Bricky Bot vs Rentila
Weighing up Bricky Bot vs Rentila? They do different jobs. Rentila is low-cost online software where self-managing landlords keep their properties, tenancies, inventories, rent receipts and accounts, free for one unit. Bricky Bot is an AI team that does the day’s lettings work, room by room, and waits for your ✅.
Luke AshtonFounder of Bricky Bot and Based Lettings · Updated The short answer
- Choose Rentila if you manage your own lets and want tidy, cheap records: tenancy agreements, check-in inventories with meter readings, automatic rent receipts, reminders, income and expenses, and a tenant account for each tenant, from free for one unit to £11.90 a month for unlimited units.
- Choose Bricky Bot if you let room by room and the time goes on the work itself: portal enquiries and viewings, WhatsApp groups, repairs, certificate renewals and landlord statements, with nothing sent until a person approves it.
- The honest line: Rentila is cheaper, gives tenants their own account and app, records meter readings in its inventories and splits service charges, which Bricky Bot doesn’t. Rentila’s pages don’t mention WhatsApp, SpareRoom or OpenRent enquiries, viewings or contractors; that is the work Bricky Bot does, and you approve every step.
What Rentila does well
Rentila has been going since 2008. Its founder, Roumen, built it to automate his own rent receipts; the site is run by Rentila Ltd, registered in Sofia, Bulgaria, which describes itself as “bootstrapped, self-funded” with no investors and “a small team – by choice” (about Rentila). It says more than 50,000 landlords use it for nearly 300,000 properties. A few things stand out on its own pages:
- Free to start, cheap after. One unit is free; 2–5 units are £5.90 a month and unlimited units £11.90 a month, excluding tax, with every feature open for 15 days and no minimum term (Rentila pricing).
- The paperwork of a tenancy, in one place. A pre-filled tenancy agreement from the property and tenant records, electronic signing, check-in and check-out inventories with meter readings and photos, a furniture catalogue, rent receipts generated every month, rent increases, late-payment reminders and a library of letter templates (Rentila tour).
- Tenants have their own account. Rentila was built for landlords and tenants together: tenants see their rent, payments and receipts, message you and log maintenance requests, and there is “a dedicated app for tenants” (Rentila FAQ).
- Money and owners. Bank account synchronisation with rules that classify transactions, income and expenses, profitability per property, a financial summary to help with the tax return, service-charge reconciliation with allocation keys for buildings, and properties held by several owners or companies in one account.
- An AI assistant and an open door. Every plan includes an AI assistant for landlords, and an API and MCP server to connect Rentila to your own tools and AI assistants (Rentila benefits).
Rentila also has a “Candidates” section for applications to your adverts. What its pages don’t mention is the work that happens in other places: SpareRoom and OpenRent inboxes, WhatsApp, booking viewings and sending jobs to contractors.
Side by side
Rentila facts are from Rentila’s own website, checked 22 October 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it there.
