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Create an initial profile, maintenance plan, and document library without assembling everything manually.
Independent tool overview
Hint at a glance
Hint is Martha Stewart's iPhone home-management app for property profiles, seasonal maintenance, document organization, photo-based repair guidance, service referrals, and household deal comparisons.
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- Developer
- Home Hub Labs, Inc.
- Co-founder
- Martha Stewart
- Platform
- iPhone; Android coming soon
- App price
- Free to download
- Language
- English
- Primary use
- Home maintenance and ownership planning
Overview
What Hint is
Hint, developed by Home Hub Labs and co-founded by Martha Stewart, is a home-intelligence app that builds a property profile from an address and public data. It organizes information such as the home's age, climate, soil, and local risks, then turns that context into a personalized maintenance plan.
Users can upload inspection reports, insurance policies, bills, warranties, and work orders to create a searchable home library. When a problem appears, Hint can analyze a photo, explain what may be happening, help distinguish urgent work from something that can wait, suggest next steps, and provide context for evaluating a contractor quote.
Hint is currently an iPhone-only product; its website says Android is coming soon. It is useful as an organizer and first-pass advisor, but photos and AI guidance cannot replace an on-site inspection by a licensed professional for electrical, gas, structural, fire, water, health, or other safety-critical issues.
Use cases
Who Hint is best for
The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.
Seasonal maintenance
Track tasks and risks based on the specific home, local climate, and time of year.
Home-document organization
Keep inspection reports, policies, bills, warranties, and prior work records together and easier to retrieve.
First-pass problem triage
Use a photo and description to understand possible causes, urgency, and the type of professional who may be needed.
Quote and service comparisons
Get context for evaluating repair quotes and compare insurance, utilities, internet, and other home services.
Capabilities
Core Hint features
Address-based home profile
Maps property details and environmental context such as age, climate, soil, elevation, and risk factors.
Personalized maintenance plan
Builds a task schedule around the home and season, with reminders for work, renewals, and deadlines.
Document intelligence
Reads uploaded inspection reports, insurance documents, warranties, bills, and work records and keeps them in a home library.
Photo-based issue guidance
Lets a homeowner photograph a visible problem and receive an explanation of what it may be and how to respond.
Urgency and quote context
Helps identify what may need immediate attention, what might wait, who to call, and whether a quote appears reasonable.
Local professional referrals
Can connect users with service providers for jobs that require outside help.
Household service shopping
Supports comparisons across insurance, utilities, internet, and other home-related products and services.
Process
How the Hint workflow works
Step 1
Create the home profile
Install the iPhone app, enter the address, and review every imported property fact for accuracy.
Step 2
Add authoritative documents
Upload the inspection report, current policies, warranties, bills, manuals, and prior repair records.
Step 3
Review the maintenance plan
Confirm which tasks apply to the actual equipment, materials, climate, and condition of the home.
Step 4
Document a problem
Take clear photos, describe symptoms and timing, and note any sounds, odors, leaks, heat, or recent work.
Step 5
Check urgency safely
Use the guidance as a starting point and contact emergency services or a licensed professional when a hazard may be present.
Step 6
Compare scope and quotes
Make sure competing estimates cover the same diagnosis, materials, permits, warranty, cleanup, and timeline.
Step 7
Record the completed work
Save invoices, photos, warranties, and the final scope so the home history stays useful.
Cost
Hint pricing and free plan
Hint's iPhone app is currently listed as free to download. The website and App Store do not publish a fixed subscription price; Hint's terms say some services are free while paid products or subscriptions may present pricing when a user enrolls.
iPhone app
Free to download
The current U.S. App Store listing shows the app as free.
- No public in-app purchase price is listed
- An account and home address are used for personalization
- Mobile data charges may still apply
Paid Hint features
Not publicly listed
Hint's terms allow for paid products and automatically renewing subscriptions, with pricing shown at enrollment.
- Review the in-app price before purchasing
- Subscription terms may change for future billing cycles
- Taxes and payment-processor charges may apply
Third-party home services
Quoted separately
Contractors, insurance, utilities, internet, and other referred services have their own prices and terms.
- Compare like-for-like scopes
- Verify licensing, insurance, and warranties
- Hint is not the provider of third-party work
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Assessment
Hint strengths and limitations
Where it stands out
- Combines maintenance, documents, repairs, and household services in one home-specific app
- Address-based setup can reduce the work needed to build an initial home profile
- Seasonal planning is more actionable than generic home-maintenance checklists
- Photo triage and quote context can help homeowners ask better questions
- The company says user data is not sold or used to train models
- Free current download lowers the barrier to trying the product
What to consider
- The app is currently limited to iPhone and English; Android is not yet available
- Imported public property records can be incomplete or wrong and need verification
- AI photo analysis cannot inspect hidden damage or safely diagnose every electrical, gas, structural, water, fire, or health hazard
- A fair-price estimate does not replace comparable written bids from qualified local professionals
- Third-party referrals and purchases are governed by the provider's own terms and privacy practices
- The privacy policy describes collection of detailed home, document, device, activity, and public-record data
- The current site does not publish fixed prices for possible paid features or subscriptions
- The terms include mandatory individual arbitration and a class-action waiver unless the user follows the permitted opt-out process
Compare
Hint alternatives
The right alternative depends on the specific output, workflow, controls and budget your project requires.
Consulting
HomeScore
Choose HomeScore when the main decision is evaluating a home before or during a purchase rather than ongoing maintenance.
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Home Style Advisor
Use Home Style Advisor for photo-based decor recommendations rather than repairs, records, and maintenance.
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Interior Designer
Consider Interior Designer when renovation concepts and room design are the priority.
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ChatGPT
Use ChatGPT for general home-maintenance questions when you do not need a persistent property profile or service marketplace.
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Hint FAQs
What is Hint?
Hint is a home-management iPhone app from Home Hub Labs, co-founded by Martha Stewart, that combines property information, maintenance planning, document organization, repair guidance, and service comparisons.
Is the Hint home app free?
The current iPhone app is free to download. Hint does not publish a fixed subscription rate on its site or App Store listing, though its terms allow paid products and subscriptions to be offered in the app.
Is Hint available on Android?
Not yet. Hint's website says Google Play support is coming soon, while the live app is currently listed as iPhone-only.
What documents can I store in Hint?
Hint highlights inspection reports, insurance policies, bills, warranties, work orders, and other records related to the home.
Can Hint diagnose a home repair from a photo?
It can provide a first-pass explanation and urgency guidance, but a photo cannot reveal every hidden or safety-critical condition. Use a licensed professional for high-risk problems.
Does Hint sell my data or use it to train AI?
Hint says it never sells user data and never uses it to train models. Its privacy policy still permits operational sharing with service providers and, when users select relevant services, home-service partners.
How does Hint know information about my home?
It combines details you submit with information from public sources such as property-tax databases, then personalizes the home profile and maintenance plan.
Can Hint tell me whether a contractor quote is fair?
It can provide useful context, but local labor, materials, permits, access, warranties, and scope all affect price. Compare detailed written estimates before choosing a contractor.
Bottom line
Our Hint verdict
Hint has a strong premise: make the home itself the organizing unit for maintenance, documents, repairs, renewals, and service shopping. That is more useful than a generic AI chat when the imported profile and uploaded records are accurate. The current iPhone-only availability, unlisted future paid pricing, substantial home-data footprint, and limits of photo-based diagnosis mean users should treat it as an organizer and decision aid—not an inspector, licensed contractor, insurer, or emergency service.
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