Brivity Home vs LyfeTender
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brivity Home
Discover the latest homes for sale that match your criteria. Save open houses, schedule tours, and communicate directly with your real estate agent to streamline your home buying process.
- Find matching homes
- Save open houses
- Schedule home tours
- Connect with agent
- Latest listings
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Brivity Home connects you and your real estate agent to ensure your home search journey is a success. Find the latest homes that match your must-haves, save open houses for later, schedule a tour of a home any time, and connect with your agent via Brivity Home.
LyfeTender
This app streamlines household management by organizing chores, planning meals, and creating grocery lists. It features family roles, a rewards system, and recipe scaling, all accessible offline.
- Chore management with flexible schedules
- Family roles and permissions
- Rewards and points system
- Tailored meal planning
- Recipe scaling for serving sizes
- Organized grocery lists
- Offline functionality
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LyfeTender is the all-in-one household management app for families. Less nagging, more teamwork. CHORE MANAGEMENT Create recurring chores with flexible schedules — daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, or custom intervals. Set due times so tasks appear at the right moment. Every chore follows a clear lifecycle: pending, assigned, completed, verified. Admins can reject completed chores back to the assignee with an optional reason. FAMILY ROLES & PERMISSIONS Three role levels — admin, member, and child — each with appropriate access. Invite family members with a simple link or invite code. Set your household timezone and everything stays in sync. REWARDS & POINTS Motivate your family with a built-in rewards system. Earn points for completed chores and redeem them for custom rewards. Track who's leading on the points leaderboard. MEAL PLANNING Get daily dinner suggestions tailored to your household's preferences. Set your cuisine, protein, dietary restrictions, and spice level. Not feeling tonight's recipe? Shuffle for a new one or swap from your recipe book. Tonight's dinner shows right on your home dashboard. RECIPE SCALING Every recipe scales to your household's preferred serving size. Set your default servings in preferences and all ingredient quantities adjust automatically. GROCERY LISTS Add ingredients from your meals with one tap — repeatable anytime you need a refresh. Items are organized by category for easy shopping. Check items off as you go. WORKS OFFLINE Full offline support — browse your chores, meals, recipes, and grocery list without an internet connection. Actions queue up and sync automatically when you're back online. SMART AUTOMATION Auto-assign chores so nobody has to dole out tasks every day. Auto-verify for trusted members. Push and email notifications for assignments, completions, and reminders. Real-time updates so everyone sees progress as it happens. FREE Everything included. No subscriptions, no paywalls, no limits on households or family members.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LyfeTender at 5.0 against Brivity Home's 4.0. LyfeTender also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Brivity Home's advantage is ratings volume (97 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). 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.
LyfeTender holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brivity Home has 97 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Brivity Home's written reviews are positive against 100% of LyfeTender's.
Brivity Home ships an update every 3 weeks, LyfeTender every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brivity Home | LyfeTender |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (97 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brivity | JOHN ROBERT MILLER |
Customer experience
Brivity Home
LyfeTender
Bugs and requests
Brivity Home
Reported bugs
30 issues- App crashes
- Features not working
- Cannot save to collection or access saved homes
- Cannot save or visit recent history/searches
- Back arrow button not working
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- Search engine does not recognize specific addresses
- Homes not showing up in search
- App crashes when selecting a home
- Blank black screen instead of photos/info
- Cannot create an account, only login
- Login screen says account needed
- Image view automatically changes to landscape
- Cannot revert from landscape mode
- Kicks user out of app when modifying search
- App won't open at all sometimes
- App does not load or refresh well
- Does not rotate
- Does not resize after zoom
- Map won't load
- Filters won't load when sorting via list
- Data refresh problems
- Marker disappears on map after clicking
- City/town names disappear when zooming
- Searching for new listings broken
- Saved search turns up no results
- Saved search filters not applied until map moved
- Sort option doesn't show on all phones
- Like button inconveniently placed
- Pricing and searches don't update dynamically
- New listings difficult to navigate
Requested features
7 requests- Option to include or exclude HOA's
- Option to include or exclude ADA accessible homes
- Option to include or exclude single level homes
- Option to include or exclude master bedroom in main level
- Agent version with confidential remarks, disclosure links, phone numbers, and emails
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- Improve MLS access to other MLS listings
- Fix landscape mode issue
LyfeTender
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brivity Home
No in-app purchases
LyfeTender
No in-app purchases









