Trade Me Property vs EliteCloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trade Me Property
Discover the latest property listings across New Zealand for buying, renting, or investing. Tailor your search with advanced tools, track market trends, and organize your favorites with ease.
- Map-based property search
- Keyword and address search
- Search by travel time
- Property data and estimates
- Watchlist and save properties
- Open home schedules
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Whether you're buying your first home, searching for a new rental, or keeping an eye on the market, the Trade Me Property app has the tools you need. Find the latest property listings from across New Zealand and get a competitive edge with our comprehensive property data and easy-to-use search tools. Loads of property features to tailor your search - Map based search - Keyword search - Search by travel time and mode of transport Smart favourites - New in your favourite searches - Jump back in to your most recent searches in a single tap Level up on property trends - View data and estimates for all properties - View recently sold properties - Search by address or location - Detailed property data for every home NZ's largest range for buyers, renters, sellers, investors - Residential for sale - Residential for rent - Rural for sale - Commercial for sale - Commercial for lease - Flatmates wanted - Retirement villages Organise your search - Watchlist your favourite properties to find them in one place - View open home schedule for all of your watchlisted homes - Save notes on any property - View open home schedule on a map
EliteCloud
Remotely manage your EliteControl security system from your smartphone. Arm or disarm alarms, control gates, doors, and lights. Receive instant, customizable notifications for various events, ensuring peace of mind whether you're home or away.
- Arm/Disarm security system
- Control doors, gates, and lights
- Receive push notifications
- Monitor system status and history
- Manage users and sites
- Bank-level encrypted connection
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EliteCloud connects your smartphone to any EliteControl security system from almost anywhere. Arm/Disarm your alarm, control garage doors, gates, lights & more. Receive notifications directly to your smartphone should anything happen when you are at home or away. Notifications are customisable and include alarms, power failure, battery failure, panic, fire, medical and tamper alarms. App Features • Arm/Disarm • Door, Gate & Lighting Control • Push Notifications • Monitoring • Fire • System History • System Status • User Management • Bank Level Encrypted Connection • Up to 100 Users • Control Up to 100 sites • Regular Updates Hardware Required for EliteCloud Smartphone App • ESL-2, ESL, V9 or Runner alarm system • ESL-2 IoT or IoT-MODULE with internet connection • new ECi For more information regarding compatibility & supported products, please contact your preferred security installer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: EliteCloud at none against Trade Me Property's shown. EliteCloud also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (4 vs 2). Trade Me Property's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (468 vs 9). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
Trade Me Property holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trade Me Property has 468 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 32% and 33% positive.
Trade Me Property ships an update weekly, EliteCloud every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trade Me Property | EliteCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (468 ratings) — better | 4.4 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 32.2% of reviews | 32.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 468 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trade Me Limited | Arrowhead Alarm Products |
Customer experience
Trade Me Property
EliteCloud
User reviews
Trade Me Property
From 468 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 🚀 Easy to navigate
- 💡 Useful new features
- 🗺️ Helpful visual map search
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🔍 Unreliable search functionality
- 🤔 Cluttered and less intuitive UI after updates
- 🔄 Issues with saved searches and watchlists
EliteCloud
From 9 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User friendly and easy to use
- 👍 Great system, very pleased
- 👍 Good value, stable and consistent
- 👍 Nice upgrade, great app
- 👍 Works well, solid and easy
Room to improve
- 🐛 Fails to connect often
- 🐛 Unreliable connection
- 🐛 Regularly disconnects
- 🐛 Slow to connect
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" errors
