Discourse Hub vs Lovat Dashboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Discourse Hub
Connect with online communities and manage discussions from anywhere. This app allows you to join multiple communities, discover new ones, and stay updated with instant notifications. Engage in conversations, ask questions, and share insights effortlessly.
- Access multiple communities
- Discover new communities
- Receive notifications
- Post and reply instantly
- Seamless community switching
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The official mobile app for Discourse, the leading open-source platform for building and managing online communities. With Discourse, people around the world connect, share knowledge, and engage in meaningful conversations. Discourse makes it easy to stay connected wherever you go. FEATURES: ALL YOUR COMMUNITIES IN ONE APP Add multiple Discourse communities and switch between them seamlessly, so you’re always in the loop. DISCOVER NEW COMMUNITIES Use the Discover feature to find and join new communities that match your interests. STAY UPDATED ON THE GO Receive notifications for new messages, replies, and updates, so you never miss anything important. INSTANT POSTING AND REPLYING Join conversations, ask questions, and share insights effortlessly. Discourse keeps you connected to the discussions that matter most to you.
Lovat Dashboard
This app facilitates collaborative strategy for FIRST Robotics Competition teams by providing team-specific metrics, predictions, and customizable picklists. It allows users to share data, analyze team performance, and optimize alliance strategies for matches.
- Collaborative strategy planning
- Team-specific metrics and predictions
- Picklist generation and sharing
- Alliance and match level analysis
- Auto path collision avoidance
- Customizable team weighting sliders
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Lovat Dashboard makes it easy to collaboratively strategize in the FIRST Robotics Competition using a variety of statistics and predictions. Lovat Dashboard users can share picklists, notes and scouter schedules with others on their team. However, users not currently affiliated with an FRC team are also able to use Lovat Dashboard. The app uses data recorded on Lovat Collection to make a set of 22 team-specific metrics. Each team specific metric features an average, a graph, and comparison to the average of all teams. Beyond looking at individual teams analytics, you can view the data on the alliance or match level through the My Alliance and Match Prediction pages. Test out different combinations of auto paths on the My Alliance page to avoid collisions and score the most points. Easily flip between the red and blue alliances, and view the likelihood an alliance will win on the Match Prediction page. When it’s time to pick alliance partners, generate a picklist by adjusting the weights of the 11+ sliders. Once the picklist has been calculated, share it with others on your team and convert it to a mutable picklist to fine-tune the order.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lovat Dashboard at 100% against Discourse Hub's 26%. Lovat Dashboard also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Discourse Hub's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Lovat Dashboard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Discourse Hub's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lovat Dashboard's.
Discourse Hub ships an update every 3 weeks, Lovat Dashboard every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on July 28, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Discourse Hub | Lovat Dashboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Discourse | Piedmont Makers |
Customer experience
Discourse Hub
Lovat Dashboard
Bugs and requests
Discourse Hub
Reported bugs
15 issues- Notifications won't clear (red badge persists)
- App freezes on launch requiring force quit
- White page flash when returning to feed in dark mode
- Post editing interface misaligned on iOS 26.1
- Links open in Safari instead of in-app
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- Login redirects to website instead of app
- App crashes on iPad with iOS 17.7.10
- Blank/white screen on app launch
- Keyboard input stops working when switching apps
- Attachment viewing requires app restart
- Private message and flagged post notifications stuck
- App hangs on login
- Thread loading extremely slow with tracking protection enabled
- Editing post jumps to wrong thread position
- App loses place when backgrounded
Requested features
14 requests- Native app instead of web view wrapper
- Font size customization
- Tab support for multiple threads
- iCloud sync across devices
- Forum naming/customization
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- Forum list sorting options
- Dark mode toggle reflecting OS settings
- Split view support on iPad
- Dual account support per forum
- In-app support/feedback submission
- Search functionality
- Persistent scroll bar option
- Back button in standard iOS UI position
- Camera access support
Lovat Dashboard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Discourse Hub
No in-app purchases
Lovat Dashboard
No in-app purchases








