Lotsa Helping Hands vs LiveFine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lotsa Helping Hands
This app helps coordinate support for individuals and families during challenging times. It allows users to organize tasks like meal deliveries and rides, share updates with a network, and receive emotional support through messages and photos.
- Organize help with tasks
- Schedule meal deliveries
- Coordinate rides to appointments
- Communicate updates to network
- Share photos and well wishes
- Create a support community
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One place to coordinate help, communicate updates & receive emotional support. Schedule meal deliveries, rides to appointments, and visiting hours by posting tasks others can help with. Notify all concerned family members, friends, and community members about the status of your loved one with a single message. Connect with your support network with posts like photos and well wishes. ORGANIZE HELP Coordinate meaningful help (meals, rides, visits) when you most need it. Make it easier for people to help in even the smallest ways, and save time communicating unmet needs. UPDATE EVERYONE Share updates with your friends & family instead of sending multiple emails, phone calls or texts. FEEL CONNECTED Allow friends & family to express love, emotional support, and uplifting messages. How to coordinate help while caring for a loved one: 1. Create a Lotsa Community. 2. Invite family, friends, neighbors & colleagues to help with your Community. 3. Add tasks to the feed, such as meal deliveries, so friends can volunteer. 4. Keep everyone updated through personal blogs, photos, and well wishes.
LiveFine
Streamline daily routines by connecting your smart devices. Manage medication schedules, customize notifications, and view device settings remotely. This app simplifies the use of smart home products for a more convenient lifestyle.
- Connect smart devices
- Manage medication schedules
- Customize notifications
- View device settings
- Remote alerts
- User-friendly interface
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Cut out mundane tasks with LiveFine. Connect your LiveFine smart devices to the LiveFine app and simplify your way of living. Link your smart device like the LiveFine Automatic Pill Dispenser to the app and never miss a medication dosage again. This user-friendly app will make using your devices easier. Explore the app to utilize features like customizing notifications, viewing current settings, adjusting schedules and more. Even when you aren’t around the device, be alerted when it’s time for another dosage with the easy-to-use app. Designed for convenience so you can set up everything to fit your lifestyle and you never fall behind again. Live happy and healthy with LiveFine
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LiveFine at 4.6 against Lotsa Helping Hands's 2.7. LiveFine also leads on review sentiment (44% vs 9%) and iOS requirement (12.2 vs 15.1). Lotsa Helping Hands's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
LiveFine holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 52 and 98 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Lotsa Helping Hands's written reviews are positive against 44% of LiveFine's.
Lotsa Helping Hands ships an update every 2 months, LiveFine every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lotsa Helping Hands | LiveFine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (52 ratings) | 4.6 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lotsa Helping Hands, Inc. | C&A Marketing, Inc. |
Customer experience
Lotsa Helping Hands
LiveFine
Bugs and requests
Lotsa Helping Hands
Reported bugs
66 issues- Cannot see full calendar
- Cannot choose notification types
- Cannot make recurring tasks
- Calendar colors not showing correctly
- App quits working
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- Blank screen on app
- Website does weird things
- Spinning death wheel on login
- Cannot open on iPad
- App is cumbersome and limited
- No easy way to share
- Changing recurring dates difficult
- Calendar icon does nothing
- Constantly makes you log in
- Says no good internet connection
- Doesn't send valid links
- Tells you don't have an account
- Password won't reset
- App suddenly lost login
- Doesn't work on iPad Pro
- Old app was better
- Unable to login
- Updates don't sync between app and website
- Automatic reminders stopped sending
- Comments not appearing in app
- Login email and password don't match
- App hangs then crashes
- App doesn't have explore function
- App doesn't have referral to website
- Coordinator cannot approve member requests
- Coordinator cannot see information like webpage
- Login doesn't work on app
- Community not supported by app
- App crashes when switching pages
- App crashes when clicking comments
- App does not show needs from web page
- Impossible to understand who is doing what
- Shows no needs when there are needs
- Cannot do administrative functions
- Does not sync correctly
- Email notifications not sent to members
- Have to go out of app to post a need
- App doesn't sync to website
- App just takes up space
- Coordinators cannot schedule help needs
- App is for volunteers, not coordinators
- App crashes when selecting 'Help Needed'
- Error message after update
- No way to do community administration as coordinator
- Cannot approve pending members
- Cannot create a task
- Cannot see members waiting for acceptance
- Members cannot add own tasks
- New app doesn't work for previous users
- App takes you to website
- New version is frustrating
- Prompted to pick community, then sent to web page
- Time and date selections do not work
- App is unresponsive
- Crashes on login repeatedly
- App crashes immediately
- App crashes upon opening
- Help menu does not work
- Website is not responsive
- Cannot pinch/zoom website
- Website requires scrolling everywhere
Requested features
31 requests- See full calendar on app
- Choose notification types
- Create recurring tasks
- Improved calendar view on app
- Share button in settings
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- Implement calendar view on app
- Email notifications for needs
- Post needs from app
- Coordinator features on app
- App for coordinators
- Approve members through app
- Add activities through app
- Manage caretaking on-the-go
- Edit events on app
- Create new activities on app
- Explore function on app
- Referral to website on app
- Coordinator can approve member requests
- Coordinator can see other info on app
- Coordinator can schedule help needs using app
- App syncs to website
- Push notifications for help needed
- Sync to calendar
- App for coordinators to manage community
- Approve and invite new members through app
- Create tasks on app
- See members waiting for approval
- Members can add their own tasks
- App works for users before 11/15
- App time and date selections work
- App is responsive on mobile
LiveFine
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lotsa Helping Hands
No in-app purchases
LiveFine
No in-app purchases
Questions
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