Is this just another AI image tool?

No. Midjourney and DALL-E invent scenes from text prompts — beautiful for art, disqualifying for a listing. Plotpane is a structure-preserving pipeline: your room geometry, windows, and floor plan stay exact. We stage, re-light, swap skies, declutter, and enhance your actual photo. No hallucinated architecture, no invented rooms.

How does it differ from BoxBrownie or Styldod?

BoxBrownie and Styldod are human-edit services: you upload, a retoucher works overnight, you get a result in 24–48 hours at $2–$32 per image per treatment. They also sell things we do not have at all — floor plans, renderings, item removal by a person who can ask you what you meant. Plotpane is one machine pass: you pick one of seven tools, and the image comes back in about two minutes for one credit, whichever tool you picked, on a flat monthly subscription. Stacking two treatments on one photo means running it twice.

Will the MLS accept AI-staged photos?

Yes, when disclosed. NAR guidelines, California AB 723, and REBNY Rule 3.3 all allow virtually staged photos provided the listing discloses them. Every Plotpane export embeds invisible XMP disclosure metadata so the staging record travels with the file. You still handle the listing-remarks disclosure in your MLS portal — that's the part only you can do.

Won't the AI add things to my listing that aren't really there?

Every render is sent with a preserve list as well as an instruction. It names one operation and forbids the rest: do not touch windows, doors, walls, ceilings, floors, cabinetry or fixtures unless the instruction names them; do not remove or conceal a defect, stain or crack; do not change what is visible through glass, and never invent a view. Furniture is added to empty rooms; named objects are removed from furnished ones; sky and light are re-graded. If you do see something invented, that is a bug — report the render in the app and the credit comes back.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes — one click in the Stripe billing portal from your dashboard. Billing stops immediately, remaining credits stay usable through the end of the billing period, and there's no cancellation fee.

Do my renders count as 'edits' under NAR rules?

Yes — any AI-generated or AI-modified image is considered an edit requiring disclosure under NAR's standards. That's why every Plotpane export writes invisible XMP disclosure metadata by default. The flag is machine-readable by MLS tooling and survives Lightroom round-trips. You still add the disclosure line to your listing remarks; we make sure the image itself is self-describing.

United States

Trulia listing photo upload guide — for agents working the Zillow Group pipeline

Trulia doesn't have its own upload form. It never has, not really — and since the Zillow Group acquisition in 2015, Trulia listings are pulled from the same MLS-to-Zillow pipeline that feeds Zillow.com and HotPads. If you're searching how to post on Trulia, the honest answer is: you post to your MLS (or to Zillow for FSBO), and Trulia inherits the photos downstream. That means every photo rule Zillow enforces shows up on Trulia too — 1024×683 minimum, 2048×1536 recommended, 25 MB per file, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIF only, no HEIC. The twist worth knowing: Trulia's consumer app skews millennial and first-time-buyer, and its tile grid compresses harder than Zillow's, so a 1600-wide source that looks fine on Zillow lands as pixel mush on a Trulia mobile tile. Ship full-resolution at the source or watch your listing lose the scroll on a phone.

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How Trulia photo upload actually works (hint: it's Zillow Group)

Trulia is a Zillow Group subsidiary — the 2015 acquisition merged the back-end so completely that Trulia support's own help center now points users to Zillow to add, edit, or remove home photos. There is no standalone 'trulia agent portal' with a photo uploader; the real paths are three: (1) list on your MLS and the feed hits Trulia automatically, (2) FSBO through Zillow's For Sale by Owner flow and Trulia inherits the syndication, or (3) if you're a rental operator, post via Zillow Rentals Network, which feeds Trulia Rentals and HotPads in the same push. The governing spec is the Zillow Group Listings Quality Policy, which Trulia explicitly links to from trulia.com/info/listings-quality-policy. Bottom line for agents: there's no 'Trulia-only' photo workflow to optimize — you optimize for Zillow Group's pipeline and Trulia comes along for the ride.

Official Trulia photo requirements (inherited from Zillow, 2026)

Trulia Photo Requirements for 2026 are the Zillow Group specs, confirmed against the Listings Quality Policy and rentals network docs. Recommended: 2048×1536 pixels at a 4:3 landscape aspect. Minimum: 1024×683. Per-file cap: 25 MB. Accepted formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF. HEIC is rejected — iPhone shooters must convert before upload (most export flows do this silently, but the conversion drops HDR tone data you then can't recover). Photos run through Google's safe-image filter, so faces, license plates, and anything flagged as inappropriate get auto-rejected at the Zillow side, which means they never reach Trulia either. Photo count inherits from your MLS feed; FSBO-via-Zillow caps at the Zillow limit. Listings with fewer than ten photos statistically underperform on both platforms, and Trulia's mobile tile grid — the one that feeds the Trulia app and the crime-map/school-boundary overlays — punishes low-count, low-resolution sets harder than Zillow's desktop grid does.

