The 7 best driving for dollars apps in 2026

What this comparison is based on

Nobody at Farmrix drove a route with all seven of these apps. Saying otherwise would make a better headline. It would not be true. What you get instead: pricing from each vendor's own pricing page, published feature lists, App Store and Google Play ratings with review counts as they read in August 2026, and complaints documented somewhere public you can read yourself. Every number links to its source.

Know the limits of that. A pricing page tells you the subscription. It hides the part that adds up: what it costs to turn one flagged address into a phone number you can dial.

Prices and ratings here were last checked in August 2026, and every vendor on this list has changed pricing in the past two years, so confirm on the vendor site before you buy.

The seven at a glance

Run those numbers against your own volume first. A part-time driver flagging 30 addresses a month on a $99 plan spends $3.30 per address on software alone, before a single postcard. Flag 300 and it is 33 cents. Subscriptions punish low volume. Low volume is what one person in one car produces. Not sure the method pays for you at all? Start with the arithmetic behind driving for dollars.

1. DealMachine

DealMachine built the workflow everyone copied: pull over, tap the house on the map, take a photo, owner record loads. It carries 5,000 ratings at 4.8 on the App Store and 1.92K reviews at 4.5 across 100,000-plus installs on Google Play, and nothing else here is close on volume of actual drivers.

Three tiers: Basic at $99 per seat per month with 10,000 data credits, Pro at $149 with 20,000, Scale at $599 per package for 100,000 records and ten seats. Postcards are pay-as-you-go, quoted at $0.75 for a 4x6 on Basic, and Driving for Dollars is included on every plan (pricing page). The old Starter and Elite plan names are gone. Any roundup quoting them is stale.

Skip tracing changed. DealMachine's help documentation now states that "with the latest DealMachine plans, there is no need to skip trace properties anymore as we now give you access to Associated Contacts Information" (help center). Contact data comes out of monthly credits rather than a per-hit charge, and nowhere does DealMachine publish how many credits one contact lookup burns. You are told you get 10,000 credits. You are not told whether that is 10,000 owners or 1,000.

The harder criticism is billing. The BBB profile for Dealmachine, LLC shows 11 complaints closed in the past three years, every one listed as unanswered, and the company is not BBB accredited (BBB complaints, checked August 2026). Recurring themes: a cancellation button that does not work, and annual charges landing after a free trial. Eleven complaints against 100,000-plus installs is not an emergency. It is enough to tell you how to buy. Monthly, and cancel in writing.

Skip it if you log fewer than about 30 addresses a month, or if you want a CRM that handles your close-out paperwork.

2. BatchLeads

Pick this one when more than one person is driving. BatchLeads advertises "built-in route tracking that lets you track your team's routes in real-time and review previous activity" (product page). Seats come standard rather than as an upsell: three on Growth at $119 a month, eight on Professional at $349, twenty-six on Scale at $749, with 10,000, 35,000 and 75,000 monthly leads (pricing).

Contact information arrives attached when you save a lead rather than as a separate purchase, and records past your plan limit run 4 cents each, which for a three-driver crew is the cheapest structure on this page by a wide margin.

One naming point, because it wastes people's time. BatchDriven was Batch's standalone driving app. It no longer has its own App Store or Google Play listing; the driving product lives inside the main BatchLeads app. Roundups published in 2026 still list "BatchDriven" with Growth, Professional and Scale pricing, which are BatchLeads plans wearing an old name.

The app is where BatchLeads gets marked down. It rates 4.7 from 697 ratings on iOS and 4.7 from 227 reviews on Google Play, but the negative reviews are specific: one says "EVERY function is glitchy," another describes texts and data erasing themselves, several report being charged seconds into a seven-day trial. The Android build was last updated December 29, 2025 while iOS shipped 5.0.12 in April, and that gap tells you which platform gets the engineering.

Skip it if you drive alone. You would pay for three seats and use one, and DealMachine's app is steadier for $20 less.

