Lotsa Helping Hands vs Ridwell
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.
Ridwell
Easily dispose of hard-to-recycle items with convenient doorstep pickups. Schedule collections, track your impact, and feel good knowing your items are being reused or recycled by trusted partners.
- Schedule doorstep pickups
- Collect hard-to-recycle items
- Receive real-time notifications
- Track community impact
- Transparent item destinations
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Get rid of your stuff the right way with Ridwell. Seamlessly schedule your upcoming pickups, receive real-time notifications, and see the impact you’re making with the Ridwell community! Collect hard-to-recycle items in your Ridwell bags. We give you bags to store your plastic film, threads, and other hard-to-recycle things that might otherwise go to waste. Easy pickups from your front door. We come to your front door to pick up your stuff every two weeks. Just let us know when you have stuff to pick up! Feel great about where your stuff goes. You’ll always know where your stuff is going to be reused or recycled with one of our partners. Together, Ridwell members save tons from the landfill every year to support our community, keep our oceans clean, and build a brighter future. If you're in need of any support, please contact us at app@ridwell.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ridwell at 73% against Lotsa Helping Hands's 9%. Ridwell also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.7) and ratings volume (8.2K vs 52). Lotsa Helping Hands's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ridwell holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ridwell has 8.2K ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Lotsa Helping Hands's written reviews are positive against 73% of Ridwell's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lotsa Helping Hands | Ridwell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (52 ratings) | 4.9 (8.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52 | 8.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lotsa Helping Hands, Inc. | Ridwell, Inc. |
Customer experience
Lotsa Helping Hands
Ridwell
User reviews
Lotsa Helping Hands
From 52 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Website is great
- 👍 Website works well
- 👍 Functional overall
- 👍 Stable and user friendly
- 👍 Makes helping easy
Room to improve
- 🐛 App has room for improvement
- 🐛 Horrible app
- 🐛 Glitchy app
- 🐛 Doesn't work at all
- 🐛 Cumbersome and limited app
Ridwell
From 8.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💚 Excellent for the environment
- 🙌 Convenient pickup service
- 🤗 Helpful customer service
- 👍 Easy to use app
- 🎉 Reduces waste
Room to improve
- 🚫 Missed pickups
- 🤔 Inconsistent service
- 💰 Overcharging for extras
- 🏢 Inaccessible for apartment buildings
- 🤷♀️ Unclear communication
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
Ridwell
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incorrect pickup status notifications
- Drivers unable to access buildings
Requested features
3 requests- Advance scheduling for pickups
- More recycling categories
- Proactive notifications for missed pickups
In-app purchases
Lotsa Helping Hands
No in-app purchases
Ridwell
No in-app purchases
Questions
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