Househound vs Tap Inspect: cost, Android, and features (2026)

Tap Inspect costs $90 a month for unlimited reports, or $7.50 a job on Pay As You Go, sold in blocks of 20 for $150. Each added inspector on the Team plan is $45 a month. Househound is $99 a month for the first inspector and $69 for each added one, or $990 a year for the first inspector and $690 for each added one, with no per-report fee.

On monthly billing Tap Inspect is cheaper at every size we checked. On Househound's annual plan a full-time solo inspector pays $82.50 a month, $7.50 less than Tap's Unlimited; teams and part-time inspectors still pay less on Tap. Assumptions: list prices on October 27, 2026, card fees left out (they're below).

Tap Inspect's help center says Pay As You Go is the cheaper option under about 12 jobs a month (145 a year), and that unused jobs stay in your account. At 10 jobs a month that's $75, or $15 less than Unlimited. At 25 jobs a month, Pay As You Go would be $187.50, so a full-time inspector moves to Unlimited.

Tap Inspect doesn't publish an annual plan. Househound's annual plan is billed once a year; its monthly plan is month to month, and Tap Inspect has no long-term contracts. More on how the category prices itself: what home inspection software costs.

On a $450 inspection paid by Visa, Tap Inspect Payments takes $13.35 and Househound takes $15.03. Tap Inspect's per-payment rate is lower.

• Tap Inspect Payments (through ProPay): 2.9% + $0.30 for Visa, Mastercard and Discover, 3.25% + $0.30 for American Express, plus a $5.00 monthly account fee, $0.15 per bank deposit, and $25 per chargeback or returned deposit. US only, and it requires Autopilot.
• Househound: 3.25% + $0.40 per payment. Stripe's own processing comes out of that, so it's the only deduction. The money goes to your own Stripe account, and the fee only applies if you take cards. Canadian companies take client payments in Canadian dollars into a Canadian Stripe account, at 3.25% + C$0.40.

At 25 card payments of $450 a month, Tap Inspect comes to about $339 to $343 (25 × $13.35, the $5 account fee, and $0.15 for each bank deposit) and Househound to about $376 (25 × $15.03). If card fees decide it for you, Tap Inspect is ahead.

Tap Inspect runs on iPhone and iPad only. Its help center says an Android version is planned, with the web and Apple apps coming first. The current App Store version requires iOS 17 or later. Your web account at app.tapinspect.com handles the back office, saved comments and exports; reports are written in the iOS app.

Both work offline. Tap Inspect says reports can be completed offline and synced when you're back online, and that the app works best with a connection. Househound is built offline-first: the inspections a week either side of today download to the phone automatically, with every photo and your comment library, so a crawlspace with no signal doesn't change anything. Findings, photos, video and dictation save on the phone and upload later. More in offline home inspection apps.

The practical question is your crew. If everyone carries an iPhone or iPad, Tap Inspect's platform limit costs you nothing. If one inspector carries an Android phone, Tap Inspect can't put a report in their hands.

Both deliver a web report through a link with a PDF download. Tap Inspect has a summary-only PDF as well as the full one.

Tap Inspect publishes an HTML report into a per-job client portal, where the client signs, pays and then views it. Agents get their own link. From the portal you or the client can download a PDF of the full report or the summary only.

Househound publishes a link that opens on any phone with no login. Each publish is a dated version, so later edits never change what the client already has. The report opens on a count of major, moderate and minor findings, and the client can filter to the major ones. Video plays inside the finding and 360° photos open in a viewer in the browser. Clients and agents also get a portal with reports, agreements to sign, and invoices. Each published version has a PDF download of the same report, and the delivery email links to the PDF rather than attaching it. If you turn them on, clients can switch the report to Spanish or French (each with its own PDF) and see the repair cost ranges you entered. The client or the buyer's agent can build a repair request from the deficiencies and share it as a link, copy it into the repair addendum, download a CSV or print it.

If agents in your market want a summary-only PDF, or you want the report held until the fee is paid, Tap Inspect does both and Househound doesn't.

Tap Inspect has been around since 2010 and does several things Househound doesn't.

• Price. Lower for every team, and Pay As You Go suits low volume. Only a solo inspector doing 12 or more jobs a month pays less on Househound, and only on its annual plan ($82.50 a month against Tap's $90).
• Text messages. SMS to clients since October 2024. Househound sends email only.
• Integrations. Google Calendar, Google Drive, Mailchimp, ISN, webhooks, and an API with read and write access to jobs, contacts, services, invoices and reports. Househound has no customer-facing integrations.
• Payment before viewing. Tap Inspect Payments holds the report until the fee is paid. Househound can hold a report until the agreement is signed, but not until it's paid.
• Re-inspections. A documented re-inspection workflow. Househound has none.
• Summary PDF. A summary-only PDF beside the full report. Househound has one PDF of the full report.
• Data export. Contacts and job history as CSV, photos archived to Google Drive, and your saved comments as JSON on request. Househound exports CSVs of clients, inspections, invoices, payments and appointments, but not report content or templates.

Where Househound is ahead on forms: it has TREC REI 7-6, Florida wind mitigation, the Citizens 4-Point and NPMA-33, and Tap Inspect's help center answers "Not yet" for TREC and wind mitigation. Repair request lists are in beta for Tap Inspect's testers; Househound's is available to every account.

Tap Inspect is run by Tap Inspect Inc., an independent company. It doesn't publish its ownership or headquarters, and no parent company or investor is named on its site.

If you cancel a Tap Inspect subscription, your account and data stay readable in the app and the web dashboard, and published reports stay available to clients. You can't publish new reports or update old ones until you reactivate.

Househound is independently owned, with no investors and no parent company. Inspection data is never sold and never used to market to your clients. Card payments go straight to your Stripe account, so Househound never holds your money.

Switching from Tap Inspect moves your report templates, comment wording, contacts and past report PDFs. The schedule starts fresh in Househound.

Tap Inspect has no template file export, so the usual route is to download the PDF of a finished report from the client portal and import it on Househound's Templates page, which rebuilds the areas, items and comments from it. Up to 10 files go in at once, 20 MB each. For your Saved Comments, ask Tap Inspect support for the JSON export and upload that file on the same page: Househound reads it as a document into a draft comment library you review, not as an exact field-by-field import, and a very large file may need splitting.

Before you cancel, export your contacts and job history as CSV, and download the PDFs of reports you want to keep: in Tap Inspect's Modern experience the Google Drive archive no longer includes report PDFs, because they're generated when opened. The contacts CSV imports under People › Clients or Agents › Import contacts… on Househound's web dashboard, where you map the columns and preview; a contact whose email is already saved is updated, not duplicated. The report PDFs go into the past-report archive (Reports › Archive › Past reports, up to 50 at a time), where they're read-only, searchable by address, client and date, and shareable, but don't become editable inspections.

The step-by-step version is in how to switch from Tap Inspect.