Top Apps for Real Estate Agents and Brokers
To successfully run your real estate business, you need to make sure you’re leveraging the right tools so all operations, customer interactions, and daily tasks are contributing to your success. It’s not difficult to establish good habits and effective strategies, but consistency in effort and execution is where a lot of real estate entrepreneurs get tripped up.
If you are still building your success-oriented habits, you may find that you need some digital help. Here are the top apps that will help you achieve your short-term and long-term goals as a real estate professional.
Scannable
Platform: iOS
Price: Free
Description: Expense tracking, copy paperwork, and keeping track of business cards does not have to be a pain or complicated. Scannable is the latest offering from the developer behind the wildly popular Evernote, and it functions exactly the way it sounds: scan a receipt, document, or business card, and it automatically crops to the edges, adjusts the image to fit, and stores it under the correct category thanks to its advanced optical character recognition software. Stop digging through endless stashes of receipts, business cards, or boxes of documents and file folders. Now all you need to do is click, scan, and store in three easy steps.
Vert S
Platform: iOS
Price: $2.99
Description: Converting units of measurement and other numbers in your head or with a calculator is time consuming. It can also lead to needless errors since your memory and math skills are more prone to error than a smartphone or computer. For all your currency and unit of measure conversions (length, weight, height, volume, etc), use Vert to make sure you’re giving the most accurate information every time.
Roomscan Pro
Platform: iOS
Price: Free with In-App Purchases
Definition: Like Scannable, this app does exactly what it sounds like it does: determines dimensions of a room via your smartphone camera and uses that data to create floor plans. The developer claims it is accurate within six inches, and you can even adjust scans based on your own physical direct measurements for increased accuracy. It’s well worth considering if you frequently include or refer floor plans with listings or when listing or meeting with a client in a virtual setting.
Videolicious
Platform: iOS, Android
Price: Free
Description: The power of video for marketing and branding is indisputable. Quickly generate high quality videos on your mobile device with music, banners, photos, cinematic filters and narration using Videolicious, and then upload directly to social media or YouTube. Videolicious is ideal for walkthroughs on properties, profile videos, and many other marketing and media releases.
Mortgage Calculator
Platform: iOS & Android
Price: Free
Description: Always keep a mortgage calculator handy for meetings and on the spot estimates of payments. This app, directly titled Mortgage Calculator, is a great digital tool to quickly calculate estimated payments and can help inspire a hesitant buyer.
HelloSign
Platform: iOS and Android
Price: Free for 3 documents/month or $13/month for unlimited
Description: One of the best apps for sending and receiving signed documents online, this cloud-based app allows you to prepare PDF files, forms and other documents and then share them with clients and other stakeholders so that they can be digitally signed and stored in the cloud. It also integrates seamlessly with DropBox, Google Drive, and other popular online storage solutions.
Lastpass
Platform: iOS and Android
Price: Free with In-App Purchases
Description: Password security is of critical importance in real estate, and secure passwords to protect private customer data is absolutely essential. Lastpass allows you to set one secure password to login to the app, and then helps you generate and track multiple secure passwords across web browsers and apps on your computer or mobile device. Instead of writing all your passwords down or keeping them in an unsecured file log, Lastpass locks everything down for you, and on compatible iOS and Android devices it can be secured using fingerprint ID or facial recognition.
Todoist
Platform: iOS and Android
Price: Free or $28.99/year for Premium
Description: Not your average task management app, Todoist uses email to generate tasks and reminders for up to 80 items in the free version or up to 200 items for the premium. What’s unique about Todoist is that it references the actual email when your task reminder pops up, saving you the trouble of searching for the message that you set a reminder for in the first place.
Buffer
Platform: iOS and Android
Price: Free or $10/month for premium
Description: Do you prefer to manage your own social media accounts? Buffer lets you schedule posts and tweets for your feeds in advance, keeping your content fresh without requiring your full time attention. This enables you to manage and plan your social content for days, weeks, and even months at a time so you can simply focus on engaging with comments and replies as they come in.
The above apps are just a few of the hundreds of other real estate agent and broker apps currently available today, and many you will find indispensable to your continued success.