PrepAgent is a video-and-webinar prep platform — live instructor sessions 5x/week, flashcards, an ebook, and practice questions covering the national portion and all 50 states. Trelos is a retention engine that teaches and drills the national portion with spaced repetition so it sticks. PrepAgent wins on live instruction and state coverage; Trelos wins on durable recall and mobile-first study. Different strengths.
PrepAgent (owned by Aceable) is a well-established real estate exam prep platform that has helped over 300,000 students. It focuses only on exam prep — not pre-licensing — and its strength is breadth of study formats: 75+ video lessons, live online webinars five times a week with instructors, hundreds of hours of recorded webinars, interactive flashcards, a 100+ page ebook, audio lessons, vocabulary worksheets, and thousands of practice questions covering both the national portion and state-specific law for all 50 states. It also offers private tutoring and weekend crash courses. Pricing is time-limited — roughly $79/month or $99 for three months, capped at three months — and there's no dedicated mobile app (you use a mobile browser). If you value live instruction and full state coverage, it's a strong, proven choice.
Trelos is a complete prep engine built around retention science, focused on the national portion of the real estate exam — the standardized ~80–100 questions that are the same in every state. It teaches each concept, drills it with exam-style application questions, and schedules your reviews using spaced repetition, hypercorrection (re-teaching confident misses), and interleaving, so agency, contracts, financing, disclosures, and real estate math stay locked in through test day. It's mobile-first, built for short high-frequency sessions on a phone. For the state-specific portion, you'd pair it with your pre-license course materials — and Trelos is expanding into state content.
| Trelos | PrepAgent | |
|---|---|---|
| Core model | Retention engine: teach → drill → auto-scheduled review | Video + live webinars + flashcards + practice |
| Spaced repetition | Core engine, automatic | No retention scheduling |
| Coverage | National portion (state content expanding) | National + all 50 states |
| Live instruction | No — self-paced | Yes — webinars 5x/week, tutoring |
| Mobile | Mobile-first installable web app | Mobile browser (no dedicated app) |
| Access | Free to start; annual subscription | Time-limited (1 week–3 months) |
| Best for | Making the national principles stick | Live instruction & full state coverage |
Choose PrepAgent if you learn best with live instructors and real-time Q&A, you want video lessons and a large recorded-webinar library, and you need full coverage of your state's specific law alongside the national portion. Its five-days-a-week live sessions are a real differentiator for people who don't want to study alone.
Choose Trelos if you want the national principles to actually stick — a system that teaches, drills, and automatically resurfaces each concept at the right moment — and you prefer studying in short bursts on your phone. Because the real estate exam is notorious for application-style questions, durable recall of agency, contracts, and disclosures is exactly what Trelos is built to produce.
These two genuinely serve different needs. PrepAgent is the better pick if live instruction matters to you or if you want one platform covering both the national and your state's content, and its track record is strong. Trelos is the better pick for building durable recall of the national portion — the largest, most standardized part of the exam and the one where retention science helps most — with a mobile-first flow and annual access. A common, sensible combination is to use Trelos to lock in the national principles and lean on your state's pre-license materials (or PrepAgent) for state-specific law. Be honest with yourself about whether you learn better from live teaching or from active, spaced practice — that's the real deciding factor.
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