With so many real estate apps on the market today, figuring out which ones deserve space on your phone or iPad isn’t easy. That’s why we put together this list of the most innovative real estate apps that are helping Realtors stay organized, market their brands, and close more deals in 2024 and beyond.
We’ve revised our picks and gave an update on two promising new apps making waves on the conference circuit. We organized our selections by category, so be sure to use the table of contents on the left (or top of the page on mobile) to find your new favorite app.
📌 Pro Tip
Don’t just download every app on this list! Start with three or four and see what works best for your business.
Best Real Estate Apps for Lead Generation
1. StreetText
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Pricing: $160-$250 per month
If you want to generate leads from Facebook ads without the steep learning curve, StreetText is for you. StreetText simplifies the complicated process of creating and optimizing Facebook ads and business pages. You get verified phone numbers, emails, and social media profiles and can integrate the tool with existing CRMs and email platforms. Even better, they tailor the results for real estate agents.
Unlike other Facebook ad platforms, StreetText seems to understand just how critical speed to lead is for agents. It’s not cheap, but for the time and stress you save, we think it’s a bargain for those who count Facebook as a major part of their marketing strategies.
Related Article How to Create Real Estate Facebook Ads That Actually Generate Leads2. Zillow Premier Agent
- Pricing: Free with Zillow Premier Agent membership
The Zillow Premier Agent app is a must-have if you have listings on Zillow—or ever want listings on Zillow. It has task management, lead sorting, and even lead assignment and other features for teams.
The app also offers a surprisingly robust free customer relationship manager (CRM) that lets you import leads from BoomTown or realtor.com through Gmail. You can set up tasks, reminders, texts, and emails. But also—if you sign up for their My Agent program, which makes you the only buyer’s agent your leads see on Zillow—it gives you a granular look at what your leads are searching for on Zillow.
Best Real Estate Apps for Open Houses
3. Curb Hero
- Pricing: Free
Over the past few years, Curb Hero has become the go-to app for agents who regularly run open houses. It’s 100% free, customizable, and even offers a QR code sign-in feature. Curb Hero also offers custom branding for bigger brokerages, text and email follow-up tools, lead verification, single-property websites, and CRM integrations.
4. Spacio
- Pricing: Starting at $25 per month
If you want more bells and whistles for teams in your open house sign-in app, Spacio is a solid choice. It offers team-wide reporting, agent management, gated access to leads, auto-populated listings, and default form questions for agents. Since being acquired by HomeSpotter, the company has added some open house marketing and digital advertising product tools as well.
5. Kagent
- Pricing: Free-$25 per month
Kagent is a free tool that allows you to generate a digital sign-in sheet for your open house. Visitors scan the QR code and fill out the form, and the app emails them their responses. Kagent is free for unlimited use and has integrations via Zapier, which you can use to connect your account to over 3,000 other apps and CRM systems. Open houses are a great place to start for readers looking for ways to digitize their business. Nobody wants to use a pen and paper anymore! In that sense, Kagent can be one of the most useful real estate apps for agents.
The bonus of a paid plan is that Kagent will not share your visitor’s open house information with third parties. Another cool feature that sets Kagent apart is that you can enter your visitors into a free prize drawing for $500.
6. Open Home Pro
- Pricing: Free-$25 per month
Now owned by Placester, Open Home Pro is another excellent option for bringing your open house into the 21st century. Like Curb Hero and Spacio, Open Home Pro can send automated follow-up emails to open house guests and features one-touch social sharing.
Best Apps for Real Estate Marketing
7. Freshchat
- Pricing: Free-$69 per month
Let’s face it: In 2024, leads are a little spoiled. They expect (and very often get) nearly instant responses to their online inquiries. That’s why chatbots like Freshchat are so crucial for your website. You can give prospects an instant response, answering their questions with a programmed bot. Or better yet, respond personally to their query on your phone just like you would a text message.
8. Pivo Real Estate
- Pricing: $400 one-time purchase
Pivo is a game-changing tool for agents. It’s an advanced, high-quality motion-tracking camera and a world-class photo editing app in one. Its standout feature is the AI-powered tracking that revolutionizes how you showcase homes. You can now create captivating videos for open houses, new listings, and your 3D home tours from within the app.
