HouseNotes2 vs dwellingLIVE Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HouseNotes2
Track and categorize your home expenses with this simple application. It helps you understand where your money is going for various household costs.
- Track house spending
- Categorize expenses
- Total spending by category
- Simple interface
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Simple app that keeps track and totals what you spent on your house and for what! Use the categories to help tell what your money has been spent on.
dwellingLIVE Builder
Access your homeowner maintenance manual, product information, and monthly checklists. View important community documents, local info, and builder announcements. Submit warranty service requests quickly and easily.
- Homeowner maintenance manual
- Product information access
- Monthly maintenance checklists
- View community documents
- Submit warranty requests
- Builder announcements
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dwellingLIVE is a leading provider of online Home and Community Portals that embrace today's technology solutions. As a homeowner, you will have access to your homeowner maintenance manual, information for the products installed in your home, and a monthly maintenance checklist. Additionally, you’ll be able to view important home and community documents, local information, and announcements sent by your builder. Should you need to submit a warranty service request to your builder, you can do so in a matter of seconds. Everything you need to know for your home, when you need to know it. dwellingLIVE has been used by over 470 Home Builder divisions, and more than 300,000 Home Owners nationwide.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: dwellingLIVE Builder at Free against HouseNotes2's $0.99. dwellingLIVE Builder also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). HouseNotes2's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
dwellingLIVE Builder is free to download; HouseNotes2 costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for HouseNotes2 against 4.0 for dwellingLIVE Builder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HouseNotes2 | dwellingLIVE Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PALIANTech | Frontsteps |
Customer experience
HouseNotes2
dwellingLIVE Builder
In-app purchases
HouseNotes2
No in-app purchases
dwellingLIVE Builder
No in-app purchases
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