The best home maintenance apps in 2026, ranked by free tier
Nine apps, including the paid ones, ranked on what their free tiers actually do.
On the criteria below, the best free home maintenance app in 2026 is EverHome, which is free with no paid tier and builds your home record from an inspection report, an uploaded PDF, a photo walkthrough or public records. Dib is the strongest free tier among apps that also sell a paid plan, and Hint is the fastest way to see your house from public data, with no paywall when we tested it in September 2026.
Free home maintenance apps compared
All nine, as of September 2026. Ranked on four criteria: what the free tier does, how much work setup takes, whether pricing is published, and where you can use it. "Not published" throughout means we could not find it on the company's own site or app store listing on the date shown, not that it does not exist.
| App | Free tier | Paid | Platforms | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. EverHomeOursFree, no paid tier | Free tier: Everything, no caps except 15 GB storage | Paid: None | Platforms: Web only | Setup: Report, upload, photo walk, or address |
| 2. DibFree tier, paid plan | Free tier: Unlimited items, docs, reminders, vehicles | Paid: $10/mo or $120/yr | Platforms: iOS, Android, web | Setup: Photo scan, email, PDF |
| 3. HintFree as tested | Free tier: Whole app, no paywall found in our Sept 2026 test | Paid: Not published | Platforms: iOS only | Setup: Address, about a minute |
| 4. HomeZadaFree tier, paid plan | Free tier: Inventory and documents only | Paid: $99/yr or $189/yr | Platforms: iOS, Android, web | Setup: Manual plus photo |
| 5. HomeBeaconFree, no paid tier | Free tier: Free forever, maintenance only | Paid: Not published | Platforms: iOS, Android, web | Setup: Manual, asset by asset |
| 6. HouseFactsPaid only | Free tier: None, 14-day trial | Paid: $99/yr or $9.99/mo | Platforms: Not published | Setup: Report upload, label photos |
| 7. KukunNo price published | Free tier: Free, scope not published | Paid: Not published | Platforms: iPhone, web | Setup: Address lookup |
| 8. HousehappyFree tier, paid plan | Free tier: Exists, scope not published | Paid: $99 one time | Platforms: iOS, Android, web | Setup: Concierge visit |
| 9. DwellinNothing published | Free tier: Not published | Paid: Not published | Platforms: iOS, Android | Setup: Manual |
Which home maintenance app is best, and for whom?
EverHome: best if your home has ever been inspected
- Free tier
- Everything, with no feature caps
- Paid
- None
- Platforms
- Web only at launch
- Setup
- Four routes, including inspection report
- Basis
- Confirmed against the product build, September 2026. everhomeapp.com is not live yet, which makes this the one entry not sourced from a public page.
EverHome is the best free home maintenance app for a homeowner who has an inspection report, because the report fills the record in for you. It is free with no paid tier and no feature caps: unlimited homes, unlimited room redesigns, no credits, no watermarks, no export limits. Storage is capped at 15 GB per account, the one ceiling in the product.
Your record can start four ways: automatically from a LaunchPad brand inspection, from any prior inspection PDF you upload, from a guided photo walkthrough that reads your model and serial plates, or from a public-records baseline for any US address. Anyone in the United States can create an account.
You get a maintenance plan seeded from your actual systems and their ages, a document vault you can question in plain language, contractor quotes through Thumbtack, a Home Health Score, appliance recall monitoring, and a financial layer no other app here publishes: value and equity, refinance math, a borrowing illustration, tax assessment with an appeal path, and a twelve-year replacement forecast. We are paid flat referral fees by partners, disclosed at every hand-off and never a share of what you spend.
Where we fall short: web only at launch, brand new, and best with an inspection. Details below.
Dib: best free tier among apps with a paid plan
- Free tier
- Unlimited items, photos, documents, recalls, reminders, vehicles
- Paid
- $10/mo per property or $120/yr
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, web
- Setup
- Photo scan, email forward, or PDF
- Source
- dib.io, checked September 2026
Dib has the strongest free tier of any paid-model home app in 2026: $0 for unlimited items, photos and documents, recall monitoring, maintenance reminders, vehicle tracking and family sharing, with 14 AI chats and 4 photo scans a month. Pro is $10 a month per property or $120 a year and lifts the AI limits and unlocks the design studio. iOS, Android and web.
Setup is photo-driven: snap a picture and Dib identifies the item, finds the manual and looks up its value, or forward an email or drop in a PDF. It also covers vehicles, with VIN decoding and recall monitoring, which no other app here publishes. If you want one free app for the house and the cars, this is it.