Recommended: 2048×1536 (4:3 landscape)
Minimum: 1024×683 pixels
Per-file cap: 25 MB
Accepted: JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF — no HEIC
Google safe-image filter applies (faces, plates auto-flag)
Target 10+ photos — fewer underperform measurably

Why Trulia tiles break down harder than Zillow tiles

Same source, different compression. Trulia's audience — per Zillow Group's own positioning — skews millennial and first-time-buyer, which means Trulia traffic is more mobile-app-heavy than Zillow's. The Trulia app's tile grid on a 6-inch phone is smaller than Zillow's equivalent and is flanked by neighborhood overlays (Crime Maps, School Boundary Maps, Local Ratings, Commute Times, Affordability Calculator — the features Trulia has used to differentiate from Zillow since 2011). That overlay real estate eats tile width, so Trulia compresses photos more aggressively to hit mobile page-weight budgets. The practical effect: a 1600-wide JPG that looks crisp on Zillow's 1440-wide desktop card shows visible block artifacts on Trulia's 375-wide mobile tile. The fix isn't fighting the compressor — it's shipping a clean full-resolution source so the downsample path has enough signal to survive two compression passes (Zillow's ingest + Trulia's mobile re-encode).

The Trulia rejection patterns agents keep hitting

Trulia rejections are Zillow rejections with a mobile-display twist. The recurring killers in agent support threads: thumbnails below 1024×683 (MLS legacy listings from 2018-2020 are the worst offenders), vertical iPhone shots as the hero image that crop to a squashed 4:3 tile and lose the subject, warm white-balance casts that read neutral on a calibrated monitor but orange on a cheap Android OLED, and — the Trulia-specific one — photos where the primary-suite interior dominates but the exterior/street view is missing, which hurts on Trulia because its neighborhood-first UX foregrounds exterior and block-context photos in the tile.

Below-minimum thumbnails from stale MLS feeds
Vertical hero images (4:3 tile squashes them)
Google safe-image filter flags (faces, plates, etc.)
Warm interior cast that reads orange on mobile OLEDs
No exterior/street photo in the top three slots
HEIC files that got uploaded without conversion

How Plotpane's workflow meets the Trulia (Zillow Group) spec

Plotpane ships a JPEG at quality 92 — roughly 2.4K on the long edge, about 4.7K if you spend a second credit — which clears Zillow's 2048×1536 recommendation with room left for two compression passes, and keeps the frame you shot rather than recropping it. Running the whole set as one batch — 10 photos on Starter, 50 on Pro, 150 on Agency — is what agents actually use for Trulia: first-time buyers scroll fast, and a 20-photo set where every third frame has a slightly different tone reads 'unprofessional' and drops off the scroll. Auto Enhance handles the other Trulia reality: stale MLS thumbnails from pre-2021 listings that now fall below the 1024×683 minimum come back at about 2.4K with the window-interior tonal range rebuilt. Cross-reference the low-resolution-listing-photo-rescue guide for the full walkthrough. Upload endpoint is still your MLS (or Zillow FSBO), not Trulia directly — but the files that land there will survive Trulia's mobile compression without breaking down.

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Local questions, answered

How do I upload photos directly to Trulia?+

You don't — not anymore. Since the 2015 Zillow Group acquisition, Trulia pulls listings from the same pipeline Zillow uses: your MLS feed for agent listings, or Zillow's For Sale by Owner flow for FSBO. Trulia's own support docs redirect photo-edit requests to Zillow. If you want a photo to appear on Trulia, it goes up on the MLS (or Zillow) first, then syndicates downstream. Plotpane fits before that upload — produce the 2.4K file, push to MLS, and Trulia inherits it clean.

Are Trulia and Zillow photo specs the same?+

For dimensions, file size, and format, yes — both run on Zillow Group's infrastructure and both follow the Zillow Listings Quality Policy (1024×683 min, 2048×1536 recommended, 25 MB cap, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIF). The practical difference is downstream: Trulia's mobile app compresses tiles harder than Zillow's because of the neighborhood-overlay UX (Crime Maps, School Boundaries, Local Ratings) eating tile real estate. Ship full-resolution at the source and the extra compression pass still leaves a clean tile.

Does Trulia accept HEIC files from iPhone?+

No — the Zillow Group pipeline rejects HEIC. Convert to JPG before upload. Most modern export flows handle this silently, but the conversion drops iPhone HDR tone data that you can't recover after the fact, which is one reason a proper enhancement pipeline before upload pays off. The accepted formats across Zillow, Trulia, and HotPads are JPG, PNG, GIF, and TIF.

