Comparison

FirstMover vs Bagsy

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

Head to head
About

FirstMover

Receive immediate notifications for new NYC apartment rentals that match your specific search criteria. Avoid constantly checking listings and find your ideal home faster. Set your preferences and get alerted the instant a new rental becomes available.

Highlights
  • Instant rental alerts
  • Customizable search filters
  • New listing notifications
  • StreetEasy integration
  • Dream home finder
Features
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Get instant alerts for new NYC apartment listings on StreetEasy, tailored to your search. Set your filters — we’ll notify you the moment a new rental matches. Find your dream home without refreshing StreetEasy all day. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Bagsy

Features
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Bagsy is the fastest way to catch a New York apartment. One clean feed of NYC rentals, refreshed the moment a listing is shared. No tag soup, no reposts of reposts, no forty-filter maze — price, neighborhood, what matters, and one big Apply button. HOW IT WORKS • Real listings, shared by the people who have them — brokers, landlords, and renters passing along their finds. Every post is reviewed by a human before it goes live. • Instant alerts — Bagsy pings you seconds after a matching listing appears, because in New York the apartment goes to whoever shows up first. • One-tap apply — no digging through comments for a phone number. PLANS • Free — browse the full feed. • Hunter ($29/month) — instant alerts and one-tap apply on every listing. • Concierge ($99/month) — everything in Hunter, plus a human on call 7 days a week to hunt with you. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple account and renew monthly until cancelled. Cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Built in New York, for New York. Fair-housing-safe ranking. FARE-Act-aware fee display. Terms of Use: https://bagsy-dibs3.vercel.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://bagsy-dibs3.vercel.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

FirstMover3 screens
Bagsy3 screens

Verdict

The call

FirstMover and Bagsy 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. FirstMover sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Bagsy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
FirstMover versus Bagsy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirstMoverBagsy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClayton MarshallAhmet Kartal

In-app purchases

2 purchases

FirstMover

Subscriptions1
  • FirstMover NYC Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
One-time1
  • FirstMover NYC Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

Bagsy

Subscriptions2
  • Hunter$29.001 Month
  • Concierge$99.001 Month

Questions

Is FirstMover free?
FirstMover is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bagsy free?
Bagsy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FirstMover or Bagsy have ads?
Neither FirstMover nor Bagsy shows ads.

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