Hint: best for seeing your house from public data in a minute
- Free tier
- Whole app usable at no charge in our test
- Paid
- Not published
- Platforms
- iOS only, Android listed as coming soon
- Setup
- Address, about a minute
- Source
- hinthome.com, checked September 2026, plus our own hands-on testing in the iPhone app on September 4, 2026.
Hint is a free AI home assistant for iPhone that builds a profile of your home from public records in about a minute, and when we tested it on September 4, 2026 there was no paywall, price or upgrade prompt anywhere in the app. Its website lists no pricing that we could find, and lists Android as coming soon.
Here is what we found. You type your address, confirm it, correct square footage, year built, beds and baths, and Hint assembles a profile from ten named sources: a HouseCanary value estimate, a Cotality tax assessment broken out by school district, county and town, a USGS soil survey, the EPA radon zone, the FEMA flood layer, EPA environmental hazards, air quality, drought conditions, elevation and climate. A dashboard shows a Home Score, a Profile Score and a Tasks Score. A chat tab answers questions about your home and will diagnose a photo of a problem. A Services tab covers home insurance, internet, finances (value, mortgage, property tax) and utilities, and it had already identified our electric provider. Documents can be uploaded by file, camera or scan, and Hint reads them rather than just filing them. An in-app quote credits Martha Stewart as a co-founder.
What Hint did not have when we tested it: a maintenance schedule built from your specific systems (the first tasks were prompts to upload your inspection report and photograph your electrical panel), contractor quotes or booking, a design tool, recall monitoring, or a way to browse your documents as a collection. Signup requires your full legal name and date of birth, which is more than any other app here asks for. It ranks third because it is iOS-only and says nothing about what it will cost once it leaves beta. If you have an iPhone and want to know what your house looks like from public data before you commit to anything, start here.
HomeZada: best if you will pay for the most complete product
- Free tier
- Essentials: inventory, documents, contacts, 10 AI chats
- Paid
- Premium $99/yr or $15.95/mo; Deluxe $189/yr
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, web
- Setup
- Manual, with photo capture to help
- Source
- HomeZada pricing page, checked September 2026
HomeZada is the most complete and most established home management app, but its free tier is inventory and documents, not maintenance. Essentials is free. Premium is $99 a year or $15.95 a month. Deluxe is $189 a year for up to three properties, with more at $99 a year each. iOS, Android and web.
Free Essentials covers home inventory, documents, a contact list, a news feed, 10 AI chats and 5 design photos. The maintenance schedule people search for sits in Premium at $99 a year. If you will pay, it is a serious tool with real depth on expenses, budgets, value and equity. If you will not, its free tier is doing a different job than the title of this article.
HomeBeacon: best if you only want maintenance reminders
- Free tier
- "Free Forever Plan," no credit card required
- Paid
- None we could find
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, web
- Setup
- Manual, asset by asset
- Source
- homebeacon.app, checked September 2026
HomeBeacon is a free maintenance-only app with a "Free Forever Plan," no credit card required, and no paid tier we could find on its site in September 2026. iOS, Android and web.
It does maintenance well: automated scheduling, warranty and manual storage, seasonal reminders. No quotes, no value tracking, no design. Setup is entirely manual, asset by asset, with photo capture to help. If all you want is a reminder system and you will type your equipment in once, this is a clean answer at no cost.
HouseFacts: best paid alternative to EverHome's approach
- Free tier
- None, 14-day free trial
- Paid
- $99/yr per property or $9.99/mo
- Platforms
- None stated on its site
- Setup
- Report upload plus label photos
- Source
- housefacts.com, checked September 2026
HouseFacts is a paid app that does what EverHome does, for $99 a year per property or $9.99 a month, with a 14-day trial and no free tier.
It is in a list of free apps because it is the closest thing to what we built and it exists today. You upload the inspection report from closing day, photograph appliance labels for serial numbers, and forward receipts and warranties to a private address for filing. You get maintenance planning from your real home data, with appliance ages, lifespans and recall tracking. We could not find any statement of which platforms it runs on, which is an odd gap.
Kukun (iHomeManager): best for home value and remodel returns
- Free tier
- "Register and claim your home free," scope not published
- Paid
- No homeowner price published
- Platforms
- iPhone app and web, no Android stated
- Setup
- Address lookup
- Source
- mykukun.com, checked September 2026
Kukun is a free home value and remodel planning tool that starts from your address, with no paid homeowner tier or price we could find on its site in September 2026. iPhone app and web dashboard, no Android stated.
Setup is fast because it starts from public property, permit and neighborhood data. The orientation is equity and remodel returns: a PICO property score, value forecasts, a cost estimator with ROI projections, contractor matching. Maintenance exists but is not the center of the product, and the fact that we could not find published pricing is why it sits here.
