Landlord Studio vs Owned Map: an honest comparison

The short answer

• Pick Landlord Studio if you run rentals and want help with the work: tenants, rent, receipts, bank feeds and tax-time reports, with a free plan for up to three units.^[1][2]
• Pick Owned Map if you want one record of everything you own, not only rentals: each property with its yield, cash flow, loan and your share, plus land, vehicles, boats and aircraft, on a map, with documents and dates.
• Use both if you run rentals and want a clear picture of the whole portfolio above the day-to-day.

Where we describe Landlord Studio, we rely on its own website and pricing page, and we link each claim. We have not used a paid Landlord Studio account. If you want the same comparison for another landlord tool, see our Stessa vs Owned Map page.

At a glance

“Not listed” and “not advertised” mean we did not find it on the Landlord Studio pages we read in November 2026. Features can exist without being listed, so ask before you rule one out.

Running rentals or seeing everything

These two answer different questions, and it helps to name them.

Landlord Studio answers “how do I run my rentals?” It describes itself as property management software built for independent landlords: find and screen tenants, collect rent online, keep your accounts and prepare Schedule E reports in one place.^[1] It lists listings syndication, online rent with reminders and late fees, bank feeds, receipt scanning, a tenant portal and maintenance management.^[2] That is the operating side of being a landlord, and it is why many small landlords choose it.

Owned Map answers “what do I own, and how is it doing?” Open any asset and you see its value, what you paid, the income and expenses, the loan, your share, and the documents and dates attached. From those it calculates appreciation, net operating income, gross and net yield, yield on cost, monthly cash flow, equity, loan-to-value and your net worth after debt, and it can simulate a sale. The numbers are the ones you enter: Owned Map does not connect to bank accounts.

The question to ask yourself is which job takes your time. If it is the monthly paperwork, you want the first. If it is deciding which properties to keep, refinance or sell, and knowing where the papers are, you want the second.

Feature by feature

Running the tenancy

Landlord Studio wins this outright. Listings, tenant screening, online rent, automated reminders and late fees, a tenant portal and maintenance requests are its day job.^[1][2] Owned Map has none of them.

Bookkeeping

Landlord Studio imports bank transactions through bank feeds, captures receipts on the go with its mobile app and produces more than fifteen reports, including a profit-and-loss and a Schedule E report.^[1] On its free Go plan the bank feeds are not included; they arrive with the paid plans, along with Xero integration and advanced reports.^[2] Owned Map has no transactions. You enter each property’s yearly income and expenses, which is enough for yield and cash flow but not for a ledger.

Judging a property

This is where Owned Map is stronger. For every property it shows gross yield, net yield on current value, yield on cost, cash flow after the loan, payback in years, equity and loan-to-value, ranks your properties by net yield, and shows what you would keep if you sold. Landlord Studio’s reports describe what happened in your accounts; Owned Map’s numbers compare properties on the same basis.

Anything that is not a rental

Land, vehicles, boats, aircraft and heavy equipment each get a pin, a value, costs, documents and dates in Owned Map, and they appear in your net worth. We did not find these on the Landlord Studio pages we read.

Reading a document for you

Upload a deed, an invoice or a contract to Owned Map and the details are read for you to review before anything is saved. Always check the result: it is a help, not an oracle. Our free inventory template uses the exact columns the app imports.

Per unit or per asset

This is the difference that surprises most landlords, and it can reverse the price comparison.

Landlord Studio prices by unit: its Go plan is free for three units, and Pro and Pro Plus list “3 units + $1.20 per extra unit”.^[2] Owned Map prices by asset: $47 a month includes 3 assets, and $15 each for assets 4 to 10, $10 each for assets 11 to 25 and $5 each from the 26th.

A 12-unit portfolio held in three buildings is 12 units to Landlord Studio and 3 assets to Owned Map. On Landlord Studio’s Pro plan, by our arithmetic from its listed prices, that is $15 plus 9 extra units at $1.20, or $25.80 a month. On Owned Map it is $47 a month. So the more units per building you have, the better the per-unit model looks, and the more buildings and other assets you have, the better the per-asset model looks.

Neither is better in the abstract. It depends on what you own. Compare them with your own count of units and assets.

A worked example: three buildings, twelve units

Imagine a landlord with a six-unit building, a four-unit building and a duplex. These are the inputs for each.

What Owned Map calculates from those figures:

The whole portfolio: value $2,165,000, debt $1,195,000, equity $970,000, and cash flow after the loans of $27,200 a year, $2,267 a month.

Reading the example

The rent roll alone would tell you the six-unit building collects the most. The comparison on one basis tells you more.

All three buildings sit in a narrow band on gross yield, but the duplex is the weakest on every measure that matters: a 5.2% net yield, a 6.2% yield on cost, a 16.1-year payback and only $208 a month of cash flow after its loan. It also has the highest loan-to-value, at 57.0%, so it has the least margin if values soften. The six-unit building does the heavy lifting, with $1,450 of the $2,267 monthly cash flow.

Two details make the numbers honest. The net yield is the standard capitalization rate, net operating income divided by current value rather than the price you paid.^[4] And the loan payment is deliberately outside net operating income: the IRS tells US rental owners that mortgage principal payments cannot simply be deducted, and to separate repairs from improvements and keep accurate records.^[5] Your bookkeeping tool records what happened; a tracker compares what you hold.

That is the division of labour. Landlord Studio is how the yearly rent and expenses get into a clean set of books. Owned Map is where you read them side by side.

Shared ownership

Many properties are not owned 100% by one person. Landlord Studio’s help centre describes ownership percentages for co-owned properties, but the article we read is for the UK’s Making Tax Digital for Income Tax: each owner reports a different share of the rental income to HMRC, and the percentages must total 100%.^[3] We did not find an equivalent for US reporting on the pages we read, so if you co-own a US property, ask.

