Landlord Studio reviews split by where they were written. On the App Store the landlord app holds 4.6 out of 5 from about 550 ratings, and Capterra's listing shows 4.9. Trustpilot shows 2.9, but from two reviews, which tells you nothing either way. The written complaints that do repeat are about price as the door count grows, thin reporting, and how long rent takes to arrive. This review works from Landlord Studio's own price calculator and help center, then reads the pattern in what landlords write after a year of use. We sell rental listings, not bookkeeping software, so we have no stake in which app you keep your books in.
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The short verdict
Landlord Studio is a well-built bookkeeping and rent app for a landlord with roughly 3 to 15 doors who keeps the books on a phone and wants Schedule E reports at tax time without a bookkeeper. It is free and genuinely useful up to 3 units. Past that it charges for every door, and the $2.50 ACH fee lands on you unless you move it to the tenant in the lease settings, so at 20 or 30 units the flat-priced apps cost less for most of the same work.
How much does Landlord Studio cost?
Landlord Studio costs nothing on Go for up to 3 units. Pro is $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly as $144, and Pro Plus is $30, or $24 yearly. Both paid plans include 3 units and add $1.20 a month for every unit above that, or $1 on yearly billing, occupied or not.
| Units | Pro, yearly billing | Pro, monthly billing | Pro Plus, yearly billing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | $144 a year | $15 a month | $288 a year |
| 10 | $228 a year | $23.40 a month | $372 a year |
| 20 | $348 a year | $35.40 a month | $492 a year |
| 30 | $468 a year | $47.40 a month | $612 a year |
| 50 | $708 a year | $71.40 a month | $852 a year |
Pro Plus is Pro with more room: 10 users instead of 3, unlimited documents instead of 250, 20 bank feeds instead of 5, faster listing review and an account manager. Most landlords never need it. A 14-day Pro trial starts at signup with no card, and when it ends the account drops to Go, which keeps only 3 units. Every rung from 3 to 100 doors on both billing terms is on our Landlord Studio pricing page.
The ACH fee you pay by default
Online rent on Landlord Studio goes by ACH bank transfer at a flat $2.50 a payment, and the landlord carries it unless the lease settings assign it to the tenant. It is the line most easily missed when comparing plans, because the plan price is low enough that a fee per payment looks small until you multiply it out.
| Units, all paying by ACH, yearly Pro | Subscription | ACH fees if you carry them | Year total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | $144 | $90 | $234 |
| 10 | $228 | $300 | $528 |
| 20 | $348 | $600 | $948 |
From about 7 units the ACH fees cost more than the plan. Passing the fee to tenants removes it from your side, but it then shows in their portal as a convenience fee, which some tenants push back on at renewal. Deposits and invoiced charges use the same rail and the same fee, and money lands 3 to 5 business days after the tenant pays. Screening runs through TransUnion from $45 and is always paid by the applicant.
Landlord Studio against Stessa, RentRedi and Baselane
The three apps landlords most often weigh against Landlord Studio all charge a flat price whatever the door count, so the comparison turns on size.
| Yearly, annual billing | At 10 units | At 30 units | Rent by ACH |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landlord Studio Pro | $228 | $468 | $2.50, landlord by default |
| Stessa Manage | $144 | $144 | $2 to an outside bank |
| RentRedi | $144 | $144 | $1, paid by the tenant |
| Baselane Smart | $240 | $240 | $0 into Baselane, $2 elsewhere |
At 3 units yearly Pro costs the same $144 as Stessa Manage and RentRedi, and the free Go plan undercuts all of them. By 10 units it is the dearest of the four once ACH is counted, and at 30 it costs more than three times what the flat apps do. The fee detail is on our Stessa pricing, RentRedi pricing and Baselane pricing pages, and if Stessa is the other finalist, our Stessa review reads its reviews the same way.
What Landlord Studio reviews praise
The praise is consistent and specific. Bookkeeping comes first: expense tracking with receipt scanning on the phone, bank feeds that tag transactions to a property, and tax reports laid out for Schedule E, which is why accountants show up among its fans. Once that report is ready, plenty of small landlords file the return itself online rather than paying a preparer for a single schedule. Support is the second theme: reviewers describe a small team that answers quickly and ships the fixes they ask for. The third is the mobile app, built for a landlord who works from a truck between units rather than a desk.
What Landlord Studio reviews complain about
Four complaints repeat. Price is the first: landlords who grew from 5 to 25 doors write that the per-unit charge crept up until a flat app was cheaper, which the table above confirms. Reporting depth is the second, with accountants wanting more detail and custom views than the standard reports give. Leasing tools are the third: lease editing, move-in and move-out inspection reports and the tenant portal trail the all-in-one apps, and the tenant app itself has almost no ratings. The fourth is time: 3 to 5 business days for rent to arrive, and maintenance with limited options for assigning vendors.
One smaller complaint matters if you are filling a unit. Landlord Studio syndicates listings to Zillow, Zumper and Trulia, and reviewers mention spam and low-quality messages coming back through those listings. That is a syndication problem rather than a Landlord Studio one, and it is the same problem every portal has. Our page on Zumper for landlords covers what the portal itself charges when you want more reach than the free syndication gives.
Is Landlord Studio worth it?
For a landlord with 3 units or fewer, yes, and the free Go plan is the best deal in the category if you can live with entering transactions by hand. From 4 to about 12 units Pro is worth it if bookkeeping is the job you want done, as long as the ACH fee is moved to tenants or budgeted. Past about 15 units it usually is not: a flat $144 app does the rent and the books for a third of the price, and what Landlord Studio adds on top is polish.
Who Landlord Studio fits and who it does not
Use Landlord Studio if you own a few units, keep the books yourself, file Schedule E, and want that done well on a phone. Stay on Go while you have 3 units; take yearly Pro once you pass 3 and want bank feeds.
Look elsewhere if you own 15 or more doors, if your tenants will not accept a convenience fee and you do not want to carry $2.50 a payment, or if what you need is leasing, inspections and maintenance rather than accounting.
None of these apps fixes the weeks before the lease. Landlord Studio will list a vacancy and syndicate it, and then the inquiries come back as unsorted messages, some of them spam. On RentPlace a renter answers your move-in date, income band, occupants, pets and lease length before the message can send, and each unit sits on a vacancy board with its days empty beside it. A landlord with a vacancy can list it for $39 a month for up to five listings and stop paying once it is rented, and keep Landlord Studio for the books.