Fresh Resident vs Buzz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fresh Resident
Manage your living experience seamlessly with this app. Track account activity, make secure payments, submit maintenance requests with progress updates, and handle lease renewals. Stay informed with announcements and connect with neighbors.
- Account oversight and balances
- Secure online payments
- Maintenance request submission and tracking
- Lease renewal signing
- Package tracking
- Announcements and events updates
- Resident community connection
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Fresh’s Resident app lets you manage everything from the palm of your hands. Designed with all the tools and features to make living with us as easy as possible. In our handy App you can: - Complete account oversight of all your activity and balances. - Ability to make secure online payments. - Easy maintenance request submission with progress tracking along the way. - Sign and complete your lease renewals. - Package tracking so you never miss a delivery. - Keep up to date with announcements and events. - Connect with fellow residents. Your life, Your home. Your App
Buzz
Discover curated events in fashion, music, and art. Find album listening parties, brand activations, and exhibition openings. Search your city's hottest events and secure invites.
- Event discovery
- Fashion events
- Music events
- Art exhibitions
- City event map
- Secure invites
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Discover the best events across fashion, music & art with Buzz Social. Whether an album listening party, brand activation or an exhibition’s opening night, we centralise the events that you might otherwise miss. Our map allows you to search your city for the hottest events every night, and secure your invite. Curated by creatives, for creatives.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Fresh Resident at none against Buzz's shown. Fresh Resident also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Buzz's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 months). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Fresh Resident holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fresh Resident has 18 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Fresh Resident's written reviews are positive against 100% of Buzz's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fresh Resident ships an update every 6 months, Buzz every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fresh Resident | Buzz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (18 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yardi Systems, Inc. | James Frost |
Customer experience
Fresh Resident
Buzz
Bugs and requests
Fresh Resident
Reported bugs
25 issues- Redirects to different places when paying
- Session expired errors during payment
- Recurring payment didn't happen on planned date
- Authentication hangs
- Custom amount field needs clearing
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- Screens are very dark until tapped
- Balance never correct
- Can't make head or tail of credits & adjustments
- No notice of last 2 rent payments
- Amounts showing in US dollars
- App says US dollars but payment is in Sterling
- Payments section shows everything with a minus figure
- Debits and credits all have a minus figure
- Nothing is clear, gives random money payments
- Installments aren’t clear on the app
- Poor layout, cannot see full screen when confirming payment security
- No one responses via the contact details given
- Difficult to pay rent, redirects and shows errors
- Authentication hangs, many tries to add a card
- Not very intuitive design
- Hard to find the info you need
- Not very intuitive, Not good for payments
- Poor layout
- Clumsy, doesn’t present screens properly
- Confusing payment figures
Requested features
16 requests- Allow seeing tenancy year
- Delete old tenancies
- Show this month's payment
- Allow payments in stages
- Add a note feature
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- Clearly state rent due and amount on homepage
- Offer automatic payment
- Improve navigation for multiple accounts
- State tenancy period or year for account selection
- Show breakdowns of payment easily
- Show how much is paid and needs to be paid
- Allow users to put in complaints via the app
- Improve UI for payment security confirmation
- Fix currency display issues
- Clarify payment installments
- Allow setting up bank accounts
Buzz
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fresh Resident
No in-app purchases
Buzz
No in-app purchases
