Comparison

CareVault vs Sardines Carpool

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CareVault

Features
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A digital solution for Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry. Funding requirement, compliance, data management, reporting and claiming, are complex and time-consuming. Care Vault has been made with this in mind removing the need to run multiple information management systems.

About

Sardines Carpool

Effortlessly organize carpools directly within iMessage. Create ride polls, manage multiple vehicles, and save your car details for quick setup. Everything stays within your conversations, no accounts or servers needed.

Highlights
  • Create ride polls in iMessage
  • Support for multi-vehicle trips
  • Save custom vehicle seat layouts
  • Automatic name saving
  • No accounts or server reliance
  • Trip scheduling with date and time
Features
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Sardines makes organizing carpools effortless — right inside iMessage. No accounts, no downloads for your friends, no switching between apps. Just open Sardines in any conversation and start filling seats. **Create Ride Polls in Seconds** Pick your vehicle, assign a driver, add passengers to seats, and share the ride poll with your group. Everyone in the conversation can see who's riding where at a glance. **Multi-Vehicle Trips** Need more than one car? Add multiple vehicles to a single trip and assign passengers across all of them. The message preview adapts automatically — from a detailed single-car view to a compact multi-vehicle summary. **Your Vehicle Garage** Save your cars, vans, and SUVs with their exact seat layouts. Support for regular seats, shotgun, car seats, and boosters — so you always know who fits where. Switch vehicles with a tap when plans change. **Names That Stick** Sardines remembers your drivers, passengers, and trip names. The more you use it, the faster it gets. Names from rides other people send you are saved automatically too. **No Accounts. No Servers.** Everything stays in iMessage. Your ride details are encoded directly in the message — no sign-ups, no cloud storage, no tracking. It just works. **Trip Scheduling** Add a date and time to any ride so everyone knows when to be ready. **Built for Real Life** Whether it's the daily school run, a weekend trip, or coordinating rides to the game, Sardines keeps everyone on the same page without the group text chaos.

Screenshots

CareVault4 screens
Sardines Carpool3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sardines Carpool at every 4 days against CareVault's every 2 months. CareVault's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CareVault ships an update every 2 months, Sardines Carpool every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CareVault versus Sardines Carpool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCareVaultSardines Carpool
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJones KiruiRobert Mc Cord Hoehn

In-app purchases

None

CareVault

No in-app purchases

None

Sardines Carpool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CareVault free?
CareVault is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sardines Carpool free?
Sardines Carpool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CareVault or Sardines Carpool have ads?
Neither CareVault nor Sardines Carpool shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CareVault or Sardines Carpool?
CareVault ships an update every 2 months, and Sardines Carpool every 4 days. Most recently, CareVault was updated on October 16, 2026 and Sardines Carpool on October 15, 2026.

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