Somabay App vs linkA Care
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Somabay App
This app serves as a central hub for property owners, facilitating communication with neighbors and community management. It offers services like ordering, issue reporting, and guest management, enhancing the community living experience.
- Service ordering
- Neighbor communication
- Community management contact
- Identity badge for access
- Guest invitation management
- Issue reporting
- Local discovery
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Somabay app powered by Lyve is the new official communication platform and home management tool for Somabay property owners that enables, facilitates and enhances the community experience. An all in one solution, Somabay app provides you with everything you need from ordering services, communicating with your neighbors, effectively and instantly reaching the community management to providing you with your unique identity badge for access control and managing your guests invitations. Managing your home has never been easier. Simply request from the various services provided to you by Somabay and report issues instantly to sustain the well being of your community. Discover the places around you and see the latest shops, restaurants and activities No need to save numbers. Call directly from the app. All this in a safe and secure environment with 100% authenticated residents.
linkA Care
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Monitor, call and take care of kids, seniors and people with special needs. With linkA Care: * Monitor your kids anytime, anywhere. * Receive calls from your kid with a single touch. * Initiate video/voice calls without kid interaction. * Initiate a sound alert to summon children or any other users. * Add multiple viewers (parents, siblings, friends, … ) to your camera. * Display entertaining themes for kids while ringing. * Allow kids to record video/voice messages for you. * Utilize/Repurpose old phones as linkA Care devices. linkA Care is especially designed for children, seniors, and individuals with disabilities to assist and simplify the process to initiate calls to multiple recipients via a single-touch interface. Users simply click/touch a “call” button and calls are initiated to a preset list of five recipients. If none of the people on the recipients list responds, the caller can leave a message that can be accessed by all the recipients. Setting up linkA Care requires installing and running the application on two separate mobile devices: * One in VIEWER mode (for parent) * The other in CAMERA mode (for kid) For detailed installation steps please go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGmgjEKbhIk When a user initiates a call using linkA Care, notifications are sent to recipients with the VIEWER application. In response, the various VIEWER instances pop ring notification and one VIEWER is allowed to respond. linkA Care offers a modern twist to a traditional gadget; It is a software application that can be easily installed on any smartphone or tablet, old or new, transforming the device into a kids, seniors and individuals with disabilities friendly soft phone with multimedia call animations that can be customized to represent various themes. Besides an extensive library of themes, linkA Care incorporates a themes editor for creating your own themes on the fly. Why to use linkA Care: * Children, seniors, and people with disabilities can easily communicate with a preset list of users via a one-touch interface. * Two-way video/audio communication. * Live Video Streaming from the device with linkA Care. * Parents can remotely initiate a sound alert to summon children or any other users. * Parents can initiate calls to children with no action from children to respond. * Phone and Application are always on. Devices with the linkA Care CAMERA Mode cannot be turned off nor can the application be shutdown. * linkA Care CAMERA will automatically launch and establish live connection upon device restart. * Users of linkA Care can quickly and easily leave video/audio messages to the list of recipients. * Shared monitoring between family members via multiple installations of the linkA Care VIEWER Mode application. Each of the linkA Care VIEWER devices will receive notification from the linkA Care CAMERA instances. * Multiple linkA Care devices can be linked to a single account, thus, enabling expanded coverage. * Entertaining call themes from the theme store. * Customizable call themes using the included theme builder Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Somabay App at none against linkA Care's 2. Somabay App also leads on ads (none vs shown). linkA Care's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence 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. linkA Care sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Somabay App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Somabay App ships an update every 2 months, linkA Care every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Somabay App | linkA Care |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moonshot Labs | Fadi Ismail |
In-app purchases
Somabay App
No in-app purchases
linkA Care
- Premium$3.991 Month
- Premium$39.991 Year