3. PropertyRadar

This is the cheapest route from an address to a phone number, which is the whole reason it ranks here. Phone and email append runs 8 cents per contact on Solo, 6 cents on Team, 4 cents on Business (PropertyRadar pricing), so against REsimpli's 15 cents, appending 2,000 contacts a year saves you $140.

Solo is $119 a month, or $99 prepaid annually, covering 10,000 monthly exports for one user. Team is $249 for three. The mobile app description says it plainly: "Turn on GPS Tracks to log your route while driving for dollars, or while door-knocking." That is a track logger with instant lookup attached, not the tap-a-house-and-photograph-it flow DealMachine popularized.

Its weakness is reach. The iOS app holds 4.4 stars from 52 ratings, version 5.2.0 shipped July 29, 2026. Fifty-two ratings is a rounding error next to 5,000: fewer bug reports, fewer field-tested edge cases, less pressure on the vendor to fix driving specifically. PropertyRadar's center of gravity is list building for people who mail. Driving is a side door.

Skip it if you want the app to run your follow-up, or if you have a second driver: Solo covers one user, so partner number two costs $130 a month more.

4. PropStream

PropStream has the widest gap on this page between desktop reputation and phone, because on a desktop it is the tool most investors name first for pulling and filtering property data. On mobile it rates 3.1 stars from 173 ratings on the App Store and 3.5 from 157 reviews on Google Play — the worst scores here other than the app I am telling you to avoid entirely.

Essentials is $99 a month ($81 prepaid annually) with 25,000 monthly saves and exports and skip tracing at 12 cents per contact. Pro is $199 ($165 annually) with 50,000 exports, two seats and skip tracing included through PropStream Connect, and Elite is $699 with nine seats (PropStream pricing). Extra seats on Essentials cost $30 each per month.

There is a clean break-even worth knowing. Pro costs $100 more than Essentials and makes skip tracing free instead of 12 cents, so trace more than roughly 830 contacts a month and Pro pays for itself on skip tracing alone. Below that, Essentials is the better buy and 12 cents is the second cheapest rate here.

Reviewers who like the data still single out driving: one App Store reviewer praises the property information, then criticizes how the driving feature handles routing, and Google Play reviewers report you cannot cancel online and must contact support. Neither complaint is about data quality. The database is why people stay; the car is where the product falls down.

Skip it if the car is your primary workflow. Buy PropStream for the desktop data and treat the phone as a bonus.

5. Propelio

Propelio is the only genuinely free option here that is not abandonware. The free forever plan includes the driving app, 100 list exports a month, three MLS comps and skip tracing at 10 cents, while Beginner is $29 a month, or $21 billed annually, switching skip tracing to unlimited with 500 bulk traces monthly, 5,000 exports and two seats. Intermediate is $49, Advanced $98 (Propelio pricing).

A year of Beginner is $348. A year of REsimpli Basic is $1,788, with every match costing 15 cents on top. If your honest volume is 40 flagged houses a month, the $29 plan captures and traces all of them and leaves you $1,440 for postage.

Now the reason it is fifth. The iOS app has 17 ratings. Seventeen, at 4.5 stars, version 2.1.1.208 from May 11. A tiny install base means the routing quirks 5,000 DealMachine users already surfaced are still sitting undiscovered in your copy, and MLS comps are broker-provided, so coverage depends on Propelio's broker relationships, and three comps a month is a demo, not a tool.

Skip it if you run a team or need support to answer within the hour, and use it to find out whether you will actually keep driving before committing $1,200 a year elsewhere.

6. REsimpli

REsimpli has the best-rated apps in this comparison and is the worst way on this page to buy a driving tool. Both are true. It rates 4.9 from 388 ratings on iOS and 4.9 from 134 reviews on Google Play, last updated June 25, 2026, and it genuinely replaces a CRM, a dialer, a mail vendor and a bookkeeping spreadsheet.

Basic is $149 a month billed yearly, which is $1,788 charged up front, for one user, 10,000 monthly skip trace credits and 20,000 list stacking records. Pro is $299 monthly billed yearly, $3,588, for five users. Enterprise is $599 monthly billed yearly, $7,188, for ten. Skip tracing is 15 cents per match on every tier (REsimpli pricing).