For a one-time purchase of $400, you have unlimited access to create as many videos as you like and store them in the app. Compared to traditional 3D home tour methods like Matterport (which can range from $350 to $600 per listing), Pivo can pay for itself with just one listing. This could be a no-brainer investment if you’re strong on video for your brand.
9. Buffer
- Pricing: Free-$6 per month
Even though competition in the real estate software industry is fierce, it’s nothing compared to social media management platforms. Take the investment and user base for your average real estate software and triple it. That translates to the thoughtful features of Buffer, such as advice on when and how to post content, automated engagement reports, and collaboration tools.
10. LabCoat Agents Marketing Center
- Pricing: $59 per month for individual agents; $249 per month for teams up to 10
Feel inspired to create an Instagram story in line at Starbucks? With an app like the LabCoat Agents Marketing Center, you can capitalize on that burst of creativity without pulling out your laptop.
The first comprehensive marketing platform designed just for real estate agents, LabCoat Agents (LCA) Marketing Center lets real estate pros quickly create gorgeous social media posts on the fly. It also offers a one-stop shop to create or edit tons of other marketing templates for business cards, flyers, door hangers, and more.
11. BombBomb
- Pricing: Starting at $39 per month
BombBomb is an app that allows you to incorporate video messaging into your client communication through various channels. Reach out to your clients individually or automate a campaign of videos to email to all your contacts. It’s a great way to stand out from your competitors, build better relationships with your clients, and help build loyalty (it’s all about those referrals!).
BombBomb’s mobile app is top-notch, with iOS and Google Play reviews at 4.8 and 4.7 stars, respectively. If you’re looking for a way to connect with your audience via video, BombBomb is a great way to integrate video into your workflow seamlessly.
12. Zillow 3D Home
- Pricing: Free
These days, buyers have come to expect a 3D tour. With this app, it’s free and easy. Zillow 3D Home lets you upload a 3D home tour without professional equipment—you only need your phone. It’s pretty cool that you can build your 3D home tour without an expensive Matterport camera.
Even better, your tour will automatically be posted to your listing on Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin. You can also share it on social media and your MLS.
13. Canva
- Pricing: Free-$9.99 per month
When I worked in advertising, our publisher complained about spending over $1,000 on Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. That cost isn’t easy to swallow for any business owner. Luckily today, apps like Canva offer basic Photoshop-like functionality for free.
You can use Canva to design nearly anything—social media posts, videos, door hangers, flyers, business cards, and a lot more. It’s free and quick to use. Try it out to level up your design game.
14. Houzz
- Pricing: Free
Download the free Houzz app if you have design-focused clients and want to be a rock star at your next showing or open house. Along with contractor recommendations and shopping, Houzz has an augmented reality feature that lets you preview what a room might look like furnished—right from your phone during a showing. Perfect for demonstrating the potential of under-construction or dated homes.
15. Animoto
- Pricing: Free-$39 per month
Animoto is an all-in-one video maker that makes creating and editing videos on the fly much easier. You can shoot a video, add titles, transitions, images, and music, and share your creation on social media. The free version offers music tracks and custom colors, though you’ll have to sign up for a paid plan if you want high-definition videos (1080p) or want to ditch the Animoto branding.
16. magicplan
- Pricing: Free for up to two projects; $10 (per user, per month) for unlimited projects
In a perfect world, we would all get detailed floor plans, well-shot images, and a neat and orderly list of recent renovations for every listing. Of course, none of us live in a perfect world, so we all have to make do when buyers ask about simple things like floor plans or wonder how much new countertops might cost.
Thankfully, magicplan supplies you with quick answers that will likely sate buyers’ curiosity until you can bring in a contractor to get the work done. You can generate on-demand floor plans by scanning a room with your mobile device and then uploading that floor plan to create cost estimates, 3D tours, and more.
