Care Friends vs QCS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Care Friends
Easily share job opportunities in social care and fostering with your network. Earn rewards as your referrals progress through the recruitment process, helping people find meaningful roles and children find loving homes.
- Share job opportunities easily
- Refer candidates for social care roles
- Encourage fostering applications
- Earn points for successful referrals
- Points convert to cash rewards
- Connect people with meaningful jobs
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Care Friends makes it easy, fun and rewarding to share opportunities with your friends, family and wider community. Whether it's recommending someone for a job in social care, or encouraging a friend to consider fostering a child, your referrals can change lives. Every share helps connect people with meaningful roles - and helps children find the loving homes they deserve. Here's how it works: - Share opportunities from your employer or organisation in just a few taps - Earn points as thank yous - points convert into cash - when your candidate reaches milestones in the recruitment process, like home visit, interview, panel or starting in their new roles - Make a difference by helping your organisation find caring people, and by giving children the chance of a safe, supportive family With Care Friends, supporting your organisation and community has never been easier - or more rewarding.
QCS
This app provides compliance, audit, and dementia care toolkits for the care sector. It offers access to policies, digital audits, and cognitive assessments to improve care quality and standards.
- Access to over 200 policies
- Conduct digital audits
- Browse Resource Centre
- Share key policies
- Conduct PAL cognitive assessments
- Stay informed of sector news
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At QCS we provide the care sector's leading compliance, audit and dementia care toolkits, helping providers to meet and improve care quality and standards with minimal fuss. The QCS Management System contains a wide range of policies, procedures and guidance, all personalised to your organisation as well as the ability to conduct PAL cognitive assessments. The QCS app now provides you with the ability to conduct digital audits whilst on the move, saving you even more time. We pride ourselves in keeping you up to date with our instant software updates and constant flow of information. QCS App Features: - Access to the full policy centre, with over 200 policies for your social care or primary care service. - Conduct digital audits and create meaningful actions. - Browse our highly regarded Resource Centre - which contains a wide range of carefully curated multi-media support content. - Share key policies with other team members and stakeholders directly through the QCS App. - Conduct PAL assessments for service users whilst on the go from your App - Stay informed of the latest sector and QCS news with our monthly update videos Whether you are a business start-up or an established provider, we can help ensure that you adhere to the care standards of your regulatory body and help drive quality in your organisation in this time of transformation and change. *Requires an active QCS account* www.qcs.co.uk
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Care Friends at 65% against QCS's 0%. Care Friends also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Care Friends holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Care Friends's written reviews are positive against 0% of QCS's.
Care Friends ships an update monthly, QCS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Care Friends | QCS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Care Friends Limited | QCS |
Customer experience
Care Friends
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In-app purchases
Care Friends
No in-app purchases
QCS
No in-app purchases








