DealMachine review: built for the car, and nothing to test it with
Updated September 2026. Independent. DealMachine did not see this before publication.
Its phone app is the main product rather than a companion to one. You pay from the first day though, because the trial is gone, and the pricing page opens above the floor it advertises.
- Best forDriving for dollars, from a phone
- Not forAnyone who wants to try before paying
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- From
- $99/seat/mo
- App Store
- 4.79 from 5,002 ratings
- Free trial
- None as of September 2026
- Skip tracing
- Included, drawn from each seat’s monthly data credits
What independent reviewers actually say about DealMachine
Recent iOS reviews
15 of 49
rated 3★ or below
DealMachine has no B2B review presence at all, no G2 page and no Capterra page. Its review base is roughly 7,000 app store ratings, which for a product you use while driving is the right place to look rather than a fallback.
What DealMachine actually does
DealMachine is real estate lead generation software built around driving for dollars. You pin a distressed house from the car, it returns the owner behind that address, and it pushes them into mail and calling campaigns. The phone is the product, not an accessory to a desktop tool.
It suits wholesalers and real estate investors who find property by looking at it, street by street, and want the owner on file before they have driven home. If you build lists by filtering county records at a desk, this is the wrong shape of tool and you are paying for the half you will not use.
DealMachineat a glance
| Driving for dollars app | Yes, and it is the core product |
|---|---|
| Phone numbers & emails | Included, drawn from data credits: 10,000 a seat on Basic, 20,000 on Pro |
| County coverage | All 50 states |
| API, CLI and webhooks | Yes, on every plan |
| Zapier | Yes |
| Premium filters | Pro and above |
| SSO and SAML | Scale only |
| Platforms | Mobile first, plus web |
What DealMachine actually costs, including the metered extras
Priced by a slider, not a tier
| Records a month | Plan it recommends | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | Basic | $99/mo |
| 20,000 | Pro | $149/mo |
| 40,000 | Pro | $298/mo |
| 60,000 | Pro | $447/mo |
| 200,000 | Scale | $1,198/mo |
| 500,000 | Scale | $2,995/mo |
| 5,000,000 | Scale | $29,950/mo |
Charged on top, per unit
- Postcards70¢ to 89¢ eachby size, slightly less on Pro
- Each extra seat$99/moBasic, and it stacks linearly
The page opens on 20,000 records, not the 10,000 floor, so the first number most visitors see is $149 rather than the $99 the plan card advertises. Seats stack the same way at $99 each until they stop: ten seats on Scale is $599, against $990 for ten seats on Basic. Anyone buying six or more should price Scale before adding seats one at a time.
What DealMachine does not put on the pricing page
Three things the pricing page does not tell you, settled from the signup flow, the store reviews and DealMachine’s own public replies.
There is no free trial, whatever older reviews tell you
Checked three ways on the same day. The signup flow offers none and gates at a phone number. Searching the pricing page, the homepage and the signup page for "free trial", "trial" and "try free" returns nothing on any of the three. And every button reads "Sign Up" or "Get Started", where PropertyRadar and BatchLeads both put a free trial on the button, of 5 days and 7 days.
Older material does reference a 7 or 14 day trial, including DealMachine’s own reply to a reviewer. Those were true when they were written. They are not true now, and we will not repeat them.
DealMachine pricing, homepage and signup, September 2026
Refunds are pro-rated, according to DealMachine itself
Answering a reviewer in public who said they had been charged without warning, DealMachine wrote that "We also do allow pro-rated refunds" and that a reminder email goes out one day before the charge lands.
The reviewer’s account and the vendor’s do not agree, and both are on the public record. We are not in a position to say which is right, so here are both.
DealMachine’s public reply on Google Play
Pausing is not free
One reviewer puts it plainly: "You CANNOT pause your account unless you are willing to pay $24 per month, otherwise delete your account entirely to stop the payment." So the off season costs you $24 a month or the account itself. The pricing page does not mention a pause at all, so treat that figure as one user’s report rather than a published price.
Google Play review
What DealMachine is bad at
Counted from the 49 most recent App Store reviews, 15 of which are rated 3★ or below, and from the Google Play feed. These are the themes that repeat, not the ones that suit an argument.
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A redesign locked out people who had already paid for a year
"I paid for a year and now I can't seem work classic login within the app only on desktop." Another: "I liked this app until they changed everything. I paid for a year upfront now I can't even use it anymore." A separate iOS app called DealMachine Classic appeared from the same publisher in August 2026. Its listing does not say whether it restores the classic login, so we cannot tell you whether it fixes this.
