LionDesk Is Gone: How to Get Your Data Out Safely

In May 2025, Lone Wolf Technologies told LionDesk customers the product was being wound down. Coverage in Inman and HousingWire reported the platform would keep running through September 2025, with users pointed toward Lone Wolf Relationships, a newer CRM from the same company. The stated reason was blunt enough to be believable: LionDesk could not scale to fit the longer-term product plan. For a lot of solo agents this was the first CRM they ever paid for, and it held years of notes, drip campaigns and call history. If you are reading this after the fact, treat the shutdown as done and the timeline as closed. What matters now is not whether the decision was fair. It is whether you still have a usable copy of your own database.

Start with an inventory rather than a shortlist. Write down every place your contact history currently lives: any CSV export you downloaded while the account was live, the mailing list inside your email marketing tool, the contacts on your phone, closed transaction files, and the spreadsheet your assistant kept because the CRM was awkward. Most agents find a good share of the data is already in hand, just scattered across four places. Then contact Lone Wolf support in writing and ask specifically what account archive they can still provide. Do this before you evaluate software. A CRM decision made while your data is still stranded tends to be made badly, and the migration has to be redone once the archive finally turns up in your inbox.

Be clear-eyed about what a general CRM cannot give back to you. HelloGrowthCRM has no MLS integration, no IDX feed and no home-search website. It will not sync listings, send property alerts, or run transaction paperwork. LionDesk's video email and video texting are not replicated either. If those were the reasons you paid for LionDesk, then a general sales CRM is a downgrade dressed up as a saving, and you should stop reading marketing pages, including this one. The useful question is narrower: over the last six months, did you lose more deals because of missing listing tools, or because a lead sat in your inbox for two days before anyone called it? Those two answers point at different products.

For agents who need real estate specifics, the obvious names are worth the trial time. Follow Up Boss is the default for teams and lists at sixty-nine dollars a month for one user, with additional seats priced on top. Wise Agent is the value option at roughly forty-nine dollars a month, and includes several team members in the base plan. Lofty bundles an IDX website, CRM and marketing automation but quotes privately instead of publishing prices, so expect a sales call. Lone Wolf Relationships is the in-house migration path, and the company said pricing would sit near LionDesk's old starting point of about twenty-five dollars a month. Trial two, not five, and give each one a fortnight of real use.

HelloGrowthCRM fits a narrower case: agents whose problem is follow-up throughput. The built-in auto-dialer records calls and produces AI summaries, so you are not typing notes after every conversation. Two-way WhatsApp, SMS and email sequences keep older leads warm without manual chasing. AI lead scoring pushes the likely buyers up the list. Pricing is twelve dollars per user per month billed monthly, ten dollars annually, and there is a free forever plan you can load a test import into today. Setup takes about fifteen minutes. If that covers your gap and you already have listing tools elsewhere, it is a cheap and honest answer. If it does not, we would rather you pick one of the real estate platforms above and get on with your year.