Comparison

Life.Church vs SmartCoparent

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Life.Church

Access sermons, connect with your church community, and manage church activities. This app allows you to watch or listen to messages, download content for offline viewing, and engage with your local campus or online services. It also facilitates prayer requests, service check-ins, and giving.

Highlights
  • Watch or listen to sermons
  • Download messages for offline playback
  • Connect with church campus or online
  • Access message notes
  • Submit prayer requests and questions
  • Check-in for kids or service
  • Invite friends and family
Features
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With the Life.Church app, you can experience Life.Church anywhere! • Watch or listen to messages from Senior Pastor Craig Groeschel • Download audio and video messages for offline playback • Connect with your Life.Church campus or Life.Church Online • Follow along with the service in the app with the Message Notes • Request prayer, submit questions and much more through the contact card • Check-in your kids for LifeKids or check-in to serve through the app • Invite your friends and family • Give to Life.Church • And more! The latest version of the app has many updates to help you grow as a fully devoted follower of Christ. Download the Life.Church app today to be part of our Life.Church community as we take the next step in our journey with Christ together! About Life.Church: Life.Church wants to make a lasting difference in your life, in our community, and in the world. Our mission is to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. That's how we're able to make a difference, and it's the driving force behind everything we do. We meet in physical locations around the United States and globally online at live.life.church.

About

SmartCoparent

This app helps co-parents manage shared calendars, contacts, documents, and financial transactions like support payments and expenses. It offers features for both families and legal professionals, including reporting and secure communication.

Highlights
  • Shared calendar events
  • Support payment tracking
  • Expense management
  • Document sharing
  • In-app messaging
  • Professional reporting
Features
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Founded by a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®), SmartCoparent is the ultimate co-parenting solution for families and professionals. We designed SmartCoparent to be suitable for almost any co-parenting relationship imaginable. Share unlimited calendar events.store and share contacts, documents. Create, track, send and receive support payments on-line in under a minute. Use our easy to use dashboard to monitor messages, calendar updates, overdue support payments. Manage your expenses, and budget. Monitor your cash flow, and support payment activity with our advanced reporting tools. Family professionals have unique features. Create preliminary calendars, access court ready reports, receive PDF transcripts of co-parent messages and private journal entries. Communicate with your client on-line and even send invoices and receive payments on-line. SmartCoparent Features: 1. Create share and track shared calendar events. 2. Send support payment requests online. 2. Attach and share receipts, medical bills, etc.. 3. Track expenses online. 4. Accept online support payments. 5. Create and send recurring payment requests. 6. Manage, store and share important family contacts and documents. 7. Monitor and manage your cash flow and overdue support payments. 8. Instant mail notifications for messages, calendar events and payments. 9. Lawyers and professionals can create preliminary calendar events, message clients, share documents and even invoice clients and get paid on-line. 10. In-App messaging, share attachments and keep a private journal. 11. Automatically send reminders of overdue support payments. 12. Kid friendly accounts - can share calendar, and messaging with co-parents. 13. Run detailed support payment, and financial activity reports. 14. Invite unlimited members (children and adults) to join your SmartCoparent account. 17. Share only what you like, keep all other events, docs and contacts private. 18. Access to over 10,000 professionals. 19. Get valuable discounts from everything from sitters to school supplies from our partners. 20. NEW! Download, store, share and print transcripts of your messages and private journal entries. SmartCoparent: Made by co-parents, for co-parents. Reduce co-parenting stress, live better.

Screenshots

Life.Church4 screens
SmartCoparent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Life.Church at 89% against SmartCoparent's 42%. Life.Church also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). SmartCoparent's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Life.Church holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life.Church has 612 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Life.Church's written reviews are positive against 42% of SmartCoparent's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life.Church ships an update every 6 days, SmartCoparent every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Life.Church versus SmartCoparent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife.ChurchSmartCoparent
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (612 ratings) — better3.4 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews88.5% of reviews — better41.7% of reviews
Number of ratings612 — better17
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLife.ChurchMoiety, Inc.

Customer experience

Life.Church

All ratings612 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive88.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative9.2%

SmartCoparent

All ratings17 ratings
Positive52.9%
Neutral17.6%
Negative29.4%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral25.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Life.Church

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Audio/video downloads not working
  • Crashing on certain devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to track completed messages
  • Option to save favorite messages
  • Improved accessibility for visually impaired users

SmartCoparent

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Life.Church

No in-app purchases

None

SmartCoparent

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Life.Church free?
Life.Church is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmartCoparent free?
SmartCoparent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Life.Church or SmartCoparent?
Life.Church is rated higher. Life.Church averages 4.7 out of 5 from 612 ratings, while SmartCoparent averages 3.4 from 17 ratings.
Do Life.Church or SmartCoparent have ads?
Neither Life.Church nor SmartCoparent shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Life.Church or SmartCoparent?
Life.Church ships an update every 6 days, and SmartCoparent every 2 months. Most recently, Life.Church was updated on October 20, 2026 and SmartCoparent on October 3, 2026.

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