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PropHours vs REPSLog: Which Hour Log Fits Your Rentals?

By PropHours Editorial Team · September 26, 2026

In short: PropHours and REPSLog both log material participation hours for real estate professional status (REPS) and the short-term rental (STR) loophole, with timers, voice and AI entry, evidence attachments, calendar sync, AI-assistant logging, and CPA exports. REPSLog is the more established app and runs on more devices: iPhone, iPad, Android, and a full web app with CSV import. PropHours is an iPhone app with a web workspace, includes every feature in one Pro plan at $129 a year, and goes further at tax time with a Schedule E pre-fill, a Section 469 election statement draft, and a tax package you can email to your CPA.

A disclosure before anything else: we make PropHours. To keep this comparison fair, every REPSLog detail below comes from REPSLog’s own App Store listing and website, checked on September 26, 2026, so you can verify each one. Where REPSLog does more, we say so plainly.

Here is how the two apps compare feature by feature, what each one costs, and which kind of investor each one fits.

PropHours vs REPSLog at a glance

Where REPSLog is stronger

REPSLog has been on the App Store since January 2025, and its head start shows in five places:

• More devices. Native iPhone, iPad and Android apps plus a web app, all synced. PropHours is an iPhone app with a web workspace for logging and reports.
• Importing past hours. REPSLog’s web app imports years of spreadsheet hours from a CSV file. PropHours cannot import past records yet.
• Richer evidence. Premium allows up to five attachments per entry, AI writes a plain-language note for each receipt or PDF, and search looks inside your receipts. PropHours keeps one photo or file per activity.
• Logins for your team and CPA. You can invite a spouse, assistant, property manager or CPA with Read Only or Full Access. PropHours participants log only their own work, and your CPA receives the tax package by link rather than a login.
• More integrations. Microsoft 365 calendars, Booking.com feeds, an MCP connector and a public API with scoped keys.

Where PropHours is different

• One plan with everything in it. Pro includes voice and AI logging, unlimited properties, calendar and booking sync, ChatGPT and Claude logging, and CPA exports for $129 a year. On REPSLog, voice logging, AI autofill, calendar sync and the ChatGPT integration are Premium features at $199.99 a year.
• More of your tax-season file. Beyond the hour report, PropHours builds a Schedule E pre-fill with line items for each property and a Section 469 election statement draft for your CPA to review. It bundles the PDF, CSV, evidence index and evidence files into one ZIP and emails your CPA a private link that expires after seven days.
• Pacing, not just totals. Each property gets an annual goal — 100 hours for a short-term rental and 750 for a long-term rental by default, and you can change them. The optional AI Pace Coach checks your recorded hours against where you should be by now and suggests a weekly catch-up rate. It sends the AI only numbers — no property names, notes or evidence — and it never creates hours for you.
• A clean line between your hours and everyone else’s. Participants — a co-host, cleaner or handyman, or a spouse whose time you want kept separately — log their own work in a separate ledger you can read. Your totals stay yours, and you can show your CPA exactly who did what.

Pricing compared

PropHours Pro costs $19.90 a month or $129 a year, and eligible new subscribers get a two-week free trial. The free plan covers one property and five activity logs — enough to try the workflow, not to document a tax year.

REPSLog Starter costs $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year and covers up to three properties, four custom categories and one attachment per entry. Premium is $199.99 a year and adds unlimited properties, up to five attachments per entry, speech-to-text, AI autofill, free invites for other users, the ChatGPT integration and calendar sync. Both plans start with a 14-day free trial, and REPSLog also offers a free plan.

Paying yearly, PropHours Pro costs less than either REPSLog plan: $20.99 less than Starter and $70.99 less than Premium. Paying monthly, REPSLog Starter is cheaper if three properties and one attachment per entry are enough for you. PropHours prices are US App Store prices; REPSLog prices are as listed on reps-log.com. Both were checked on September 26, 2026, and can change or vary by country.

Which one should you choose?

Choose REPSLog if you or your spouse use Android, you want to import years of spreadsheet hours, you often need several receipts on one entry, or you want your CPA to log in and read your records directly.

Choose PropHours if you work from an iPhone, you want every feature in a single $129 plan, you want pacing reminders toward each property’s goal, or you want your tax-season file — hours, Schedule E line items, election statement draft and evidence — ready to send to your CPA in one link.

Either way, the habit matters more than the app. What holds up is a contemporaneous log: dated entries made when the work happens, with the property, the task and the actual time. Our guide on how to prove material participation covers what a strong log includes.

What to look for in any material participation log app

Whichever app you choose, check for these five things before you trust it with a tax year:

• Entries made at the time of the work. A timer or quick entry you actually use beats a perfect form you fill in once a month.
• Totals by property. The material participation tests apply activity by activity, so you need hours for each rental unless your CPA has made a grouping election.
• Evidence on the entry. A receipt or photo attached to the work it supports is far easier to explain than one buried in your camera roll.
• The other side of the 100-hour test. If you rely on the 100-hour test, you also need a record of the time your co-host, cleaner or manager put in.
• An export your CPA can use. A PDF summary and a CSV of every entry cover most preparers. For REPS, keep a record of your total working hours too — our REPS guide explains the 750-hour and more-than-half tests.

Related reading

See what a strong log contains in How to Prove Material Participation, check the requirements in our real estate professional status guide, and learn why other people’s hours matter in the 100-hour trap. Or start your own material participation log with PropHours.

PropHours publishes this comparison. REPSLog is a product of CarmelTech LLC; PropHours is not affiliated with or endorsed by REPSLog. REPSLog features and prices come from its App Store listing and reps-log.com, checked September 26, 2026, and may change — confirm current details with REPSLog. This article is not tax advice; PropHours records the work you log and does not determine tax eligibility.