Life.Church vs SmartCoparent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- Shared calendar events
- Support payment tracking
- Expense management
- Document sharing
- In-app messaging
- Professional reporting
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Life.Church | SmartCoparent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (612 ratings) — better | 3.4 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews — better | 41.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 612 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Life.Church | Moiety, Inc. |
Customer experience
Life.Church
SmartCoparent
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
Life.Church
No in-app purchases
SmartCoparent
No in-app purchases









