The Whole Product, In A Pocket
Native apps for iPhone and Android — not a website in a wrapper. Residents pay rent and report a leak with a photo of it. Managers check what is overdue and what is broken between other jobs. Both work with no signal, and catch up when the signal comes back.
Built For The Person Holding The Phone
A resident and a property manager open the same app and get different products, because they are doing entirely different jobs. What each one sees is decided by their account, not by a menu they have to find.
The balance and what it is made of, the repairs they have reported and what has happened to them, their lease, and the documents shared with them. Five tabs, no manual.
Opens on the two numbers that mean somebody has to act — money overdue and work outstanding — with the full portfolio a tap behind them. Occupancy is a number you review; a late account is one you do something about.
An owner sees what their properties made and what is broken on them. A contractor sees the jobs assigned to them, address first, because that is what goes into the map app.
Built for somebody standing in front of the problem
A photograph taken there and then, on a phone, in a basement with no signal — and it uploads when the signal returns rather than losing what was typed. That is the whole argument for an app over a website.
Things A Website Cannot Do
The reasons this is a real app rather than a shortcut to a web page. Each one is the difference between a tool somebody uses and one they open once.
Report a repair with a photo taken then and there, standing in front of it. A picture of the leak tells whoever comes out what to bring, which is often the difference between one visit and two.
Everything already downloaded stays readable in a basement, a lift, or on a plane — the lease, the balance, the work orders. The app corrects itself when the network returns rather than showing an error where the information was.
Unlock with Face ID or a fingerprint instead of a password. Notifications arrive as real push, and tapping one opens the thing it is about rather than the home screen.
What happens when somebody opens it.
The app has no onboarding, no tour and no empty state to configure. It works out who you are and shows you your own job.
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They sign in once
One app and one login for residents, staff, owners and contractors. Nobody has to work out which app is theirs, because there is only one.
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It sends them to their own home
A resident lands on their balance. A manager lands on what is overdue and what is broken. An owner lands on their payout. Their account decides, not a menu.
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Face ID after that
Turn it on and the app asks for a face or a fingerprint instead of a password. It insists on a successful scan before enabling it, so nobody switches it on and then finds themselves locked out of their own rent.
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It keeps what it has seen
Every answer the server gives is written to the phone. In a lift, a basement or on a plane the lease, the balance and the work orders are all still readable.
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It corrects itself when signal returns
Rather than showing an error where the information used to be, it shows the last thing it knew and quietly replaces it when the network comes back.
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Notifications land where they belong
A push about a repair opens that repair. Permission is only ever asked once somebody is signed in and looking at their own screen — iOS gives one chance to ask and remembers a refusal forever.
The rest of it.
One Sign-In For Every Role
Residents, managers, owners and contractors all use the same app and the same login. Nobody has to work out which app is theirs.
Fixes Arrive Without An Update
The app is built so most improvements ship to everyone the moment they are ready, instead of waiting behind an app-store review.
Rent Is Never An In-App Purchase
Rent is a real-world payment and goes through the same Stripe rails as the website. Apple and Google take no share of it, and the app never handles a card number.
iPhone Now, Android Following
iOS is in testing today. Android is built from the same code and is next.
Before you ask us.
- Is this just your website in an app icon?
- No. The screens are built with the platform’s own controls, which is why there is offline access, Face ID and a camera at all — none of which a wrapped website can do. We built the wrapped version first and threw it away.
- Does Apple take a cut of the rent?
- No, and it could not. Apple requires real-world goods and services to use something other than in-app purchase — rent is the clearest possible example. Payments go through the same Stripe rails as the website, and the app never handles a card number.
- Can I sign up for Villagely in the app?
- No. Subscribing happens on villagely.io. Selling a subscription inside an iOS app would make it a digital purchase and hand Apple a share of it, which we would rather not pass on to you.
- Do residents have to install it?
- No. Everything in the app is in the browser too, including push notifications. The app is better on a phone; it is not a wall in front of the product.
- When is Android out?
- iOS is in testing now. Android is built from the same code and is next. This page will say so plainly when it ships rather than a moment before.
Want it on your phone?
Rent, leasing, maintenance, the association and the books — one system, set up in an afternoon.