LeaseDock vs Landlord Studio
Landlord Studio is bookkeeping-first landlord software with mobile apps, live bank feeds and online rent collection, and its website is written for landlords in the United States and the United Kingdom. LeaseDock is built only for Australia: your state’s agreements, compliance dates, inspections and rooming house rules.
Checked 24 October 2026, from Landlord Studio’s own website.
Choose Landlord Studio if
- You want bookkeeping in a mobile app, with a receipt scanner and mileage tracker.
- You want live bank feeds rather than uploading a statement.
- You also own rentals in the United States or the United Kingdom.
- You want to start free: its Go plan covers up to three units.
Choose LeaseDock if
- Your rentals are in Australia and you want your state’s own agreement, filled in and signed online.
- You want bond, safety check and entry rules worked out for your state, with the rule behind each date.
- You let rooms, each as its own tenancy, including rooming houses.
- You want a tax pack on the ATO’s rental schedule items for your accountant.
What each one does, side by side.
Landlord Studio’s side is from its own website. Where its site doesn’t say, the table says so.
| Question | LeaseDock | Landlord Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | Self-managing landlords, and rooming house, co-living and student housing operators, in Australia. | Independent, do-it-yourself landlords. Its website is written for the United States, with a separate UK site, and we didn’t find an Australian page. |
| Room-by-room tenancies | Yes. Each room is its own tenancy, with its own agreement, rent, bond and renter. Empty rooms don’t count on your plan. | Priced by unit. Rooms aren’t mentioned on its pricing page. |
| State agreement forms | Filled in and signed online on the state’s own form: Victoria’s Form 1, the NSW standard form, Queensland’s Form 18a, WA’s Form 1AA, South Australia’s CBS agreement, the Northern Territory’s Schedule 2 and the ACT’s standard terms. For rooms: the NSW boarding house occupancy agreement, Victoria’s fixed-term rooming house agreement (Form 7), Queensland’s rooming accommodation agreement (Form R18) and South Australia’s rooming house agreement. In Tasmania, record the agreement you signed. | Electronic signatures are listed among its features. Australian state forms aren’t mentioned. |
| Compliance dates | Bond, safety check, lease and inspection dates for each property, worked out from its state’s rules and the rooming house rules where they apply, each linked to the rule it came from. Where a rule hasn’t been checked, a reminder instead of an invented date. | Automated lease expiry and rent reminders, and recurring reminders. |
| Renter portal | Free for every renter, on any phone with nothing to install: rent details, repairs with photos, messages, and agreements and condition reports to sign. | A tenant portal, with maintenance requests. |
| Repairs | Reported in the renter’s portal with a photo. An urgent one is emailed to you within five minutes, and where Victoria, New South Wales or Queensland set a deadline, the repair shows it. | Maintenance management and tenant maintenance requests. |
| Inspections and condition reports | Entry, routine and exit condition reports on your phone, room by room with photos, signed by the renter in their portal. Routine inspections every six months by default, with an entry notice you check, then send. The exit report is compared with the entry. | Not mentioned on its pricing page. |
| Rent | Records rent and never collects it: renters pay into your own bank account. Upload your bank’s CSV export and each payment is matched to its rent for you to confirm, or connect Xero and a deposit reconciled there marks the rent paid. Reminders on your state’s timeline. No live bank feed. | Collects rent and deposits online, with partial payments, automated late fees and reminders. |
| Bookkeeping | Expenses per property, a receipt photo read into an expense, Xero, and a tax pack on the ATO’s rental schedule items. | Income and expense tracking, AI-assisted bookkeeping, a smart receipt scanner, a mileage tracker, automated bank feeds and a Xero integration. |
| Mobile | Works in the browser on any phone. No app to install. | Apps on the App Store and Google Play. |
| Price | $29 a month for up to 4 tenancies, $49 for up to 15, $99 for up to 40, and Enterprise from 41, priced to fit. Every feature on every plan, unlimited staff. 30 days free, no card. Prices in Australian dollars. The price you see is the price you pay. | Go is free for up to three units. Pro is US$144 a year for three units plus US$1 for each extra unit, and Pro Plus is US$336 a year, with a 14-day trial (its US pricing page). |
Checked 24 October 2026 from landlordstudio.com/pricing, landlordstudio.com/about and landlordstudio.com/uk. Prices are as Landlord Studio shows them. Something out of date? Email hugo@leasedock.com and we’ll correct it.
Five things people ask.
The questions that come up when choosing between LeaseDock and Landlord Studio, answered straight.
Does LeaseDock have a mobile app?
Not one you install. LeaseDock works in the browser on any phone, and inspections are done on your phone room by room. Landlord Studio has apps on the App Store and Google Play.
Does LeaseDock connect to my bank?
Not with a live bank feed. You upload your bank’s CSV export and LeaseDock matches each payment to its rent for you to confirm. If you use Xero, connect it and a rent deposit reconciled there marks the rent as paid. Landlord Studio offers automated bank feeds on its paid plans.
Is LeaseDock built for Australian rules?
Only for Australia. Each property follows its own state’s rules for bonds, safety checks and entry, with the rule each date came from, and agreements are on the state’s own form. Landlord Studio’s website is written for landlords in the United States and the United Kingdom, and we didn’t find an Australian page on it.
Can LeaseDock help at tax time?
Yes. Every rent payment and expense you record adds up through the year, a photo of a receipt fills in the expense for you to check, and at the end of the financial year the tax pack sets out rent and expenses on the ATO’s rental schedule items for your accountant. It is a summary of your records, not tax advice.
How do the prices compare?
Landlord Studio’s Go plan is free for up to three units. Its Pro plan is US$144 a year for three units plus US$1 for each extra unit, and Pro Plus is US$336 a year, on its US pricing page.
LeaseDock is $29 a month for up to 4 tenancies, $49 for up to 15 and $99 for up to 40, with Enterprise from 41 tenancies priced to fit. Empty rooms don’t count.
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