HomeSearchNOW vs YardTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomeSearchNOW
Discover properties with local expertise and the latest listings. Customize your search with interactive maps, high-resolution photos, and real-time updates. Save favorites, get instant notifications, and easily connect with agents.
- Customizable search criteria
- Interactive map view
- High-resolution property photos
- Instant new listing notifications
- Save favorite properties
- Contact agent with one touch
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Find a better way to search with local expertise and the newest listings. Customize your search experience and leverage interactive maps, high-res property photos, and the most up-to-date details to find the perfect place, first. Search, save and select your favorites, get instant notifications for new listings or important updates and request a showing or contact an agent with one touch. Now the best real estate guide is right at your fingertips. • Customize your search by the criteria that is most important to you, including price, bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, neighborhood and much, much more. • View search results the way that you prefer, by map or listing details. • Search properties near you.
YardTime
Coordinate with neighbors to manage when dogs are in the yard. Avoid conflicts with a shared real-time status, automated timers, and instant notifications for yard availability.
- One-tap yard status updates
- Automated timers for yard usage
- Real-time yard clear notifications
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Live Activity countdown
- Siri and Action Button integration
- Neighborly conflict avoidance
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YardTime keeps neighboring dogs from meeting at the fence. If your dog and the dog next door bark up a storm whenever they're both out back, YardTime gives you a shared, real-time yard status so you can take turns — no more changing a group-chat photo to "dog" and hoping everyone notices. One tap tells your neighbors the yard is taken. A timer frees it up automatically. And the moment it's clear, everyone gets a heads-up. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • One-tap status — "Let Rex out," and your neighbors know instantly. • Timers that check in — pick 15, 30, or 60 minutes (or open-ended). When time's up you get a nudge to extend or bring them in, and the yard frees itself if you've moved on. No more forgetting to flip it back. • "Yard is clear" alerts — get notified the second it's your turn, and let your dogs out with one tap right from the alert. • At-a-glance widgets — home screen and lock screen show clear or occupied without opening the app. • Live Activity — a countdown on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while your dog is out. • A shared recent-activity feed — who let dogs out and when the yard cleared, the same on every phone in the group. • Hands-free — say "Hey Siri, let the dog out," or map it to the Action Button, for when you've already got a dog by the collar. • A heads-up before your dog goes out on top of a neighbor's — in the app, from Siri or an NFC tag, on the widget, on your watch. Nobody's dogs meet at the fence by accident. SET UP IN UNDER TWO MINUTES Create a group, share one invite link, and your neighbors are in. No sign-ups, no passwords — it's tied to your iCloud. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your yard status lives in your own iCloud and is shared only with your group. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, nothing sold. Ever. Built for a few households on a quiet street — not the whole internet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: YardTime at 100% against HomeSearchNOW's 26%. YardTime also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). HomeSearchNOW's advantage is ratings volume (177 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
YardTime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeSearchNOW has 177 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of HomeSearchNOW's written reviews are positive against 100% of YardTime's.
HomeSearchNOW ships an update fortnightly, YardTime every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeSearchNOW | YardTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (177 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 177 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BoomTown, LLC | PATRICK FRISCHMANN |
Customer experience
HomeSearchNOW
YardTime
Bugs and requests
HomeSearchNOW
Reported bugs
15 issues- App doesn't load properties after filtering
- App crashes frequently
- Unable to log in to existing account
- Saved searches disappear
- Favorited homes not showing up
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- Filter screen blank
- Cannot zoom in on photos without advancing
- Directions link not working
- App not showing same listings on phone
- Login issues after signing out
- Cannot reset password without realtor
- Pages on listings don't load
- App requires agent approval
- App asks for unnecessary personal information (driver's license)
- App asks to download another app for support
Requested features
11 requests- Disable swipe down to close
- Push notifications
- Ability to hide properties/areas
- Zoom functionality for photos
- Improve filter functionality
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- Add HOA information
- Sync listings across platforms (phone, tablet, desktop)
- Direct feed from local MLS
- Option to hide properties
- Better password reset functionality
- Allow rentals
YardTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HomeSearchNOW
No in-app purchases
YardTime
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is HomeSearchNOW free?
Is YardTime free?
Which has better reviews, HomeSearchNOW or YardTime?
Do HomeSearchNOW or YardTime have ads?
Which is updated more often, HomeSearchNOW or YardTime?
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