RescueRef vs Tend
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RescueRef
This app helps animal shelter staff and volunteers manage animal inventory and share observations. It offers visual tracking, tagging, and search features to easily find and monitor specific animals.
- Visual animal inventory
- Observation sharing
- Animal tagging
- Following animals
- Facet-based search
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A productivity app for animal shelter volunteers and staff. RescueRef provides a visual inventory of all the animals in the shelter and in foster care so that staff and volunteers can get the current information for any animal and share new observations about them. With tagging, following, and facet-based search, RescueRef makes it easy to discover and track specific groups of animals. RescueRef is currently available only for select Central Texas animal shelters.
Tend
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Write it down. Get it done. Nothing in the way. Tend is a quiet to-do list for people who just want their day on one page. Type a task the way you'd say it — "buy chicken at Lotus next Friday 3pm" — and Tend picks out the date, the time and the place for you. Then tick it off. That's the whole app. The Features : Write naturally — Tend reads the date, time and place as you type Paper card design you can colour, tag and prioritise Gentle reminders, before or when it's due Postpone anything with one tap A month view for when you need the bigger picture Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — tick tasks straight from them Siri integrated "Hey Siri, add a task to Tend" One press from your Lock Screen button Most importantly Works completely offline No account, no sign-in, no tracking Nothing leaves your phone unless you turn on iCloud sync No streaks. No scolding. No badges guilting you at the end of the day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RescueRef at none against Tend's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tend sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RescueRef asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | RescueRef | Tend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hyperhound | Zi Jiang Yeoh |
In-app purchases
RescueRef
No in-app purchases
Tend
- Buy Me A Coffee$2.99









