Why Portiq is the only app built for the independent landlord

Private or connected. Powerful or pleasant. Free reports or a per-unit bill. Every other property app makes you pick one. Portiq refuses the trade.

August 21, 2026 3 min read

The Portiq dashboard showing 100 percent occupancy, five active tenants and full rent collection for the month

If you own a few rentals, you have met the same two choices over and over.

Enterprise platforms, priced per unit, built for management companies with staff. They will happily hold your portfolio on their servers and bill you every month for the privilege.

Or a spreadsheet: private, free, and silent when you need an answer.

Portiq is the third option. Here is what it does at once, which is the part no one else has matched.

Your records stay on your device and in your iCloud

Almost everything in Portiq lives in your own private iCloud. Not on our servers. We have no way to read your leases, your tenants, or your numbers, because we never hold them. You do not even need an account to use the app fully.

And you can walk out any time. One tap exports every property, every ledger entry, and every attached receipt into a single file.

Export all data with a tap: choose a property, a format, and whether attachments come along

An app that makes leaving this easy has to earn you staying.

One app instead of five

Your properties and your financial picture, in the same place. No exporting to a second tool to find out whether the year actually worked.

The Portiq properties list with photos, addresses and values Cash flow and cash-on-cash return charts across several years

Repair requests that arrive as a conversation with a timeline, and receipts attached to the expense they belong to rather than sitting in a shoebox.

A repair request timeline for a broken washer, with an assigned crew and chat A maintenance expense with the contractor receipt attached

Rent collected by autopay through Stripe, straight into your bank. And the reports other apps charge for, including an IRS-ready Schedule E worksheet, free on every plan.

Stripe connected for rent autopay, paying out daily to a linked bank account A generated Schedule E tax preparation worksheet with income, expenses and depreciation

Then the whole portfolio on your Home Screen, so the answer is there before you open anything.

Portiq Home Screen widgets showing reminders, rent collected, vitals and expenses

And it is a pleasure to use

This one is hard to argue in text, so scroll back up and look. Property software is famous for looking like a 2009 web portal. Portiq is a native iPhone app built to Apple’s standards, and it is genuinely nice to open.

That matters more than it sounds. The records you actually keep are the ones the app does not punish you for keeping.

The honest pricing part

Free covers up to three properties with the ledger, reports, tax preparation, export, and iCloud sync. Unlimited properties is a one-time $19.99, not a subscription. Pro at $3.99 a month adds the online pieces: tenant invitations, autopay rent, two-way tasks, and messaging.

There is no per-unit pricing. Growing your portfolio does not grow your bill.

Pick any one competitor

You will find apps that beat Portiq on a single axis. What you will not find is one that keeps your data out of a vendor’s database, collects rent, does your tax worksheets for free, tracks repairs with your tenants, and looks like it belongs on your phone, all at the same time, for a landlord who owns four houses rather than four hundred.

That is the whole reason Portiq exists.

Download Portiq on the App Store and start on the free tier. Your data is yours either way.