Pay once, or not at all.
One property is free, for as long as you own it. As many as you like is £49.99, paid a single time. No subscription, no account, and no renewal date.
The whole app. Not a trial, not a cut down version, and not thirty days. Made for the accidental landlord with one place: use Tofta for as long as you own it, without paying anything.
The same app with the limit taken off. Bought once against your Apple ID, so it comes back on a new phone without Tofta knowing anything about who you are.
Tofta is not on the App Store yet. This is what it will cost when it is.
How that compares
Prices checked across the four best known UK landlord apps in August 2026. They are not named, because the point is the shape of the market rather than a fight with anyone in it, and because prices move.
| Tofta | A typical landlord app | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | £49.99, once | £108 to £240 a year |
| Over five years | £49.99 | £540 to £1,200 |
| Certificate expiry reminders | Yes | Yes |
| Mortgage end date, and what doing nothing costs | Yes | No |
| Works with no account and no sign up | Yes | No |
| Your data stays on the phone | Yes | No, uploaded by default |
| EPC, sold prices, planning, flood and Companies House lookups | Yes | Rarely |
| Answers you can read with no signal | Over 100 | Usually none |
| Bookkeeping and tax returns | No | Yes |
| A phone line to an adviser | No | Sometimes |
The last two rows are the honest ones. If you want bookkeeping, a tax return filed, or somebody at the end of a telephone, one of the subscriptions will serve you better than Tofta will. Tofta watches dates and explains rules. That is the whole job.
Why it is not a subscription
Every other app in this market bills monthly or yearly. We looked hard at doing the same, because it makes considerably more money.
The trouble is what a renewal date does. It is a moment where somebody reads a line on a statement and asks whether they still need this, and a landlord who decides they do not deletes the app. Then the gas certificate expires quietly, which is the exact thing it existed to prevent.
There is also something faintly absurd about charging a yearly fee to be reminded of yearly dates. So it is one payment. If we never shipped another feature, you would still have paid £49.99.
Everything, in both tiers
The £49.99 lifts the limit on how many properties you can add. It does not unlock features. Nothing in this list is held back from the free one.
Certificates
Gas, electrical, EPC and the rest, with the photograph of each one kept beside the date.
The bell
Every nudge already sent and every one still to come, with the lead times set by you rather than by us.
Mortgage
The lender, rate, balance and end date, and what staying put past it would cost.
Worth
Sold prices since 1995 and the house price index, carried forward for your property type.
The year ahead
Twelve months of everything Tofta knows about, quiet months included.
Energy
The assessor’s own list of what would lift the rating, what each measure costs and what it saves.
Planning
Conservation area, Article 4 direction, flood zone, listed building. Things you can own a place for a decade without being told.
Companies House
If a property is held in a company, when its accounts and confirmation statement fall due.
Tax
The dates, and whether Making Tax Digital has already caught you.
Calculators
Stamp duty, yield, and what is actually left over after the mortgage and the running costs.
Knowledge
Over a hundred sourced answers, readable with no signal.
The property file
One PDF per property, photographs appended, for an agent, a buyer or an accountant.
Backups
A dated copy a day into Files, ten kept, riding along in your iPhone’s own iCloud backup.
Questions about paying
Is the free tier time limited?
No. It is not a trial and there is no countdown. One property, for as long as you own it.
What if I go from three properties back to one?
Nothing changes. You have paid, and it stays paid.
Could this become a subscription later?
What you buy stays bought. A one off purchase on the App Store is a non consumable, which cannot be converted into a rental afterwards.
Do I need an account to pay?
No. There is nothing to sign up for. The purchase sits on your Apple ID, which is also how Restore works on a new phone.
Can I get a refund?
Apple takes the payment, not us, so Apple handles refunds. Ask at reportaproblem.apple.com and Apple decides. We are not told that you have asked, and we can neither approve nor refuse it. If Apple does refund you, the properties you have already added stay as they are and Tofta carries on watching them. Adding another would mean buying again, and nothing you have entered is ever deleted.
Knowing the rule is the easy half.
The hard half is remembering which of your properties is due what, and when. That is the part Tofta does.