Comparison

Looking for a Draw Attention alternative for property sites?

Hotspots versus a property sales map. Draw Attention is a well-established WordPress plugin for drawing clickable shapes on images — with six display layouts, colour scheme presets, and accessibility support. Interactive Real Estate is a specialist plugin for property developers: it stores structured apartment data, tracks availability across an entire building, and gives buyers filters and shareable links. Both tools draw polygons on images, but the real estate use case demands far more than a tooltip.

Side by side

Draw Attention vs Interactive Real Estate, feature by feature

Features Draw Attention ★ Recommended Interactive Real Estate
Best forAccessible image hotspots on any kind of site Selling apartments from your own site
Price$99/yr single site, $199/yr unlimited sites Free plan, then $99/yr or $399 one-time
Free versionYes — 1 interactive image per site On WordPress.org — 1 project, 25 flats
Per-unit data (price, area, rooms, floor)Free-text content per hotspot Structured flat records
Availability status Available / reserved / sold, auto-coloured
Blocks and floor navigationOne image per shortcode Built-in block and floor switching
Filterable unit list [irep_flats] with filters (Gold)
Bulk import from spreadsheet Excel import (Gold)
Shareable per-unit links Direct link to any flat (Gold)
Callback request form Built in, responses in wp-admin (Gold)
360° building viewer Building 360 add-on
Price history & EU compliance XML Price History add-on
Display layouts6 layouts + 20 colour schemes Modal, link, or custom script on click

Competitor details reflect publicly documented pricing and features at the time of writing. Vendors change their products — check their site before you buy.

Where IRE wins

Interactive Real Estate vs Draw Attention

Structured flat data — not just tooltip text

Draw Attention lets you attach a title, image, and rich text to each hotspot. Interactive Real Estate stores per-flat records with price, area, rooms, floor, and status — displayed consistently to every buyer in a structured popup.

Availability status system

Interactive Real Estate has a built-in available / reserved / sold status per apartment, with automatic polygon colour updates. Draw Attention has no availability concept — tracking which units are sold would require manually editing each hotspot.

Multi-floor building navigation

Interactive Real Estate supports projects with multiple blocks and floors, each with its own image and polygon set, navigated by a built-in floor selector. Draw Attention handles one image per shortcode with no built-in floor-switching mechanism.

Filterable flat list

The [irep_flats] shortcode renders a filterable apartment list — price range, area, rooms, floor, status — that buyers can use alongside or separately from the map. Draw Attention has no listing or filter shortcode.

CSV bulk import

Import hundreds of apartment records from a spreadsheet in one step. Draw Attention requires entering each hotspot manually, which becomes impractical for large developments.

360° exterior building viewer

The Building 360 add-on creates a drag-to-spin building exterior with clickable polygon overlays at every rotation angle — a feature Draw Attention does not have.

Honest take

When Draw Attention is the better choice

Draw Attention is a strong choice for general image hotspot use cases — product showcases, infographics, interactive diagrams — and for non-real-estate sites that need accessible, SEO-friendly hotspots with varied display layouts (tooltip, lightbox, sidebar). Its $99/year single-site price also covers unlimited images and hotspots. If your need is a general clickable image rather than a full apartment availability system, Draw Attention is simpler to set up. Interactive Real Estate wins decisively when the goal is selling apartments from a website — structured flat data, availability management, and buyer filters are simply not things Draw Attention is built for.

Live preview

See how an interactive building works on your website

Buyers explore your development the way they actually want to — click any unit for its price, area, floor and availability. They find the flat that fits before they ever pick up the phone, and your sales team spends its time on people who are ready to buy.

Free plan on WordPress.org — no credit card required

yourproject.com / apartments
The Interactive Real Estate editor, linking a drawn polygon to a specific flat on a building render

Click · Filter · Reserve

One shortcode

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can Draw Attention show which apartments are sold or available?

Does Draw Attention support multiple floors?

Which plugin is better for a residential apartment development?

See it for yourself — try it free

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