| Rentila | Bricky Bot | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Online property management software for self-managing landlords, with tenant accounts and an AI assistant | An AI lettings team of eight specialists, working in a full property CRM |
| Built for | “Self-managing landlords: private individuals, companies, or any structure managing its own portfolio” | HMO landlords, co-living and rent-to-rent operators, and letting agents |
| Who does the day-to-day work | You, with Rentila’s automatic receipts, reminders and AI assistant | The AI team drafts and does it; a person approves anything that goes out |
| HMOs and rooms | Flat-shares and HMO tenancies: one unit per room for individual agreements, or one unit with several tenants | Built running HMOs: a record and tenancy per room, the licence and every certificate tracked per house |
| Enquiries and viewings | A “Candidates” section for applications to your adverts; portal enquiries and viewings not stated | Syncs every SpareRoom and OpenRent thread, drafts replies, books viewings, tracks each lead to a signed tenancy |
| Talking to tenants | Messaging inside Rentila; tenant accounts and a tenant app | Runs the WhatsApp groups you already have, each linked to its house, lead or contractor record |
| Repairs | Tracks maintenance and repair requests and follow-ups | Logs the job with photos, suggests a known fix, drafts the booking to the contractor who covers that house for your ✅ |
| Tenancies and inventories | Pre-filled tenancy agreement, e-signature, check-in/check-out inventories with meter readings and photos | Tenancy sent for e-signature after your approval; photo inventory and move-in and move-out checklists |
| Compliance | Documents and certificates stored; tasks and reminders for renewals | Tracks every certificate on every property, opens each renewal inside its lead time, suggests the dates from the certificate PDF for you to confirm |
| Rent and money | Automatic rent receipts, reminders, bank account sync, income and expenses, service-charge reconciliation, help with the tax return | Never holds or moves money. Matches each line of your bank statements to rent, a cost or a payout; spots late and short rent; drafts landlord statements. Not accounting or MTD software |
| Where it runs | Cloud, any browser; servers in France; tenant app on iPhone and Android | Your own Mac or Mac mini; your team uses any browser or phone, and tenants use WhatsApp |
| AI | An AI assistant for landlords on every plan; API and MCP to connect your own AI assistants | The whole team is AI, on the AI plan you already have (for example ChatGPT); you pay your provider directly |
| Price | Excluding tax: Free (1 unit, 2 tenants, 2 tenancies); Silver £5.90 a month or £59 a year (2–5 units); Gold £11.90 a month or £119 a year (unlimited units); 15 days of every feature; no minimum term | See pricing on brickybot.com |
A worked example, by our own arithmetic from Rentila’s published prices: Rentila counts units, and its own help page says to create one unit per room when each room has its own agreement. A six-room HMO let room by room is six units, so it needs Gold at £11.90 a month plus VAT (£14.28 with VAT at 20%), or £119 plus VAT for the year. Gold has no unit limit, so three such houses (18 rooms) cost the same. A four-room house on individual agreements is four units, which fits Silver at £5.90. A house let on one joint tenancy is a single unit, but with more than two tenants it is past the free plan’s limit.
The real difference: keeping the records vs doing the work
Take the first week of the month in a six-bed HMO. In Rentila, each room’s rent is due on its own tenancy, the payments come in from your synchronised bank account and are matched to the right tenant, receipts go out, and room 4’s late-payment reminder is ready to send. Room 2’s tenant has given notice, and another has logged a dripping shower, which sits in the maintenance list. The rest is yours: chase room 4, write the advert, post it on SpareRoom, answer the enquiries, book viewings, check the new tenant in, and find a plumber.
With Bricky Bot, the team matches your bank statement lines to each tenant’s month and flags room 4, and the chase it drafts waits for you. The notice is logged against room 2, the Listings Manager builds the advert from the house record for your own SpareRoom and OpenRent accounts, and the Enquiry Manager answers the enquiries, books viewings and follows each lead to a signed tenancy. The shower goes to the plumber who covers that house. You approve each step with a ✅, in the app or straight from the house’s WhatsApp group.
The honest difference runs the other way too: Rentila gives each tenant an account and an app, writes a detailed inventory with meter readings, splits service charges across a building and costs a few pounds a month. Bricky Bot has no tenant app, no meter readings and no service-charge split. If what you want is cheap, complete records you keep yourself, Rentila is the cheaper fix.
Who does which job
- Rentila: property, tenant and tenancy records, tenancy agreements and e-signature, inventories, rent receipts and reminders, income and expenses, service charges, tenant accounts.
- Bricky Bot: adverts, portal enquiries and viewings, shared-house WhatsApp groups, repairs with your own contractors, certificate renewals, rent matching and landlord statements, all prepared for a person to approve.
- Both, in different ways: knowing who has paid in each room, logging repairs, and getting a tenancy signed.
Who each is for
- Rentila suits landlords, especially small ones, who manage their own lets and want everything recorded cheaply, with a free start for one unit and a tenant account for each tenant (Rentila pricing).
- Bricky Bot suits HMO landlords, co-living and rent-to-rent operators and letting agents who let room by room and want the day’s work taken off their plate, while keeping the final say on everything that goes out. For what else to look for, see our guide to landlord software.
