Househound vs Inspector Toolbelt: price, forms, teams (2026)

Inspector Toolbelt is free for up to 5 published reports, then $79 a month for Pro, with no per-inspection fees. Its App Store listing prices the Pro purchase at $79.00. Househound is $99 a month for the first inspector and $69 for each added one (or $990 and $690 a year billed annually), with the first 3 reports free and no card.

Assumptions: list prices on October 27, 2026, monthly billing, card fees left out.

For one inspector, Inspector Toolbelt is $240 a year cheaper than Househound billed monthly ($948 against $1,188), and $42 a year cheaper than Househound's $990 annual plan. The $35 added-inspector price is what its pricing page listed in August 2026. Its website blocked our automated check on October 27, 2026, so we couldn't re-check that figure or find an annual plan. Confirm both before you budget a crew on it. For the wider picture, see what home inspection software costs.

Yes. Inspector Toolbelt's free tier includes more than 20 templates, among them TREC, 4-Point and Wind Mit, along with a free library of more than 400 narrative comments. Its knowledge base has separate guides for the TREC and Wind Mit templates.

Househound has all three too, in its own way:

• TREC REI 7-6. A TREC report type on the promulgated layout: TREC's sections and lettered items, I / NI / NP / D boxes per item, your TREC license and sponsor in the header, and a check that blocks publishing until every item has a box and every item marked D has a comment. It's written in the normal editors on the phone or the web, offline, with photos and Autodraft.
• Florida wind mitigation and 4-Point. The Uniform Mitigation Verification Inspection Form (OIR-B1-1802, Rev. 04/26) and the Citizens 4-Point, every question in the form's order, a required-photo checklist, and publishing blocked until the answers and photos are in. They print as Househound's layout of the form's questions, not the official PDF filled in, and only Citizens' 4-Point is modelled.
• NPMA-33 for wood-destroying insects, which Inspector Toolbelt's pages don't confirm.

Each one sits beside the home inspection report on the same job. Inspector Toolbelt's templates come in its free tier, which matters if your work is mostly Texas resale or Florida insurance inspections and you're watching cost.

Both support more than one inspector; they differ in how a crew shares a report.

Inspector Toolbelt's Pro tier adds "Multi-Inspector support with Teams". Its public pages don't describe two inspectors editing one report at the same time.

In Househound that's the default. Two to five inspectors can work the same report at once on any mix of phones, tablets and the web, and edits reach every device in seconds. Each finding shows who last edited it, and each report has an activity feed. Booking is crew-aware: you set how many inspectors a job takes (for example, "over 8 units, send 3"), the booking page only offers times when that many are free, and confirming assigns them. Payroll then credits each inspector for the jobs they worked and builds their pay statement, which you export as a CSV for your payroll provider. Househound records pay; it doesn't send it.

Both products help write findings from your notes.

Inspector Toolbelt's App Store listing names a built-in AI narrative assistant. Its own announcement describes help writing comments and narratives, calls the feature beta, and says there are no plans to charge for it. We couldn't load that page to check the current details.

Househound's Autodraft takes a spoken note on the phone (or a typed or recorded note on the web), picks the area and item, and then reuses a comment from your library word for word, adapts one, or writes a new one, with a suggested severity and recommendation. It always lands as a draft you edit and save, and nothing reaches the client until you do. Notes captured with no signal are drafted when the phone reconnects. It's included in the $99.

Both deliver a web report and a PDF. Inspector Toolbelt offers 3 PDF designs to pick from, and clients also get a portal.

Househound delivers a link that opens on any phone with no login, with a PDF download of the same report; the delivery email links to the PDF rather than attaching it. The report opens on a count of major, moderate and minor findings, with a filter for the major ones. Video plays in the finding and 360° photos open in the browser. Each publish is a dated version, so the client's copy never changes under them. Agents get their own report-ready emails and a portal.

With translations turned on in Settings, clients can switch the report to Spanish or French (translated automatically, English governs). The client or buyer's agent can also build a repair request from the deficiencies and share it as a link or as text.

Househound has one report design, and it can't be restyled. If you care about choosing a report look, Inspector Toolbelt is ahead here.

Inspector Toolbelt is sold by Full View Marketing LLC, an independent company, and describes itself as an official InterNACHI vendor built by inspectors. Its founders host the "Inspector Toolbelt Talk" podcast. Its headquarters and founding year aren't published on pages we could load.

Its App Store listing says "You own your data, no strings attached", and the app has imported and exported Inspector Toolbelt templates since version 3.9.0 in March 2025.

Househound is independently owned, with no investors and no parent company. Inspection data is never sold and never used to market to your clients. You can export your clients, inspections, invoices, payments and appointments as CSV; templates and report content don't export.

Switching from Inspector Toolbelt moves your templates and comment wording, and your past reports as PDFs. Clients and agents come across if you can get them out as a spreadsheet. The schedule starts fresh.

The most reliable route for templates is a finished report: save the PDF of a long Inspector Toolbelt report and import it on Househound's Templates page, which rebuilds the areas, items and comments. Up to 10 files go in at once, 20 MB each.

Save the PDFs of the past reports you need and upload them to the past-report archive (Reports → Archive → Past reports), where they're read-only, searchable and shareable. If you can export your client and agent list as a CSV or Excel file, import it under People → Clients or Agents → Import contacts… on the web.

The full checklist is in how to switch from Inspector Toolbelt.