Run the whole let yourself from £7.99 a month, and keep what an agent would take. One property can also stay on the free plan for £0, with the tenant portal, repairs and the rent recorded with receipts.
Free landlord software keeps the records of a let, but rarely runs it. LetCompliance’s free plan is £0 for one property, with the tenant portal, repairs and the rent recorded with receipts. Single, £7.99 a month for the same property, adds rent by Direct Debit with no commission, e-signing, adverts with viewings and Making Tax Digital.
The tenant’s side, on the free plan.
Your tenant opens a portal from a link, with no app and no password, and finds the rent with a receipt for each payment. Repairs come in with photos, and you close each one when it is fixed. For one property, all of it costs £0.
On Single, your tenant agrees a Direct Debit once from a link, and the rent is collected into your own bank account on each rent day. Each month is posted against the tenancy, and anything owed shows as arrears.
Sample account with made-up details, 17 and 21 Oct 2026
The tenancy signed on the tenant’s phone.
The assured periodic tenancy agreement is filled in from your records and signed online, with a dated record of who signed and when. The free plan drafts one new agreement a month; signing online comes with Single.
Rent and costs are kept by property and tax year, so each quarterly update has its figures ready to send to HMRC. Making Tax Digital is on every paid plan from Single, and not on the free plan or the trial.
Each repair is sorted by urgency and trade as it comes in, on every plan. Sending the job to your own contractor, who quotes through a link, comes with Single.
In the background, on every plan: the gas safety, EICR and EPC dates with an email reminder before each, and the deposit’s 30-day protection deadline. Each tenant’s Right to Rent check is recorded, with a follow-up date where their permission to stay is time-limited. The Section 8 and Section 13 notices come with Single, not the trial. How compliance is kept
Sample account with made-up details, 16, 18 and 21 Oct 2026
What it costs, drawn to scale.
Each bar is a month at its price, on one scale. At the top, for comparison, an agent’s full management of one let on a £1,200 rent.
A letting agent
Full management, 12% to 21.6% of a £1,200 rent, on the agents’ own price lists
£144 to £259.20 a month
Free plan
One property, the records and the tenant portal
£0
Single
1 property, the whole let
£7.99 a month
Solo
Up to 3 properties
£14.99 a month
Portfolio
Up to 10 properties, with the properties table
£19 a month
Portfolio Plus
Up to 20 properties
£29 a month
Professional
No limit on properties
£49 a month
An agent’s fee is for the one let. Each plan’s price covers every property it holds.
LetCompliance is landlord software that runs the whole let from one login.
Free landlord software: what it covers, and where it stops
Free landlord software holds the records of a let: the tenant, the rent, the repairs and the dates. Free plans differ most in where they stop, in how many properties they hold and whether they collect the rent or send updates to HMRC. LetCompliance’s free plan is £0 for one property, and Single runs the whole let on it for £7.99 a month.
What the free plan keeps, and what needs Single
The free plan covers one property, with no card to enter. Other free products and their limits are compared in the round-up of free landlord software, and anyone leaving Property Hawk, which told its users it was closing Property Manager, will find what to move to after Property Hawk. The calculators, checkers and template samples on this site cost nothing either, most with no account: the landlord tools.
Kept on the free plan, £0
Rent tracked on the tenancy with receipts
The tenant portal with repairs
Your documents
The certificate dates with email reminders
One new tenancy agreement a month
5 AI advisor questions a month
Needs Single, £7.99 a month
Making Tax Digital
Direct Debit collection
The rent page
E-signing
Adverts with viewings
Section 8 notices
Section 13 rent increases
Most other paid tools
How free property management software turns into the whole let
One property, from its first day on the free plan to the day Single takes over the rent, as the sample account shows it.
Send your tenant the portal link
Your tenant sees the rent and each receipt, reports a repair with photos and messages you, with no app and no password. Each report lands in your tenant inbox, on the free plan.
Keep the dates, with a reminder before each
Upload the gas safety record, the EICR and the EPC, and an email reminder goes out before each renewal. The property shows when everything is in date.
Choose Single when the let needs more
For £7.99 a month, the same property gets rent by Direct Debit, e-signing, adverts with viewings and Making Tax Digital, and the records already there carry on.
Sample account with made-up details, 16, 18 and 21 Oct 2026
The rules a landlord keeps, free software or not
These apply to every private let in England, whatever it is run on; Wales and Scotland set their own. To count a deposit deadline by hand, use the deposit protection deadline calculator.
Gas safety every 12 months
Where there is gas, each appliance and flue is checked at least every 12 months, and the tenant gets a copy of the record within 28 days of the check, or before moving in.
On every plan, the date is kept with an email reminder before the next check is due.
A qualified person inspects and tests the electrical installation at least every five years, sooner if the last report says so, and the tenant gets a copy of the report within 28 days.
The report’s date is kept with a reminder before the next inspection, on every plan.
A deposit goes into a government-approved scheme, and the tenant gets the prescribed information, within 30 days, the day you receive it counting as day one.
The deposits register counts the days and reminds you 14, 7 and 1 days before the deadline, on every plan.
Landlords and sole traders keep digital records and send HMRC an update each quarter from 6 April 2026 if your qualifying income was over £50,000 in 2024 to 2025, from 6 April 2027 if it was over £30,000 in 2025 to 2026 and from 6 April 2028 if it was over £20,000 in 2026 to 2027. Qualifying income is property and self-employment income before expenses.
