If you're here, you probably used LionDesk or you've been told to stop. Lone Wolf has said it is discontinuing LionDesk and moving users to Lone Wolf Relationships. HousingWire reported the plan in May 2025, saying LionDesk would stay operational through September of that year so users could migrate. Lone Wolf's own March 2025 post introduced Relationships and described moving LionDesk contact data into it.
That leaves you with a choice. You can follow Lone Wolf to Relationships, which Lone Wolf describes as lead management software for follow-up and offers a migration path for. Or you can use this moment to rethink what you want from your software. I can't compare Keystone to LionDesk feature by feature, because there's no current LionDesk product page to read, so this page doesn't try.
What I can tell you is what Keystone is. It's a follow-up layer for residential agents, not a full CRM. Each morning you get a Today list where the message for every person is already written with their details filled in. Sequences run across email, text, call prompts, printed letters and handwritten cards. When someone replies, their sequence stops and the reply goes to the top of your list.
A forced migration is also a decent time to clean your list. Contacts that went quiet years ago come with you whether you want them or not. Getting them into a new tool with a short re-warm-up sequence tells you fast who is still interested. The rest of this page covers that approach and when it makes more sense to stay in the Lone Wolf family.
A discontinued product means a migration on someone else's schedule. The risk isn't only the data. It's the weeks where follow-up quietly stops while you sort out the new setup.
Contacts you haven't touched in months are now in a new system with no history of recent contact. Without a plan, they sit there untouched.
Replacing one system with a similar one means rebuilding pipelines, templates and habits. For many agents that learning curve is the real cost of switching.
Drip campaigns and templates don't always carry over cleanly. Rewriting them by hand takes time most agents don't have in the middle of a deal.
If your contacts can leave LionDesk as a spreadsheet, Keystone only needs a CSV. Drop it in and the columns match themselves. Then pick a sequence and the drafts exist right away. A short re-warm-up for quiet contacts works well: a friendly email, a text, a call prompt, then a handwritten card for the people worth the effort. Letters and cards wait for your approval, and you see each piece and its cost first.
Free for 100 contacts, then $49 to $189 a month. Annual billing is 20% off. Extra letters are $1.75 each and handwritten cards are $4.90 per send. There's no live sync with any other tool, so once you import, Keystone is its own list.
Following Lone Wolf to Relationships is the right call if you want a full CRM from the same company and a built-in migration of your LionDesk data. Keystone is the better fit if the follow-up is what you actually used LionDesk for and you don't want to learn a bigger system. For Relationships pricing and features, check Lone Wolf's site, because I haven't verified them here.
Suggested sequence: Quiet Contact Re-Warm-Up
7 steps over 21 days. Each one lands on your Today list as a draft you can edit or send.
Hi Chris, I've been reorganizing my contacts and wanted to say hello. How's the house treating you?...
Hi Chris, it's Sam. Hope you're doing well. Any plans to move this year, or just curious about values?...
Talking points: ask how the home is holding up, mention recent sales on his street, offer a free value check....
Hi Chris, two homes near you sold recently. Here's what they went for and what it might mean for yours....
Chris, thinking of you and your family. If you ever want a real-estate sounding board, I'm one call away....
Chris, here's a short summary of what's happening in your neighborhood this season. Questions welcome....
Hi Chris, I'd like to keep sharing useful local updates. Reply if you'd rather I stop, no hard feelings....
+ more steps in the full sequence
| Feature | Keystone | Liondesk |
|---|---|---|
| Product status | Actively sold, free plan for 100 contacts | Lone Wolf has said it is discontinuing LionDesk and moving users to Lone Wolf Relationships (HousingWire, May 2025) |
| Moving your contacts | Drop in any CSV; columns match themselves | Lone Wolf's March 2025 post describes migrating LionDesk contact data into Relationships |
| What it is | Follow-up layer, not a full CRM | Successor Relationships is described by Lone Wolf as lead management software |
| Price | Free for 100 contacts, then $49 to $189 a month | Check Lone Wolf's site for Relationships pricing |
Start on the Free plan. Every message comes drafted for you.