ShowingSmart vs BoldTrail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShowingSmart
Streamline property showing management with this intuitive tool. Designed by real estate agents, it offers efficient scheduling, feedback collection, and client presentation features. Integrates with MLS data and provides route optimization for tours.
- Property showing scheduling
- Feedback collection
- Client portal
- Route optimization
- MLS data integration
- Showing notifications
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ShowingSmart is an enhanced tool to improve scheduling and management of property showings. Designed by agents for agents to efficiently improve your business workflow for managing showings on your listings, scheduling appointments, gathering feedback, and presenting showing information to clients. •Turnkey Solution for managing showings on your listings •Sleek, user-friendly & intuitive interface no learning curve. •Build by agents for agents to improve business workflow •Dedicated call center works - 7 Days a Week •Build route optimization showing tours for buyers •Integrations with MLS data (Updated every 5 minutes) •Client Portal - Engagement for Buyers and Sellers •Showing notifications to owners and occupants
BoldTrail
This app provides a personalized dialer for business professionals, automatically serving up daily calls based on lead importance. It allows for group outreach and hands-free calling, ensuring productivity on the go.
- Personalized daily dialer
- Automated call serving
- Group lead outreach
- Hands-free calling
- Mobile CRM connection
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The BoldTrail app is your mobile connection to the most used CRM components of BoldTrail and the fastest way to make the calls that keep your business moving. You don’t have time to babysit your laptop. The BoldTrail app gives you a personalize dialer with calls served up automatically to you every day based on the leads and contacts most important for you to call today. You can also use it to reach out to groups of leads from your hashtags or any other set of people. Hit go, and talk on bluetooth while you run around town. We get it, you’re balancing a lot, so your tech needs to be mobile with you. Try it out, and you’ll never go back.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShowingSmart at 4.8 against BoldTrail's 1.6. ShowingSmart also leads on ratings volume (841 vs 75) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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.
ShowingSmart holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShowingSmart has 841 ratings behind it against 75, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of ShowingSmart's written reviews are positive against 8% of BoldTrail's.
ShowingSmart ships an update every 11 days, BoldTrail every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShowingSmart | BoldTrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (841 ratings) — better | 1.6 (75 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 11.5% of reviews — better | 7.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 841 — better | 75 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Houston Association of Realtors® | Kunversion, LLC |
Customer experience
ShowingSmart
BoldTrail
User reviews
ShowingSmart
From 841 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good when it works
- 👍 Love iPhone access
- 👍 Good alerts work well
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches out often
- 🐛 Logs out frequently
- 🐛 Cannot log back in
- 🐛 App is very glitchy
- 🐛 More complicated than it should be
BoldTrail
From 75 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Potential for improvement
- 👍 Desktop version works well
- 👍 Good for organizing leads
- 👍 Can set reminders for calls/texts
- 👍 Simplifies lead promotion and sending links
Room to improve
- 🐛 App notifications not showing messages
- 🐛 App is useless/worthless
- 🐛 Non-intuitive and complicated
- 🐛 Cannot locate info or communicate through app
- 🐛 Wastes time instead of saving it
Bugs and requests
ShowingSmart
Reported bugs
28 issues- App glitches out often
- Cannot login on app
- Incorrect email/password message
- Tour date rolls to next day
- Logs me out all the time
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- Doesn't recognize me as an agent
- Cannot log out and back in
- Says 'we are sorry' when trying to log out
- Cannot see listings through iOS
- Select 'Sign In' and nothing happens
- Different error codes or nothing happens when adding listing
- Feedback attempts not posted
- Everything is delayed
- Showings for current day show in archive/report
- App is very slow to refresh
- No manual refresh without relaunch
- Upcoming showings do not reliably appear
- Numbers on appointments are misleading
- Numbers of feedback do not match responses
- Missed appointments due to no notifications
- Does not accurately display number of showings
- Unable to schedule tour, goes to black screen
- Scheduled tour online doesn't show on app
- Quarter hour selection is irritating
- Listings are not updated
- App constantly says update available but no update exists
- App opens and spins
- App constantly crashes
Requested features
13 requests- Easier to log showings on own listings
- Fix tour date selection bug
- Implement auto sign-in feature
- Make tours auto-generate relative to showings
- Auto calendar integration with routes
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- Showings scheduled start at beginning of month
- Push notification settings
- FAQ section on app
- Filtering options and customization
- Implement way for requested showings to show on tours
- Sellers should see realtor and leave feedback
- Allow clients to confirm/propose new showing times
- Schedule inspections for more than an hour
BoldTrail
Reported bugs
93 issues- App notifications not showing messages
- App is useless/worthless
- Cannot locate info or communicate through app
- Wastes time instead of saving it
- Cannot access contacts or see messages
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- Trash app
- Blank screen/no notifications in app
- Have to log on to browser for notifications
- Annoying and costs valuable response time
- Don't deliver on promises
- Worst product and customer service
- Misrepresented as single-agent friendly
- Built for teams and brokerages
- Convoluted CRM
- Two websites created, compliance issue
- Support is a joke
- Slow responses, disorganization
- Bot answering emails
- Refused contract termination
- Unethical, misleading
- Mobile app misses/loses messages
- Notifications fail
- Cannot open/respond to inbound communication
- Desktop glitches continuously
- Page jumps, frozen screens, instability
- Creates operational drag
- Basic workflow management difficult
- Regrettable decision for business
- Old app vs new app confusion
- Switching between three apps
- Doesn't see contacts
- Frustrating to delete/re-download
- Buggiest CRM app
- No support, rude support
- Overpriced
- Constant bugs
- Rebranded app before features ready
- Tired of 'Coming Soon'
- Cannot change campaign from app
- Cannot schedule appointments from app
- Doesn't populate contacts
- Worst experience with CRM conversion
- Remove/download app weekly
- Google spreadsheets more reliable
- Desktop version better
- Every lead disappears
- No one gets back to you
- No help from support
- Features used to work, now 'coming soon'
- No help on Facebook or customer service
- App is complete garbage
- Nothing loads
- Things work one day, not the next
- Delete/redownload almost weekly
- Plenty of bugs
- Doesn't work, doesn't do what it says
- Cannot call from app
- Cannot update/create searches from app
- Call recording inconsistent
- Notes not saving consistently
- Clunky and difficult to use
- Glitches all the time
- Very slow
- Logged out all the time
- Functions differently each time
- Extremely limited functionality
- Doesn't list everything online
- Predatory contracts
- Cannot cancel subscription
- Customer service strong arms you
- App has never worked since rebranding
- Spins and spins
- Paying for a decent app
- Never works or loads
- Cannot use on the go
- Doesn't load database information
- Kicks user out of app
- App never works
- Makes keeping up with clients difficult
- Cannot pull up client or do anything
- App crashes when trying to put notes
- Call scheduling feature doesn't work
- Cannot start drip campaigns
- Infinite loading screen for contacts
- Absolute garbage app
- Super duper buggy
- Can't pull up contacts/notifications
- Notifications not received
- Text messages never populate
- Impossible to stay connected
- Not loading, keeps saying loading
- Call recording skews data analytics
- App doesn't do more than website (marketing, builder)
Requested features
8 requests- Consolidate apps into one
- Update and consolidate apps
- Mimic desktop version functionality in app
- Add marketing website builder features to app
- Allow changing campaigns from the app
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- Allow scheduling appointments from the app
- Add dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
ShowingSmart
No in-app purchases
BoldTrail
No in-app purchases
