Propwire review: free to search and download, paid to skip trace, and how it compares with PropStream
Free to search, comp and download lists, with no card and no trial clock. Skip tracing is where it charges, at 10¢ per successful match or 10,000 a month on Gold for $119. What you give up is any review base worth reading.
Best forFree searches and list downloads
Not forAnyone who needs a CRM, or works from a phone
What independent reviewers actually say about Propwire
There is almost nothing here to read, and that is the finding rather than a gap in our work. No G2 page and no Capterra listing, and app store bases of four ratings on iOS and 22 on Play. A 5.0 from four ratings is noise, which is why every score on this page carries its base. Everything below comes from Propwire’s own FAQ and plan pages, and from a handful of individual reports.
A striped bar rests on fewer than 30 ratings or reviews.
What Propwire actually does
Propwire is a free real estate search across 157+ million MLS and off-market property records. You look up an address and it returns the owner, the mortgage and transaction history, and comparable sales. It also ships 21 prebuilt lead types, including absentee owners, pre-foreclosures, probates, tired landlords and vacant property, and you can download what you find as a spreadsheet, up to 10,000 properties a month on the free tier.
It suits investors pulling their first lists who would rather pay only for the skip tracing, anyone who needs to check a specific property without opening a subscription, and real estate agents fielding a question about an address on the spot.
- Price
- Free to sign up, no card. Paid tiers at $99 and $119 a month
- Properties
- 157+ million, MLS and off-market
- Prebuilt lead types
- 21
- List downloads
- 10,000 a month free, up to 10,000 per file. Unlimited on the paid tiers
- Skip tracing
- 10¢ per successful match. 10,000 a month on Gold
- Analysis
- Owner, mortgage and transaction history, comparable sales
- Mobile app
- Yes, also free
- County coverage
- All 50 states
- Pricing page
- None. Prices sit in its FAQ and on the Gold and Premium pages
What Propwire actually costs, including the metered extras
A 2,000 property list, traced on the free tier. The free part is real: searching, comps and up to 10,000 property downloads a month, with no card needed to sign up. Skip tracing is where money changes hands. Skip trace a 2,000 property list on the free tier and, at the match rate close to 80% that Propwire claims for itself, you pay for about 1,600 matches, roughly $160, from a wallet you top up in $20 steps. Gold includes 10,000 skip traces a month for $119, so it costs less than paying per match once you pass about 1,190 matches a month. Above Gold, its FAQ mentions Platinum and Diamond tiers that add coaching, and neither is priced on the pages we read.
$0 + $160 About $160 a month. Our arithmetic on the published prices, not a bill we paid. At the match rate close to 80% that Propwire claims for itself.
Charged on top, per unit
- Skip tracing 10¢ per successful matchBasic, from a wallet topped up in $20 steps
- Skip tracing past 10,000 a month 10¢ per successful matchGold
Where the free tier stops
Three limits from Propwire’s own FAQ, each worth knowing before you plan around the word free.
Downloads cap at 10,000 a month
Each download tops out at 10,000 properties, and free accounts are limited to 10,000 downloads a month. Past that you wait for the month to turn or you upgrade, because Gold and Premium both lift the cap entirely.
Skip tracing needs money in a wallet first
Before the first trace you add funds, in steps of $20, with a card on file. You are then charged 10¢ per successful match, so a trace that finds nothing costs nothing. Results carry DNC and TCPA flags, which Propwire describes as a compliance aid rather than permission to call.
Plain downloads expire after 30 days
Spreadsheets you download without skip tracing, and comp reports, stay in your account for 30 days. Skip traced lists, which you paid for, are kept for good. Save your files locally rather than treating the account as storage.
What Propwire is bad at
We will not give you counts here. The rating bases are four on iOS and 22 on Play, far too small for anything here to be a pattern. Read these as individual reports and leads to check, never as statistics.
"Does not work at all on my Android phone... installs fine, but will not open." The same reviewer adds the useful half: "I use it on a computer browser and it works pretty well."
Play, one report"I searched my zip code, nada... city, nada... STILL nada!... it didn't let me select ANY filters."
Play, one report"Also, doesn't have CRM." None of its paid tiers lists one either, so this is not something upgrading fixes.
Play, one reportOne report of auctions from a month earlier coming back regardless of the date range selected.
Play, one report"I tried to contact customer service a couple times but nobody returned my requests."
Play, one reportSame shape as PropStream and PropertyRadar. The browser version works and the phone one is where the complaints sit.
The evidence
- The clearest single report has both halves in it: "Does not work at all on my Android phone... I use it on a computer browser and it works pretty well."
- 3.7 on Play against 5.0 on iOS, except the iOS figure rests on four ratings and should not be read as a score at all.
- PropStream and PropertyRadar, from the same corner of the market, show the same desktop-strong and mobile-weak pattern.
Where that leaves you
So use it at a desk. That is a mild suggestion rather than a warning, because finding out for yourself costs nothing.
