# Handy (slim)

> Handy is a marketplace for booking home cleaning, handyman, furniture assembly, TV mounting and similar services at a set time in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is part of Angi.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/handy.md (~4,600 tokens) · this version ~1,030 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/handy.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/handy
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

**F · 10/100 · rank #1069 of 1076 · #10 in Home services & local trades · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Handy books cleaning, handyman and assembly jobs in the US, Canada and the UK, with a guarantee on jobs paid through Handy. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Businesses can ask to partner with Handy, but no partner documentation is public, and the iOS app was last updated in October 2025.

## Facts

- Kind: Platform · vendor: Handy Technologies, Inc. (Angi) · category: Home services & local trades · legal entity: Handy Technologies, Inc. · provenance 71/100
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Pay per use · x402: no · licence: Closed service under the Handy Terms of Use / User Agreement, last updated 8 July 2024.
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The Handy website and app for customers, read from handy.com, its terms, privacy policy, trust and safety page, security.txt and the App Store on 14 October 2026. No account was created.
- Outside agent access: None public. A "Partner with Handy" route for businesses, with no documentation found.
- Company: Handy Technologies, Inc., named with Angi, Inc. and HomeAdvisor, Inc. in Angi's Book Now terms. Apps are published by Handybook, Inc.
- Countries: United States, Canada and United Kingdom sites linked from the footer

- Scores: Reliability 15, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 0, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 5, Payments & pricing 10, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 4, Transparency & trust 52 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines. · Schema & documentation, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Agent ergonomics, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Security & auth, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Payments & pricing, Read with the hosted rule. · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service. · Transparency & trust, Closed service under terms last updated 8 July 2024 (15).
- Sources: 6, open questions: 2, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: home.booking, home.pros
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/handy.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/handy.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/handy from a page on handy.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Don't plan to call Handy from another agent. Hand the booking to the person on handy.com or in the Handy app
2. For a business that wants Handy services for its customers, point it to the Partner with Handy route on handy.com

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| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Checkatrade | E | 43.9 | home.pros, home.booking | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.min.md |
| Airtasker | F | 36.8 | home.booking, home.pros | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker.min.md |
| Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) | F | 12.7 | home.pros, home.booking | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/angi.min.md |
| Urban Company | F | 11.8 | home.booking, home.pros | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/urban-company.min.md |
| Taskrabbit Partner API | E | 44.3 | home.booking | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taskrabbit.min.md |


## Panel reviews (0, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)