Regrid Property App

Review by eFreeware

Regrid Property App is a map-first property lookup tool from the company Regrid, published in the Maps & Navigation category. It puts public land records on a phone screen: tap a parcel and you get its boundary, owner, acreage and a set of related details. The pitch is coverage, and it is a big one: more than 157 million parcels, spanning over 99 percent of the US population.

That reach is the main reason to consider it. Most people who need parcel information need it somewhere specific, and a tool is only useful if the county they care about is in it. Nearly nationwide coverage, combined with a free tier that does not meter your lookups, makes this an easy thing to keep on a phone for the moments when a question about land comes up.

It has been on Google Play since March 2018 and now sits above 500,000 installs with a 4.7 average from just over 6,000 ratings. Those numbers suggest a settled, widely used tool rather than a novelty.

What a parcel lookup actually returns

The core loop is simple: search an address or a place, land on the map, and tap the property you are curious about. From there the app surfaces lot lines and boundaries, the APN or parcel ID, the property address, the owner's name, and the mailing address on file. It also lists acreage and square footage, sale price and date, property value, land use, standardized zoning, and a vacancy indicator.

For anyone who has ever tried to work out where a lot line falls, the boundary overlay is the part that matters most. Seeing the recorded parcel shape against a street map turns an abstract legal description into something you can point at. The owner name and mailing address answer the other common question, which is who to contact.

The free tier is generous in scope rather than crippled: nationwide public record boundaries and details, with no caps or time limit, once you register with an email address. You also get a street and satellite basemap toggle, address or place search, and the ability to share a link to a property you are interested in. Sharing matters more than it sounds, because a link to a parcel is often the easiest way to settle a question between two people.

The app is free to download and carries no ads, though it does offer in-app purchases. The paid option is a Pro plan at $10 per month, presented as an addition rather than a replacement for the free experience.

Where the Pro plan changes the picture

Paying for Pro adds a Follow feature, which lets you build a list of properties and receive automated updates when something about them changes. For someone tracking a handful of parcels over months, that is a more useful capability than any single lookup, because it removes the need to remember to check back.

Pro also opens up extra basemap layers: building footprints and elevation contours drawn over the parcel boundaries. The measure tool calculates linear feet, acreage and square footage for an area you draw, which is the kind of thing that comes up when you are sketching out a fence line or comparing two lots of similar shape. Owner names and parcel IDs can be overlaid directly on the map as well.

Some data fields are held back for Pro subscribers: vacancy, land use, building footprint data, and a residential and vacancy indicator. The same account also unlocks additional mapping tools on the Regrid website, so a single login covers both the phone and the desktop. That combination is worth weighing if you do part of this work at a desk and part of it standing on a dirt road.

Map layers and the surveying additions

Recent updates have loosened up the boundary display. Instead of property lines, the Layers panel can display city, zip code or census tract outlines. Being able to drop the parcel lines is a small thing that makes a real difference when the outlines are dense and you want to read the underlying map.

A second recent addition lets surveyors add photos from the camera roll. Field work and record work do not always happen in the same place, so being able to attach an image after the fact fits the way that job actually runs.

What you need, and what the free tier leaves out

The free tier asks for an email address before it opens up the public record data. That is the price of entry rather than a paywall, and there are no caps or time limits on how much you look up once you are in. It is a reasonable trade for a service built on aggregated public records, and it keeps the barrier low for occasional users.

The $10 monthly Pro plan is the other cost to keep in mind, and it is a subscription rather than a one-off. Whether it earns its keep depends on how often you need the features it adds. The Follow list, the measure tool, the extra layers and the premium data fields are all things that reward regular use; someone who looks up a parcel twice a year can do everything essential on the free tier.

The app's focus is also narrower than a general real estate tool. It is built around land records, boundaries and ownership, and it is pitched as a property finder, a real estate aid and a way for hunters to work out who owns a piece of land. That is what it does, and it does not try to be a listings marketplace or a valuation service.

Who gets real use out of this

The clearest fit is anyone whose work or hobbies put them in contact with land they do not own. Hunters checking access, buyers walking a property line before making an offer, surveyors and land professionals confirming what the record says, and neighbors trying to settle a question about a fence all land in the same place: a parcel map with an owner name attached.

It also suits people who track land over time rather than in a single sitting. The Follow feature is designed for exactly that pattern, and the website access means the same account works whether you are in the field or at a desk. Anyone comparing parcels across a county, or watching a specific lot for a change in ownership or use, gets more from the app than someone making a one-off lookup.

Because the free tier covers the whole country without caps, there is little risk in trying it against the areas you care about. The honest test is whether your county's records look complete and current to you, and that is something only you can judge for your own patch of ground.

A parcel tool worth keeping on your phone

Regrid Property App does one job with unusual breadth: it shows you who owns land, where the lines fall, and what the record says about it, across more than 157 million parcels. The free tier is genuinely usable for that, and the $10 monthly Pro plan adds tracking, measuring and extra layers for people who need them regularly.

I would point it at land buyers, hunters, surveyors, neighbors with a boundary question, and anyone who spends time thinking about property they do not own. If your interest in land is occasional, the free version will likely cover it; if you are watching parcels over months, the Pro features are the ones that make the app a habit rather than a lookup.

What's new in version 1.90.0

- We Love Boundaries: Now you can turn them off from the Layers panel – or switch between census tract, zip code, or city outlines. - Survey using the Camera Roll: Surveyors can now add photos from the camera roll. - Security and bug fixes.