Fifteen cents is the highest per-contact rate here, roughly double PropertyRadar's 8 cents, and annual-only billing makes it the largest first payment of the seven. Buying REsimpli to run acquisitions and books together, the money makes sense and the route tracker is a free bonus, but buying it to drive neighborhoods you pay $1,788 up front and 15 cents a match for something Propelio gives you for $348 a year with unlimited tracing. That is the overpriced purchase on this list. Only for this one job.

Skip it if driving is the reason you are shopping. Buy it when deal flow already exists and the mess is in your follow-up.

7. The Driving For Dollars App

This one earns its place by teaching a habit: check the update date before installing anything that holds your field data. The Android build was last updated August 10, 2025; the iOS build is version 3.7.0 from January 16, 2025. County records refresh weekly. An app that has shipped nothing in a year is a warning.

Ratings agree: 2.8 stars from 65 reviews on Google Play with 10,000-plus installs, 3.3 from 55 ratings on the App Store, where in-app purchases run $19.99 to $399.99. One reviewer reports finishing a drive and finding "I had 0 properties in my list." Another reports marketing email arriving at an address used only for this app.

Losing a drive is disqualifying. A capture tool has one job. The addresses are still there when you get home. If $19.99 a month is genuinely your ceiling, Propelio's free plan does more and is maintained.

Skip it. That is the whole recommendation.

What did not make the list, and why

• PropDash. Searched repeatedly in August 2026, with no real estate product of that name turning up a live site, an app listing or published pricing. If someone recommends it, ask for a URL.
• BatchDriven. Covered above. No longer its own app; it is BatchLeads.
• Launch Control. A real estate text messaging platform. Useful after you have phone numbers. Irrelevant to capturing addresses from a car.
• Forefront CRM and Left Main REI. Investor CRMs, Left Main built on Salesforce. Neither captures a property from your GPS position. Both sit downstream of every app above.
• Farmrix. Not a driving app either, and putting it on a list of them would be a lie you would spot immediately. It gets one paragraph below. The reason has nothing to do with apps.

The limit no app fixes

Every product above solves one narrow problem: capturing an address faster while you are already in the car, and none changes the ceiling on how many houses one person can look at, which is a few hundred to a few thousand a month. None can see the owner with full equity who has lived there 29 years and mows every Saturday, right until the week a health problem makes them sell.

Invisible from the street. Plainly visible in public records. Farmrix works the opposite direction from a driving app: it scores every owner in a market on how likely they are to sell in the next 6 to 12 months, ranks them, then prints and mails postcards to the top of that list. A 500-owner package at $1,195 is about $2.39 per owner actually reached with mail in hand (pricing).

Neither replaces the other cleanly. Driving finds the tarped roof no database records. Ranked data finds the pressured owner no drive would flag.

What to do next

Never driven a route? Start on Propelio's free plan or a DealMachine trial and log 50 addresses before paying anyone anything. Plenty of people who buy a $149 subscription in January have logged nothing by March. The app was never the reason.

If you drive alone every week and it is producing, DealMachine Basic at $99 monthly is the pick: the most drivers, the most bugs already found, contact data folded into the plan. Pay monthly. Given the cancellation complaints on file, do not prepay a year, and cancel in writing if you cancel. What you may then do with those numbers varies by state, so check your state's calling and texting rules before you dial.

Two or more drivers: BatchLeads Growth at $119 with three seats and live route tracking is the only entry-priced plan built for a crew, so ask their sales team, in writing, exactly what a saved lead includes before you sign.

Then do the part most drivers skip. Skip trace every flagged address within a week and mail within two, because the dead list sitting in an app is what kills this method, not the app you picked. New to that step? Start with skip tracing.

And if what you need is coverage rather than a better way to log houses, that is a different purchase: Farmrix ranks every owner in your market on selling pressure and mails the top of that list for you, no windshield time. Keep driving your farm if you like it and it pays. Just stop asking one car to produce your volume.