Sphere vs OpenNow for Agents
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sphere
Manage and grow your real estate business with this comprehensive CRM. It centralizes transactions, contacts, tasks, and documents, while offering business planning tools and email marketing capabilities. Designed by top agents, it aims to increase sales and free up your time.
- Centralized transaction and contact management
- Automated business planning and reporting
- Gmail and Outlook calendar/email sync
- Client social media integration
- Email marketing and newsletters
- Team collaboration features
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Central Hub. Sphere helps you manage and grow your real estate business. Sphere was designed by top agents. It gets rid of the post-it notes, whiteboards and spreadsheets and tracks of everything in one place - every aspect of all transactions, To Do lists, contacts, deadlines, doc archive, and much more. It is easily accessible to anyone with a Sphere account from any device (laptop, phone, tablet). 20% More Sales. The average Sphere user sales increased by over 20% in the first 12 months. Top users exceed 100%. A solid system for managing your business results in higher closure rates and creates more time to pursue new sales (as well as more free time). Business Plan. In just a couple of minutes, Sphere creates an annual business plan tailored to your business. It then generates a daily dashboard and monthly reports to keep you up to date on your progress. To help hit sales targets it creates a daily lead generation contact list and makes it easy to see whether you are hitting your referral goals. Gmail & Outlook. Sphere syncs with Google and Outlook calendars so every date and deadline from open houses to house anniversaries are always with you. It also syncs and organizes Gmail and Outlook emails so you always have a searchable list of all conversations with each client. Coaching. Sphere highlights important action steps each day for sales growth. It provides monthly ideas for ways to engage your sphere. It creates birthday and housiversary notifications, as well as detailed monthly and annual business reports with metrics on progress toward goals, opportunities for growth, and best practice tips. Teams. Sphere recently rolled out functionality for teams. Different roles have different privileges and access to different data and functionality. Team leaders have access to a dashboard with performance metrics on each team member as well as the team as a whole. Organization is even more important for teams and a collaborative platform is essential. TCs. Sphere will shortly roll out Transaction Coordinator functionality we believe will be the best TC software on the market and will allows TCs to easily be included in any agents transaction. Full CRM. Including functionality that automatically finds and integrates your contacts’ social media accounts so you always have current details and easy insight into what’s new in their lives (e.g. “Wow, Jessica Lee just had twins. I wonder if they need a new place.”) Email Marketing. Sphere makes it easy to send email blast or newsletters to clients (similar to MailChimp). External Services. Sphere already integrates a service that provides realtor supplies (branded signs, hats, shoe covers) for which we receive a percentage of sales. We plan to add additional services in the future. Sticky. Most agents who try it even very briefly feel it's a really valuable tool. Our conversion and retention rates have been far higher than we’d thought was possible. More than 90% of agents enter a goal or a single transaction convert from trial to premium users. Free for New Agents. Sphere is free for any new agent (licensed in the last 12 months) until they hit $2M in transactions. We hope by providing Sphere we’ll meaningfully increase new agents chances of becoming successful and they stick with us once they are. Our Privacy and Policy: https://www.usesphere.com/privacy_policy.html Our terms of usage: https://www.usesphere.com/terms_of_use.html
OpenNow for Agents
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Stop texting around for open house coverage. OpenNow connects listing agents with reliable hosting agents — and turns every open house into captured leads, a professional seller report, and a track record you can show. No more group chats, paper sign-in sheets, or wondering who actually walked through. FOR LISTING AGENTS • Post an open house in minutes and set what you'll pay • Approve a hosting agent by reliability, reviews, and verified license • Get every visitor signed in and a clean report you can forward to your seller FOR HOSTING AGENTS • Browse open houses near you and apply to host • Sign visitors in fast on your phone or iPad — real lead data, not a clipboard • Earn on every event and build a visible track record with each one MORE THAN A MATCH Every visitor becomes a lead. Every event becomes a report. Every agent builds a reputation. OpenNow captures buyer details at the door, tracks them after the event, and shows you what your open houses are actually worth. Built for licensed real estate agents. Payments route to your brokerage through Stripe. SUBSCRIPTION OpenNow is $99/month and is required to post, apply, and host. A 15% service fee applies to event pay. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenNow for Agents at none against Sphere's 6. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sphere sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $11.49 per month. OpenNow for Agents asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Sphere | OpenNow for Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Incendiary | OpenNow, Inc. |
In-app purchases
Sphere
- Subscription Monthly1 Month trial$11.491 Month
- Subscription Monthly1 Month trial$44.991 Month
- Subscription Monthly1 Month trial$89.991 Month
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- Subscription Yearly1 Month trial$114.991 Year
- Subscription Yearly1 Month trial$459.001 Year
- Subscription Yearly1 Month trial$919.001 Year
OpenNow for Agents
No in-app purchases
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