UK landlord document tools compared
There is no single best tool here, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling one. What there is: membership bodies that give you templates and a phone number, template shops that hand you a Word file to edit, management software that generates documents as a side feature, free government generators that are genuinely good within their limits, and document engines like ours.
The table below covers all of them, including the free options and the tools we do not beat. Everything in it was read from each provider’s own live site in August 2026. Prices are deliberately absent: they change, a stale one is worse than none, and every provider publishes theirs.
We make DocuTenant, so read our row with that in mind. It is highlighted below rather than hidden among the others, because a comparison that buries its author is doing something worse than one that admits it. The case for us is the last two columns read together: DocuTenant is the only tool here that produces the notices in their prescribed forms and carries your property and tenant details from one document into the next. Three others manage the first. One other manages the second. Nothing else does both, and every claim in the table is checkable on the site it came from.
The market at a glance
| Tool | Best for | Covers | Notices, not just agreements | Reuses your data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DocuTenantThis is us | Every document a tenancy needs, in England and Scotland | England, Scotland. 38 generated, 9 tracked | Notices in their prescribed form: yes | Reuses your data: yes |
| mygov.scot | A free Scottish agreement or notice, one at a time | Scotland only. Four documents | Notices in their prescribed form: yes | Reuses your data: no |
| SAL | Scottish advice at the end of a phone | Scotland only, including legacy tenancy types | Notices in their prescribed form: yes | Reuses your data: no |
| RentDocs | Rent, expenses and paperwork in one dashboard | Claims all four nations. Catalogue is England-centred | Notices in their prescribed form: partly | Reuses your data: yes |
| Landlord Heaven | Taking an England eviction through the county court | Agreements all four nations. Notices England only | Notices in their prescribed form: partly | Reuses your data: no |
| Net Lawman | Unusual lettings you intend to redraft yourself | England, Wales. Scotland nominal | Notices in their prescribed form: partly | Reuses your data: no |
| NRLA | An England advice line and a body that lobbies for you | England, Wales. Scotland via a SAL partnership | Notices in their prescribed form: partly | Reuses your data: no |
| Rocket Lawyer | Legal documents well beyond letting | England, Wales, Scotland agreements. Notices England only | Notices in their prescribed form: partly | Reuses your data: no |
| Simply-Docs | Commercial property alongside residential | England, Wales. No Scotland at all | Notices in their prescribed form: yes | Reuses your data: no |
| Lawpack | A one-off kit to buy outright, no subscription | England kit, plus Scottish agreements and Notice to Leave | Notices in their prescribed form: no | Reuses your data: no |
| Property Hawk | Nothing now. Get your data out and move | England, Wales. Announced closure July 2026 | Notices in their prescribed form: no | Reuses your data: no |
The highlighted row is our own product. Every other row names the one job that tool is genuinely the best answer to, including the jobs we lose.
“Notices, not just agreements” means the possession notice and the rent-increase notice in their prescribed forms, for every jurisdiction the tool claims to cover: Form 3A and Form 4A in England, the schedule 5 and schedule 2 forms in Scotland. A dash means a tool does this for one jurisdiction it covers but not another. It is the clearest dividing line in this market, because almost everyone sells a tenancy agreement and far fewer produce the notices you need to raise the rent or end the tenancy.
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When not to pick us
You want rent tracking, expenses or tax filing. We do none of it and have no plans to. Landlord Studio, Hammock and Landlord Vision are the market for that.
You need tenant find or advertising. OpenRent and the online letting agents do that. We do not advertise property, reference tenants or collect rent.
You let in Scotland and only need an agreement and a notice. The Scottish Government generates both free on mygov.scot, and they are good. We wrote a page about exactly what it covers, including the parts where it will not help you.
You want somebody to phone. The NRLA in England and SAL in Scotland both include an advice line with membership. No document generator is a substitute for a person who knows your situation.
You let in Wales or Northern Ireland. We cover England and Scotland only.
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