Using both, or switching
Some landlords will keep both: Rentila for records, receipts and the tenant account, and Bricky Bot for enquiries, WhatsApp, repairs, renewals and statements. Bricky Bot doesn’t connect to Rentila, so each runs in its own account, and you’d enter a new tenancy in both. Rentila lets you export most lists, financial records and documents as PDF, Excel or CSV. If you’re moving into Bricky Bot, we move your houses, rooms, tenants and landlords, certificates and their dates, and files across. Migration is included, and you can export everything from Bricky Bot in open formats too.
If HMOs are most of what you run, see how Bricky Bot works as HMO management software. Comparing other landlord apps? Read Bricky Bot vs August, Bricky Bot vs Landlord Studio or Bricky Bot vs Hammock, or Bricky Bot vs COHO for HMO software. Doing your own check-ins? Our free landlord inventory template does an HMO room and its shared areas.
Questions people ask
What is the main difference between Rentila and Bricky Bot?
Rentila is online property management software for landlords who manage their own lets: property and tenant records, tenancy agreements, inventories, rent receipts, reminders, income and expenses, with tenant accounts and an AI assistant. You do the work in it. Bricky Bot is an AI lettings team: specialist bots answer room enquiries, book viewings, run WhatsApp groups, chase repairs and renewals, and prepare every message for a person to approve.
How much does Rentila cost?
Rentila is free for one unit (with 2 tenants and 2 tenancies). Silver is £5.90 a month or £59 a year for 2–5 units, and Gold is £11.90 a month or £119 a year for unlimited units, all excluding tax. New accounts get every feature for 15 days and there is no minimum term (checked 22 October 2026). Bricky Bot’s prices are on brickybot.com/#pricing.
Does Rentila work for HMOs?
Yes. Rentila says you can manage flat-shares and HMO tenancies. A unit can be a whole flat or a single room: for a joint tenancy you create one unit with several tenants, and for rooms let on their own agreements you create one unit per room. So a six-room HMO let room by room is six units, which needs the Gold plan. Bricky Bot was built running HMOs: a record and tenancy per room, with the licence and every certificate tracked per house.
Is Rentila any good? What do reviews say?
Rentila says it is “rated 4.8 out of 5 by more than 1000 users” and that more than 50,000 landlords use it for nearly 300,000 properties. It has been running since 2008 and is self-funded. Those are its own figures; Trustpilot, Capterra and the app stores carry independent reviews. For a self-managing landlord who wants cheap, complete records, it is a strong choice.
Is Rentila a free landlord software?
For one unit, yes: the free account includes e-signature, bank import, the AI assistant and the API, limited to 2 tenants, 2 tenancies and 4 inventories. Beyond one unit you need Silver or Gold. A room-by-room HMO is more than one unit, so it isn’t free in practice.
Rentila has an AI assistant. How is Bricky Bot different?
Rentila’s AI assistant answers your property management questions and helps with day-to-day tasks inside Rentila, and its API and MCP let you connect other tools and AI assistants. Bricky Bot is the other way round: the AI team is the product. It reads the enquiries and WhatsApp messages as they arrive, drafts the replies, bookings and chases, and a person approves each one before it goes.
Does Bricky Bot message tenants on its own?
Only the automatic replies you switch on, such as the out-of-hours holding reply. Every other message, advert, booking or payment the team prepares waits for a person’s approval, in the app or straight from WhatsApp.
See the team do the work
A short demo of Bricky handling real lettings work: enquiries, WhatsApp, repairs and approvals, with nothing sent until you say so.
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- Rentila home page (checked 22 October 2026)
- Rentila pricing (checked 22 October 2026)
- About Rentila (checked 22 October 2026)
- Rentila benefits (checked 22 October 2026)
- Rentila tour (checked 22 October 2026)
- Rentila FAQ (checked 22 October 2026)
- Rentila: flat-shares and HMO tenancies (checked 22 October 2026)
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