Resident Plus vs Cortland Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Resident Plus
Manage your apartment community from your phone. Submit service requests, pay rent, and stay informed about events and news. Receive important messages from your community manager.
- Submit and manage service requests
- Pay rent online
- View community events and news
- Receive messages from manager
- Mobile community portal
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Resident Plus is your mobile portal to your apartment community. This app allows community residents to submit and manage service requests, pay rent online, keep up-to-date on community events and news, and receive messages from the community manager.
Cortland Connect
Manage your apartment living on the go. This app simplifies moving in with an onboarding checklist, allows for easy rent payments and auto-pay setup, and facilitates maintenance requests and lease renewals. Connect with property management through integrated messaging for any lease or payment inquiries.
- Onboarding checklist for move-in
- Utility and vehicle setup
- Pet and emergency contact registration
- Rent payment and auto-pay
- Maintenance request submission
- Lease renewal initiation
- Resident messaging
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Welcome to Cortland! The Cortland Connect resident app is your resource for all things related to your home, especially when you’re on the go. We make it easy to move in, pay rent, request maintenance, and renew! Our Cortland messaging feature allows you to ask any questions you have about your lease, payments, and more – all from the convenience of your mobile device. Ready to move in? Our Onboarding Checklist will allow you to: • Set up utilities • Enter vehicle information • Submit pet information and documentation • Register emergency contact information Already living with us? Residents can: • Make rent payments anywhere, anytime • Set up auto-pay so you never miss a payment • Submit service requests • Initiate lease renewals • …and much more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cortland Connect at 4.9 against Resident Plus's 2.3. Cortland Connect also leads on ratings volume (5.1K vs 3) and review sentiment (50% vs 36%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cortland Connect holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cortland Connect has 5.1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Resident Plus's written reviews are positive against 50% of Cortland Connect's.
Resident Plus ships an update monthly, Cortland Connect every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resident Plus | Cortland Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.9 (5.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apartments247 | CORTLAND PARTNERS, LLC |
Customer experience
Resident Plus
Cortland Connect
Bugs and requests
Resident Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Cortland Connect
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to pan to the bottom of fillable forms
- Photos not uploading for service requests
- App not showing service requests and closed requests
- Login problems and app crashing
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to reserve amenities
- Bring back Cortland community feature
- More detailed payment information
In-app purchases
Resident Plus
No in-app purchases
Cortland Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Resident Plus free?
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Do Resident Plus or Cortland Connect have ads?
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