Best Real Estate CRM Apps
17. Top Producer
- Pricing: Custom
Top Producer is a real estate CRM that includes a lead generation platform with automated nurturing. As part of its latest lead-generating package, Social Connect, the company’s advertising experts create Facebook and Instagram ads to promote your listings and brand to generate leads. Those leads are then sent directly to your Top Producer CRM, where the automated nurturing system kicks in, increasing your conversion rate
18. LionDesk
- Pricing: $25 per month (Try it out for 14 days free)
If you ask the average agent what they want from a CRM in 2024, you’ll probably get two answers: affordability and lead generation. Well, apparently, LionDesk is listening.
LionDesk CRM is affordable for almost any agent at $25 per month and includes built-in Facebook marketing. Take LionDesk for a 14-day test drive—no strings attached.
19. CINC
- Pricing: Custom
CINC operates almost like an inside sales agent. It monitors your incoming leads and acts as your personal concierge—getting prospects on the phone, qualifying them, and connecting them straight to you.
Automatic lead nurturing without the back and forth to get an appointment? It’ll save you a ton of time and increase your conversion rate.
20. Sierra Interactive
- Pricing: Starting at $500 per month for five users
Sierra’s app allows you to run your entire real estate business from anywhere—even sitting on the beach. Unlike some CRMs, this isn’t some stripped-down version of desktop software. You can nurture leads, send bulk emails, manage showings, list properties, and track your team’s performance quickly and easily from your iPad.
Sierra’s app works seamlessly with its RealTrends award-winning IDX websites, but you can get the CRM if you already have your web presence set.
Best General Purpose Real Estate Apps
21. DealCheck
- Pricing: Free-$20 per month
With everyone and their grandmother hyping up real estate investing over the last few years, chances are you have at least one buyer who wants to talk cap rates instead of how green the lawn is. If you don’t know a ton about investing, they might even know more than you do. That makes it harder to come across as the real estate expert you are.
DealCheck makes it easy—even if you don’t know your BRRRR from your ARV. The app pulls in data from a various sources so you can quickly rattle off estimated cash flow, cap rates, rent estimates, rehab budgets, and more. Even better, if you’re thinking about working with investors, the app will give you a crash course in analyzing investment properties.
22. Farlex Real Estate Dictionary
- Pricing: Free
A user-friendly and comprehensive guide to all sorts of real estate terms, this app is a must-have for every agent. Backed by McGraw-Hill, you can consider this a guide to those words you may have forgotten from your licensing test, like “capture rate” and “net operating income.” This app is completely free and available on both iPhone and Android devices.
23. Showami
- Pricing: Free-$50 per year for individual agents
Showami is a simple solution to a modern-day problem. You’ve got two active buyer clients who want to see a home on Saturday afternoon. Instead of frantically searching for a qualified agent to help you with a showing, you can just input your request into Showami. You’ll be connected with a verified local agent to assist with your showing. You have complete control over pricing and can ensure a reputable agent takes care of your clients.
The app is highly rated, simple to use, and free to sign up. It’s better to make a profile and not need it than scramble to find someone in just a couple of hours. Plus, you can sign up to be a “Showing Assistant” to make some extra pocket money by showing homes for other agents in the area.
24. MLS Touch
Unlike a specific MLS app with a 2.3 rating on Apple’s App Store, MLS Touch has quietly taken over as the number one choice for boards across the country. One scroll through the app, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a joy to use. MLS Touch is more than just a pretty face, though. It has features Realtors have been clamoring for years, like neighborhood search, school search, comps, hot sheets, flood zone maps, and even a tool that lets you publish listings on Facebook.
Sadly, MLS Touch is only sold to associations. So, if yours still uses that other app, you’re out of luck. We’re just happy that real estate technology seems to be finally coming out of the dark ages. Here’s hoping we get more cool apps like MLS Touch in 2024.
25. Connecteam
- Pricing: Free-$99 per month
Connecteam is a cool product that will help you manage your time and operations for your business. The small business plan is free and has an operations and communications hub for up to 10 users. There are great features like a time clock, forms, quick tasks, a group chat, a directory, events, and even HR features like recognitions, time off, and celebrations.
If you’ve got a team or even just an assistant, this could be a great option to get your business organized and operationally efficient.