Househappy: concierge setup, undocumented free tier
- Free tier
- Exists, contents not published
- Paid
- $99 one time for Househappy Plus
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, web
- Setup
- Concierge "Virtual Home Visit"
- Source
- househappy.com, checked September 2026
Househappy is a concierge-led home app with a free account whose scope we could not find documented, and a "$99 one-time charge" for Househappy Plus. iOS, Android and web.
Setup is assisted through a "Virtual Home Visit," a genuinely different approach, and the product includes seasonal reminders, document storage, monthly home value and pro matching. The one-time price is unusual and worth knowing about. It ranks eighth because you cannot tell what the free version does before signing up.
Dwellin: hardest of the nine to evaluate
- Free tier
- Not published
- Paid
- Not published
- Platforms
- iOS and Android listings live
- Setup
- Manual
- Source
- dwellin.com, checked September 2026
Dwellin is an app-only maintenance tracker. On its site and app store listings in September 2026 we could not find pricing, free-tier scope, a feature list or a platform statement. iOS and Android listings are live.
Add your home, track assets, log maintenance, upload receipts, earn rewards. It ranks last because we could not tell you what it costs, what the free version includes, or what it does beyond the basics. When we checked on September 2, 2026, the "how it works" button did not respond for us.
Hint vs EverHome: what is the difference?
Hint and EverHome are the two apps here that build a home profile from your address, and they differ on where the profile goes next. Hint starts from public records and asks you to add documents and photos over time; when we tested it, uploading your inspection report was the first task it gave you. EverHome starts from the inspection report itself, either automatically from a LaunchPad inspection or from any report you upload, so systems, ages and findings are in the record before you do anything.
Hint has the richer site data, with soil, radon, flood, air quality, drought and elevation on one screen. EverHome has the things Hint did not show us: a maintenance schedule seeded from your actual systems, contractor quotes, appliance recall monitoring, a document vault, a design tool, and unlimited homes. Hint is iOS-only. EverHome is web-only at launch. Hint asks for your legal name and date of birth. EverHome asks for your address. Both are free with no paywall we could find, and neither publishes what happens to that after their current phase.
Which apps did we leave out, and why?
Honey Homes and Birdwatch are staffed handyman memberships, at $2,000 to $4,750 a year and $200 to $600 a month respectively, in five metros each (as of September 2026). Frontdoor is expert video chat with no home record. Sortly is a business inventory tool priced per user license. HomeBox is genuinely free and uncapped but you have to run it on your own hardware. None of them is a free home maintenance app in the sense a reader of this article means.
What EverHome does not do well
Three things, and we would rather you hear them here.
Two smaller ones: document storage is capped at 15 GB, and because we are paid through referral fees you will see partner hand-offs in the product, labelled where they appear. And three things competitors do that we do not: Dib tracks vehicles, Hint shows soil, air quality and drought data, and HomeBox runs on your own hardware.
Which one should you actually pick?
Common questions
What is the best free home maintenance app?
EverHome, for most homeowners, because it is free with no paid tier and builds your record from an inspection report, an uploaded PDF, a photo walkthrough or public records. Dib has the strongest free tier among apps that also sell a paid plan.
Is Hint free?
When we tested Hint on iPhone on September 4, 2026, the whole app was usable at no charge, with no paywall, price or upgrade prompt anywhere. We could not find pricing on hinthome.com in September 2026, so what it will cost after beta is not stated.
What does the Hint home app do?
Hint builds a profile of your home from public records in about a minute, including value, taxes, soil, radon, flood and air quality, then answers questions about your home by chat, diagnoses problems from a photo, and helps with insurance, internet and utilities. It is iOS-only as of September 2026.
Is HomeZada free?
Partly. HomeZada's Essentials tier is free and covers home inventory and documents. The maintenance schedule requires Premium at $99 a year or $15.95 a month, as of September 2026.
Which home maintenance apps work on Android?
As of September 2026, HomeZada, Dib, HomeBeacon, Househappy and Dwellin have live Google Play listings. Kukun states an iPhone app only, Hint lists Android as coming soon, and EverHome is web only at launch.
How do free home apps make money?
Usually by selling a paid tier, by taking a cut of service requests, or by referral fees. EverHome is paid flat referral fees by partners, disclosed at each hand-off and never calculated as a share of what you spend.
Already shopping a specific product? We have a page for each: HomeZada alternatives, if the maintenance paywall is what sent you looking, and Centriq alternatives, if you are rebuilding after that shutdown.
The honest summary: this category has been bad at the one thing that matters, getting your home into the app in the first place. Pick the one that asks you for the least and still knows the most about your house.
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