MoveTo

Review by eFreeware

MoveTo is a free real estate app from Real Geeks, a company that builds technology for agents and their clients. It sits under House & Home on Google Play, dates back to October 2019, has over 100,000 installs and holds a 4.7 average from 1,256 ratings. The idea behind it is simple: rather than a generic listings portal, it is built around the relationship you already have with an agent, and it pulls in local market information to keep that relationship useful between conversations.

What makes it worth a look is the combination of search and numbers. You can browse listings with filters, open a property and see its price history alongside a mortgage calculator, and check estimates of what a home is worth or how much equity you have built. Push notifications tell you when something matching a saved search comes on the market. For anyone in the middle of buying or selling, those pieces cover most of the questions that come up day to day.

Searching for a home without the usual noise

The search side is built for people who know roughly what they want and would rather not scroll through everything else. You set filters, browse the listings that survive them, and save the searches that matter. From then on, the app watches for you and sends a push notification when a new listing fits, which is the part that matters most in a market where good homes can be spoken for quickly.

Each property opens into a detail view that gathers the facts in one place. Each listing page shows price history, a mortgage calculator and a home snapshot. Price history is the piece I would reach for first when a listing looks interesting, because it shows how the asking price has moved over time and gives you something concrete to discuss rather than a gut feeling.

The app is pitched as drawing on hyper-local home data, which is the kind of claim that only proves itself in a specific neighborhood. Search and alerts sit at the center of the experience, aimed at buyers who want a shortlist delivered rather than a catalog to sift through.

Valuation and equity tools for owners

MoveTo is not only for people hunting for a new place. Two of its features are aimed at owners: instant home value estimates and an equity calculator that tracks what your home is worth and how much of it you actually own. The developer describes the value estimates as instant and accurate, which is the sort of claim worth treating as a starting point for a conversation rather than a final number.

For someone thinking about selling, or simply keeping an eye on a large asset, those tools answer a recurring question without a phone call. Watching equity move over time is also a useful reality check if you are weighing a renovation against a move, or trying to work out what you could put toward a next home.

The equity side pairs naturally with the mortgage calculator on each property page. One tells you what a prospective purchase might cost each month; the other tells you what your current position looks like. Having both in the same app saves the usual shuffling between a listings site, a spreadsheet and whatever your lender last sent you.

Keeping your agent in the loop

The thread running through all of this is the connection to your agent. The tools are built to be reached from wherever you are, and the whole thing is framed as a personalized journey shared between the two of you. If you are working with an agent who uses Real Geeks, that is the point of installing it rather than using a general listings app.

For agents, the developer is direct about what this is: the mobile version of a Real Geeks website, meant to help clients and prospects keep moving through the process while away from a desk. That framing explains the app's shape. It is not trying to be a neutral marketplace for every listing in the country; it is a companion to a working relationship, with the search and valuation tools arranged around it.

If you are not already connected to an agent on that platform, the app's central feature may not have much to attach to. Readers in that position can judge for themselves whether the search and calculator tools alone are enough to bother with.

What you need before you start

There is no setup sequence laid out, but the central requirement is clear: MoveTo is built to connect you with your agent, and for agents it is the app version of a Real Geeks website. Practically, that means the app is meant to be used alongside an agent relationship.

The practical requirements are light. It is free to install, carries no ads and has no in-app purchases, so nothing suggests you will be asked to pay or sit through interruptions while browsing. It is rated for Everyone.

Who gets the most from MoveTo

For that reader, the app gathers search, alerts, property details, valuation and equity tracking into one place and keeps the agent a tap away, which is exactly the combination the developer set out to build.

It also suits owners who are not selling yet but want a straightforward way to watch their home's value and equity, and buyers who would rather receive alerts on saved searches than check a website every morning. MoveTo suits buyers who want a shortlist tied to their own agent rather than a broad national portal.

The install numbers and rating suggest a settled, well-liked app rather than a new experiment, and a 4.7 average across more than a thousand ratings is a reasonable signal for something people open repeatedly during a purchase. That said, ratings reflect other people's experiences, not a guarantee of how it will work in your market.

A companion app for an agent-led search

MoveTo earns a recommendation for a specific situation: you are buying or selling with an agent on the Real Geeks platform and you want the search, alerts, valuation and equity tools in one free app. The absence of ads and purchases keeps it out of the way, and the feature set covers the questions that come up repeatedly during a move.

If you are already in that relationship, there is little reason not to install it. If you are not, the search and calculator tools on their own may be a thinner proposition than the whole. That is not a flaw so much as the shape of what the developer built.

For the reader it is designed for, this is a tidy, focused tool that does the job it was made for. Install it when you have an agent to connect to, and treat the valuation figures as a starting point for the conversations you will have with them.

What's new in version 11.0.4

Performance improvements.