Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Irl.rent – What renters pay, not what's listed in SF
Irl.rent is a rental price tracker for San Francisco that shows what tenants actually pay rather than listing prices. It collects real rental data to help renters understand actual market rates in the city. The service… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I created https://www.howmuchrent.com last Friday to help bring this kind of transparency to Ireland, allowing people to submit their rents. Would love to get any HN feedback on the idea/website.
2023 · howmuchrent.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · shouldigetahouse.com · its alternatives →
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Tinder for live SF rentals from across the web
Jul 2026 · cribs.context.dev · its alternatives →
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Joinery.nyc▲119Connect with outgoing tenants instead of brokers.
2016 · lighthouse.app · its alternatives →
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RentCast▲75Real-time property, rental and real estate market data
2021 · rentcast.io · its alternatives →
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2015 · rentever.com · its alternatives →
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Rentmoola▲69Conveniently pay your rent, while also gaining rewards.
2016 · let.us · its alternatives →
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2012 · openrent.co.uk · its alternatives →
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historically, rentals in NYC have been pretty wild. the median 1BR in West Village as of July 2025 cost $5,750/month. about a month ago, NYC passed a law to ban broker fees which many predicted would have increased rents. I realized I had access to some original data from a previous project so I built a dashboard to help me visualize the changes and see for myself. you can filter by neighborhoods, bedrooms, original source where the rentals were posted, and select a timeframe. this is still a work in progress, so apologies in advance for any issues you encounter. I would love any…
2025 · leaseswap.nyc · its alternatives →
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IRIS▲5We built Iris after watching friends spend weeks doom-scrolling Craigslist, Zillow, Apartments.com and broker sites — only to miss good units or run into stale / scammy listings. Iris is a SF-only rental marketplace with a few differences from existing platforms: 1. Search by natural language (“1BR near BART under $3.2k”) or images (upload inspiration photos) 2. Verified listings only from property managers, owners, and authorized agents 3. SF-specific filters: rent control toggle, transit lines, neighborhood context What surprised us since launch: 1. A large share of inventory never…
Jan 2026 · irisrents.com · its alternatives →
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Simplify Your Rental Search with Instant Rent Estimates
2025 · rentimeterai.lovable.app · its alternatives →
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HowMuchRent▲28Submit their rent, and can see what other renters are paying
2023 · howmuchrent.com · its alternatives →
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Anonymous, real rent prices from real tenants across the US.
Apr 2026 · realrent.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! After spending years watching my community get pushed out of my neighborhood in NYC due to rising rents, I built Realer Estate to find the undervalued homes that actually exist in NYC's impossible housing market so people can find the homes that they can actually afford. The platform uses AI to: - Detect rent-stabilized listings even when landlords don't label them (using NLP + pricing anomalies) - Score properties on price-to-market ratios using real-time comps - Filter out investor-targeted flips to prioritize real people - Scrape live data from StreetEasy/Redfin and update…
2025 · realerestate.org · its alternatives →
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