AI alternative to property portals
Tired of scrolling Rightmove and Zoopla?
idratherbe is an AI-led, lifestyle-based alternative for finding a home in the UK and Ireland. Tell idratherbe your story once — our AI matches you to homes from estate agents across the whole market, ranked by how well each fits your life. Free for home seekers.
What is idratherbe?
idratherbe is an AI-led home-finding platform for the United Kingdom and Ireland. Instead of typing filters into a property portal, home seekers tell idratherbe about their lives and its AI matches them to homes from estate agents across the whole market — ranked by how well each home fits the life they want to live. It is completely free for home seekers; it is free for estate agents to list.
The problem with property portals
Rightmove, Zoopla, and Daft are search engines for listings. They are powerful at showing you what is available, but they cannot tell you what fits your life.
You set a price range and a bedroom count and the portal hands you thousands of results — most of which are irrelevant. You scroll, you filter, you bookmark, you forget. The homes that genuinely fit you — the quiet street with the right school, the short commute, the fast broadband — are buried in the noise.
Portal incentives do not help. They earn from agents listing homes, not from seekers finding the right one. More listings means more revenue for them.idratherbe is built the other way around: neutral, cross-agency, and firmly on the seeker's side.
idratherbe vs property portals
| Property portals | idratherbe | |
|---|---|---|
| How it works | You set filters (price, bedrooms, area) and scroll thousands of listings | You describe your life once — the AI matches and ranks homes for you |
| What it considers | Price, bedrooms, location radius | 30+ lifestyle factors: commute, schools, broadband, green space, noise, neighbourhood feel |
| Whose side it is on | The portal earns from agents listing — incentive to show you more, not better | Neutral and cross-agency — works on behalf of the home seeker |
| Coverage | Agents who pay to list on that specific portal | Homes from estate agents across the whole UK & Ireland market |
| Match explanation | Sorting options (newest, price). No explanation. | Every match comes with an idratherbe Score and plain-English reasons: "8 min walk to station", "Outstanding school nearby" |
| Cost to home seekers | Free to browse | Free — always |
How idratherbe works
- 1Tell idratherbe your story. Describe your commute, neighbourhood priorities, must-haves and lifestyle factors — not just a price and a bedroom count.
- 2The AI matches across the whole market. idratherbe searches homes from estate agents across the entire UK & Ireland market and ranks each by how well it fits your story.
- 3See why each home matched. Every match shows an idratherbe Score and plain-English reasons: "8 min walk to station", "Outstanding school nearby", "Quiet street".
- 4Message agents directly — in idratherbe. Your contact details are never shared with agents unless you choose to. All communication happens inside idratherbe's secure inbox.