Home by ShowingTime

Review by eFreeware

If you are buying or selling a home with an agent who uses ShowingTime, this app is meant for you. It puts the scheduling side of a transaction in one place on your phone: the tours you have booked as a buyer, the showings arranged at your property as a seller, the feedback that comes back afterward, and a direct line to your agent.

That is a narrower audience than the app's reach might suggest. The app works alongside an agent's ShowingTime account. For the people inside that arrangement, it keeps appointments in one place.

It is free, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases. The developer is ShowingTime.

Tours and showings, sorted by which side of the deal you are on

The app splits its main job by role. As a buyer, you see the tours you have coming up, so the next appointment is not buried in an email thread. As a seller, you manage the showings scheduled at your home, which is the part most people want visible at a glance when strangers are walking through the property.

Directions are built in as well: the app gives turn-by-turn guidance to your next destination. For a buyer doing several viewings in an afternoon, having directions in the same app is convenient.

What appeals to me about this arrangement is that both sides of a transaction see the same schedule. A seller who can check when people are coming, and a buyer who can check where they are going, are working from the same record instead of comparing notes.

Feedback and staying in touch with your agent

After a showing, feedback arrives in the app. For sellers in particular, that is the loop that matters: visits happen, impressions get recorded, and you get to see them collected in one place rather than pieced together secondhand.

The app also handles contact with your agent, and it lets you set your communication preferences. That last part is the quiet feature I would expect people to appreciate most.

None of this is a substitute for the agent's own system. It is the client-facing window onto it, and it is at its most useful when the schedule is busy enough that keeping track in your head stops working.

What the app asks of you

The key here is relational: your agent has to be using ShowingTime. Without that connection, the app has little to offer. It is designed to work with your agent's ShowingTime account.

The cost side is simple, at least. The app is free to download, and there are no ads or in-app purchases to work around. That fits its position as a companion to a service, rather than a product trying to sell you something on top.

The recent update is limited to stability and compatibility improvements. The app has been available since 2019.

How I would use it during a search or a sale

If you are buying, I would keep the app open for the days when you have more than one viewing booked. The combination of an upcoming-tour list and directions to the next stop is the part that stands out during a concentrated search.

If you are selling, the value is in the two loops running at once: knowing when showings are scheduled and reading the feedback once they are done.

Setting your communication preferences early is the other thing I would do. Deciding up front how you want to be reached keeps the app useful during an already busy period.

A companion app for an agent-led transaction

Home by ShowingTime does one job and does it for a defined group: buyers and sellers whose agent runs showings through ShowingTime. If that describes your situation, the app covers the schedule, the directions, the feedback and the contact with your agent in one place, at no cost and with no advertising.

The 3.4 average suggests a mixed reception, and it is worth weighing that alongside how specific the app's purpose is. Its audience is small by design.

For that audience, I would install it at the start of a search or a listing rather than partway through, and set the communication preferences on the first day. Anyone outside that arrangement is not the intended audience.

What's new in version 2.3.7

Stability and compatibility improvements