PATLive vs FuneralCall Answering Service
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PATLive
Manage your business communications on the go. Update your receptionist's call handling, and review call summaries, messages, voicemails, and transfer details directly from your mobile device.
- Update receptionist status
- Review call summaries
- Access messages
- View voicemails
- Manage transfer details
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With the PATLive mobile app, you can manage your business from anywhere. Easily update your status to instantly change how receptionists are handling your calls, and review call summaries, messages, voicemails and transfer details. To use the PATLive mobile app, you must be a current customer with a Starter, Standard, Premium, Pro or Pro+ virtual receptionist plan. To learn more about becoming a customer or for assistance with your current account, visit www.patlive.com or call +1 (800) 775-7790.
FuneralCall Answering Service
This business communication app provides funeral homes with instant access to client messages and service arrangement details. It allows for quick responses to calls and forwards messages to on-call directors, syncing seamlessly with your account.
- Instant message access
- Direct call return
- Message forwarding
- Service arrangement management
- Automatic account syncing
- Death call notifications
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The FuneralCall mobile app – Simplicity at your fingertips. This easy-to-use answering service app is a hub of communications for your funeral home or funeral business. The FuneralCall app gives you direct access to your FuneralCall Account whenever, wherever. Messages appear instantly after logging in, making it easy to stay in tune with who’s contacting your funeral home. Return a phone call by a touch of a button inside the message, or Forward the message to the director on-call. Adding Service Arrangements is quick and easy, and because the app automatically syncs with your MyFuneralCall Account, our receptionists never miss a beat. Push notifications send a FirstCall Notice once a Death Call is in progress so you have time to prepare and respond quickly. FuneralCall Answering Service made it their mission to create a funeral answering service app that exuded simplicity so their directors could spend less time navigating an app and more time serving their families. You must have an account with FuneralCall Answering Service to use this answering service app. Please call 888-239-0351 or go to www.funeralcall.com/mobile-app to sign up
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FuneralCall Answering Service at every 10 days against PATLive's every 2 months. PATLive's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.6). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PATLive against 5.0 for FuneralCall Answering Service. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PATLive has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PATLive ships an update every 2 months, FuneralCall Answering Service every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and July 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PATLive | FuneralCall Answering Service |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PATLive, Inc. | FuneralCall |
Customer experience
PATLive
FuneralCall Answering Service
In-app purchases
PATLive
No in-app purchases
FuneralCall Answering Service
No in-app purchases
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