26. Bubble Level App (aka Spirit Level)
- Pricing: Free
Here’s one for agents constantly showing pre-war listings that need a little TLC. Is that door frame level, or is it the floor that’s wonky? Instead of guessing or raiding the contractor’s toolbox, just pull out your phone and get a quick reading.
The Bubble Level app will serve you well if you’re on Android. If you’re on iOS, you have a bubble level built in. The only problem is that it’s kind of hidden. Here’s a quick rundown of how to find it.
27. Karl’s Mortgage Calculator
- Pricing: Free
There are a lot of mortgage calculators out there, but this is by far the best of the ones we’ve tried. It’s quick, effortless to use, and has very minimal advertising. Now, it doesn’t have a fancy user interface. However, this does all the hard work for you on the fly. You can add in costs like PMI, HOA fees, taxes, and insurance. It also supports fixed and adjustable-rate mortgages.
The best part is that it’s 100% free on iOS and Android devices. You can pay a few bucks to remove the ads, but they don’t impact the experience.
📌 Pro Tip
Organize your apps in a real estate-specific folder for quick and easy access.
28. BrokerAssist
- Pricing: 30
BrokerAssist is a one-stop shop for referrals and quick gigs requiring a licensed real estate professional. Need to run keys to a listing? Open up a listing for a contractor? Refer an out-of-town client? BrokerAssist is a great way to hire out—or get hired for—real estate work within your brokerage or other brokerages in your association.
29. Forewarn
- Pricing: $20 per month (enterprise pricing available)
In slow markets, speed to lead goes from a best practice to a necessity. If you aren’t willing to show on a buyer’s or renter’s schedule, there are 10 other agents who will be more than happy to jump at the opportunity. The problem is safety. Meeting a stranger alone in an empty property—no matter the time of day or neighborhood—can be risky.
Forewarn offers agents an easy way to screen leads so they can accept more showings. Using just an incoming phone number, Forewarn can instantly pull up the lead’s real name, criminal history, current property and vehicle ownership, and even bankruptcy history.
📌 Pro Tip
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Best Productivity Apps
30. monday.com
- Pricing: Free-$19 per month
If you want a free project management app or an endlessly tweakable lightweight CRM, monday.com is a no-brainer. Its secret sauce? Flexibility. If you’re into customizing your workflows, you can find a way to make monday.com do pretty much anything—maybe even replace your CRM. It comes ready with standard CRM features like contact management, in-app calling, automated reminders, and more.
31. ChatGPT Mobile App
- Pricing: Free or $20 per month for GPT-4
ChatGPT has surpassed 100 million users, and for good reason. While you might not consider this a real estate agent app, it’s worth looking at if you haven’t used this generative artificial intelligence tool yet. Beyond creating recipes and poems, you can use it to level up your business. Ask ChatGPT questions like “Help me brainstorm ways to generate leads.”
You can also use ChatGPT to help you with all sorts of written tasks. Think: helping with emails, listing descriptions, brainstorming blog posts, and even generating scripts to role play and practice for an important listing appointment. The best part is that it’s 100% free. You can subscribe to Plus for access to GPT-4, but the free version is still extremely useful.
32. Notion
- Pricing: Free-$18 per month
Notion is a connected workspace solution to stay organized with your various clients, tasks, lists, meetings, and even your knowledge base. It can be your central hub for your workspace to keep your work streamlined and as easy as possible. Use Notion to organize your business instead of keeping things in separate apps.
Plus, Notion artificial intelligence (AI) can help you stay on top of your work by helping you write better, find your info from a meeting or calendar, and even autofill tables and lists to simplify your work.
33. CamScanner
- Pricing: Free-$4.99 per month
The smartphone era has brought us some amazing things. We not only have access to the entirety of human knowledge in our back pocket but a still camera, video camera, and motion sensor. But sometimes, you need a tool to optimize these advancements for your business.
With CamScanner, scan documents on the go and use their optical character recognition technology to convert the text on your scans into a machine-readable form. That way, the data you capture is easier to process, edit, and search.
