Comparison

Mysask411 vs Lee Valley Library

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

Head to head
About

Mysask411

This app provides daily updates on Saskatchewan businesses, people, and local information. It offers tools to organize your contacts, save notes, and discover local deals, weather, and movie showtimes.

Highlights
  • One-Touch Contact
  • Interactive Map View
  • My Notes & Collections
  • Weather Forecasts
  • Movie Showtimes
  • Flight Arrivals/Departures
  • Local Deals
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Updated daily, the Mysask411 app is your source for Saskatchewan businesses and people info + tools to help you stay organized and save time. Easily create an account to save favourites, location preferences and personal notes across your phone, tablet and desktop. Stay up to date with weather forecasts, movies playing in theatres across the province, flight arrivals and departures, local deals and much more! Key Features: - One-Touch Contact – Take action fast! Call, text and get directions right from your search results and find detailed information to connect via email or social media in Business Profiles. - Interactive Map View – Search anywhere in Saskatchewan and see what’s close to you, no matter where you are! - My Notes & Collections – Quickly and easily save private notes about your everyday business interactions including estimates, menu items, who you spoke to and other important things to remember - all in one place. Then, group your notes into Collections that work best for you.

About

Lee Valley Library

Access woodworking, gardening, hardware, and gift catalogs offline. Browse, search, and navigate through detailed product information with zoom and bookmarking features. Receive notifications for new catalog releases.

Highlights
  • Offline catalog viewing
  • Downloadable catalogs
  • Finger-swipe navigation
  • Pinch-to-zoom functionality
  • Keyword search within catalogs
  • Bookmark pages with notes
  • Email pages or ranges
Features
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The Lee Valley Library app enables you to view our Woodworking, Gardening, Hardware and Gift Catalogs in one place, on- or off-line, at your convenience. Lee Valley is a family-owned business that has been serving users of woodworking and gardening tools since 1978. Whether a tool from Lee Valley is one made by Veritas® Tools, our manufacturing arm, or is one of the 5,000 or so we get from around the world, it will always have our full guarantee. Library Bookshelf features: -Download catalogs through an Internet connection -Catalogs range from 5 MB to 90 MB in size -Catalogs are stored locally on your iPad/iPhone and can be viewed with or without an Internet connection (off-line viewing) -Navigate between catalogs within the bookshelf -Receive notification of our newest catalogs right on your iPad/iPhone -Manage catalogs – sort or delete by accessing the edit function Catalog navigation features: -Finger-swipe navigation -Pinch to zoom -Slider bar for easy page maneuvering -Alternate to single or double page viewing by simply rotating your iPad/iPhone -Jump to specific pages using bookmarks -Add notes to bookmarked pages -Keyword search -Table of Contents browsing -Jump to index -Navigate to pages directly from Index -Send an email with a single page or a range of pages from the catalog -Print catalogs (if connected to a wireless printer)

Screenshots

Mysask4114 screens
Lee Valley Library3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mysask411 at 4.5 against Lee Valley Library's 2.3. Mysask411 also leads on review sentiment (47% vs 12%). Lee Valley Library's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mysask411 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lee Valley Library has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Mysask411's written reviews are positive against 12% of Lee Valley Library's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mysask411 ships an update every 2 months, Lee Valley Library every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mysask411 versus Lee Valley Library: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMysask411Lee Valley Library
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better2.3 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews — better12.2% of reviews
Number of ratings223 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDirectwestLee Valley Tools Ltd.

Customer experience

Mysask411

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive47.3%
Neutral1.8%
Negative50.9%

Lee Valley Library

All ratings23 ratings
Positive34.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative60.9%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive12.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative83.8%

User reviews

Mysask411

From 2 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great local information
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Saves favorites
  • 👍 Good for local searches
  • 👍 Intuitive and well-designed

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Autocorrect issues
  • 🐛 Search results often irrelevant
  • 🐛 App crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Login issues after updates
  • 🐛 Favorites not showing after update

Lee Valley Library

From 23 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to read catalogs
  • 👍 Great way to browse
  • 👍 Good resource when it works

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Downloads fail to appear
  • 🐛 Catalogs not loading
  • 🐛 Outdated content
  • 🐛 No search functionality

Bugs and requests

Mysask411

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Autocorrect is annoying and unhelpful
  • Search suggestions unrelated to keywords
  • App crashes when searching and clicking results
  • App shows splash screen and quits
  • App won't open
Show 10 more
  • App keeps spinning, cannot log in or search
  • Favorites not showing after login
  • Search errors when logged in and searching out of area
  • Location buffering takes too long
  • Cannot select city to search
  • Reverse lookup feature is gone
  • Cannot save business/person to address book
  • No results found even with exact business name and spelling
  • Network errors
  • Weather information not updating

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to add entries to Contacts
  • Provide close-spelled name suggestions

Lee Valley Library

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Downloads stop part way through
  • Catalogs not showing up after download
  • Unable to display document error
  • Downloads hanging
  • Latest update erased downloaded catalogs
Show 15 more
  • Cannot read catalog titles
  • Bookshelf empty after download
  • App not compatible with iOS 16.3.1
  • Disappearing catalogues
  • Bookshelf doesn't load
  • App not working anymore
  • Blank screen for downloads
  • App crashes after viewing first few pages
  • App crashes after latest iOS update
  • App crashes when searching or scrolling
  • App crashes on iOS 10.2
  • App won't load after update
  • App won't open after upgrade
  • App crashes after updating
  • App crashes when index page number is selected

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add search functionality across catalogs
  • Enable direct purchasing within the app
  • Allow wish list and order history access
  • Integrate with user profiles
  • Improve interface and functionality
Show 6 more
  • Make app searchable with featured projects
  • Allow PDF downloads to other apps
  • Update to the latest catalogs
  • Add hyperlinks
  • Improve memory management
  • Support Apple Silicon MacBook

In-app purchases

None

Mysask411

No in-app purchases

None

Lee Valley Library

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mysask411 free?
Mysask411 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lee Valley Library free?
Lee Valley Library is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mysask411 or Lee Valley Library?
Mysask411 is rated higher. Mysask411 averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Lee Valley Library averages 2.3 from 23 ratings.
Do Mysask411 or Lee Valley Library have ads?
Mysask411 shows ads; Lee Valley Library does not.
Which is updated more often, Mysask411 or Lee Valley Library?
Mysask411 ships an update every 2 months, and Lee Valley Library every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mysask411 was updated on October 15, 2026 and Lee Valley Library on October 21, 2026.

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