Dreaming of owning stunning property worldwide? If you're in the market for luxury land, the Knight Frank app displays a splendid selection of real estate. From Arizona to the Algarve, enjoy a showcase of international extravagance right at your fingertips.
Save and share eye-catching properties and search by lifestyle (vineyards and golf courses, for example). Found something you love? Contact the agent at the touch of a button.
- 3.3 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free
WonderBill isn't the name of a superhero alter ego, it's (fortunately) a wonderful bill management app. Home to the top 95 UK service providers, the app has brought together everyone from British Gas and Thames Water to Netflix and Virgin Media to make organising your payments a whole lot easier.
Not only are you able to track your monthly expenditure in one place, but WonderBill also helps you browse the market and find the best deals for you.
- 3.3 rating
- UK only
- iPhone and Android
- Free
For green-fingered novices or seasoned gardeners who are stumped by an unusual plant, the solution is Garden Answers. The app uses image recognition technology to identify the plant from its database of over 20,000 species, as well as helping you out with a number of diseases and infestations.
As a home for horticultural hobbies, it also has answers to over 200,000 commonly asked questions concerning plant cultivation, putting a community of expert gardeners at your fingertips.
- 3.8 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free
Organising life as a private landlord has never been so effortless! Optimised for smartphone use, Landlordy allows you to securely hold all your rental documentation in one place.
You can monitor tenant payments, manage expenses and keep track of appliances and safety regulations to avoid fines. No matter how small your property empire is, Landlordy will keep you on top of your business.
- 3.9 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free
Renting in London can be the stuff of nightmares. Is a room really ‘cosy’, or is it actually a literal broom closet? Movebubble are here to shake up the renters’ experience. Like a lot of rental listing services, it is a comprehensive catalogue of all the properties available to rent now in the capital, and it has plans to expand further afield. Yet it is adding a breath of fresh air to the crowded market through its interactive nature.
As a kind of AirBnB for the long-term rental market, Movebubble puts you in direct contact with the agents, allowing you to ask questions, book viewings and make offers in-app. Beneficial for the renting community, users can rate properties and agents as well as leave feedback. You can also add properties to your Watchlist to monitor their popularity, enabling you to swoop in at just the right time. Once you rent through the app, Movebubble will also give you a free Deliveroo on your first night in your new home! Winner winner chicken dinner!
- 4.0 rating
- London only (other cities coming soon)
- iPhone and Android
- Free
Probably the coolest app on our guide, the IKEA Home Room Planner allows you to live out your Swedish flat-pack furniture fantasy. The design tool creates a simulation for the possibilities of property refurbishment using a range of IKEA’s most popular products.
In a more real-to-life version of The Sims, the IKEA Home Room Planner is the first step for habitat rejuvenation. Want to grant your living room, bedroom or bathroom a whole new lease of life? Or maybe give your kitchen an IKEA-inspired designer makeover? See the boundless possibilities for redecoration and have a bit of fun while you’re at it.
- 4.2 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free
iHandy Level is the very smart smartphone app that transforms your mobile device into a digital spirit level. Never look at a wonky picture frame again, as iHandy Level allows you to be the boss of home decorating, making sure all decor is aligned and all angles are measured.
Not only does it live up to its namesake by being a truly handy tool, but iHandy Level is also beautifully designed with wooden accents and glistening lighting effects to provide an aesthetically pleasing user experience.
- 4.2 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free
Now that you’ve moved into your new neighbourhood, it’s time to explore the coolest events and leisure destinations in your area. From the hottest restaurant openings to locally adored pubs, Dojo has scoured the best of London and Paris for tourists and locals alike, giving users suggestions for the most exciting ways to spend their free time.
Explore categories like exhibitions, date nights, open air and cheap eats to find the best things to do near you. It also has extensive area guides for the city’s trendiest areas. Whether you’ve moved to Brixton or Bow, you’ll be spoilt for choice. Just tap ‘around me’ to begin discovering.
- 4.2 rating
- London and Paris
- iPhone and Android
- Free
You may know of Zillow as a leading real estate marketplace, but did you know they have an especially pragmatic mortgages app? With Zillow, you can source out local lenders, use their payment and affordability calculators and search real-time mortgage rates.
Mortgages can be complicated and confusing but luckily Zillow makes the whole ordeal a lot easier to understand.