Bugs and requests
Trade Me Property
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when viewing photos in landscape mode
- Saved searches not refreshing properly
- Map feature inaccurate for some property listings
- Login/registration issues for some users
Requested features
4 requests- Add property value and sales history information
- Improve filtering options (e.g. granny annex, school zones)
- Allow hiding/removing unwanted listings
- Implement infinite scrolling for images
EliteCloud
Reported bugs
89 issues- 🐛 Fails to connect
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" errors
- 🐛 Regularly disconnects
- 🐛 App crashes
- 🐛 Stops communicating with keypad
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- 🐛 Locked out of app
- 🐛 Does not work with multiple iPhones
- 🐛 Recent update shut down app
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" consistently
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" after firmware upgrade
- 🐛 "Server offline" errors
- 🐛 "Disconnected from server"
- 🐛 "Trouble" light with "Line"
- 🐛 "App keyboard not working"
- 🐛 "Unable to type or scan code correctly"
- 🐛 "Bad alarm" goes off for no reason
- 🐛 Offline alerts when no internet issue
- 🐛 Constant problems, keeps disconnecting
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Server communication errors"
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work" incorrect status
- 🐛 "Controls keep disappearing"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" logs you out
- 🐛 Brief blue tick for executed actions, easy to miss
- 🐛 Struggles to connect despite strong wifi
- 🐛 App fails to connect, then works when active, fails again after screen lock
- 🐛 Cannot connect since iOS 17
- 🐛 Reboots needed for keypad beeping
- 🐛 Lost connection
- 🐛 Issues with multiple sites
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" after firmware upgrade
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" 99.99% of the time
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" yet works when connected
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" 100% of the time since iOS 17
- 🐛 "Server offline" more times than can count
- 🐛 "Disconnected from server" constantly
- 🐛 "Unreliable" makes me re-login a lot
- 🐛 UI glitching, wouldn't disarm
- 🐛 "Poor app" regularly crashing
- 🐛 "Fail to connect often"
- 🐛 "Cannot connect at all"
- 🐛 "Connection is still connection"
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" continuously logs out
- 🐛 "Internet Connection" for 15 days app could not connect
- 🐛 "Time wasters" server offline
- 🐛 "Scam company" no support
- 🐛 "Worse than ever" nothing but problems
- 🐛 "Elite cloud" too many issues
- 🐛 "Mr" unstable connection
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Basic functionality works, but lacks practical features"
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Locked out of app" after cancelling subscription
- 🐛 "Minor bugs fixed?" recent update shut down app
- 🐛 "Still not working properly" fails to connect
- 🐛 "Disappointed" will not work with two iPhones
- 🐛 "Unreliable" app crashed
- 🐛 "Slow" very slow to connect
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Warning! Scam company" do not support
- 🐛 "Worse than ever" nothing but problems
- 🐛 "Elite cloud" too many issues
- 🐛 "Mr" unstable connection
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Not good!" terrible app
- 🐛 "Fails to Connect" since iOS 17
- 🐛 "Constant problems" keeps disconnecting
- 🐛 "Routinely won't connect"
- 🐛 "Cloud reliability" not reliable
- 🐛 "I can’t open the app"
- 🐛 "Online" drops in and out
- 🐛 "Time wasters" server offline
- 🐛 "Network issues" disconnected from server
- 🐛 "Issues with adding alarm" keyboard not working
- 🐛 "Needs for programming options" trouble light
- 🐛 "Unreliable" makes me re-login
- 🐛 "Poor app" crashing
- 🐛 "Fail to connect often"
- 🐛 "Almost Perfect!" needs panic button
- 🐛 "To many server communication errors"
- 🐛 "Internet Connection" could not connect
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work" incorrect status
- 🐛 "Controls keep disappearing"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" logs you out
Requested features
8 requests- 💡 Per-mode notifications
- 💡 Geofencing automation for arming/disarming
- 💡 Sensor history logs
- 💡 Show garage door open/closed status
- 💡 Panic button option in the app
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- 💡 Ability to activate Face ID
- 💡 Schedule arming/disarming times remotely
- 💡 More programming options in the app
In-app purchases
Trade Me Property
No in-app purchases
EliteCloud
No in-app purchases
Questions
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