Shades Mountain vs CMA Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shades Mountain
This app enhances your on-campus experience with tools for connection, giving, event discovery, and group management. It also facilitates children's check-ins and helps you engage with the church's mission.
- Online connection card
- Giving capabilities
- Event discovery
- Group management
- Children's check-in
- Connect with church mission
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The Shades app offers you a suite of tools to complement your on campus experience. You can complete our online connection card, give, find upcoming events, manage your groups, check in your kids, and much more! Download the app to connect with Shades and its mission as we send transformed people to influence their world for Christ.
CMA Home
Manage your community association from your mobile device. Access your personalized dashboard, make payments, view your account history, and submit service requests or amenity reservations.
- Personalized dashboard
- Easy mobile payments
- View payment history
- Submit service requests
- Reserve amenities
- Manage multiple properties
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CMA Home is a convenient and mobile-friendly way to interact with your community association. This app makes it easier than ever to access your community association portal. Simply log in using your existing portal credentials. Experience community anywhere, anytime. This app offers: A Personalized Dashboard: Personalized, up-to-date insights into your account. Easy Payments: Manage recurring or one-time payments with our convenient mobile payment options. Payment Information: Stay informed about your dues, view your current balance, review recent payments, and see your payment history. Convenient Requests: Submit a service request or reserve an amenity while you're out and about! CMA Home offers seamless switching between accounts. If you own multiple properties in a community, you can manage it all in a single login. Keep track of each property's dues, streamline payment processes, and enjoy the convenience of centralized management.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shades Mountain at 5.0 against CMA Home's 2.0. CMA Home's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 29 months) and ratings volume (25 vs 2). 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.
Shades Mountain holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CMA Home has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Shades Mountain ships an update every 29 months, CMA Home every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Shades Mountain | CMA Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 2.0 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 25 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shades Mountain Baptist Church | Community Management Associates , Inc. |
Customer experience
Shades Mountain
CMA Home
In-app purchases
Shades Mountain
No in-app purchases
CMA Home
No in-app purchases
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