34. RPR Mobile
- Pricing: Free for NAR members
A wholly owned subsidiary of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Realtors Property Resource’s app helps Realtors parse and access property data for showings, comparative market analyses, research, and more.
RPR Mobile remains one of the best ways to keep your clients informed on the go. Out to lunch with a buyer and want to pull up a list of new three-bedroom listings in a particular ZIP code? RPR lets you draw custom polygon search areas to target even the smallest micro-neighborhood.
35. Dotloop
- Pricing: $31.99 per month
Over the past few years, the transaction management platform Dotloop has slowly become the dominant player in the industry. Since competition in the enterprise space is fierce, Dotloop smartly released a free version for individual agents. But you’ll only be able to create 10 free real estate transactions before upgrading, so it’s more of a free trial for those invested in it for the long haul.
36. Dropbox
- Pricing: Free-$24 per user, per month
Dropbox is a super simple app that lets you store files on the go. It’s so common among agents nowadays that most have it on their phones. The free version limits you to only 2GB storage and access on three devices. Still, paid plans offer advanced security features, offline file access, and the ability to request signatures, for example.
37. Agently
Agently saves you valuable time by helping you automate your social media with AI. Plus, you can track your activities and productivity directly in the app, shared with your broker. It’s a great way to stay on track.
Apps to Watch
38. REAL Messenger (Update)
In our last update to this article, we couldn’t help but include REAL Messenger on our list. This real estate agent app seemed tailor-made for success: an exclusive club where buyers, sellers, and agents can network around high-end pocket listings. They even had celebrity real estate agent Fredrik Eklund running the show. So, how has it fared since our last update?
As of September 2023, REAL has reached over 350,000 downloads with access to more than 90% of listings in the United States. It seems to have hit its stride in its mission to “connect and empower the real estate community through technology.” In fact, REAL made waves in 2023 by announcing it was listed on NASDAQ with a valuation of $150 million. We’re excited to see the journey continue.
39. 1060 App
- Pricing: TBD
The 1060 App is another new social-media-meets-real-estate app to watch. Endorsed by real estate luminaries like Jason Oppenheim, Tomer Fridman, and the Sean McPeak team at SERHANT, 1060 takes the high-end pocket listing idea one step further than REAL Messenger. Like TikTok, the videos on the platform are short—under 60 seconds. Just enough to offer a sneak peek of a hot new property.
It sounds like a TikTok clone for real estate, right? Not so fast. The app has one killer feature that TikTok lacks: property search. Buyers on the app can search for homes based on criteria like price, number of bedrooms, neighborhood, or even keywords. Pretty cool, right?
What Are Real Estate Apps?
Real estate apps are programs designed for phones and tablets that help real estate professionals and their clients generate leads, market homes, and buy and sell properties. While most real estate apps are mobile versions of websites designed for desktop computers, some, like Curb Hero, were designed specifically as apps for mobile devices.
Methodology: How We Chose the Best Real Estate Apps
Even though our team has over 50 years of combined real estate experience, choosing the best apps wasn’t easy. To ensure we were using objective measures instead of just our opinions, we asked these questions to choose our picks for the best real estate apps for our readers:
- Utility: Seek out apps that address practical challenges you’re already facing. You want to improve and streamline your workflows, not make your work harder.
- Pricing: Opt for apps that offer you value. While affordability is key, you should also consider the potential return on investment (ROI). If an app or feature upgrade is pricey but will boost your efficiency (or your leads), it might be worth the investment.
- Ease of use: Focus on choosing apps with user-friendly interfaces. We’ve done our best to find apps that have an intuitive design. Again, focus on your real estate tasks rather than learning a complex new app.
- Network effect: Prioritize apps widely used and recommended by the real estate community. After all, a larger user base usually means better support and a more stable app experience.
- Stability: Ensure the apps you rely on are stable and function smoothly. They should have minimal bugs, crashes, or technical issues. We’re looking to enhance your business—not disrupt it.
Our team regularly reviews and edits our articles to ensure we provide our readers with the most up-to-date information. We pride ourselves on an independent, editorial view. We do not accept money, services, or products in exchange for positive reviews or placement. Check out our complete methodology here.
Over to You
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