Vestly and PropRetire side by side
Vestly and PropRetire both keep an Australian investor's rental records and work out tax on them.
In short
The table sets out what each maker's own pages said, with the day each was read.
What it does
Vestly Vestly tracks rent, expenses and interest, models a sale, forecasts the next 12 months and builds a tax pack for the year
PropRetire Spending and ten years. PropRetire drafts properties, loans, super, income and spending for each owner from their documents, works out the tax on a sale, what is left each month and future cashflow year by year, and sends the packs to an accountant or broker
Who it is for and what goes in
Who it is for
Vestly "Built for Australian rental properties" V1
PropRetire Personal is for your own properties. Business is for accountants, brokers and advisers P1
What you record
Vestly Rent, expenses, interest and your live tax position. Pricing lists "Trusts, SMSFs, co-ownership" V1, V2
PropRetire Legal owners, properties, other assets, loans, income and living expenses P2
Reading your documents
Vestly Receipt scan and document import, on Pro V1, V2
PropRetire Statements, letters and leases, dropped in any order P11
Bank exports
Vestly Imports the CSV a bank exports, with no live bank feed V4
PropRetire A bank's CSV, OFX, QFX or XLSX export gives the period it covers, and the balance where the export shows one P18
Price and a free start
Price
Vestly Core A$12 a month or $99 a year. Pro A$16 a month or $129 a year. GST included V1, V2
PropRetire Personal $49 a month. Business from $399 a month. In Australian dollars with GST P1
Free start
Vestly A 14-day free trial, with no card V1, V2
PropRetire A 30-day free trial on every plan, with no credit card P1
Selling a property
Tax on a sale
Vestly "Model a sale before you commit", with the 50% discount for holds over 12 months V3
PropRetire Worked out with the sale and without it P3
A sale from 1 July 2027
Vestly Its CGT calculator says CPI indexing of the cost base and a minimum 30% tax replace the 50% discount for gains from 1 July 2027. The calculator uses today's rules V6
PropRetire Cost base indexation replaces the 50% discount for a person or family trust, the gain from then counts toward a 30% minimum tax for a resident individual, and the gain up to 30 June 2027 keeps the discount P3
Cash over the years
Future cashflow
Vestly A next 12 months forecast, and two scenarios side by side V1, V7
PropRetire Runs once for each option and shows each one's cash and equity year by year P4
Cash over time
Vestly Each property's cashflow, with a 12-month trend chart V1, V7
PropRetire Up to ten years. Carries each legal owner's cash forward month by month for up to ten years P5
Rates, offsets and suburbs
Rate rise test
Vestly "Scenario planning and rate-rise stress tests" V1
PropRetire Raises rates or spending, or cuts income or rent P6
Offset accounts
Vestly Its forecast flags the worst month, so you know what to keep in the offset V7
PropRetire An offset account links to a loan, and interest is worked out after offsets P7
Suburb research
Vestly Not mentioned V1 to V9
PropRetire Scored on a map. Each suburb scored against the rest of its state, on a map P12
Sending to your accountant and broker
Sending to your accountant
Vestly "Share a read-only pack with your accountant", on Pro V1
PropRetire The accountant pack: a LodgeiT workbook for each owner and a PDF P13
Sending to your broker
Vestly A modelled scenario can go read-only to your broker or partner V7
PropRetire Income, living expenses, properties, other assets and loans, with debt to income P14
Firms and more
A firm with many clients
Vestly A free professional workspace lists every client who invites the firm, read-only V5
PropRetire Each person who signs in adds 50 clients P1
Asking clients for records
Vestly The client sends the invitation, and the professional reads but does not edit V5
PropRetire Business's Ask for records sends each client a link P15
Zapier and an API
Vestly Not mentioned V1 to V9
PropRetire Zapier and an API. A Zap adds each new client from your CRM or a form. The client API adds clients too P16, P17
What else the maker names
Vestly Div 40 and 43 depreciation sorted into the categories the return asks for, live negative gearing, calculators and rent-increase letters V2, V3, V8
PropRetire Records each property's depreciation and capital works history for its tax estimates P3
Where does each row come from?
Not mentioned means the maker's own pages did not mention it on the day each source was read, not that the product cannot do it.
Vestly's sources, each with the day it was read:
- V1 vestly.au, undated, read 13 Nov 2026
- V2 vestly.au/pricing, undated, read 13 Nov 2026
- V3 vestly.au/property-investment-software, undated, read 13 Nov 2026
- V4 vestly.au, its list of property apps, verified 25 May 2026, read 13 Nov 2026
- V5 vestly.au/professionals, undated, read 13 Nov 2026
- V6 vestly.au/cgt-calculator-australia, undated, read 13 Nov 2026
- V7 vestly.au/changelog, entries of May and June 2026, read 13 Nov 2026
- V8 vestly.au/faq, undated, read 13 Nov 2026
- V9 vestly.au/how-we-calculate, updated 10 Aug 2026, read 13 Nov 2026
PropRetire's pages, each read on 13 Nov 2026:
What else can I compare?
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