Prices checked September 2026

Stessa Alternatives
Picked by Why You Are Leaving

Stessa is a capable free tracker, so nobody switches for no reason. The right alternative depends on the reason: privacy, the tax report, rent collection, banking or the size of your portfolio. Here are six options, grouped that way.

See the six options See SealedFolio's two plans

What Stessa does well, and where people hit a wall

Stessa is owned by Roofstock. As checked on September 18, 2026, Stessa Essentials is free with unlimited properties, bank feeds and rent collection, Stessa Manage is $12 a month billed annually and adds the Schedule E report, and Stessa Pro is $28 a month billed annually for advanced reporting such as a schedule of real estate owned.

The walls people describe are consistent. The tax report is not in the free plan. The portfolio lives on the servers of a company that also runs an investment property marketplace. And owners who self-manage many doors want more tenant and maintenance tools than a tracker offers. The full head to head is in SealedFolio vs Stessa.

Six Stessa alternatives by reason for switching

If you are leaving becauseAlternativePrice (checked Sept 2026)What you give up
You want your books off the cloudSealedFolioPro $19/mo or $179/yr (3 properties); Portfolio $39/mo or $297/yrOnline rent collection and tenant screening
You want free banking and rent collectionBaselane CoreFreeYour data stays in a hosted platform
You need tenant and maintenance tools on a budgetTenantCloudFrom $15/mo billed annuallyDeeper investor reporting
You run a growing management operationDoorLoopDoorLoop One from $199/mo billed annuallyA low monthly price
You want a long-established platformBuildiumFrom $62/moSimplicity for a few doors
You manage 50 units or moreAppFolioCore from $1.49 per unit a month, 50-unit minimumAny option under 50 units

Prices are the ones recorded in SealedFolio's best rental property software guide; check each vendor's pricing page before you buy. If AppFolio is on your list, the AppFolio alternatives under 50 units page covers that side.

Worked example: leaving Stessa with three rentals

Diagram of the Stessa alternatives example: three rentals with 5,400 dollars of monthly rent, Stessa Manage at 144 dollars a year against SealedFolio Pro at 179 dollars a year
Leaving Stessa with three rentals. Diagram by SealedFolio.
  1. Start. Three rentals on Stessa Essentials, $5,400 a month of rent, and a preparer who needs a Schedule E per property in February.
  2. The Stessa route. Upgrade to Manage at $12 a month billed annually, $144 a year, to get the Schedule E report, with the data still in the cloud.
  3. The SealedFolio route. SealedFolio Pro at $179 a year covers the 3 properties and includes Schedule E, with the books in an encrypted vault on your own computer. The cost is $35 a year more than Manage.
  4. What changes. Rent collection moves to a separate service such as Baselane Core, at $0, and the deposits are imported or entered as income in SealedFolio.

If you have 4 or more properties, Portfolio at $297 a year has no property cap. Bulk import of CSV, OFX, QFX and QIF files is on Portfolio, which is how a year of Stessa transactions moves in one step.

Why SealedFolio is on this list

SealedFolio is the alternative for landlords whose reason is privacy and the tax report. It is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that keeps transactions, receipts, leases and reports in a local encrypted vault, with Schedule E and Canada's T776 on both plans. It does not collect rent online or screen tenants, and it says so. For the cloud question itself, read local property management software, and for Stessa against another cloud tool, Baselane vs Stessa.

A private alternative to Stessa

SealedFolio Pro is $19 a month or $179 a year for up to 3 properties. Portfolio is $39 a month or $297 a year for unlimited properties. Both come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

See SealedFolio pricing

Stessa alternatives: frequently asked questions

What is the best alternative to Stessa?

It depends on why you are leaving. For private, offline books with Schedule E, SealedFolio. For free rent collection and banking, Baselane. For a full property management platform with tenant work, DoorLoop, TenantCloud or Buildium. For 50 units and up, AppFolio.

Is there a free alternative to Stessa?

Baselane's Core plan is free and covers banking, bookkeeping and rent collection. SealedFolio is not free: Pro is $19 a month or $179 a year, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Can I move my data from Stessa?

Stessa exports transactions to CSV. SealedFolio's Portfolio plan imports CSV, OFX, QFX and QIF files, so a year of history can move in one import with the columns mapped once.

Why do landlords leave Stessa?

The common reasons are that the Schedule E report is not on the free Essentials plan, that portfolio data sits in the cloud of a company that also sells investment property, and that larger owners outgrow its tenant tools.

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