Screenshot from Propwire’s App Store listing, November 2026
Propwire vs PropStream: what each costs and what you get
Two tools with similar names and no connection. Propwire is published by Propwire LLC, PropStream by EquiMine, part of Stewart Information Services since 2021. Each column comes from that tool’s own pages.
| Compared | Propwire | PropStream |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest way in | Free, no card | $99/mo on Essentials, $81 billed yearly |
| Paid plans | Premium $99/mo, Gold $119/mo | Pro $199/mo, Elite $699/mo |
| Property downloads | 10,000 a month free, unlimited on Premium and Gold | 25,000 saves and exports a month on Essentials, 50,000 on Pro |
| Skip tracing | 10¢ per successful match, or 10,000 a month on Gold | 12¢ per contact on Essentials, or included with Connect at $30/mo |
| Search | 21 prebuilt lead types | 165+ filters and 20 prebuilt lists (vendor figures) |
| Trial | Not needed, the Basic tier is free | 7 days, 50 free leads |
| App store ratings | 5.0 from 4 on iOS, 3.7 from 22 on Play | 3.07 from 179 on iOS, 3.5 from 158 on Play |
| Third-party reviews | No G2 page, no Capterra listing | G2 profile unclaimed, Capterra listed with none |
Skip tracing decides which one costs less. Propwire costs less up to about 10,100 traces a month: 2,000 cost $119 on Gold against $129 for PropStream Essentials with Connect. Past that line PropStream pulls ahead, because Connect covers traces up to the 25,000 saves for the same $129, while Propwire charges 10¢ for every match over Gold’s 10,000. Tracing 25,000 is $1,619 on Propwire against $129 on PropStream.
So pick by what you do most. For searching and downloading lists, Propwire costs nothing. For deeper filters, or tracing more than about 10,000 owners a month, PropStream is the one built for it, at a desk rather than on a phone.
Who should not rely on Propwire
- You want skip tracing thrown in free. On the free tier it is 10¢ per match, and Gold at $119 is the plan that includes 10,000 a month.
- You want to work from a phone. The clearest report we found is an Android app that will not open, from a user who says the browser version works.
- You need more than 10,000 properties a month without paying. That is the free ceiling.
- You want a CRM. There is not one, and a reviewer says so plainly.
PropStream
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PropertyRadarPropwire questions people actually ask
Is Propwire really free?
The core is. Searching, comps and list downloads cost nothing, up to 10,000 downloads a month, and signing up asks only for a name and an email. Skip tracing does cost: 10¢ per successful match, paid from a wallet you fund first. And there are two paid tiers, Premium at $99 a month for leads such as divorce, liens and code violations, and Gold at $119 with 10,000 skip traces a month.
Does Propwire have skip tracing?
Yes. On the free tier it costs 10¢ per successful match, and Propwire says its match rate is close to 80%. Gold includes 10,000 skip traces a month, with extra matches at the same 10¢. Results carry DNC and TCPA flags, which Propwire describes as a compliance aid, not permission to call.
Is Propwire the same as PropStream?
No. Propwire is published by Propwire LLC, the company named in its Terms of Use and the seller of its apps on both stores. PropStream’s app is sold by EQUIMINE, and PropStream has belonged to Stewart Information Services since November 2021. Nothing either company publishes connects the two. Propwire charges nothing to search or download. PropStream starts at $99 a month.
Is Propwire better than PropStream?
It depends on how much you skip trace. Propwire costs less up to about 10,100 traces a month, and nothing at all if you only search and download lists. Past that, PropStream Essentials with Connect at $129 covers traces up to its 25,000 saves, while Propwire charges 10¢ a match over Gold’s 10,000. PropStream also has the deeper filter set, 165+ against 21 prebuilt lead types.
What is the catch with Propwire?
Two things. Skip tracing, the step that turns a list into phone numbers, is paid. And there is almost nothing to check it against: no G2 page, no Capterra listing, and app store bases of four and 21 ratings.
Does Propwire have a CRM?
No. If you need to track leads through a pipeline you are looking at a different class of tool, and REsimpli is the one built around that job.
Is Propwire worth using?
For searching and pulling lists, yes, because that part costs nothing and the browser version works. Whether it stays cheap depends on skip tracing: past about 1,190 matches a month, Gold at $119 costs less than paying 10¢ a match.
How we reached this verdict
- propwire.com itself, September 2026, with its FAQ and Gold page read again in November 2026 ($119 a month, 10,000 skip traces, 10¢ a match). Premium’s $99 shows only at checkout and is as read in September
- Its FAQ, and the Gold and Premium pages with their checkout prices, for what is free and what is not
- Its sign-up form, which asks for a name and an email and nothing else
- Its /pricing path, which returns 404
- G2, which returns 404 for this product
- Capterra, which has no listing
- The Apple App Store and Google Play listings, with the rating bases recorded because they are small enough to change the meaning
- Both app store listings and Propwire’s Terms of Use, for who publishes it
We have not created a Propwire account or run a skip trace, so the match rate quoted here is Propwire’s own figure rather than one we measured.