DealCheck Alternative: A Free 4-Tab Investment Calculator (and the Market Data DealCheck Skips)

If you're searching for a DealCheck alternative, the first thing worth doing is naming what you actually want to replace. DealCheck is a per-property deal analyzer — you enter (or import) a specific address, adjust the numbers, and it tells you whether that deal pencils out. It's good at that job. But "alternative" can mean two different things: a cheaper or freer calculator that does the same per-deal math, or a tool that answers the question DealCheck never touches — which market should I be buying in at all?

This guide covers what DealCheck does well, what its plans cost, and where Lotlytics' free 4-tab investment calculator plus market-level research fit in.

What DealCheck Does Well

Credit where it's due. Per its own site, DealCheck lets you "import dozens of property data points," analyze rental (buy-and-hold, BRRRR, house hacks), fix-and-flip, multi-family and commercial, short-term/vacation rentals, and wholesale deals, then "create and share professional property reports." It pulls comparable sales and rental comps, includes a purchase-offer calculator and property-owner lookup, and ships as native iOS and Android apps plus a web app. DealCheck says it's trusted by over 350,000 investors and agents.

That's a real product for a real job. If you already have an address and need a branded PDF in a client's inbox from your phone, DealCheck is built for exactly that.

DealCheck Pricing

DealCheck's plans, as listed on its pricing page at the time of writing:

Plan	Price	Saved properties
Starter (free)	$0, no card	Up to 15
Plus	$10/mo	Up to 50
Pro	$20/mo	Unlimited

Paid tiers add more photos, comps, and templates, with a 14-day free trial and roughly three months free on annual billing. Pricing can change, so confirm the current numbers on DealCheck's pricing page before you decide. The free Starter plan is genuinely usable for a handful of deals — this isn't a case of a competitor locking everything behind a paywall.

The Free 4-Tab Calculator

Here's where Lotlytics overlaps DealCheck directly. Lotlytics includes an Investment Calculator with four tabs, and it's on the free tier — no paid plan, no credit card. You do need a free account to open it, but there's no upsell wall once you're in. The four tabs:

• Rental ROI — model a buy-and-hold: purchase price, down payment, rate, rent, vacancy, taxes, insurance, maintenance, and management. It returns cash-on-cash, cap rate, a 5-year cash-flow chart, annualized ROI, the breakeven month, and a 0-100 deal score, benchmarked against the S&P 500 and the 10-year Treasury.
• Fix & Flip — purchase, rehab, ARV, holding period, and hard-money rate produce net profit, ROI, annualized ROI, and a 70%-rule maximum offer with a warning if your price exceeds it.
• Rent vs Buy — compares net wealth from buying versus renting-and-investing over your chosen horizon and calls a winner.
• STR — short-term-rental modeling with nightly rate, occupancy, cleaning fees, platform and management fees, returning gross and net revenue, cap rate, RevPAN, and an STR-vs-long-term-rental comparison.

One nice touch: a "Use market estimate" button pre-fills price, rent, mortgage rate, and appreciation from Lotlytics' own data for 26 preset metros — Austin, Denver, Tampa, Nashville, Charlotte, and more — so you're not starting from blank assumptions. Everything recalculates in real time as you drag the sliders.

Be Honest: What DealCheck Has That Lotlytics Doesn't

A comparison is only useful if it's fair, so here's the other side.

DealCheck does several things Lotlytics simply does not. It imports property data and comps automatically from a listing or address; Lotlytics' calculator uses market-level estimates and your own inputs, not per-listing comps. DealCheck saves individual deals (15 on the free plan) and generates branded, shareable property reports; Lotlytics' calculator is a live modeling surface, not a per-deal report generator. DealCheck has native mobile apps, a property-owner lookup, and a wholesale-specific workflow; Lotlytics has none of those.

If your core need is "analyze this specific address, save it, and send a polished report to a client from my phone," DealCheck is the better fit and nothing here replaces it.

The Bigger Difference: Deal-First vs Market-First

The deeper reason to look at Lotlytics isn't the calculator — it's the layer above it.

DealCheck starts with an address. By the time you're underwriting a specific house, the single largest decision has already been made, and usually without data: which market that house is in. Market choice drives returns more than deal selection does. A clean deal in a market with flat appreciation, weak in-migration, and deteriorating price-to-rent will underperform an average deal in a market with the wind at its back — and a per-property calculator is silent on that.

Lotlytics works the other direction. It covers 894 U.S. markets — metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas — with investment health scores, price-to-rent ratios, rental-yield estimates, appreciation data, and migration analytics. The workflow is: screen markets, shortlist the winners, then run the numbers on properties inside them (in Lotlytics' calculator, in DealCheck, or in a spreadsheet).

There's also an AI-native angle worth naming: Lotlytics ships an MCP server that's included on the free tier, so you can connect market data to Claude or Cursor and ask questions like "which markets have positive migration and yields above 6%?" in plain language. The MCP setup guide walks through it.

Pricing, Side by Side

Lotlytics pricing is public: the Free tier covers the top 50 U.S. markets and the full 4-tab calculator with no credit card, Pro is $39/month and unlocks all 894 markets with full price history, migration and demographics, and rental-yield estimates, and Investor is $79/month, adding the Market Screener, PDF market reports, and developer API access. Full details on the pricing page.

	DealCheck	Lotlytics
Starts from	A specific property	A market
Core job	Per-deal analysis + branded reports	Market screening + a free deal calculator
Free tier	Yes — 15 saved deals	Yes — top 50 markets + 4-tab calculator
Deal calculator	Yes (rental, flip, multi-family, STR)	Yes (Rental ROI, Fix & Flip, Rent vs Buy, STR)
Comps import	Yes	No
Market screening (800+ metros)	No	Yes
Mobile apps	Yes (iOS, Android)	No
AI / MCP access	Not advertised	Yes — free tier included
Entry price	Free, then $10/mo	Free, then $39/mo

Which One Do You Need?

Stay with DealCheck if your job is per-property underwriting, comps, and branded client reports — especially from a phone. Its free Starter plan is a reasonable long-term home for a light per-deal workflow, and Lotlytics does not replace the comps import, saved deals, or report generation.

Choose Lotlytics if you're pre-deal — still deciding which metros deserve your capital — or you want a free investment calculator paired with the market data that tells you whether the neighborhood was ever worth underwriting. Screening 894 markets down to a shortlist is not something a per-property analyzer is built to do.

Use both if you're serious: screen markets in Lotlytics to build a shortlist, then underwrite individual deals inside the winners. The layers stack — the mistake is buying one tool and expecting it to do the other's job.

Getting Started

Don't take our word for coverage or fit. The Lotlytics free tier includes the full 4-tab calculator and the top 50 U.S. markets with no credit card, which is enough to see whether market-first screening changes your thinking before you spend anything. Start with your current target market: if the data confirms your thesis, you've bought confidence cheaply; if it doesn't, you've dodged a mistake no per-property calculator would have flagged.

Try Lotlytics free at lotlytics.us — top 50 markets, the free 4-tab calculator, and a free MCP server, no credit card.

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