Lotsa Helping Hands vs Random Mood Sampler
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
Random Mood Sampler
This app prompts you twice daily to record your mood, thoughts, and activities. It helps you identify emotional patterns over time by capturing your experiences as they happen. All your data is stored locally and can be exported.
- Two daily mood prompts
- Record feelings, thoughts, and activities
- View historical mood patterns
- Export data as CSV
- Local data storage
- No accounts or tracking
Read full descriptionHide full description
Murray Mood Sampler helps you capture how you feel in real time. Twice per day, you’ll receive a simple prompt: • How are you (0–10)? • What’s mostly on your mind? • What are you doing? That’s it. Over time, you’ll build a record of your emotional patterns — when your mood rises, when it dips, and what surrounds those moments. Why random prompts? Because memory is unreliable. Mood Sampler samples your experience as it actually unfolds. Features: • Two random daily notifications • Clean, distraction-free entry screen • View full history of entries • Export your data as a spreadsheet (.csv) • All data stored locally on your device Mood Sampler is a personal tool for self-understanding. Your data belongs to you and can be shared with anyone you choose. No accounts. No tracking. No subscriptions.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lotsa Helping Hands at Free against Random Mood Sampler's $2.99. Lotsa Helping Hands also leads on ratings volume (52 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). Random Mood Sampler's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 2.7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On ads, 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
Lotsa Helping Hands is free to download; Random Mood Sampler costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Random Mood Sampler holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lotsa Helping Hands has 52 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Lotsa Helping Hands ships an update every 2 months, Random Mood Sampler every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lotsa Helping Hands | Random Mood Sampler |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.7 (52 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lotsa Helping Hands, Inc. | MICHAEL ANTHONY MURRAY |
Customer experience
Lotsa Helping Hands
Random Mood Sampler
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
Show 61 moreShow fewer
- 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
Show 26 moreShow fewer
- 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
Random Mood Sampler
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lotsa Helping Hands
No in-app purchases
Random Mood Sampler
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Lotsa Helping Hands free?
Is Random Mood Sampler free?
Which has better reviews, Lotsa Helping Hands or Random Mood Sampler?
Do Lotsa Helping Hands or Random Mood Sampler have ads?
Which is updated more often, Lotsa Helping Hands or Random Mood Sampler?
Other comparisons
