New Home Key vs Hously
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
New Home Key
This app helps sales professionals respond to client leads faster and more effectively. It allows instant communication via call, email, or text, and syncs contacts for seamless management. Track all lead activities and integrate with CRM for automated campaigns.
- Instant call, email, text response
- Sync mobile contacts
- Direct lead funneling
- Rapid Response Management
- Push notifications for lead activity
- Automated activity documentation
- CRM integration
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New Home Key is a rapid lead response system that helps increase response time for sales staff, external agents and improve the performance. To get started login with your credentials provided to you by NHLS. New Home Key provides the following functionality : • Allows instant call, email, text, delay or assign response to clients • Ability to respond anytime, anywhere - whether they are in the office, showing a listing, at the airport, or meeting with a client in a coffee shop • Sync all your contacts from mobile to the app • Direct inquiries funneled from NewHomeListingService to the mobile app • Rapid Response Management tools easily accessible from the app • Push notifications on important lead activity • Activity automatically documented for each lead to help sales understand and track their actions and performance • “Lead ingestion” system that allows you to drive all your leads from any source directly to a single app • CRM integration, ensuring leads are also ready for automated drip email campaigns (additional options available)
Hously
Manage real estate leads, contacts, and activities on the go. This app allows agents to call, text, email, update calendars, and manage pipelines. It also includes reputation management features to collect and respond to client reviews.
- Lead and contact management
- Activity dashboard
- Calendar management
- Pipeline management
- Reputation management
- Call, text, and email leads
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Hously - Real Estate CRM. Designed by agents for agents. Hously mobile app is a simplified version of our CRM for on the go management. To access the full features of Hously please visit our desktop portal at app.hously.com. Access and contact your leads from anywhere, within our mobile app you will be able to: Call, text, & email. View your activity dashboard. Update and review your calendar. Create and manage your contacts and update their campaigns and pipeline stages. Review and manage your pipelines. Add contact notes and create tasks. In app reputation management. Collect reviews by sending requests via text and email, get notified when your client summits review, and easily reply publicly to reviews on the go. Visit hously.com to start get started. There you will be able to review features and pricing, contact customer support, login though our desktop portal, and view our FAQs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hously at every 6 weeks against New Home Key's every 49 months. New Home Key's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for New Home Key against 5.0 for Hously. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
New Home Key ships an update every 49 months, Hously every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | New Home Key | Hously |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 49 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 195 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Constellation HomeBuilder Systems Corp | Hously LLC |
Customer experience
New Home Key
Hously
In-app purchases
New Home Key
No in-app purchases
Hously
No in-app purchases
