Upwork for Freelancers

Upwork Global Inc.

About this app

Looking for quality freelance work from high-value clients? Look no further. Upwork is the largest online talent solution connecting businesses and skilled freelance professionals.

Enjoy the freedom and flexibility of finding rewarding work from anywhere across the globe, including opportunities to work with startups to large, established brands.

Upwork was created to give freelancers and agencies the ability to start, run, and grow their own businesses.

The path to a successful freelancing career is now at your fingertips, easy to navigate, and reliable with built-in protections to ensure fair and timely payments for the work you do.

Freelancers make things happen. Show the world how.

With millions of jobs posted on Upwork annually, freelancers are earning money by providing companies with over 5,000 skills across more than 70 categories of work.

Upwork was created to help freelancers find more clients and to start, run, and grow their own businesses. Clients are paying top price for great work across categories such as:
 • Programming
 • Web Development
 • Mobile Development
 • Design
 • Writing
 • Admin Support
 • Customer Service
 • Accounting
 • Marketing
 • Sales

...and many more.

Whatever your skillset may be, there's a project waiting for you on Upwork.

How it works for freelancers and agencies:

Discover
We’ll help you find top-jobs based on the information you provide on your profile. Or, simply search for a job on your own.

Get Hired
Submit a winning bid, then agree on scope and price to get started on the project.

Work
Use Upwork to communicate, share files, and collaborate throughout–from your desktop or mobile device.

Get Paid
Upwork Payment Protection uses a simple and streamlined process that helps you get paid on time–with direct deposit, PayPal, wire transfers and more.


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Ratings and reviews

Dark pattern ads. It seems they've introduced Fullscreen ads for their apps, which is displayed once a day (?). There's no option to disallow it, and the worse thing about it is, there's a small dot at the top left of the close button, so when you can't close it easily. Otherwise the app is fine in most cases. I'll update my review if the ad is stopped or there's an option to stop the ad. This is really unexpected from Upwork, doing something so cheap.

Be very careful to make sure you enter a contract. Do not chat with the clients on "telegram" or outside of the Upwork app. Do not do any work until a contract is initiated. Like any other platform it's prone to having inconsistent dealings, so protect yourself. Other than that if you are diligent it works. The UI is a bit cluttered and can be hard to find things but it is still acceptable. For their efforts to mitigate issues, I give some props.

It would be really helpful to have a function in the chat with clients where I can just note that I've read it. WhatsApp shows blue ticks when a message is read, or alternatively it'd be great to be able to react just sending a thumbs up. It's a little inconvenient to have to reply to every single message from the client and just say "thanks, noted"