App Store
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The map fights you while you are driving
"The minute I [accidentally] click on a property, that's it. I can't move the map... hitting back would just close the app altogether... PLEASE make it easier for someone who is DRIVING."
Play
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Billing shock at signup
"Instead of a 7-day free trial, I am expected to enter my credit card details and agree to an immediate charge of $895."
App Store
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It charges when the trial ends and will not let you pause
"After the free trial, the app will automatically charge you without notification." DealMachine says an email goes out the day before. Both accounts are public.
Play
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Android crashes on launch
"logged in, and suddenly it crashes. Won't load at all." This one resolved after the reviewer contacted support, and they updated the review to a positive one.
Play
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The data it hands out unsettles people
A reviewer describes a stranger arriving at their door: "they explained they used this app to come to peoples houses... this app allows you to have peoples names, phone numbers."
App Store
DealMachine is the mirror image of PropStream. Here the phone is the good part.
- 14.79 on iOS from 5,002 ratings and 4.4 on Play from 1,930. Roughly 7,000 ratings for a product with no G2 or Capterra listing whatsoever.
- 2PropStream’s own users draw the comparison unprompted. One of them, reviewing PropStream: "If this app worked like Deal Machine it would be awesome."
- 3What does repeat in the recent complaints is a redesign that left some annual subscribers able to use the classic login only on desktop, not inside the app.
So the split runs the other way round. In the car this is the one to buy. At a desk, PropStream starts at the same $99 with 165+ search filters, and DealMachine’s recent changes have annoyed exactly the people who paid a year up front.
Who should not buy DealMachine
- You want to try before you pay. There is no trial as of September 2026.
- You build lists at a desk from county records. PropStream is built for that, and starts at the same $99.
- You need a predictable bill. Price moves with records and with seats, and the page opens above the floor it advertises.
- Your buying is seasonal. By one reviewer’s account, holding the account costs $24 a month, and the alternative is deleting it.
What to use instead of DealMachine
Alternatives to DealMachine, matched to the reason you would switch
DealMachine questions people actually ask
Does DealMachine have a free trial?
Not as of September 2026. The signup flow offers none, the pricing page, homepage and signup page contain no trial language at all, and every button reads Sign Up or Get Started. Older reviews and DealMachine’s own past replies mention a 7 or 14 day trial. Those references are historical.
How much is DealMachine per month?
It starts at $99/mo for one seat and 10,000 records. That is a floor, not a plan: the pricing page is a live calculator with sliders for records and for seats, and it opens on 20,000 records, so the first figure most people see is $149. The ceiling is $29,950/mo.
Is DealMachine worth it?
For finding property from the car, yes. The phone app is the product, and its 4.79 on iOS rests on 5,002 ratings, the largest app store base of any tool we cover. Building lists at a desk is not what it is built for, and you cannot test it first.
Does DealMachine include skip tracing?
Yes, within limits. Its app listings say phone numbers and emails come with your plan, and the pricing page sells each seat with monthly data credits for property and people data: 10,000 a seat on Basic and 20,000 on Pro. It does not publish a rate for going past them. The 70¢ to 89¢ on the same page is the price of a postcard, not of contact data.
Can you pause a DealMachine subscription?
Not for free. One reviewer reports that holding the account costs $24 a month, and that the only other way to stop paying is deleting the account. The pricing page does not mention a pause at all. DealMachine does say it allows pro-rated refunds.
Is DealMachine better than PropStream?
In the car, yes, on the evidence: 4.79 on iOS against PropStream’s 3.07, and PropStream’s own users say they wish its app worked like DealMachine. At a desk, PropStream is the one built for the job. They share the same $99 entry price, which is why we have a page comparing them directly.
How we reached this verdict
| Line | Source | What we read |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Pricing | DealMachine’s own pricing page, with both sliders driven end to end, September 2026 |
| 02 | Vendor pages | Its homepage and signup page, searched for any trial language |
| 03 | Review sites | G2 and Capterra, neither of which lists the product at all |
| 04 | App stores | The Apple App Store and Google Play listings and their review feeds |
| 05 | App stores | DealMachine’s public replies to reviewers |
What we did not do. We have not subscribed to DealMachine. Signup gates at a phone number, so the in-app terms could not be read, and we say so rather than implying a test we did not run. Annual pricing is absent here on purpose: the billing toggle did not change the displayed figures when we used it, so we have nothing verified to quote.