Giveffect vs enbrighten
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Giveffect
This app helps nonprofits manage constituents, events, and volunteers. It allows for location-based contact searches and features tools for checking participants in and out, tracking hours, and validating event tickets.
- Constituent management
- Event management
- Volunteer check-in/out
- Location-based search
- Ticket validation (QR code/number)
- Driver's license scanning
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Giveffect is built for nonprofits. This app is designed as a Constituent Management, Events Management, and Volunteer/Participant check-in & check-out tool. Users must have an account with Giveffect to manage their nonprofit organization with this app. Simply login using your account credentials to access your organization's events, volunteers and contact database. Location based search: This app allows administrators to search for contacts in the database based on their location. With your location data, you can query your database for contact addresses within a set radius. If your location is not provided as search parameters, then the spatial query is ignored. Key features include: - Add constituents to your database. - Scan driver's license data via 2D barcode (PDF417) using the camera, or magnetic stripe. - Search constituent database by name or nearby location via GPS coordinates. - Check-in & Check-out Volunteers and Event Participants to track volunteer hours and attendance. - Validate Event tickets manually by ticket number, or automatically by scanning ticket QR codes using the device camera.
enbrighten
Effortlessly manage smart home devices with automatic discovery and easy router connection. Control devices with voice commands, set custom schedules, and create automations based on various triggers. Monitor and manage devices across multiple homes and rooms from a single interface.
- Hassle-free automatic device discovery
- Voice control with Alexa and Google Assistant
- Simple and custom timer scheduling
- Custom automations based on weather/location
- Multi-home and multi-room device management
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1. Hassle-free set-up – App discovers devices automatically. Connects easily to single-, dual- and tri-band routers. 2. Voice control – No hub required, works directly with Amazon Alexa and Goggle Assistant 3. Simple Schedule Setup – Select one-touch pre-set timers, a full-rage countdown timer or create up to five custom ON/OFF timers per device 4. Custom Automations – Turn devices ON or OFF automatically based on weather, location and more 5. Multi-Home control – Manage and monitor devices for multiple homes, and rooms, all from the same app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: enbrighten at 4.5 against Giveffect's 3.7. enbrighten also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 3). Giveffect's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
enbrighten holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: enbrighten has 11K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Giveffect ships an update fortnightly, enbrighten every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Giveffect | enbrighten |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.5 (11K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 11K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 281 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Giveffect, Inc. | Jasco Products Company LLC |
Customer experience
Giveffect
enbrighten
Bugs and requests
Giveffect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
enbrighten
Reported bugs
5 issues- App freezes and crashes
- Devices randomly going offline
- Scheduled events not working as expected
- Connectivity issues with certain network setups
- Syncing problems between app and devices
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- More advanced scheduling and automation options
- Better integration with smart home platforms
- Improved error reporting and troubleshooting
- Enhanced device sharing and multi-user support
In-app purchases
Giveffect
No in-app purchases
enbrighten
No in-app purchases