Can Plotpane rescue low-resolution legacy Trulia photos?+

Yes — the enhancement pipeline takes pre-2021 MLS thumbnails that fall below the 1024×683 minimum and upscales to about 2.4K while rebuilding window-interior detail and daylight-neutral color. See the low-resolution-listing-photo-rescue guide for the full walkthrough. Same workflow works for Trulia Rentals inventory, which has the same stale-thumbnail problem on older units.

Why do my photos look worse on the Trulia app than on Trulia.com?+

Trulia's mobile app compresses tiles harder than the desktop site — partly because of page-weight budgets, partly because the neighborhood-overlay UX (crime maps, school boundaries, commute times, affordability calculator) competes with the photo grid for screen real estate. A 1600-wide source that's fine on desktop can show block artifacts on a 375-wide mobile tile after Zillow's ingest compression and Trulia's mobile re-encode. The fix is shipping a full-resolution source so both passes have enough signal to downsample cleanly.

Pricing

One credit per image.
Every tool, every plan.

Three plans. Every tool unlocked on all of them. Every render unmarked, standard or high resolution, cancel anytime.

Every plan starts with 3 free renders. No card until you subscribe.

Starter

For the solo agent shooting their own listings.

$39/month

billed yearly

100 credits monthly

100 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Every tool, no tier gating
Standard output ~2.4K, or ~4.7K for a second credit
XMP disclosure metadata written into every export
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Cinematic clips from a single photo — 1 credit per second of video
Up to 10 photos per batch
Email support

Subscribe to Starter

For one agent, listing by listing.

Pro

For top-producing agents and real-estate photographers.

$79/month

billed yearly

220 credits monthly

220 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Up to 50 photos per batch, one tool across the shoot
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Everything in Starter
Priority support

Subscribe to Pro

The plan a working photographer buys.

Agency

For brokerages, teams, and photography networks.

$199/month

billed yearly

600 credits monthly

600 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Up to 150 photos per batch
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Everything in Pro
Direct line to the founder, not a ticket queue

Subscribe to Agency

For a brokerage running whole shoots.

Feature	Starter$39/mo annual	Pro$79/mo annual	Agency$199/mo annual
Renders per month	100	220	600
Credits per image	1	1	1
All seven tools
Free renders on sign-up	3	3	3
Plotpane mark on the image	None	None	None
Standard output (~2.4K)
High resolution (~4.7K, second credit)
XMP disclosure written into every export
Optional visible “Virtually Staged” label
Photos per batch	10	50	150
Download a set as a ZIP
Refund a render that came back wrong
Support	Email	Priority email	Direct to the founder
Cancel anytime, one click

At volume

A 25-photo listing costs 25 credits.

That is the whole pricing model. No per-tool rates, no seat maths, nothing to negotiate. We are not SOC 2 certified and there is no SSO, private deployment or API — if you need those to buy, better you know now than after a call.

Starter

listings
a month

Pro

listings
a month

Agency

listings
a month

Questions

The usual questions,
answered directly.

No. Midjourney and DALL-E invent scenes from text prompts — beautiful for art, disqualifying for a listing. Plotpane is a structure-preserving pipeline: your room geometry, windows, and floor plan stay exact. We stage, re-light, swap skies, declutter, and enhance your actual photo. No hallucinated architecture, no invented rooms.
BoxBrownie and Styldod are human-edit services: you upload, a retoucher works overnight, you get a result in 24–48 hours at $2–$32 per image per treatment. They also sell things we do not have at all — floor plans, renderings, item removal by a person who can ask you what you meant. Plotpane is one machine pass: you pick one of seven tools, and the image comes back in about two minutes for one credit, whichever tool you picked, on a flat monthly subscription. Stacking two treatments on one photo means running it twice.
Yes, when disclosed. NAR guidelines, California AB 723, and REBNY Rule 3.3 all allow virtually staged photos provided the listing discloses them. Every Plotpane export embeds invisible XMP disclosure metadata so the staging record travels with the file. You still handle the listing-remarks disclosure in your MLS portal — that's the part only you can do.
Every render is sent with a preserve list as well as an instruction. It names one operation and forbids the rest: do not touch windows, doors, walls, ceilings, floors, cabinetry or fixtures unless the instruction names them; do not remove or conceal a defect, stain or crack; do not change what is visible through glass, and never invent a view. Furniture is added to empty rooms; named objects are removed from furnished ones; sky and light are re-graded. If you do see something invented, that is a bug — report the render in the app and the credit comes back.
Yes — one click in the Stripe billing portal from your dashboard. Billing stops immediately, remaining credits stay usable through the end of the billing period, and there's no cancellation fee.
Yes — any AI-generated or AI-modified image is considered an edit requiring disclosure under NAR's standards. That's why every Plotpane export writes invisible XMP disclosure metadata by default. The flag is machine-readable by MLS tooling and survives Lightroom round-trips. You still add the disclosure line to your listing remarks; we make sure the image itself is self-describing.