While the website for Apartments.com works quite well, it does make sense that the company would want to create a mobile app. Not only is this an excellent choice for branding purposes, but it also helps to bring the functionality of the site to a place where even mobile users can enjoy it without having to compromise more traditional utility. Though the app itself is not without minor problems, its existence does make it easier than ever to hunt for apartments on the go.

Features and Benefits

The bulk of the functionality of this app is based on helping you to find an apartment. For the most part, that just means allowing you to set up your search parameters so that you can find apartments in the area that you prefer and that are still within your price range. There are plenty of filters here to let you narrow down your search a bit more, of course, but nothing that seems terribly unique. Some of the more impressive features are those that let you pull up basic information about neighborhoods and cities as well as those that allow you to immediately contact rental offices directly from the app.

The biggest benefit of this app is that it lets you do all of your apartment hunting form one place. The app is very useful if your main goal is simply to find an apartment, but it becomes indispensable the more precise your information needs to be. There's also something to be said for being able to see everything from contact information to reviews all in one place, which helps to reduce the amount of time you might have to spend searching for an apartment. While the app may not necessarily be a must-have for every apartment hunter, using it certainly won't make your experience any worse.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Plenty of options for finding a perfect apartment
• Ability to contact apartments directly from app
• Great tools for learning more about neighborhoods
• Can be linked up with the Apartments.com website

Cons

• Not every apartment listing will make use of all of the features
• App doesn't always seem to save your information between sessions

Conclusion

The Apartments.com app probably isn't going to revolutionize the world of apartment searching, but that's not something that it really needs to do. Instead, it does provide an excellent platform for finding a good apartment and it will give you the data you need to make an informed choice when you're trying to narrow down your search. The app could stand to be a little more stable and it'd certainly be nice if there were more guarantees that every listing would actually make use of all of the app's features, but even as it stands the app manages to help make the entire process of finding an apartment at least a little more friendly than it would be if you chose not to use the app.