Comparison

Propertyware Mobile vs zInspector 3

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

Head to head
About

Propertyware Mobile

Access and manage your Propertyware data on the go. View tenant, owner, and vendor contacts, financial portfolios, building details, and lease information. Capture photos and create notes with voice-to-text for real-time updates.

Highlights
  • Tenant, owner, vendor contact access
  • Portfolio financial and contact details
  • Building, floor plan, unit details with photos
  • Lease financials and maintenance items
  • Conversation tracking
  • Photo capture for properties and maintenance
  • Voice-to-text note creation
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Propertyware Mobile gives you instant access to your Propertyware information when you’re away from the office. With this App you can access: · Contact information for your active tenants, owners and vendors · Active Portfolios with financial information and owner contacts · Active Buildings, Floor Plans and Units with photos and open maintenance items · Active Leases with financials, ledger, addendums, auto charges and open maintenance items · Conversations between yourself and your tenants, owners and staff · Custom fields, conversations, notes, documents and activities for all the above sections In addition to accessing your information, you can contribute using your iPhone: · Capture and attach photos to your buildings, units and maintenance items · Create notes for your contacts, leases, portfolios and maintenance items with voice-to-text capture · Contribute to existing Conversations and create new Conversation threads

About

zInspector 3

Streamline property inspections with a mobile app designed for property managers, real estate agents, and homeowners. Capture, tag, and organize property details with photos, generate reports, and collaborate with teams. Ideal for tracking leasing, management, and maintenance activities.

Highlights
  • Automated property photo management
  • On-site property inspection tools
  • Dynamic pictorial property timeline
  • Secure cloud storage
  • One-touch smart report generation
  • 360 panoramic image embedding
Features
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zInspector delivers responsive, reliable customer service. Before leaving negative feedback, please email us at support@zinspector.com. We strive to resolve any issue or add the features you need! Fall 2019: Brand new app & website experience—modern interface, greatly enhanced customization, fast camera, & background uploads! zInspector is the essential property inspection solution for property managers, real estate agents, home maintenance & repair specialists, homeowners, and tenants. Get started today. Capture and tag property photos with ease using only a smartphone or tablet. Get organized instantly. Define, detail, and visually document any property, room-by-room, for any type of inspection. Track every leasing, management, and maintenance activity, as you automatically build up a comprehensive pictorial timeline for each property. Bypass paperwork with calendar scheduling, and sidestep hassles with powerful one-touch report generation options. Collaborate with your team like never before—whether on-site or in the office. Find and deliver what you need quickly with enhanced search and share capabilities. Experience efficient, focused interaction with property managers and real estate professionals, property owners, vendors, and tenants. Eliminate surprises, reduce confusion, and resolve disagreements or disputes over property conditions—even avoid them altogether with high-quality, documentation, including timestamped photos and side-by-side reports. Key Features: –Enjoy automated property photo management. –Employ powerful on-site property inspection tools. –Build a dynamic pictorial timeline for each property. –Rest assured with secure, reliable, redundant cloud storage. –Enjoy safe and secure data upload, whether in or out of WiFi. –Customize your experience for any activity type. –Compare move-in to move-out conditions in real time. –Access full-resolution images for detailed reference. –One-touch smart report generation and delivery. -Automatically embed capture and view 360 panoramic images from supported 360 cameras. 360 images may be embedded automatically into your inspection reports. Pricing: Free for any user with 5 or fewer properties.

Screenshots

Propertyware Mobile4 screens
zInspector 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: zInspector 3 at 98% against Propertyware Mobile's 21%. zInspector 3 also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Propertyware Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). 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

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

zInspector 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: zInspector 3 has 807 ratings behind it against 71, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Propertyware Mobile's written reviews are positive against 98% of zInspector 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Propertyware Mobile ships an update every 4 months, zInspector 3 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Propertyware Mobile versus zInspector 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPropertyware MobilezInspector 3
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.4 (71 ratings)4.9 (807 ratings) — better
Positive reviews21.1% of reviews98.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings71807 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRealPage, Inc.Scaled Tech Inc.

Customer experience

Propertyware Mobile

All ratings71 ratings
Positive8.5%
Neutral1.4%
Negative90.1%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive21.1%
Neutral10.5%
Negative68.4%

zInspector 3

All ratings805 ratings
Positive98.6%
Neutral0.5%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews165 reviews
Positive98.2%
Neutral0.6%
Negative1.2%

User reviews

Propertyware Mobile

From 71 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ℹ️ Basic info access on the go
  • 📞 Easy contact lookup
  • 🔔 Alerts for new activity
  • 📝 Ability to add notes
  • 📸 Ability to add pictures

Room to improve

  • 🗑️ Completely useless
  • 🚫 View only option
  • ⏳ Outdated and not current
  • ❌ Cannot log in
  • 🖥️ Not mobile friendly

zInspector 3

From 807 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Detailed and thorough
  • 🚀 Streamlines inspections
  • 🚀 Saves time and money
  • 🚀 Excellent customer support

