Open House App for Lofty (Formerly Chime)

If you searched for a Chime open house app, start with the name. Chime Technologies rebranded to Lofty on November 7, 2023, and the company kept everything in place through the switch. Per Lofty's own changeover page, usernames, passwords, pricing, and API keys all carried over: "your account will be exactly the way you left it." The sign-in tool you remember as Chime Open House ships today as Lofty Open House. The Android build still shows its lineage, since the package name is com.renren.chime.openhouse.

So the question is not which name to search. It is what you hand a stranger on a Sunday afternoon, and where those names sit on Monday morning. Lofty ships an open house tool of its own, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Here is what that tool does, where OpenHouse does the door better, and how every lead still lands in your Lofty pipeline anyway.

The short version

• Stay with Lofty Open House if your listings have solid signal, you already run every part of your business inside Lofty, and one more app on the iPad is one too many.
• Add OpenHouse if you want capture that survives a dead zone, a QR code visitors use on their own phones, a locked single screen nobody can wander out of, buyer representation captured at sign-in, and a seller report at the end. Your leads still flow into Lofty automatically.

Yes, Lofty (formerly Chime) has an open house app

Credit where it is due. Lofty Open House is a free download published by Lofty Inc., and the App Store listing says plainly who it is for: "Lofty subscribers can use Lofty Open House to build simple open house forms." Those forms collect visitor contact details during an event and deliver them into the Lofty CRM. Per Lofty's help center, a visitor who hits submit is registered in the CRM immediately, carrying an Open House source and a tag with the listing address.

That is a genuine advantage: leads land in the system you already work, with no import step. We will not score cheap points off the App Store rating either, because with a handful of ratings the sample is too small to mean anything.

What the tool inherits is the shape of a platform feature. It is for subscribers, so it lives and dies with your Lofty seat. It expects the tablet to be signed into your Lofty account. And because the form's job is to post into the CRM, the form wants a connection.

Plenty of agents run Lofty for reasons that have nothing to do with open houses. In July 2025, eXp Realty launched its CRM of Choice program and named Lofty a preferred provider alongside BoldTrail and Cloze, included in the standard monthly fee. If your CRM was picked for you, the open house tool arrived in the same box. Worth asking whether it is the one you would have chosen for the front door.

OpenHouse vs the built-in Lofty open house tool

Every row traces back to the same split. One is a CRM feature that assumes the CRM is reachable. The other is built for three hours in a house that may not have Wi-Fi, with strangers holding your device.

Capture that survives a dead zone

Vacant listings are the worst connectivity in real estate. The sellers moved out, the internet got cancelled, and the brick colonial has one bar in the kitchen and none in the back bedroom where you set up the table.

The OpenHouse iPad and iPhone kiosk is fully offline. Sign-in, qualification, and every lead write happen on the device with zero network calls, so airplane mode is a supported setup rather than an edge case. Queued leads sync the moment the device reconnects, and then post into Lofty. A form whose job is to reach a cloud CRM cannot make that promise, and a spinner between a visitor and the form is a lead you never had.

Visitors sign in on their own phone

Four groups arrive at once and one iPad becomes a line. Display or print the listing QR code, and each visitor scans it and fills the form in their own phone browser. Nothing to install for them, no second device for you, and no one standing there watching a stranger type. You can run an entire event on QR alone and never carry a kiosk at all.

A single screen nobody can wander out of

Here is the part worth thinking about. A tablet signed into your Lofty account is your CRM, your pipeline, and every contact you own, sitting on a table in a stranger's hands.

OpenHouse hands over one screen. Kiosk mode plus iOS Guided Access locks the device to the sign-in form: no app switching, no settings, no back button into your data, and no chance of the next visitor reading the last visitor's phone number. The single-screen form is deliberate too, because a multi-step wizard is where sign-ins go to be abandoned, and an abandoned sign-in is a lead Lofty never receives.

Disclosure captured at the door

The NAR settlement changed what happens at an open house, and buyer representation stopped being a conversation you can wing. OpenHouse captures a timestamped non-agency disclosure as part of sign-in, so the record exists without you giving a speech to everyone who walks through. That same answer does real work downstream, which the next section covers.

