Float vs Life Oar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Float
Access your work schedule and manage resources from your mobile device. Plan projects, track time, and stay updated on schedule changes in real time. This leading platform offers a quick overview of your team's workload.
- Access work schedule anywhere
- Plan resources
- Track projects
- Log time worked
- Live schedule view
- Real-time schedule change alerts
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Take resource management with you on the go. Access your live Schedule from anywhere to understand who’s working on what, whether delivery’s on track, and how to take on what’s next. Whether you’re between meetings or away from your desk, Float’s mobile app keeps everyone aligned and up to date. • See a live view of your Schedule with multiple views and sorting options • Log time in a few quick taps with pre-filled timesheets • Add time off requests from anywhere • Make updates to plans on the fly and get real-time alerts when things change “A sleek and intuitive UI, that’s lightning fast.” — John K., Software Engineer, Anthroware
Life Oar
This app helps improve happiness by automating tasks and reminders for personal care, mental, and physical health. It brings order to daily life and facilitates knowledge sharing through groups with AI-powered chat.
- Automated personal care reminders
- Mental and physical health tracking
- Group task and event sharing
- AI-powered group chat
- Journaling with metrics
- Calendar and location integration
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The vision is to create a Social Life System whose main purpose is to enhance people's happiness by incorporating best practices and automating common tasks and reminders related to personal care, mental and physical health. Life Oar aims to bring order to the overwhelming chaos of our daily lives and facilitate knowledge sharing among friends and family. Life Oar provides perspectives on individual tasks, events, and locations, as well as an innovative Group concept. This concept involves shared tasks, events, and locations among group members. Each group in Life Oar features an advanced bot-enabled chat room, empowered by cutting-edge AI. You can pose questions to your Life Oar Guide or issue commands, and it will do its utmost to paddle a few oar strokes for you! Tasks, Groups, Chat, Events, Calendars, Locations, Social, Reminders, Journal, Journal Metrics
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Life Oar at 5.0 against Float's 4.6. Life Oar also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium). Float's advantage is ratings volume (431 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Oar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Float has 431 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Float ships an update monthly, Life Oar every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Float | Life Oar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (431 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 431 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pixel Paddock, LLC | Jonathan McPhail |
Customer experience
Float
Life Oar
In-app purchases
Float
No in-app purchases
Life Oar
No in-app purchases
