The only condo app you’ll ever need.

A free app that runs the everyday side of your condo from residents’ phones: answering visitors at the gate, opening doors, booking facilities, paying maintenance fees by PayNow, estate notices, a community forum and a marketplace. Management runs it all from one console, Schonell Manager. It’s easy to use, so residents need no training.

Yes. The Schonell App is a completely new app, rebuilt from the ground up, and it replaces both. If you use Schonell Interphone, simply update it from the App Store or Google Play and it becomes the Schonell App. If you use Schonell Access, download the Schonell App and sign in. Either way your account carries over, so your estate, doors and visitor passes are already there. No re-registration needed.

Yes, for every estate and every resident, with no trial, no expiry and no hidden fees. Residents pay nothing to download or use it. Estates that joined us in 2015 still pay nothing for the app today, and we’re happy to put that in writing. The only paid option is the Comprehensive plan, which adds our intercoms and access control.

Most condo apps are made by software companies. We make intercoms, and the app is how residents answer them. That means three things. The app stays free, because we don’t need it to earn our living. Payments go by PayNow straight into your estate’s bank account, with no card fees and no middleman holding the money. And the intercom, gates and app all come from one team in Singapore.

Yes. The app needs no new hardware and works alongside the intercom and gates you have today: bookings, payments, notices, visitor passes, the forum and the marketplace all work on their own. To answer the door and open gates from the phone, add the Comprehensive plan later. Residents keep the same app and account, and the new features simply switch on. Hardware is installed by our authorised distributors after a free site inspection.

Your management council or building management approves it, and most estates are up and running within days, with minimal disruption.

Yes. Schonell can run alongside your current app for as long as you like, with no switch-over date and nothing to cancel first. Many estates move residents over while their current contract runs out, then simply don’t renew. One tip: keep things like facility bookings on one app at a time, so the same BBQ pit isn’t booked twice.

No. Past bookings and payment records stay with your current provider, and your estate starts fresh on Schonell. Most councils export what they need for their records before they move.

Yes. Resident data is stored in Singapore, in a cloud we run ourselves, and is never sent overseas. We’re PDPA compliant, we never sell data and there are no pop-up or banner ads. Payments go by PayNow straight into the estate’s own bank account, so the money never passes through us or a payment company. There are no transaction fees, and management confirms each payment before it’s marked paid.

Residents can buy, sell or give away things in the app, from home bakes to prams. Explore shows listings from your estate and the estates nearby. Your estate shows only your neighbours. For other estates we only show the area, like Tanglin, never the unit or estate name. Every listing needs a photo and the item’s condition, and any listing can be reported. Buyers can ask questions in public or message the seller privately. Residents arrange payment and collection themselves. Marketplace may include sponsored content.

LPR (licence plate recognition) is a camera at the carpark barrier that reads your car plate and opens the gate. Schonell provides the LPR software and connects it to the app, at no additional software fee. We don’t sell the cameras. If your estate already has LPR, we connect to it. If not, our authorised distributors can quote for and install it. Residents register their cars and send visitor passes in the app, and management approves each car. Your estate can still set its own carpark charges, such as a fee for a second car.