A seller report to send on Monday

When the door closes, OpenHouse turns the afternoon into a seller report: traffic, visitor types, feedback, and interest levels in something you can send or bring to a listing appointment. It is the difference between telling a seller it went well and showing them.

Your leads still land in Lofty, automatically

None of this asks you to move off Lofty. That is the point.

Connect once: copy your API key from your Lofty settings, paste it into the Connections page in OpenHouse, and send a test. Every sign-in after that posts to Lofty as a new lead carrying the source OpenHouse App, qualifier tags, a note describing the visit and the property, and a buyer, seller, or renter type so your existing routing and campaigns fire the way they already do.

Two behaviors are worth knowing. Visitors who say they already have an agent are held back from Lofty by default, so your campaigns never chase another agent's client, and the lead still appears in your OpenHouse list and your export. And leads captured offline on an iPad deliver server-side after the device syncs, which means your API key never sits on the kiosk device.

If your team also runs Follow Up Boss, HubSpot, kvCORE, BoldTrail, or Sierra Interactive, those connect the same way, plus Zapier and plain webhooks. And CSV, PDF, and vCard export is always one tap away, so nothing is ever trapped.

What it costs

OpenHouse is $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year per seat, and the first month is free. Teams buy per seat and get cloud sync plus a leaderboard on top. If you ever stop paying, the app drops into a read-only mode where every lead you captured stays viewable and exportable, forever. Leads are never held hostage and your data is never sold.

Stay with Lofty Open House if…

• Your listings have reliable signal and a connected form has never failed you at the door.
• You want the fewest moving parts. One platform, one login, one vendor to call.
• You do not need offline, QR, disclosure capture, or a seller report, because your events are small and your notes are good.

Add OpenHouse if…

• You work vacant or rural listings. No signal, no problem, and no lost sign-ins.
• You want visitors on their own phones. QR self-sign-in keeps the line moving and needs no kiosk device.
• You are handing a device to strangers. A locked single screen is a very different object than a signed-in CRM tablet.
• You want the record and the report. Timestamped disclosure at sign-in, seller report at the end.
• You want your leads to stay yours. They flow into Lofty on their own, and they are still exportable from OpenHouse no matter what happens to any subscription.

Start free at app.openhousekiosk.com, see how OpenHouse stacks up against the rest of the field, or read what good open house follow-up looks like once the leads are in Lofty.

Frequently asked questions

Does Lofty (Chime) have an open house app?

Yes. Lofty ships Lofty Open House, a free download from Lofty Inc. that builds sign-in forms and delivers submissions into the Lofty CRM. The App Store listing is clear that it is for Lofty subscribers, so it needs a paid Lofty seat, a signed-in tablet, and a connection to post the form.

Is Chime the same as Lofty?

Same company, new name. Chime Technologies rebranded to Lofty on November 7, 2023. Logins, accounts, API keys, and pricing carried over untouched, so the tool you knew as Chime Open House is now Lofty Open House. The Android build still ships under the package name com.renren.chime.openhouse.

Why use OpenHouse if Lofty already has an open house tool?

Five reasons that all happen at the door: the iPad kiosk captures with no signal at all, visitors can sign in on their own phones from a QR code, the screen locks to one form so nobody reaches your CRM, buyer representation disclosure is captured and timestamped at sign-in, and you get a seller report to send on Monday. The Lofty tool is a form that posts to the CRM. OpenHouse is built for the three hours in front of it.

Do leads still go into Lofty automatically?

Yes. Paste your Lofty API key into OpenHouse once, and every sign-in after that posts to Lofty as a new lead with the source OpenHouse App, qualifier tags, a note describing the visit, and a buyer, seller, or renter type so your routing rules fire. Nothing changes about how you follow up.

Does it work offline?

The iPhone and iPad kiosk does, completely. Sign-in, qualification, and every lead write happen on the device with no network calls, which is what a vacant listing with no Wi-Fi demands. Queued leads sync when the device reconnects and then post into Lofty. The browser app and QR self-sign-in deliver in real time instead, so those need a connection.

Do visitors have to download anything?

No. Print or display the listing QR code, the visitor scans it, and the sign-in form opens in their own phone browser. No app install, no account, and no waiting for the person ahead of them to finish typing on your iPad.