Comparison

ShowingTime Next Generation vs RefBid

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ShowingTime Next Generation

Manage real estate showings, gain market insights, and boost productivity. This app helps agents stay connected with clients, schedule tours efficiently, and get valuable feedback on listings. Optimize your real estate business on the go.

Highlights
  • Schedule and manage showings
  • Access listing details and instructions
  • Optimize buyer tours with Smart Route
  • Discover nearby listings
  • Communicate listing activity to clients
  • Manage and analyze showing feedback
  • Personalize calendar views and display modes
Features
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Introducing ShowingTime’s next generation mobile app, a modern, comprehensive toolkit designed to revolutionize how you manage real estate showings, gain invaluable market insights and enhance your productivity. This next generation experience helps you stay connected and transparent with clients and spend more of your time marketing listings and growing your business. ShowingTime provides residential real estate agents, teams, offices, associations and MLSs with tools to manage showings and feedback, plus analytics and reporting tools to gain valuable marketing insights. Join the hundreds of thousands of agents who rely on ShowingTime's cutting-edge mobile app, the go-to resource for scheduling showings, generating feedback and optimizing your business. ShowingTime+ products are used by hundreds of MLSs representing more than 1 million real estate professionals across the U.S. and Canada. Why choose ShowingTime? Effortlessly Schedule and Access Showings: Take control of your busy schedule with our intuitive mobile app. Seamlessly schedule showings, view instructions and access vital details anytime, anywhere. Buyers’ agents can plan a tour in minutes with an optimized Smart Route, adding multiple properties to a tour directly from the MLS and placing them in a cart. Discover Listings Near You: Explore a vast selection of listings available for showings in your immediate vicinity. Effortlessly find properties that meet your clients' needs and take advantage of opportunities right at your fingertips. Streamline Communication with Clients: Keep your clients in the loop by easily sharing listing activity and other important updates. Build trust and maintain strong relationships by providing timely and transparent information. Manage Feedback Effectively: Gain valuable insights from buyers and colleagues by effortlessly managing and analyzing feedback for your listings and easily sharing it with your sellers. Personalize Your Experience: With a variety of interactive calendar views, you can view your showing appointments in the way that best fits your needs. Additionally, customize your viewing experience with multilingual support, or toggle between light and dark mode to fit your preferences or the time of day.

About

RefBid

This platform facilitates real estate agent referrals through a unique auction system. Verified agents compete for leads, with the best fit chosen based on profile and history, not just bid amount. It streamlines the referral process with legally binding in-app agreements.

Highlights
  • Realtor verification via state commissions and Stripe
  • Auction-based agent bidding for leads
  • In-app, legally binding referral agreements
  • Agent market rankings and verified transaction history
  • Nationwide coverage across all 50 states
  • Real-time notification system
Features
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RefBid is the first - patent-pending - full auction marketplace built exclusively for Realtor-to-Realtor referrals. You post the lead. Verified agents compete for it. The winner isn't chosen by bid amount - they're chosen by fit at your discretion. The agent with the best profile, the strongest market history, and the most compelling case for your client. A legally binding referral agreement is signed inside the app, instantly, by both sides, the moment you reach an agreement. Every step that used to happen informally, chaotically, and on the faith of a stranger's recommendation now has structure, accountability, and enforcement. Instead of cold-calling 2-3 agents and hoping one clicks, or worse going off the name most listed on Facebook, you have a field of verified professionals coming to you - resume in hand, ready to compete. Review the top candidates, then do something no Facebook group ever let you do: bring your client into the decision. Show them the 3 or 4 best fits. Let them weigh in. Clients who help choose their agent are far less likely to walk - because they're committed to someone they helped select, not someone assigned to them. And when you explain it to your client upfront, it lands completely differently. "I'm going to find you a top agent in that market through a verified professional network where agents compete for your business" is a different conversation than "I'll ask around on Facebook." One builds trust. One erodes it. Receiving Agents - Bid on leads that match your market Browse referral listings in the markets you serve. Each listing gives you enough detail to know whether the opportunity is worth pursuing before you ever place a bid. If you're awarded the referral, you pay a $185 acceptance fee and receive a signed referral agreement - not a DM, not a handshake. A real contract, executed inside the app, the moment the deal is made, as well as all contact information for the realtor and their broker. Every agent on RefBid is verified through their state Real Estate Commission and/or ARELLO, as well as ID & facial verification through Stripe upon registration, before they can post or bid. License confirmed. Brokerage confirmed. Identity confirmed. No anonymous profiles. No guessing whether someone is actually active and in good standing. Just verified professionals, competing on merit. Key Features Real Estate Commission / ARELLO License Verification - Stripe identity verification - every agent confirmed before they can participate Auction-Based Bidding - best agent wins, not first to comment, not always the highest bid In-App Referral Agreements - signed, stored, enforceable Market Rankings - see which markets the agent considers their primary turf, ranked 1-10 Track Record - past 10 closed transactions verified and displayed on every profile All 50 States - post or bid anywhere in the country Email, SMS + Push Notifications - know the moment a bid comes in or your referral is awarded No Subscriptions - ever. Post free. Bid free. Pay only when you get business. The Fee Structure - Simple. Transparent. Fair. Posting a listing - Free (once a bid at or above your minimum is placed, a $45 charge will be applied once to the referring realtor) Placing a bid - Free Accepting a referral award if selected - $185 flat, one time No monthly fees. No setup fees. No percentage of your commission. You only pay when you win a referral - and by then, you've already seen exactly what you're getting. RefBid's complete referral auction model is patent-pending. There is no other platform like this. Built for Realtors. By those who saw the problem firsthand. The referral process in real estate has been broken for decades - running on handshakes, near blind trust, DMs, and Facebook comments. RefBid brings it into the open, gets the client as involved as they'd like, makes it competitive, and makes it enforceable. RefBid. The referral network Realtors have always needed

Screenshots

ShowingTime Next Generation4 screens
RefBid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: ShowingTime Next Generation at 9.7K against RefBid's 2. RefBid's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for ShowingTime Next Generation against 5.0 for RefBid. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShowingTime Next Generation has 9.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShowingTime Next Generation ships an update monthly, RefBid every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ShowingTime Next Generation versus RefBid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShowingTime Next GenerationRefBid
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (9.7K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews24.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings9.7K — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size249 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShowingTime.com, LLCRefbid LLC

Customer experience

ShowingTime Next Generation

All ratings9,677 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive24.5%
Neutral14.7%
Negative60.8%

RefBid

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

ShowingTime Next Generation

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Overlapping text and UI elements
  • Inability to confirm/deny appointments
  • Showing history not accessible
  • Incompatible with larger font sizes

Requested features

3 requests
  • Improve feedback submission experience
  • Enhance scheduling workflow
  • Provide better sync and offline capabilities

RefBid

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ShowingTime Next Generation

No in-app purchases

None

RefBid

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShowingTime Next Generation free?
ShowingTime Next Generation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RefBid free?
RefBid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShowingTime Next Generation or RefBid?
RefBid is rated higher. ShowingTime Next Generation averages 4.9 out of 5 from 9.7K ratings, while RefBid averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ShowingTime Next Generation or RefBid have ads?
Neither ShowingTime Next Generation nor RefBid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShowingTime Next Generation or RefBid?
ShowingTime Next Generation ships an update monthly, and RefBid every 11 days. Most recently, ShowingTime Next Generation was updated on October 1, 2026 and RefBid on September 24, 2026.

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