Many real estate investors waste precious time on manual tasks that modern apps can handle in minutes. The right combination of these tools can help you spot deals faster, avoid costly analysis mistakes, and automate tedious property management work.
There are hundreds of real estate apps promising to revolutionize your business, so choosing the wrong ones means wasted money and even more confusion.
We’ve tested dozens of real estate investing apps to identify the 19 that consistently deliver real value – from deal analysis to tenant screening and rent collection.
1. Stessa
Created by real estate investors, Stessa helps you track income and expenses seamlessly, draft leases, screen tenants and collect rent online, simplify tax time, and use real-time dashboards to manage smarter and faster.
Stessa goes beyond basic landlord accounting features in its free plan, offering innovative solutions for property owners seeking more comprehensive tools. Their mobile apps for iOS and Android include convenient real-time receipt scanning that automatically categorizes expenses for tax purposes.
When you scan receipts and invoices using the Stessa app, they seamlessly sync between your mobile device and the online platform, ensuring you maintain a complete overview of your property expenses. The platform’s advanced machine learning and OCR technology carefully processes and organizes all the details, storing your transaction information securely in the cloud for easy access during tax season or audits.
The platform’s online rent collection feature helps encourage timely payments from tenants while automating key tasks like deposits, receipts, and accounting entries. Your rental management becomes even simpler with automated reminders and recurring payment options.
For financial management, Stessa provides specialized high-yield bank accounts designed with landlords in mind. You can open multiple accounts and connect each one to a specific property in your portfolio, helping you optimize your real estate assets efficiently.
The banking features include helpful tools like rent collection reminders, flexible debit card options (both physical and virtual), and seamless integration with accounting functions. There’s no need to worry about minimum balances, bounced check fees, or monthly maintenance charges, making it easier to manage your accounts and prepare for tax season.
To help with tenant management, Stessa includes vacancy marketing and comprehensive tenant screening services. You can access detailed credit reports, background checks, and additional screening options like income verification or judgment and liens searches, giving you the insights you need to evaluate potential tenants confidently.
Go here to create a free Stessa account.
2. Apartments.com
Investors looking for a full suite of online property management tools may want to give Apartments.com a closer look. The online rental listing website recently acquired Cozy to provide landlords with free rental management tools to market listings, screen tenants, and collect rent online. Mobile apps from Apartments.com work with Android and Apple devices.
3. Auction.com
Auction.com is the nation’s online marketplace for bank-owned real estate (REO), short sales, and foreclosures. The website is a good option for investors looking for off-market properties, and buyers can attend auctions in person or bid online. Apps for Auction.com are available from Google Play and the App Store.
4. DealCheck
DealCheck is a real estate app for estimating profits on rental properties, BRRRRs (buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat), fix and flips, and residential multifamily deals. Investors can view detailed financial projections, look up recent sale and rental comps, calculate the maximum allowable offer, and much more. The DealCheck mobile app is available for both Android and Apple.
5. DealMachine
Real estate investors looking for off-market leads use DealMachine to lower marketing costs with software plans for list building, driving for dollars, real estate direct mail postcards, skip tracing to locate hard-to-find owners, and more. DealMachine has apps on Google Play and the App Store.
6. DocuSign
The DocuSign Agreement Cloud for Real Estate is used by investors, real estate agents, property managers, and escrow officers. Documents are shared and signed completely online with applications such as eSignature, Rooms for Real Estate, DocuSign Identity, and Notary. The DocuSign mobile app is available for iOS and Android.
7. Neighborhood Rating
Neighborhood Rating is an online real estate app from Roofstock that helps investors better understand the risks and rewards of investing in different neighborhoods. Simply enter the property address to receive a neighborhood star rating from 1-5 stars, along with neighborhood data, including median home values, median incomes and employment, percentage of owner-occupied homes, and average school rating.
8. Dotloop
Transaction management software from Dotloop is used by real estate professionals around the country to collaborate, edit forms, and sign using a single online platform. The software works on a desktop and via iOS and Android apps.
9. eRentPayment
Software from eRentPayment is an online rent payment service and a property management system rolled into one. Landlords can screen tenants online, collect security deposits and recurring monthly rent, and track and respond to tenant maintenance requests. The mobile app for paying rent can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play.
10. Homesnap
Homesnap is a real estate app that provides information about homes for sale simply by snapping a picture. The app integrates with the multiple listing service (MLS) to provide buyers and investors with the same information that real estate agents use, including photos, property data, property taxes, and more. Homesnap offers apps for both iOS and Android.
11. LegalTemplates
Landlords looking for free legal documents and contracts will find nearly everything they need on LegalTemplates.net. Documents can be customized and signed online, including purchase-and-sales agreements, lease agreements, lease termination forms, and limited liability company (LLC) forms
12. Magicplan
Magicplan is an iOS and Android app that measures existing spaces and creates floor plans. The app uses a smartphone camera and internal gyroscope to create accurate plans that can be exported to PDF, JPEG, PNG, and other formats.
13. PayYourRent
Property managers, landlords, and tenants use PayYourRent for same-day rent payment processing. The app comes with online and mobile versions. Renters can pay by credit card or check, and landlords receive additional property management tools, including tenant screening, rental applications, and maintenance request management. Mobile apps for PayYourRent are available for iPhone and Android phones.
14. Property Fixer
Property Fixer provides a fast analysis for investors who are fixing and flipping properties. This real estate app helps investors purchasing short sales, REO properties, foreclosures, and rehabs to perform due diligence and crunch the numbers to determine if a deal matches an investor’s strategy. Property Fixer works with iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
15. Real estate listing websites
Real estate listing websites like Realtor.com, Redfin, Trulia, Zillow, and ZipRealty are good resources for finding both MLS and for sale by owner (FSBO) listings. Investors can search for homes using a variety of criteria, and all of the websites have apps for iOS and Android.
16. Rentometer
Rentometer is an online app that runs rent comparables and determines the fair market rent of a home based on similar nearby properties. Investors can use the free version to analyze rent based on property address, or upgrade to generate rent comps at the neighborhood, ZIP code, and city levels.
17. Scanner Pro
Investors can download Scanner Pro to an iPhone or iPad to take high-quality scans, write and highlight text, share, and fax. Scanned documents can be uploaded and stored online, and the smart optical character recognition (OCR) technology recognizes text in more than 25 languages.
18. Xome
Xome is an online listing website for auction properties, foreclosure sale events, and traditional home sales. The site is a good resource for investors who want to fix-and-flip, or fix-and-hold renovated property and rent to a tenant. Investors can browse listings on Xome online and download the Xome mobile app for iOS and Android.
19. Doorsteps
Doorsteps is a website for listing and managing rental properties online. Landlords can list vacant properties for free, market listings on 12 high-traffic sites like Realtor.com, Zumper, and Zillow, schedule showings, and get tenant screening reports.
*Stessa is not a bank. Stessa is a financial technology company. Stessa Essentials is a free service. Stessa Pro is a paid monthly subscription service. Terms and conditions, features and pricing are subject to change. This article, and the Stessa Blog in general, is intended for informational and educational purposes only, and is not investment, tax, financial planning, financial, legal, or real estate advice.
