the honest answer is that you should stay where you are.

Why instructors leave GoRoadie

  • Payments you raise carry a 1.9% fee, which on £30,000 of lessons a year is about £570, several times the annual subscription.
  • Marketplace pupils are charged per connection rather than included, so growth costs extra on top of the monthly fee.
  • The diary and the marketplace are effectively two products with two pricing models, which makes your real annual cost hard to predict.

GoRoadie alternatives compared

Prices are per instructor per month from each vendor's published pricing. The right-hand column is the one most instructors forget to check, and usually the largest number over a year.

Alternatives to GoRoadie for UK driving instructors, compared on price, trial length and fees on lesson payments.
App Best for Price a month Free trial Fee on lesson money
Passly Everything on one plan, plus free pupil leads £14.99, then £8.99 14 days 1.5% flat, published
Total Drive Feature depth and offline working £18 to £26 30 days Set at sign-up, not published
MyDriveTime PDIs and larger schools £19, less per head at scale 30 days Not published
ADI Network Removing the subscription entirely Free n/a 2% + 30p, in the terms

Passly publishes this table and sells one of the products in it. Figures checked 26 July 2026 against the sources at the foot of this page.

When you should stay with GoRoadie

The 60-day trial is the longest in the market and costs nothing to finish. Free reminder texts are genuinely unusual: most rivals either charge per SMS or do not offer it, and Passly sends reminders by email, in-app and push rather than text. If SMS reminders are what keep your pupils turning up, that is a real reason to stay.

For the full feature-by-feature picture, read Passly vs GoRoadie, which lists what GoRoadie does better as well as what it costs.

How to switch without losing anything

  1. Export before you cancel. Your data is easiest to get while the account is still live. Pull pupils, lesson history and payment records now, not after you stop paying.
  2. Run both for a fortnight. Start a Passly trial and put a handful of pupils through it while GoRoadie keeps running. No card is needed and there is no contract, so nothing forces the decision early.
  3. Move the pupils, then the money. Import your pupil list, share the portal link so learners can see their own lessons and balances, and only switch payments across once the diary is settled.
  4. Cancel in writing if the terms demand it. Check the notice period. Some agreements make fees non-refundable and require written notice, so a phone call may not stop the next charge.

Leaving GoRoadie: common questions

What is the best alternative to GoRoadie?

For most UK instructors, Passly: £14.99 a month with online booking, card payments, pupil records, progress tracking and a free marketplace listing all on one plan, and a flat 1.5% fee on lesson payments that we publish. The right answer depends on why you are leaving, though. If it is purely cost, ADI Network is free. If it is school scale, MyDriveTime gets cheaper per head above four instructors.

Should I actually leave GoRoadie?

The 60-day trial is the longest in the market and costs nothing to finish. Free reminder texts are genuinely unusual: most rivals either charge per SMS or do not offer it, and Passly sends reminders by email, in-app and push rather than text. If SMS reminders are what keep your pupils turning up, that is a real reason to stay.

Can I move my pupil data out of GoRoadie?

Check the exit terms in your contract before you cancel anything, because they vary a lot and some vendors only supply a backup on written request within a fixed window after you leave. Export whatever you can while your account is still active. Passly imports pupil lists and lets you export pupils, lessons and payments as CSV at any time, free, so you are never in this position again.

How much does switching from GoRoadie cost?

The subscription difference is usually the small part. What matters is the fee on your lesson money and whether leads are included. Work out your annual lesson takings, multiply by each platform's payment percentage, and add any per-pupil charges. On £30,000 of lessons, the gap between a 1.5% fee and a 1.9% fee is about £120 a year, and a per-pupil marketplace charge can be several times that again.

Can I run both at once while I decide?

Yes, and it is the sensible way to do it. Passly has a 14-day free trial with no card required and no contract, so you can put a few pupils through it alongside GoRoadie and see how the booking and payment flow feels before you move everything.

Sources and how we checked

Every price and fee on this page comes from the vendor's own published pricing, checked on the date shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, particularly the fee taken on card payments, we say so rather than estimating. Passly publishes this comparison and sells one of the products in it, so we have also set out the cases where staying with GoRoadie is the better decision.

Passly publishes this comparison and sells one of the products in it. Prices and features change: if you spot something out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

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