Brivity Home vs Upstate Curious
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brivity Home
Discover the latest homes for sale that match your criteria. Save open houses, schedule tours, and communicate directly with your real estate agent to streamline your home buying process.
- Find matching homes
- Save open houses
- Schedule home tours
- Connect with agent
- Latest listings
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Brivity Home connects you and your real estate agent to ensure your home search journey is a success. Find the latest homes that match your must-haves, save open houses for later, schedule a tour of a home any time, and connect with your agent via Brivity Home.
Upstate Curious
Discover local gems and connect with your community in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. Find recommended restaurants, shops, and services, or ask for local advice. Meet new people and share your experiences in this vibrant region.
- Local discovery feed
- Crowdsourced Q&A
- Community profiles
- Direct messaging
- Interest-based connections
- Local groups
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We love the Hudson Valley + Catskills region! We love exploring every nook and cranny of the mountains and forests and farms and towns - and all the incredible restaurants and shops and art galleries and other places to visit. As residents, we also love (and need!) to know where to find a great dentist, electrician, therapist, or upholsterer, dog groomer, or babysitter depending on the day! And since one of the best parts about living in or visiting this special area are the people, we think that new ways to meet up online and (eventually!) IRL is also a pretty great idea. “Upstate Chat” is the main feed where you can share your finds or the view from your backyard (including videos and photos). By using hashtags like #restaurants, #outdoors, #townname, #county, etc., we can make things easy to find - and the section for “Popular Hashtags” will be just that. “Hotline” is where you go to ask a question you need to crowdsource - from a roofer who turns up on time to the best pizza in Ulster County to an easy hike with dogs. You can add searchable interests and a bio to your profile to connect more easily with other members - there’s a DM feature right in the app, but you can share all your social profiles as well. Upstate Curious was created for residents, visitors, weekenders, and fans - and we cover Ulster, Dutchess, Sullivan, Greene, Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, Orange, and neighboring countries. The more the merrier! The Upstate Curious Team members will be posting their finds and tips for #upstateliving - and there are special groups for buyers and sellers to get their own burning questions answered!” This app was created by the Upstate Curious Team of Keller Williams Realty Hudson Valley North.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Upstate Curious at 4.9 against Brivity Home's 4.0. Upstate Curious also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%). Brivity Home's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Upstate Curious holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 97 and 144 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Brivity Home's written reviews are positive against 100% of Upstate Curious's.
Brivity Home ships an update every 3 weeks, Upstate Curious every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brivity Home | Upstate Curious |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (97 ratings) | 4.9 (144 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 97 | 144 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Brivity | The Brenn-White Group LLC |
Customer experience
Brivity Home
Upstate Curious
Bugs and requests
Brivity Home
Reported bugs
30 issues- App crashes
- Features not working
- Cannot save to collection or access saved homes
- Cannot save or visit recent history/searches
- Back arrow button not working
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- Search engine does not recognize specific addresses
- Homes not showing up in search
- App crashes when selecting a home
- Blank black screen instead of photos/info
- Cannot create an account, only login
- Login screen says account needed
- Image view automatically changes to landscape
- Cannot revert from landscape mode
- Kicks user out of app when modifying search
- App won't open at all sometimes
- App does not load or refresh well
- Does not rotate
- Does not resize after zoom
- Map won't load
- Filters won't load when sorting via list
- Data refresh problems
- Marker disappears on map after clicking
- City/town names disappear when zooming
- Searching for new listings broken
- Saved search turns up no results
- Saved search filters not applied until map moved
- Sort option doesn't show on all phones
- Like button inconveniently placed
- Pricing and searches don't update dynamically
- New listings difficult to navigate
Requested features
7 requests- Option to include or exclude HOA's
- Option to include or exclude ADA accessible homes
- Option to include or exclude single level homes
- Option to include or exclude master bedroom in main level
- Agent version with confidential remarks, disclosure links, phone numbers, and emails
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- Improve MLS access to other MLS listings
- Fix landscape mode issue
Upstate Curious
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brivity Home
No in-app purchases
Upstate Curious
No in-app purchases









