Hybrid Comply vs August

Last checked 30 October 2026 · written by the team behind Hybrid Comply

We make Hybrid Comply, so treat this as an informed but interested opinion. The reason it is worth writing is that these two products overlap more than most pairs on this site — both are mobile-first, both are aimed at the compliance problem rather than at lettings agency software, and both have a free tier. The dividing line is real but it is not obvious from either homepage.

Put simply: August keeps the paperwork right. Hybrid Comply proves the building is right.

What August does well

Its compliance checklist approach deserves the reputation it has. From August’s own site:

• A per-property compliance checklist, tailored to the property’s nation, property type and tenancy, with separate journeys for England and Wales versus Scotland. It covers gas safety (CP12), EICR and EPC, deposit protection and prescribed information, Right to Rent and the How to Rent step, and HMO and selective licensing — with links to government resources and “Pro Tips” along the way.
• AI certificate reading. Upload a lease, gas safety certificate or insurance policy from phone, desktop or email and it extracts the key dates and suggests reminders, which you can approve, reject or edit. The site also names “Magic Upload” and a smart tenancy setup that auto-fills details from documents. Adding a property pulls its EPC rating and expiry from government records. That is a genuinely good piece of product design and it removes the single most tedious part of getting set up.
• Reminders by push, email and SMS — for certificates, safety checks, insurance renewals, rent and custom dates.
• Rent tracking via Open Banking, matching payments to tenancies with late and partial payment flags.
• Tenancy management with room-level tracking for HMOs, and maintenance issues reported by tenants then tracked, assigned and resolved.
• A free tenant app for paying rent, reporting issues and accessing documents.
• Making Tax Digital. Income and expense logging in HMRC-recognised categories with quarterly submission from the web app.
• Expense tracking, property insights (EPC, tax bands, valuations), an AI property assistant, and reports with Excel and CSV export.

It positions itself as being for self-managing UK landlords and HMO operators and cites 3,000+ UK landlords and a 4.5-star rating. If that description fits you and you want one app for everything, August is a reasonable place to stop looking.

What Hybrid Comply does

Our own list, with nothing inflated:

• Certificate tracking with expiry reminders — gas safety, EICR, EPC and others. This part genuinely overlaps with August.
• HHSRS hazard assessments across all 21 prescribed hazard categories, scored rather than ticked. Our guide to the 21 hazards shows what that means in practice.
• Move-in and move-out readiness checklists, and Decent Homes checks.
• Routine safety logs for fire, water and emergency lighting — the weekly alarm test and monthly emergency lighting test, dated and kept.
• Photo evidence attached to individual findings.
• Audit-ready PDF report generation and sharing.
• A property Trust Rating score across the portfolio.
• Offline-capable iOS and Android apps plus a web dashboard, syncing across devices.
• AI-assisted guided camera inspections (“Hybrid Visio”) that analyse photographs and answer compliance questions while you are in the room. Both products use AI, but for different jobs: August’s reads documents, ours looks at the building.
• Care and supported-accommodation coverage alongside standard lettings and HMOs.
• Sign-in with Apple, Google or email. Free to download.

And the exclusions: Hybrid Comply is not accounting software and does not do rent collection, tenancy agreements or tenant screening. August does rent tracking and MTD; we do not.

Side by side

“Not described on their site” means exactly that — we did not find it documented publicly on 30 October 2026, not that the product cannot do it.

Choose August if…

• You are a self-managing landlord with a handful of properties and you want one app for compliance paperwork, rent and tax.
• Getting set up fast matters — its AI certificate reading and EPC lookup are the fastest onboarding we saw in this category.
• You want licensing and Right to Rent steps guided for you.
• You want tenants to have an app for rent and maintenance.
• Making Tax Digital needs solving in the same place.

Choose Hybrid Comply if…

• Someone is going to ask you for evidence — a council officer, a funder, an insurer, a commissioner — and a list of in-date certificates is not the answer they want.
• You need HHSRS hazard scoring and Decent Homes checks, not a certificate tick-list. Our HMO inspection checklist is the level of detail we built the product around.
• Inspections happen in properties with no signal, so capture has to work offline and sync later.
• You run care or supported accommodation, where the audit trail requirements are not the same as a standard AST.
• You want the routine logs — fire, water, emergency lighting — held in the same place as the inspections.

Running both

This is a sensible combination and we will say so even though it does not help us sell a platform. August sits well as the per-tenancy record — licensing, rent, tax, tenant communication — while Hybrid Comply handles the physical visits and the evidence pack. There is no integration between them, so properties and certificate dates are entered in both places, and for a two-property landlord that duplication is probably not worth it. For anyone inspecting regularly, or anyone whose reporting is scrutinised by a third party, it usually is.

Before you choose, it is worth reading the certificate deadlines guide and the Awaab’s Law repair clocks. Awaab’s Law in particular is an evidence problem rather than a reminder problem: the clock starts when you are told about a hazard, and what you will need later is a dated record of what you found and what you did.

Common questions

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How we checked this, and what it is worth

Everything said here about another company’s product was read from that company’s own public website on 30 October 2026. We have not run their software end-to-end, we have no access to their roadmaps, and we are not a neutral party — we make one of the products on this page. Treat this as a starting point for your own shortlist, not as a verdict.

Software changes weekly. Features get added, plans get renamed, prices move. Where we say a vendor does something, we found it described on their site; where we are silent on a point, it usually means we could not confirm it either way and chose not to guess rather than put something inaccurate in print. Please verify anything that will decide your purchase on the vendor’s own site:

• August
• August — compliance

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Last checked 30 October 2026. Pricing and features are the vendors’ own published figures and exclude VAT unless they state otherwise. Nothing here is legal, tax or procurement advice.