Comparison

Total Expert vs Optimal Blue

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

Head to head
About

Total Expert

This app provides loan officers with a secure mobile platform for real-time SMS messaging, contact management, and task organization. It helps financial professionals build trust and grow relationships with borrowers through seamless communication and efficient workflow management, even when away from their desks.

Highlights
  • Real-time SMS messaging
  • Contact search
  • Task management
  • Note logging
  • Push notifications
  • Secure login with biometrics
Features
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Messaging Built for Loan Officers Stay connected to your borrowers anywhere you go. Total Expert empowers modern financial professionals with a secure, purpose-built mobile experience designed to help you build trust and grow relationships through real conversations. Whether you're coordinating follow-up meetings, managing contact tasks, or checking in with borrowers, Total Expert's mobile app keeps you at the center of the conversation — no desk required. Real-Time SMS Messaging – Seamlessly send and receive text messages with opted-in contacts. Use emojis, maintain conversation history, and stay in sync across devices. Contact Search – Instantly find your contacts by name, email, or phone number. Task Management – Create, edit, complete, and delete one-time tasks directly at the contact level. View tasks organized by due date — overdue, due today, due this week, and beyond — so nothing slips through the cracks. Notes – Log important details and outcomes on the go, right from your phone. Notifications – Never miss a message. Push notifications bring you back into the conversation the moment a borrower replies. Secure Login – Sign in faster with Face ID or biometrics after your first SSO login — no need to repeat the full authentication flow every time. Stay productive, stay personal, and stay compliant — with a mobile experience purpose-built for loan originators. Download now and keep your conversations moving, wherever you are.

About

Optimal Blue

Access a comprehensive mortgage pricing and product engine on your mobile device. Track market indices, receive real-time updates, and generate instant, accurate loan quotes. Ideal for mortgage professionals needing on-the-go access to pricing data and scenario analysis.

Highlights
  • Mortgage product, pricing, and eligibility engine
  • Track mortgage market indices (OBMMI™)
  • Receive push notifications for updates
  • Price scenarios and save favorites
  • Automatic scenario refresh
  • Access full pricing inputs and custom fields
  • View eligible and ineligible products with reasons
Features
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Access the industry’s most widely used product, pricing and eligibility engine anywhere! Optimal Blue PPE (OB) Mobile provides key functionality to support loan officers and other mortgage industry professionals on-the-go. The app allows you to track the Optimal Blue Mortgage Market Indices (OBMMI™) and receive push notifications for updates. OBMMI™ provides the most comprehensive, accurate, timely, and interactive analysis of pricing ever conducted in the mortgage industry. Calculated from actual locked rates with consumers across 42% of all mortgage transactions nationwide, OBMMI includes multiple mortgage pricing indices developed around the most popular mortgage products. For Optimal Blue customers, you can also log in to price scenarios and save favorites to your dashboard for quick access. Scenarios can be automatically refreshed with a single tap, allowing you to easily see the best product, rate, price and more. This capability helps you understand how interest rates are moving on a given day, directly from your mobile device – no paper rate sheet required! These easily accessible scenarios can assist in conversations with prospective borrowers before an application is taken. With the app, Optimal Blue customers can access the full array of pricing inputs you’re used to seeing on the web version of the Optimal Blue PPE, including any custom fields. This allows for an instant, accurate quote. Additionally, search results include the full granularity you’re used to accessing on the web. All eligible products and rates are displayed, including any adjustments, notes and advisories. Ineligible products are displayed along with an ineligibility reason.

Screenshots

Total Expert4 screens
Optimal Blue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Optimal Blue at 196 against Total Expert's 1. Total Expert's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 — 5.0 for Total Expert against 4.9 for Optimal Blue. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Optimal Blue has 196 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Total Expert ships an update every 2 weeks, Optimal Blue monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Total Expert versus Optimal Blue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTotal ExpertOptimal Blue
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (196 ratings)
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1196 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTotal Expert, Inc.Optimal Blue LLC

Customer experience

Total Expert

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Optimal Blue

All ratings196 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Total Expert

No in-app purchases

None

Optimal Blue

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Total Expert free?
Total Expert is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Optimal Blue free?
Optimal Blue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Total Expert or Optimal Blue?
Total Expert is rated higher. Total Expert averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Optimal Blue averages 4.9 from 196 ratings.
Do Total Expert or Optimal Blue have ads?
Neither Total Expert nor Optimal Blue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Total Expert or Optimal Blue?
Total Expert ships an update every 2 weeks, and Optimal Blue monthly. Most recently, Total Expert was updated on September 16, 2026 and Optimal Blue on September 23, 2026.

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