How to switch from Inspector Toolbelt to Househound

Inspector Toolbelt's website blocks automated reading, so we couldn't check its help articles word for word as of October 27, 2026. Here's what we could confirm and what to ask for:

• Report PDFs. ITB says every report is available as a web page and a PDF "with a click of a button". Download the PDF of each report you must keep, and of the reports you'll build templates from.
• Templates. ITB's knowledge base has an article titled "Export or Import an ITB Template", and its App Store version history lists template import and export. Follow that article in the app. We couldn't confirm what file type it produces; if it's a spreadsheet, CSV, text, Word .docx or JSON file, Househound can read it.
• Clients and agents. No contacts export is published. Ask ITB support for a CSV of your clients and agents before you cancel.

ITB's App Store listing says "you own your data, no strings attached", so asking for a contacts file is a reasonable request.

Choose 1 to 3 finished reports with the most findings. A long report on an older house carries more of your comment library than a clean new build. If you use different ITB templates for different jobs, download one report from each; each file becomes its own Househound template.

Sign up on the web at househoundusa.com/signup. Your first 3 reports are free and no card is needed. The iPhone, iPad and Android apps are for signing in once the account exists.

Open Templates and choose Import, or use the Templates step in the setup wizard. Drop up to 10 files at once, each up to 20 MB. A photo-heavy report PDF can pass 20 MB; pick one with fewer photos if it does. Import is on the web dashboard only.

Autodraft reads each PDF into a template of areas, items and comments. A spreadsheet is read by working out its columns from the header row, then reading every row. The import keeps running if you close the page.

A template read from a PDF is a draft. Open it and check:

• area and item names, and their order
• each comment's type (informational, limitation or deficiency) and, for deficiencies, the severity (major, moderate or minor)
• wording specific to the house the report came from, such as an address, that should read as general

Every comment also lands in the comment library, where any template can use it.

Both are on the web dashboard only.

• Contacts: open People, then Clients or Agents, and choose Import contacts…. Pick the CSV or Excel file ITB support sent (up to 5,000 rows), map each column (name, email, phone, company, type, notes), check the preview and choose what untyped rows become. A contact whose email is already saved is updated rather than duplicated, and every skipped row is listed with the reason.
• Past reports: open Reports › Archive › Past reports and upload your ITB report PDFs, up to 50 at a time and 50 MB each. Househound reads the address, client, email and date from each PDF, and you can correct them. They're read-only: you can search, open, download, copy a share link or email one to the client, but they don't become Househound inspections.

• Services: Settings › Services & pricing.
• Agreement: Automations › Agreements. Upload your agreement or paste its text. It goes out 48 hours before the inspection by default.
• Email wording: Automations › Email.
• Booking page: Settings › Booking page. The booking page offers a time only when enough inspectors are free for the job.
• Payments: Settings › Services & pricing › Set up payments. Money goes to your own Stripe account. The fee is 3.25% + 40¢ per card payment and includes Stripe's processing.

Take the next ordinary inspection in Househound. Inspections within a week of today download to the phone, so you can write with no signal and it uploads later. Note each comment you reach for that isn't there and save it to the library from inside the report.

Replace ITB's appointment widget with your Househound booking page link or embed code. Leave ITB running until the jobs booked there are done and published.

ITB's App Store listing shows Pro as a $79 in-app purchase. If you pay through Apple, manage it in your Apple account's subscription settings; if you pay ITB directly, ask ITB support. ITB doesn't publish what happens to your account and your published reports after you cancel, so ask before you do, and have your PDFs saved first.