Comparison

Considering an Alto alternative?

Alto (from Houseful, the Zoopla family) is an established suite spanning sales and lettings, used by around 6,000 agencies. LintelCRM is lettings-first, with public pricing and portals that ship with the product. With sources, verified July 2026.

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First, a fair word

What Alto does well

Alto is a long-established agency platform covering sales progression, lettings and marketing, strengthened by its place in the Houseful/Zoopla ecosystem: one-click Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket feeds, a real AI feature suite, and a migration guarantee. Full-service agencies with a strong sales arm shortlist it for exactly that breadth, and as of July 2026 it holds a Trustpilot score around 4.2-4.3 from 147 reviews.

Side by side

Where the two differ

	Alto	LintelCRM
Centre of gravity	Full agency suite with a strong sales heritage	Lettings and property management first (with sales progression included)
Ecosystem	Part of Houseful (Zoopla family)	Independent: integrates by API and export rather than ecosystem
Compliance	Compliance tooling within the suite	The spine of the product: per-certificate auto-chasing, portfolio red/amber view, landlord-visible trail
Landlord experience	PropertyFile web portal: statements and agent-shared works orders; two overlapping portal products across the suite	One branded landlord portal shipped with the CRM: KPI dashboard, PDF statements, arrears aging, compliance certificates
Tenant experience	PropertyFile Tenant Edition app no longer listed on either app store as of July 2026; web portal remains	Web tenant portal maintained with the product: ledger-matched rent, photo repairs, viewing responses
Pricing shape	"Per user, no published rate card", in their own words; no pricing page as of July 2026	Public per-unit tiers, no setup fees, monthly terms, a calculator on the pricing page
Accounting integrations	Built-in client accounting; no Open Banking or Xero sync advertised on their integrations page as of July 2026	Native finance and arrears module; clean exports for your accountant
Review footprint	Trustpilot ~4.2-4.3 from 147 reviews, polarised; Capterra 2.2 from 6 reviews, a small sample (both July 2026)	Too new to have one; judge us by the trial

Alto is a trademark of its owner; we reference it only to identify the product. Their features and pricing evolve. Verify current details on their site. Every factual claim on this page was last verified on 10 July 2026.

The trade, stated plainly

Ecosystem reach versus a legible bill

What Alto has that we do not, as of July 2026: one-click portal feeds to Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket, an AI feature suite, a migration guarantee, and the scale of roughly 6,000 agencies. If those are your deciding factors, Alto earns its place on your shortlist and this page will not talk you out of it.

What you trade for it: there is no pricing page anywhere; their own comparison material describes the model as per user with no published rate card, so budgeting starts with a sales call. The tenant-facing app side has thinned, with PropertyFile Tenant Edition no longer listed on either app store as of July 2026. And third-party reviewers report contract friction, though we would rather you read those attributed accounts yourself than take our summary of them.

The honest verdict

Which one fits you?

Choose Alto if…

Sales is the heart of your agency and you want one suite across sales and lettings marketing
One-click Rightmove/Zoopla/OnTheMarket feeds are non-negotiable today
Being inside the Zoopla/Houseful ecosystem matters to your workflow

Choose LintelCRM if…

Lettings and management are your revenue engine and you want software that treats them that way
You want public pricing, monthly terms and a two-week start
You want portals for landlords and tenants that ship with the product, plus a feed for your own website

Switching is the easy part

Export from Alto, and our onboarding team imports your properties, tenancies, landlords and certificates for free, inside the 14-day trial, before you pay anything.

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Questions

Asked by switchers

Does LintelCRM handle sales as well as lettings?

Yes: offer tracking, conveyancing milestones and fall-through recovery are included. The difference is emphasis: LintelCRM is built lettings-first, with sales alongside.

Can I move from Alto to LintelCRM without losing history?

Export your properties, applicants, tenancies and landlords, and our onboarding team imports them free during the trial. Document history can be bulk-attached to the right records.

Does LintelCRM feed Rightmove and Zoopla like Alto does?

Not as of July 2026: portal feeds are on our roadmap, and Website Sync currently feeds the website you own. If one-click portal publishing is your deciding factor today, that is a genuine reason to shortlist Alto, and we would rather tell you that here than in a demo.

Sources

Alto "how we compare" page (per-user pricing wording) · checked 10 July 2026
Alto integrations page · checked 10 July 2026
Alto on Trustpilot · checked 10 July 2026