Vuuv vs Stessa

Both are excellent for real estate investors. Stessa is purpose-built for real estate and its free plan covers unlimited rental properties. Vuuv's free plan is also generous, with unlimited transactions and up to 3 rental units, and it adds tools for freelancers (invoicing, time tracking, Schedule C on screen) and GPS mileage tracking, which makes it ideal if you have both rental properties AND self-employment income.

Yes. Vuuv is designed for people with multiple income streams. You can track rental properties with Schedule E reports and freelance/self-employment income with Schedule C reports, invoicing, and time tracking, all in one app.

Stessa lets you record mileage, but you enter the trips yourself. There is no automatic GPS tracking, and an automatic tracker has been a standing request from Stessa users. For a landlord that matters more than it sounds: property showings, hardware store runs, and drives out to meet a contractor are easy to forget by the time you sit down to type them in, and the miles you never record are a deduction you never take. Vuuv's mobile app detects drives on its own and you swipe each one as business or personal.

Yes, on the mobile app for Drive, Drive Free, Pro, and Elite. The app notices when you are driving and logs the trip in the background, then you classify it later. Those miles sit alongside your rental income and expenses, so they carry into your Schedule E and Schedule C reports rather than living in a separate spreadsheet.

Yes. You can export your transactions from Stessa as a CSV file and import them into Vuuv. Our import wizard helps map your categories and properties.

Both have competitive free plans with unlimited transactions. Stessa's free plan covers unlimited rental properties, while Vuuv's free plan covers up to 3 rental units and adds freelancer tools. Stessa's Manage plan is $15/month ($12/month billed annually). Vuuv Pro is $12/month with comparable features plus freelancer tools.

No. Stessa records capital expenses with a date placed in service and a useful life, then exports that list so your CPA can work out the depreciation. It doesn't compute depreciation schedules, book depreciation expense, or carry cost basis forward. Vuuv tracks property cost basis and calculates MACRS depreciation inside your books, so the number lands on your Schedule E instead of on your CPA's to-do list.

No. Stessa collects rent from tenants, and it does that well, but there's no invoicing feature. If you also do contracting, property services, or any other paid work, you can't bill a client from Stessa; its own blog offers a downloadable invoice template to fill in by hand instead. Vuuv includes invoicing and estimates with online card and ACH payments.

Yes, with a cap. Receipt scanning is limited to 5 scans per month on the free Essentials plan and on Manage; unlimited scanning requires the Pro plan at $28/month billed annually. Vuuv includes AI receipt scanning on its $12/month Pro plan with no monthly cap.

No. Everything in Stessa is organized around rental properties, so income from a side business, freelancing, or self-employment has no home there, and landlords with other income end up keeping a second set of books. Vuuv tracks rentals with Schedule E reports and any other business with Schedule C reports, invoicing, and time tracking in the same app.