On July 29, 2026 (Beijing time), Hint announced the official launch of its home management app on iOS in the US with free downloads available. TechCrunch reported this release on the same day. The company positions the product as a continuously updated entry point for house information and tasks; it is currently only confirmed to be available on the US App Store, while the website still lists Google Play as 'coming soon' without providing an Android version date. This launch does not include previously disclosed overseas markets, and official materials do not disclose download numbers, active users, or actual adoption of paid plans on the first day.
Founding Team and House Archive Entry
Hint was co-founded by Martha Stewart, Yih-Han Ma, and Kyle Rush. The official announcement lists Ma as Co-Founder and CEO, and Rush as Co-Founder and CTO. The US App Store page shows the app name as Hint (Home Intelligence), with Home Hub Labs, Inc. listed as both developer and seller. Public materials do not list a daily management role for Stewart within the company nor disclose shareholdings, board seats, or specific divisions among the three co-founders; this information cannot be supplemented based on public disclosures.
According to the company's explanation, users first input their house address, after which the system builds a house archive using public records, environmental and utility data, and incorporates homeowner-provided inspection reports, warranty documents, and appliance manuals. The official website lists items such as age of the home, soil type, climate, and flood risk as part of the product's input description. Public materials do not disclose public record suppliers, utility data partners, address matching methods, update frequencies, error correction processes, or independent accuracy measurement results for house archives.
Four Function Groups and Recommendation Boundaries
The official announcement divides the product into four functional groups. Property Historian is used to centrally store documents and details related to the home, while Personal Home Advisor provides guidance tailored to specific properties, covering decisions on seasonal maintenance and renovations. The website further states that the app reads inspection reports, warranty information, and work orders left by previous owners, retrieving relevant content when needed. These functional boundaries come from Hint's product description and App Store; public materials do not provide document reading accuracy rates, supported file formats, error handling mechanisms, or arrangements for human review.
The other two groups are Proactive Management and Personalized Commerce. The former monitors warranty expiration dates and rate changes according to company explanations, while the latter connects service providers and offers personalized recommendations; Hint claims these recommendations are not influenced by its commercial relationships with service providers. The company does not disclose recommendation ranking methods, lists of connectable service providers, commissions or referral arrangements, nor provide third-party audits, so recommendation independence can only be recorded as a company policy claim rather than an externally verified product result.
App Capabilities, Pricing, and Funding Background
The US App Store page also lists specific interactions: creating seasonal maintenance plans, reading inspection reports and insurance documents, marking renewal and expiration dates, providing issue identification and handling guidance based on user-submitted photos, finding local professionals, and comparing insurance, utility, and internet options. The page does not specify which house issues are covered by photo judgment or provide error rates, service provider coverage areas, or the completeness of comparison results. The app requires iPhones to run iOS 18.0 or higher; this parameter comes from the current store page.
Hint currently offers free downloads in the US for iOS but simultaneously states that advanced features will be included in a future subscription service; launch timing, pricing, boundaries of free functions, and trial rules have not been disclosed. In an earlier announcement on May 13, Hint disclosed a $10 million seed round, which is background to the summer product launch and not new funding from July 29. Release materials from July also do not disclose revenue, costs, paid conversion rates, service provider splits, or subsequent financing plans, making it impossible to judge commercial performance based on this.
Privacy Disclosure and Unreleased Information
Privacy statements need separate reading. Hint's website states that the company does not sell user data, share data without permission, nor use data for model training; these are public policy statements from the company. The Apple page displays privacy tags filled out by developers, indicating categories such as purchase records, contact information, user content, identifiers, usage data, and diagnostic information may be associated with identity and used for marketing, analysis, personalization, and application features; Apple explicitly states that this information has not been verified by them. The former discusses selling, sharing, and training, while the latter discusses collection categories and uses; these descriptions cannot be simplified as mutually exclusive.
Currently unreleased items include Android and non-US market launch dates, AI models used and their suppliers, public record and utility data sources, accuracy and security evaluations, data retention periods, technical implementation of deletion processes, recommendation ranking methods, and commercial cooperation mechanisms. The company has also not disclosed user numbers, savings amounts, maintenance reduction rates, revenue or satisfaction data. Hint's claims about reducing costs, expensive repairs, and maintaining property value can therefore only be attributed to company goals and cannot be written as achieved results in the absence of independent verification.