An honest comparison
This page is published by homwarden. HomeZada is a capable, long-running product, and there are homeowners it suits better than we do. Here is where each app stands on the facts that decide it: price, platforms, and focus.
iPhone · iOS 17 or later · United States · Free
Pricing details come from HomeZada's published plans as of October 2026.
HomeZada has a free plan called Essentials, which covers a home inventory, documents, and a contact list. Its maintenance schedule, projects, and finance tools sit in the Premium plan at $99 a year (or $15.95 a month), and a Deluxe plan at $189 a year covers up to three homes. homwarden has one plan: the whole app, including the maintenance schedule and AI features, is free.
HomeZada runs on the web, iPhone, and Android. homwarden is available on iPhone only. If your household mixes phone types and wants one shared account everywhere, that difference is real, and it favors HomeZada.
HomeZada is built around the home as a financial asset: a detailed contents inventory, home value and equity tracking, and expense reporting. homwarden is built around caring for the house: the maintenance schedule, appliance records, receipts and warranties, and a home report you can hand to a buyer or an adjuster.
homwarden reads equipment labels from a photo and fills in the model and serial numbers, waiting for your confirmation before saving. HomeZada leans on manual entry and templates, which suits a detailed inventory built room by room.
Pick homwarden if you want the maintenance schedule and the home record handled well, on your iPhone, without a subscription. Pick HomeZada if you want the home treated as a financial asset, with a deep contents inventory and finance reporting, and you are comfortable paying yearly for it. Neither answer is an insult to the other product. They are aimed at different jobs.
Yes, for the jobs most homeowners hire these apps for. HomeZada charges $99 a year for its maintenance scheduling. homwarden includes its maintenance schedule, appliance records, document storage, warranty tracking, and AI help at no cost, with no subscription.
It does. The Essentials plan is free and covers a home inventory, home documents, and a contact list. Maintenance, projects, finances, and reports require the Premium plan at $99 a year, based on HomeZada's published pricing.
HomeZada. Its finance tools track home value, equity, and household expenses as a core feature. homwarden tracks what you spend on maintenance and repairs inside the home record, and it does not try to be a finance dashboard.
There is no automatic import today. Most people rebuild the essentials quickly: photograph each appliance label, attach the receipts and warranty documents you already have, and let the schedule build from there. The inventory detail in a long-running HomeZada account takes longer to recreate, which is worth weighing before you switch.
If you want reminders and records without paying, and you carry an iPhone, homwarden is the simpler start. If you want a full contents inventory for insurance and a view of your home's finances, and you are willing to pay $99 a year, HomeZada covers more ground.
See the wider field in the best home management apps guide, or what homwarden includes on the free home management app page.