Comparison

Optimal Blue vs Tabrasa One

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

Head to head
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.

About

Tabrasa One

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Tabrasa One is the all in one marketing solution for mortgage loan officers and real estate agents. Our modern, affordable platform includes: Marketing Tabrasa Reach is a full featured, mortgage specific marketing and CRM solution. Mortgage Market Guide MMG has been the leading source of mortgage market insights for over 20 years. Video Tabrasa Clips is an intuitive video product for the modern mortgage or real estate professional. Integrations Enable our LOS integration to keep your contacts in sync and your marketing efforts on autopilot. With our new LendingPad integration, mortgage brokers’ lives just got a whole lot easier! Now, with Tabrasa One Mobile, you can keep your contacts, pipeline, MMG, video marketing and much more with you at all times! Current Tabrasa One customers: Simply download the app, login using your Tabrasa credentials, and you’re ready to go!

Screenshots

Optimal Blue4 screens
Tabrasa One4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Optimal Blue at 3 against Tabrasa One's —. Tabrasa One's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Optimal Blue versus Tabrasa One: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOptimal BlueTabrasa One
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (196 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings196 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better—
Requires iOS18.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOptimal Blue LLCTabrasa, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Optimal Blue

No in-app purchases

None

Tabrasa One

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Optimal Blue free?
Optimal Blue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tabrasa One free?
Tabrasa One is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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