About PropScribe
What is PropScribe?
PropScribe is report writing software for UK residential surveyors. You capture notes and photos on site with the iOS app, PropScribe uses AI to turn your notes into a first draft laid out in the RICS Level 2 or Level 3 report sections, and you review, edit and sign off the report on the web or your phone before exporting it as a PDF.
Who is PropScribe for?
Chartered and residential surveyors in the UK who write RICS Home Survey reports, working on their own or in a firm. Sole surveyors use the Professional plan, and survey practices can set up a firm account with a seat for each surveyor.
Which RICS survey levels does PropScribe support?
RICS Home Survey Level 2 and Level 3. Both are available on the free trial and on paid plans. Level 1 reports aren't supported.
Does PropScribe follow the RICS Home Survey Standard?
The Level 2 and Level 3 reports are built around the report structure in the current (1st) edition of the RICS Home Survey Standard: the same lettered sections, elements and condition ratings. PropScribe isn't certified or approved by RICS, and using it doesn't change your own obligations under the standard. You're still responsible for the inspection and the report. Our guide to the 2nd edition covers what's coming.
Is PropScribe affiliated with or endorsed by RICS?
No. PropScribe is an independent product made by PropScribe Ltd. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by RICS.
On site and the apps
Can I dictate my survey notes on site?
Yes. In the iOS app you open the section you're inspecting and speak your notes, and they're turned into text as you go. Where your iPhone or iPad supports it, speech recognition runs on the device itself. You can take photos against the same section so they end up in the right place in the report.
Does PropScribe work without signal?
Yes for capture. Notes and photos are saved on your phone and sync to your account when you're back online, so a roof space or a rural property with no signal isn't a problem. The AI drafting happens on our servers, so that part waits until you have a connection.
Is there an iPhone app?
Yes, there's a native iOS app for iPhone and iPad. It's a free public beta on Apple's TestFlight for now, and the iPhone app page explains how to join. It's where you capture notes, dictation and photos on site, and you can also read and edit your reports in it. There isn't an Android app at the moment.
Can I use PropScribe on my computer?
Yes. The web app runs in a modern browser and is where most surveyors review and edit the draft, add branding, preview and export the PDF and email the report. Everything syncs between the web and the iOS app.
What does the finished report look like?
A PDF laid out in the RICS Level 2 or Level 3 report format, with your photos and your own branding on Professional and firm plans. You can view a sample report. During the trial, PDF previews are unlimited but watermarked. Clean PDFs and emailing reports to clients need Professional.
AI and your sign-off
How does PropScribe use AI?
The AI turns your own site notes into report wording for each section, and can rewrite a passage when you ask it to, for example to make it clearer or shorter. It works from what you recorded on site. It doesn't inspect the property, choose your condition ratings for you or send anything to your client.
Who is responsible for what the report says?
You are. The AI gives you a first draft, and you read it, change anything you'd word differently and decide what goes in the final report. Nothing is sent to a client until you export or send it yourself.
Is there a record of how AI was used on a report?
Yes. Every AI-assisted edit is logged with the section, the time and the AI model used, and you can export that record for each survey. It's there if a client, insurer or RICS ever asks how a report was produced.
Is my survey data used to train AI models?
No. We don't use your data to train AI models. Your notes are sent to a third-party AI service only to produce the draft text you asked for. The privacy policy has the details.
Your data
Where is my data stored?
PropScribe is EU-hosted. Your surveys, photos and account data are stored with Supabase in the EU (Stockholm), encrypted in transit and at rest.
Can I get my data out of PropScribe?
Yes. In Settings you can export all your data, which downloads your surveys, report text and account details in one file. You can also download each finished report as a PDF. If you want to leave, you can delete your account from Settings too.
Prices and plans
How much does PropScribe cost?
Professional costs £39.99 a month or £399.99 a year on web billing, and includes 8 surveys a month. There's a 7-day free trial first, with no card needed. Subscribing through the App Store costs a little more. Firms pay per seat instead.
How does the free trial work?
Sign up and get 7 days to try PropScribe with up to 3 surveys and 10 AI rewrites. No card needed, so nothing is charged when the trial ends. If you want to keep going you can subscribe to Professional, and your trial work stays with you.
What happens after my trial ends?
You can't create new surveys until you subscribe to Professional, and you're never charged unless you choose to. Everything you drafted during the trial is kept and is there the moment you subscribe.
How does pay-per-survey work?
Professional includes 8 surveys each month. Need more and each extra survey is £6.49 on the web. Your overage is capped at £100 a month, so once you hit the cap every additional survey that month is free.
Monthly or yearly billing?
Pay £39.99 a month, or £399.99 a year and save compared with twelve monthly payments. Both unlock the same Professional features.
Can I cancel Professional anytime?
Yes. Cancel whenever you like and you keep access until the end of your current billing period. We don't bill partial months after that.
Firms and teams
Do you offer team or firm accounts?
Yes. Firms pay £34.99 per seat a month, or £349.99 a year, from a minimum of 3 seats. Every surveyor gets their own login, and each seat adds 8 surveys to a pool the whole team shares each month. Extra pooled surveys are £5.99 each. Firm accounts don't have a free trial. See the For firms page or talk to our team.
Who manages a firm account?
The firm manager. They invite surveyors, remove leavers and pass their seats on, get one invoice for the whole firm, and can see every surveyor's surveys and open a read-only copy of any report. Surveyors just sign in and get on with their work.
Can reports carry my firm's branding?
Yes. On Professional and firm plans your logo and details go on your reports. Branding isn't part of the free trial.
Try it on your next survey.
Capture on site, get a first draft, then review and sign it off yourself.
Free for 7 days, then £39.99 a month if you upgrade. No card needed.