LetCompliance is recognised by HMRC for Making Tax Digital and sends the quarterly updates on every paid plan, not on the free plan or the trial.
The same let on a rent of £1,200 a month. To see an agent’s fee on your own rent, try the letting agent fee calculator.
A letting agent
12% to 21.6% of the rent: £1,728 to £3,110.40 a year for full management, on the agents’ own price lists.
The agent finds the tenant, collects the rent, arranges the repairs and goes to the viewings and visits. Your tax return stays with you.
A spreadsheet
Nothing to pay, as long as you keep it up yourself.
It holds the figures, but it collects no rent and reminds you of nothing, and Making Tax Digital needs bridging software beside it. There is a fair account of how a spreadsheet compares with software.
LetCompliance
£0 for one property on the free plan, or £7.99 a month on Single, £95.88 over a year.
The free plan keeps the records and the tenant portal; Single adds Direct Debit rent with no commission, e-signing, adverts and Making Tax Digital. It runs in the browser, as the landlord app on a phone shows.
Straight answers on what you pay for
About the free plan, the paid plans and the trial. Something else? Ask a question
Is LetCompliance free?
Plans start at £7.99 a month for one property, after a 3-day trial with no card. The free plan is £0 for one property and keeps rent tracked on the tenancy with receipts, the tenant portal with repairs, the certificate dates with email reminders and the 0 to 100 compliance score. Making Tax Digital and Direct Debit collection need Single. LetCompliance is recognised by HMRC for Making Tax Digital, on every paid plan.
What is the catch with free landlord software?
Usually that the free part stops where the work of a let starts. With LetCompliance the line is stated up front: one property can keep its tenant portal, its repairs and its rent records on the free plan, and the rest of the let, from the advert to rent by Direct Debit and Making Tax Digital, is on the paid plans from £7.99 a month. The paid plans are how the product is paid for.
How does the 3-day trial work?
Every new account starts with 3 days of the paid tools, with no card and no property limit. A few need a paid plan from the start: Making Tax Digital, the SA105 Tax Pack, the Section 24 calculator, the Section 8 and Section 13 notices and the possession workflow. When the 3 days end you are not locked out and you do not lose your data: choose a plan, or one property carries on under the free plan.
Is the free plan enough for a landlord with one property?
For keeping the records, often yes: it holds the tenant portal with repairs, the rent with its receipts and the certificate dates with an email reminder before each. If you also want the rent collected by Direct Debit, the agreement signed online, adverts with viewings, the Section 8 and Section 13 notices or Making Tax Digital for that property, Single is £7.99 a month.
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. You can create your account and use the 3-day trial without entering any card details. A card is only needed when you choose a paid plan.
Can I use it for free with more than one property?
The free plan covers one property. A second property needs a paid plan: Solo is £14.99 a month for up to 3. Where an account holds more properties than its plan covers, the others are kept exactly as they are but locked until a plan covers them, and their data can be downloaded at any time.
How much does it cost for more than one property?
Solo covers up to 3 properties at £14.99 a month, Portfolio up to 10 at £19, Portfolio Plus up to 20 at £29 and Professional unlimited at £49. For one property with rent collection, adverts, e-signing and the notices, Single is £7.99 a month. Your data carries straight over when you move between plans.
What is the best free landlord software in the UK?
It depends on what you need it to do. A spreadsheet or a basic free app will hold dates. A free tier of a paid platform is worth more when it keeps the rent records, the tenant portal and the certificate dates, which LetCompliance’s free plan does for one property. The rest of the let, from the advert to Direct Debit rent and Making Tax Digital, is on the paid plans from £7.99 a month. Property Hawk, long a popular free choice, told its users it was closing Property Manager at the end of July 2026.
Is there a free property management app for landlords?
LetCompliance runs in your browser on any phone or computer, with nothing to install, and your tenants open their portal the same way. Plans start at £7.99 a month, and one property can stay on the free plan with the tenant portal, repairs and the rent records.
Is free landlord software better than a spreadsheet?
Yes, once the let needs more than a list. Software keeps the rent with its receipts and the tenant portal with repairs, and reminds you before a gas safety record or an EICR runs out. A paid plan also collects the rent, gets the tenancy signed and works out the tax figures from the same records.
Does the free plan help with tax and Making Tax Digital?
Making Tax Digital is on the paid plans, from £7.99 a month, and not on the free plan or the trial. On a paid plan you log rent and expenses, scan receipts, import bank statements and keep a mileage log, and LetCompliance sends your quarterly updates for UK property income straight to HMRC. You can finalise your year there too when UK property is the only income you need to add yourself and you have no reliefs or charges to add. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax applies from 6 April 2026 if your qualifying income was over £50,000 in 2024 to 2025, from 6 April 2027 if it was over £30,000 in 2025 to 2026 and from 6 April 2028 if it was over £20,000 in 2026 to 2027.
Can I bring my records in from a spreadsheet?
Yes, on every plan. Properties and tenants can be imported from a CSV file, one row per tenant, and anything else added by hand. A tenancy already running goes in as it stands, with the tenant, the rent, the rent day and the deposit.
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