Optimal Blue vs SupportX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
SupportX
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SupportX gives you all of the features and capabilities of SupportX for web now in a dedicated pocket sized format. Get quick agency accurate answer to your scenario questions, quick qualifying income analysis and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Optimal Blue at monthly against SupportX's every 5 months. SupportX's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Optimal Blue ships an update monthly, SupportX every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Optimal Blue | SupportX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (196 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 196 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Optimal Blue LLC | SupportX Inc |
In-app purchases
Optimal Blue
No in-app purchases
SupportX
No in-app purchases