In Owned Map you enter the figures for the whole property and set your share once. Everything it shows and adds up is on your share, so a property worth $400,000 with a $200,000 loan, held 40%, counts as $160,000 of value and $80,000 of debt. It does not keep a ledger of who put in what.

Documents and dates

Landlords generate paper: deeds, leases, insurance, loan agreements, tax bills. Landlord Studio’s plans list document storage, from ten documents on the free plan to unlimited on the top plan, and automated lease-expiry reminders on the paid plans.^[2] Owned Map keeps documents on any asset, rental or not, and holds the dates (insurance, tax, registration, inspections) with reminders, so the policy and its renewal sit next to the thing they cover.

Whichever you use, keep four things together for every asset: proof of ownership, the insurance policy, the loan agreement if there is one, and the next date that needs action.

If something happens to you

A landlord with several buildings, partners and loans leaves a complicated picture. In Caring.com’s 2025 survey of more than 2,500 US adults, only 24% said they have a will, down from 33% in 2022.^[6] An executor cannot settle what nobody knows exists.

Owned Map lets you share a read-only link, give household members access, and set a private emergency sheet for one trusted person. The same discipline applies to everything you own: the Nebraska Department of Insurance advises recording brand, price, purchase date, model, serial number and receipts, with photos.^[7] Add the deed reference for property and the registration or title number for vehicles.

Price

Landlord Studio’s pricing page lists a free Go plan (three units, one user, standard reports, ten documents), Pro at $15 a month ($144 a year) and Pro Plus at $35 a month ($336 a year), with three units included and $1.20 per extra unit on the paid plans, and a 14-day trial of Pro.^[2] Be aware that the page shows prices in both pounds and dollars, so check landlordstudio.com/pricing for the figures that apply to you.

Owned Map’s pricing is public and simple. $47 a month includes 3 assets. $15 each for assets 4 to 10, $10 each for assets 11 to 25 and $5 each from the 26th, up to 100 assets. Paying yearly is 30% less. There is a 7-day free trial, and a card is required.

To be direct: if all you own is a few rentals and you want the work done, Landlord Studio is cheaper and does more of what you asked for, and for up to three units it is free. Owned Map is worth its price when your question is bigger than the bookkeeping: you hold shares with partners, own land, vehicles or boats, or want one record of everything with the papers and dates attached.

Who should choose which

Choose Landlord Studio if

• You want tenants, rent, receipts and tax reports handled in one tool.
• You own a few rentals, and you want to start free.
• You use Xero for your accounts.

Choose Owned Map if

• You want to compare properties on yield, cash flow, equity and loan-to-value.
• You own more than rentals: land, vehicles, boats, aircraft or equipment.
• You hold some properties with partners and want your own share.
• You prefer a tool that does not connect to your bank.

A five-question test

1. Do you spend your time on rent, receipts and tenants? If yes, Landlord Studio.
2. Do you ask “which property should I sell or refinance?” If yes, Owned Map.
3. Do you own anything that is not a rental? If yes, Owned Map covers it.
4. Do you have many units in few buildings? If yes, compare the per-unit and per-asset prices.
5. Could someone find your documents if something happened to you? If not, fix that first, with either tool.

Using both

A sensible setup for a landlord with other assets is Landlord Studio for the monthly running and Owned Map for the portfolio. Once a year, copy each property’s rent and expenses from Landlord Studio’s reports into Owned Map, so the figures stay in step. If you want the fuller picture of how Owned Map works for property, read about the rental property portfolio tracker.

To start Owned Map from a spreadsheet, download the inventory template, paste your list in and import the CSV. If it is not for you, you can cancel from your profile menu and export your data first.

How we checked

We wrote this page on November 5, 2026. What we say about Landlord Studio comes from its public home page, its pricing page and one help-centre article. The $25.80 figure is our arithmetic from the prices listed there. We have not used a paid Landlord Studio account, so where we found nothing we say “not listed”, not “not available”. What we say about Owned Map is what the product does today.

Every outside claim is numbered and listed under Sources below. Both products change. If you spot something out of date, email support@ownedmap.com and we will correct it.

Sources

1. Landlord Studio: homepage, Landlord Studio. Property management software for independent landlords: tenant listings and screening, online rent, bank feeds, receipt scanning, P&L and Schedule E reports. Read November 3, 2026.
2. Landlord Studio: pricing, Landlord Studio. Go is free for 3 units; Pro $15 a month ($144 a year) and Pro Plus $35 ($336 a year), with $1.20 per extra unit; 14-day trial of Pro. The page shows both pounds and dollars. Read November 3, 2026.
3. How to set ownership percentages for your properties, Landlord Studio help centre. Ownership percentages for co-owned properties, in the context of the UK Making Tax Digital for Income Tax; they must total 100%. Read November 3, 2026.
4. Capitalization rate, Wikipedia. The cap rate is net operating income divided by current value, not the original price. Read November 3, 2026.
5. Publication 527, Residential Rental Property (2025), Internal Revenue Service. You cannot simply deduct mortgage principal payments; separate the costs of repairs and improvements and keep accurate records; residential rental property is depreciated over 27.5 years under GDS. Read November 3, 2026.
6. Wills Survey 2025, Caring.com, with YouGov. 24% of respondents have a will, down from 33% in 2022 (more than 2,500 US adults). Read November 3, 2026.
7. Before the Storm: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late, Nebraska Department of Insurance. An inventory should record brand, price, purchase date, model, serial number and receipts, with photos. Read November 3, 2026.