HomeColab vs Real
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomeColab
This app helps couples and roommates find their next home together by streamlining the process of saving and voting on real estate listings. It centralizes all your potential properties, notes, and decisions in one place, making collaboration easy.
- Save listings via URL or sharing
- Vote on properties (Fav/Maybe/Nope)
- Shared shortlist of mutual favorites
- Centralized notes and pros/cons
- Organizes third-party listing links
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HomeColab helps couples and roommates decide on their next home together. Stop losing listings in group chats. Save a link from your favorite real‑estate site, love it, nope it, and keep all your notes and thoughts in one place. How it works: - Add a listing by pasting a URL or sharing a link from Safari or other apps - Vote on each place as Fav / Maybe / Nope - See your shared shortlist (mutual favorites) automatically What you get: - A shared location for all your listings - Simple voting to find alignment fast - Notes with Pros & Cons to remember what mattered - Clear separation between mutual favorites, maybes, and passes - HomeColab organizes links to listings on third‑party websites. We’re not affiliated with or endorsed by those sites.
Real
Streamline your home search by saving and organizing properties with notes, photos, and links. Estimate mortgage payments with an integrated calculator and visualize commute times and neighborhood accessibility with advanced mapping tools.
- Save and organize properties
- Mortgage calculator
- Map view with flood zones and school districts
- Drive time and isochrone zone analysis
- Nationwide property data access
- Customizable property power rankings
- Data export and sync
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House hunting is exciting - and exhausting. Real-Helper keeps your search organized so nothing falls through the cracks. SAVE AND ORGANIZE PROPERTIES Add any property by address or current location. Add properties by sharing links from websites. Attach photos, write notes, save web links and document links. MAP VIEW See all your saved properties on an interactive map. Toggle between standard and satellite view. DRIVE TIMES Add your must-visit destinations - work, school, gym - and see exactly how long the commute is from any property. ISOCHRONE ZONES Visualize 10, 20, and 30-minute travel circles around any property to understand the neighborhood at a glance. FLOOD ZONES One click displays flood zone overlay from the National Flood Hazard Layer - check properties of interest for proximity to flood zones. SCHOOL DISTRICTS Display school district boundaries, and long-tap to see the districts at a map point. MORTGAGE CALCULATOR Tap Calc next to any asking price for an instant monthly payment estimate. Choose a 30, 20, or 15-year term, adjust the down payment, and fine-tune the interest rate (pre-filled with the current national average). An amortization chart shows exactly how your loan pays down over time. POWER RANKINGS Define your OWN scoring criteria and importance weights. Rate each property against them and let the math decide which one comes out on top. AGENT CONNECTION Get a direct chat window to an agent who is on our platform. You can invite YOUR agent to download and install Real-Helper: AGENT. ----- REAL-HELPER PREMIUM ----- Upgrade to unlock powerful tools for serious house hunters: UNLIMITED PROPERTIES Remove the 5-property cap and save as many as you need. NATIONWIDE PROPERTY DATA Pull county record data for any address: assessed value, property taxes, lot size, legal description, and more. GOOGLE STREETVIEW SNAPSHOTS Add shapshots of properties from Google StreetView. EXPORT and SYNC Back up your property list and restore it on another device. Your data travels with you. Real-Helper Premium — a monthly subscription, $9.99/month (auto-renewing) Premium unlocks unlimited properties, nationwide property data, Google StreetView shapshots, export and sync. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your Apple ID Account Settings. Terms of Use: https://real-helper.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://real-helper.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HomeColab at none against Real's 1. HomeColab also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). Real's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Real sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. HomeColab asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HomeColab against 5.0 for Real. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
HomeColab ships an update every 10 days, Real monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeColab | Real |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eric Bintner | Laure Chipman |
Customer experience
HomeColab
Real
In-app purchases
HomeColab
No in-app purchases
Real
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