Comparison

Optimal Blue vs Elevate 26

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

Elevate 26

Features
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This is Elevate - Our National Retail Sales Rally. Get the inside scoop on what’s next for Lower, hear from inspiring keynote speakers, and dive into high-impact sessions packed with ideas and strategies to help you grow your business. Connect with peers, swap ideas, spend time with our leaders, and leave ready to make big moves.

Screenshots

Optimal Blue4 screens
Elevate 263 screens

Verdict

The call

Optimal Blue and Elevate 26 are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Optimal Blue versus Elevate 26: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOptimal BlueElevate 26
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (209 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings209 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOptimal Blue LLCLower, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Optimal Blue

No in-app purchases

None

Elevate 26

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Optimal Blue free?
Optimal Blue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elevate 26 free?
Elevate 26 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Optimal Blue or Elevate 26 have ads?
Neither Optimal Blue nor Elevate 26 shows ads.

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