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs or glitches
  • 🐛 Slow rendering of interface elements
  • 🔋 Can drain battery quickly

Bugs and requests

Propertyware Mobile

Reported bugs

72 issues
  • Cannot assign contractors or make changes to work orders
  • Doesn't stay current
  • Doesn't show documents uploaded to the portal
  • Doesn't work on Apple or Android
  • Doesn't let you log in
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  • Homepage is entirely pointless
  • Account made online is inaccessible
  • No way to solve login issues in the app
  • Software would probably work for an iPhone 4
  • Website UX is between 'New View' and dated Web 1.0
  • App is a disgrace
  • Cannot generate a work order from the app
  • Logged in 1 or 2x and couldn’t log in ever again
  • Property manager couldn’t figure it out
  • Screen goes blank after clicking on close work order
  • Won't let you do anything besides change date on work order
  • Kicks you off the app
  • Internal server error
  • App just closed when trying to open Buildings
  • Kicks me out of the app frequently when uploading photos
  • Unable to login with credentials
  • No place for help on how to log in
  • App has been non-functional for over a year
  • Crashes every time
  • Shows a blank screen when searching
  • Constant errors
  • Errors read 'null'
  • Any tab selected opens up more errors
  • Cannot get to reports
  • App is not optimized for new phones
  • Ton of bugs still present
  • Cannot get to my reports
  • Tons of bug issues that need addressing
  • App doesn't even work
  • Login will not work
  • App will not even recognize email that works on safari and desktop
  • Internal error on iOS
  • App has not worked for three weeks
  • Cannot view work order description if it exceeds 40 characters
  • App does not let you expand the field to view in its entirety
  • Custom fields do not display properly
  • Cannot add notes or change a work order from the app
  • App functionality and design has changed very minimally since 2009
  • Hasn't been updated since 2014
  • App provides no ledger information
  • App never seems to be able to communicate with the system
  • Nothing works after logging in
  • Can view or pull up work orders every time
  • Cannot create a work order from the app
  • Cannot see more than about 40 characters of the description of the work order
  • Next release needs ability to create work orders
  • Missing two-way syncing between app and website
  • Needs the calendar
  • App is slow to upload pictures
  • App really does not provide much functionality
  • Cannot find prospects or contacts with Street or City information
  • App crashes every time you close a work order
  • Does not work with IOS 7
  • Overall functionality of the app is almost useless
  • Cannot add to conversations from this app
  • Feature not working on iPhone 5
  • Does not let you do anything functional
  • Supposed to be able to reply to a conversation, it does not work
  • Get an error every time when trying to reply to conversation
  • Leases are not accessible in this update
  • Needs a bug fix for leases
  • Work orders tab is pretty poor
  • Will only show few words of work order description
  • Cannot expand work order description
  • Cannot modify work order
  • Cannot close work order
  • Full detail of work order is not readable

Requested features

43 requests
  • Assign contractors and make changes to work orders
  • Show documents uploaded to the portal
  • Create an account and support options
  • Pay rent
  • Generate a work order from the app
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  • Close work orders
  • One app for all functions (ledger, maintenance, etc.)
  • Minimize or change column size
  • Fix app and website
  • New view on website completion
  • Upload photos
  • Login with credentials
  • Get reports
  • See open AR
  • Maintenance requests ping you
  • Picture uploads when collecting/property checks
  • Easily search for a tenant and text from the app
  • Capture texts back to conversations
  • Customizable notifications
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Calendar management
  • Property/lease filtering
  • Deep search function for prospects/contacts
  • iPad version
  • IM/chat with colleagues and tenants
  • Approve maintenance requests
  • Approve work orders
  • Always stay logged in or use PIN
  • Rent collection tools
  • Access to certain reports or lists of leases with unpaid rent
  • Automatically track calls made
  • Input rents & invoices
  • Send statements to owners
  • Sync with website
  • Edit prospects, tasks, and dashboards
  • Enter work orders
  • Access leases
  • Add new maintenance requests
  • Add data (rent payments, work orders, bills)
  • Approve maintenance requests
  • Reply to conversations
  • Add to conversations

zInspector 3

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Torchlight not working
  • Slow rendering of interface

Requested features

3 requests
  • Torchlight feature for camera
  • Sync with work order systems
  • More customization options

In-app purchases

None

Propertyware Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

zInspector 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Propertyware Mobile free?
Propertyware Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is zInspector 3 free?
zInspector 3 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Propertyware Mobile or zInspector 3?
zInspector 3 is rated higher. Propertyware Mobile averages 1.4 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while zInspector 3 averages 4.9 from 807 ratings.
Do Propertyware Mobile or zInspector 3 have ads?
Neither Propertyware Mobile nor zInspector 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Propertyware Mobile or zInspector 3?
Propertyware Mobile ships an update every 4 months, and zInspector 3 every 3 weeks. Most recently, Propertyware Mobile was updated on October 14, 2026 and zInspector 3 on October 21, 2026.

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