Comparison

Rafter Home vs Hint (Home Intelligence)

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

Head to head
About

Rafter Home

This app acts as a personal advisor for your home, offering intelligent, proactive maintenance and cost reduction. It assesses your home's systems, provides a prioritized plan, and connects you with experts when needed.

Highlights
  • Intelligent home assessment
  • Proactive problem detection
  • Prioritized maintenance plans
  • Expert advisory services
  • Cost reduction guidance
  • Home asset protection
Features
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Your home's intelligent assistant: proactive, personalized, and always available. Rafter combines advanced technology with trusted expertise to make owning your home easier, safer, and more afforadable. It knows what's going on in your home, tells you what matters, and helps you actually do something about it. Intelligent. Rafter continuously assesses your home — inside and out, across every major system — and turns what it finds into a clear, prioritized plan built for your specific property. No noise. No generic tips. Just what your home actually needs, in the order it needs it. Proactive. Most home problems don't appear overnight — they build. Rafter catches them early, tracks what's been done, and keeps your home moving forward. The goal isn't a longer list. It's a shorter one. Always available. Have a question at 10pm? Not sure if something can wait or needs to move now? Rafter is there. And when a situation calls for a real person — someone who knows your home and can help you get it handled — they're a message away. Your home is your most valuable asset. It deserves an advisor that doesn't just flag problems — it helps you solve them.

About

Hint (Home Intelligence)

This app analyzes your home's unique characteristics and potential risks to create a personalized maintenance plan. It acts as a central library for important home documents and proactively alerts you to upcoming deadlines and potential issues.

Highlights
  • Home risk assessment
  • Personalized maintenance plans
  • Digital home document library
  • Renewal and deadline alerts
  • Problem identification and solutions
  • Find local service professionals
  • Compare insurance and utility options
Features
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Download Hint and enter your address. In under a minute, Hint maps out your home: when it was built, its climate, soil, and the risks it faces. From there, it builds a maintenance plan around your home and the season. Share your inspection report, insurance policy, and bills as you go. Hint reads them closely, so you don't have to, and keeps everything in one place as your home's library. The more Hint knows, the more it catches, like a renewal flagged before it sneaks up on you. Hint helps you: • Hit the ground running. See your whole home and what to tackle from day one. • Stay ahead. Hint flags renewals and deadlines, so you've got time to plan. • Handle problems fast. Snap a photo, and Hint tells you what's going on and how to fix it. • Find local pros for the job. • Compare your options. Shop insurance, utilities, and internet in one place. When something needs you, Hint speaks up. Otherwise, it stays quiet Behind Hint are experts who've spent their careers around the home: contractors, inspectors, and insurance adjusters, alongside co-founder Martha Stewart. Your home is yours. Your data is too. Hint never sells it, never shares it without your say, and never uses it to train models. “I’ve wanted to create something beyond education, something that could actually help proactively manage one’s home the way that I do. The technology wasn’t ready for my vision. Hint is.” Martha Stewart, Co-founder What new homeowners are saying. “The thing that was amazing was when you put in your address. It tells you all these little details about your house that you didn’t know.” Homeowner, Davie FL. Free to download. Homeownership without the guesswork.

Screenshots

Rafter Home4 screens
Hint (Home Intelligence)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rafter Home at 5.0 against Hint (Home Intelligence)'s 3.8. Rafter Home also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Hint (Home Intelligence)'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (46 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Rafter Home holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hint (Home Intelligence) has 46 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Rafter Home's written reviews are positive against 66% of Hint (Home Intelligence)'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rafter Home ships an update every 2 weeks, Hint (Home Intelligence) every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Rafter Home versus Hint (Home Intelligence): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRafter HomeHint (Home Intelligence)
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better3.8 (46 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better65.5% of reviews
Number of ratings646 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFive Tree Orchard, Inc.Home Hub Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

Rafter Home

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hint (Home Intelligence)

All ratings45 ratings
Positive68.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative31.1%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative34.5%

In-app purchases

None

Rafter Home

No in-app purchases

None

Hint (Home Intelligence)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rafter Home free?
Rafter Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hint (Home Intelligence) free?
Hint (Home Intelligence) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rafter Home or Hint (Home Intelligence)?
Rafter Home is rated higher. Rafter Home averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Hint (Home Intelligence) averages 3.8 from 46 ratings.
Do Rafter Home or Hint (Home Intelligence) have ads?
Neither Rafter Home nor Hint (Home Intelligence) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rafter Home or Hint (Home Intelligence)?
Rafter Home ships an update every 2 weeks, and Hint (Home Intelligence) every 3 days. Most recently, Rafter Home was updated on November 5, 2026 and Hint (Home Intelligence) on October 31, 2026.

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