HOMEBOY

Overview

HOMEBOY is a German property-search service that sends matching listings from multiple portals to an app or email. It suits renters who want alerts gathered in one place, especially those searching across several sources. The main caveat is practical: HOMEBOY forwards listings, but you still have to contact the landlord and apply yourself.

Key features

Search profiles and alerts

Profiles can target a city or district, rent, living area, room count and radius, with additional filters for short-term, premium, WBS and shared-flat offers. HOMEBOY searches eight property sources, including ImmobilienScout24, Immowelt, Kleinanzeigen, WG-Gesucht, Immonet, Quoka and eBay. It says it can notify users up to 30 minutes before the portals do. That potential head start may help in a competitive rental search, but it is not a guarantee of earlier notice for every listing.

Listings reach users through the mobile apps; email forwarding currently works through the web version. The iOS and Android apps support favorites, marking listings as applied to and storing an application template. These are useful ways to organize a search, not application automation: HOMEBOY sends you to the source platform, and you must apply there yourself.

Privacy and support

HOMEBOY says personal data is processed in Germany or the EU, not transferred to third countries, and protected by technical and organizational safeguards. Support is available Monday to Friday, 9:00–17:00; if the team cannot be reached, it says it will call back within 24 hours. Those arrangements may reassure users handling personal details during a housing search, though they do not change the work required to submit applications.

Pricing

The free plan costs nothing and allows one search profile for rental apartments up to €1,000 rent. It is a reasonable way to try a focused, lower-rent apartment search, but it excludes houses, purchases and higher rents, which require Premium.

Premium Monthly costs €19.99 a month, billed monthly. It includes four search profiles, four recipients, all eight portals, and searches for apartments and houses. It is the clearest fit for users who want multiple searches or recipients without committing beyond monthly billing.

Premium 2 months costs €29, paid once, billed every two months, and Premium 3 months costs €39.99, paid once, billed every three months. Both include four profiles, four recipients, all eight portals, and apartments and houses; both renew automatically until canceled. Their stated billing terms make the renewal condition important: cancel if you do not want another term. Premium is needed for house searches, while the free plan's €1,000 rental cap makes it unsuitable for many higher-rent searches.

The 7-day trial on the website ends automatically without cancellation. Starting a trial through a mobile app instead requires starting a subscription and canceling before renewal to avoid a paid subscription, so the route matters.

Platforms

HOMEBOY is available on Android, iOS and the web. Mobile apps provide search profiles, results and organization tools; email forwarding currently works through the web version.

Who it's for

HOMEBOY is aimed primarily at people looking for rental housing in Germany who want matching listings gathered from multiple property sources. Premium also covers houses and properties for purchase, while the free plan is limited to rental apartments costing up to €1,000 in rent. The product is from BINGOOO AG, based in Bonn, Germany.

Pros and cons

Pros: searches eight property sources, bringing matches into one alert stream instead of requiring separate portal checks.

Pros: configurable location, price, size and room filters, plus specialist offer filters, help narrow a search to relevant listings.

Pros: four profiles and four recipients on Premium can support broader searches or sharing alerts.

Cons: the free plan is restricted to one profile and apartment rent up to €1,000, so it will not serve house, purchase or higher-rent searches.

Cons: users must still contact the listing source and apply themselves; favorites and templates help organize that process but do not submit applications.

Cons: mobile-app trials require cancellation before renewal, unlike the website trial that ends automatically.

Alternatives

For a broader directory of rental-listing software, see Rental Property Listing Software.

Choose RealBird if you are a real estate professional seeking a listing-focused service with a free membership and a paid PRO plan at $15 a month, rather than HOMEBOY's German renter alerts.

Revun is a free option for owners of one or two units who need leasing, showings, applications, ACH rent collection and maintenance request intake; HOMEBOY is the better fit for renters seeking portal matches.

Choose Hemlane for free rental advertising, applicant and tenant screening, and rental accounting, rather than for HOMEBOY's multi-portal renter search.

Rental Beast offers a free Apply Now option for property owners, managers and real estate professionals, with renter application fees varying by market ($20–$49 per applicant); HOMEBOY instead gathers housing listings for searchers.

Choose Rentberry if you want tenant tools such as rent negotiation, maintenance requests, property tour requests, eSign and cloud storage, rather than listing alerts from German portals.

Zillow Rental Manager Tenant Screening is a free landlord screening option with screening reports included and the renter paying the application fee; it serves a different stage of the rental process from HOMEBOY.

Choose Apartments.com Rental Manager if you need a free basic listing with 21 days of standard visibility across six Apartments.com Network websites, rather than a service for collecting search matches.

Reallyo offers a free active listing with an AI marketing suite covering video, website, social and email; it is a listing-marketing alternative, not a renter alert service.

Verdict

HOMEBOY is a sensible choice for German renters who want one place to receive matches from multiple portals and can handle applications themselves. Its strongest case is the combination of broad source coverage, configurable searches and app alerts; its main reason to look elsewhere is the narrow free tier, particularly if your rent exceeds €1,000 or you need house or purchase searches.