Endole alternative — free UK company checker

Companies House Service (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk). It is where Endole gets its underlying data. Full filings, PSC register, charges, director appointments — free, official, and always current. The trade-off is a functional but plain UI and no credit score.

Not officially. Every UK credit score (Endole, Creditsafe, CompanyCheck, Red Flag Alert, Experian, D&B) is a proprietary product sitting behind a paywall. The Insolvency Service publishes CCJs and insolvency filings free via The Gazette, but no free service turns them into a single defensible score.

It depends on what you use Endole for. For director timelines and casual research, CompanyCheck (£24.99/mo) is closest. For credit monitoring, Red Flag Alert (~£110/mo) goes deeper. For regulated onboarding, DueDil/FullCircl replaces Endole entirely. For acquisition-side research, Sell Ltd is free.

Yes — nothing you do inside Endole locks your data. Cancel via the email process in your account settings (diary this before the auto-renewal date), then use Companies House directly. Your saved research doesn't transfer, but everything you searched for is public data you can re-lookup free.

For buyers researching acquisitions, yes — Sell Ltd's free checker gives you Companies House filings, an AI-generated business twin summary and a watchlist for target companies. For credit-committee reporting on customers you already trade with, Endole or Red Flag Alert are the honest fit.

Only for portfolio-scale monitoring and downloadable credit reports. Endole's pay-as-you-go £29.95 report is fair for one-off lookups; the ~£29–£99/month unlimited plan pays back only if you do enough lookups to justify the auto-renew risk. See our long-form review at /company-check/endole-review.

For UK company research: Companies House Service (statutory record), The Gazette (insolvency notices), Insolvency Service register (bankruptcies & DROs), Land Registry Business Gazetteer (property holdings), and Sell Ltd's free company checker for a plain-English business summary.

Partly. The Registry Trust operates trustonline.org.uk — a paid CCJ lookup (£6/search). Companies House does not publish CCJs directly, but filed accounts show provisions and creditor pressure indirectly. If CCJ visibility matters for credit decisions, budget the £6/search or subscribe to Endole/Creditsafe.

Companies House is the source of truth — every UK limited company must file there by law. Endole's data can only ever be as fresh as its last sync from Companies House. Filings occasionally lag by 24–48 hours across resellers; for the very latest position, always go to Companies House directly.

The catch is UX and aggregation. Companies House shows one company at a time and has no credit score. The Gazette is chronological, not company-filtered. If you need to run 40 credit checks per week, free tools cost you time. If you need one lookup, they cost you nothing.

Free path: Companies House + The Gazette + Sell Ltd checker. Paid path (if you must): CompanyCheck for like-for-like value, Red Flag Alert for credit-focused monitoring. Only pay Endole when its specific UX + credit report format is what your workflow needs.