- 4.3 rating
- US only
- iPhone and Android
- Free
Whether you’re looking for a friendly face to fill an empty room or interested in branching out to some new digs yourself, SpareRoom is the market’s leading flatsharing service. Use filters such as price per month, location and amenities to browse tens of thousands of monitored listings at a time.
More than just a YellowPages for flatmates, SpareRoom also offers comprehensive advice for renters as well as handy area guides which are particularly useful for those new in town. SpareRoom is an easy service for those taking their first steps into the world of renting.
- 4.5 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free
Realtor.com lists more properties for sale in the US than any other app. From Nevada to New Hampshire, Realtor.com want to help you find the home of your dreams, whether you’re interested in affordable homes, luxury property or somewhere in between. It has also recently launched its sister app - Realtor.com Rentals - for all your rental requirements.
Their nifty tool Sign Snap lets you take a picture of a for sale sign and instantly get all the details of the property sent straight to your device. You can also create a customised search area to allow for a more precise property hunt that won’t show you desert homes if you’re looking for swanky city living. Happy house hunting!
- 4.5 rating
- US only
- iPhone and Android
- Free
AppFolio is a cloud-based property management software for small-to-medium-size property businesses. Useful for landlords and estate agents, it allows owners to keep track of their properties in terms of leasing, rent tracking, background checks, and more.
Praised for its ease of use, AppFolio stores all the property’s information in one place and allows for mobile access across laptops and smartphones, syncing the different technologies together. The company’s growth over the past few years has been enormous and is now a multi-million dollar business changing the face of property management across America.
- 4.5 rating
- US only
- iPhone and Android
- Free to download, but you must pay for each unit you manage
Whether you are working in the home improvement industry or you are taking garage-renovating matters into your own hands, magicplan is an innovative app allowing users to create accurate and professional floorplans through taking pictures. These images instantly measure your room and, abracadabra, you have a useful, digital floorplan at your fingertips.
Although some users have reported fiddliness, feedback explains that it does require practice to perfect. However, once you’ve got the hang of the technology, you can breeze through projects and create immersive floorplans in minutes. With a single tap, you have the option to add every single detail in one useful place, creating an amazing 3D design.
- 4.6 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free to download, but you must have a paid subscription to create the floorplans
Whether you’ve just moved into a new property or you’re seeking a shake-up, Houzz offers you a shortcut to lots of interior design ideas to improve or redesign your home. In a similar vein to Pinterest, you can browse and save over 16 million home improvement images that have been uploaded by professionals in the industry.
You can also purchase a huge range of products directly from the Houzz Shop. In an amazing piece of technology, you can envision what the products will really look like in your space with the View in My Room tool. With the added ability to connect with millions of home improvement professionals via the app, from carpenters to kitchen fitters.
- 4.6 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free
A helpful app, it will grant you much-needed peace-of-mind. Use the quick camera entry mode to capture every item in a room in minutes, filling in the details later and adding photos of important extras like receipts. It's a way to get an important (and boring) piece of life admin out of the way in minutes.
- 4.6 rating
- UK only
- iPhone only
- Free
Your pal Alfred keeps a watchful pair of eyes on your home in this handy home security system. You will need at least two devices for this app to work: dig out your old tablet or phone (it has to be a smartphone with a camera, so no dinosaur Nokias!) and you can set it up to act as CCTV.
Whether you have a baby, a pet or an elderly family member to look out for, or if you’re concerned about the crime in your area, Alfred is a reassuring new friend. It acts as a motion detector and CCTV camera, giving you alerts to any suspicious activity or sudden movements so you don’t have to worry about investing in expensive alternatives.
- 4.6 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free
Moving house, renting to tenants or getting the builders in can be an extremely exasperating experience for many property owners. How many times have you been delayed on projects and transactions because of a failure to find or receive documents? Our top-rated download is DocuSign - a highly convenient app which relieves some of the stresses of these property-related experiences. 50 million users of our most highly rated app can’t be wrong!
DocuSign is an easy way to keep organised for an increasingly paperless generation. It is free to fill out and eSign documents, but premium users can also send documents, manage signing, create documents using templates and much more. This is an essential app for any future or current property owner.
- 4.8 rating
- UK and US
- iPhone and Android
- Free to download, but you must subscribe for premium plans
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