JointAccounts vs Live HOAM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JointAccounts
This app facilitates communication between individuals and their incarcerated loved ones. It allows for voice and video calls, as well as secure text and picture messaging, helping to maintain strong connections despite distance.
- Voice and video calls
- Text and picture messaging
- Secure communication
- Connect with multiple contacts
- Real-time message delivery
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JointAccounts is a simple and secure communication app that helps family and friends stay connected with their incarcerated loved ones. With JointAccounts, you can receive voice and video calls, as well as send text and picture messages to each other, making it easier to share updates, express love, and maintain strong bonds, no matter the distance. Key Features: Stay in touch with voice and video calls from loved ones (in supported facilities) Send and receive text and picture messages securely Easy-to-use interface designed for seamless communication Stay in touch with multiple contacts across correctional facilities Fast delivery of messages to help you stay connected in real-time JointAccounts is designed to help you support your incarcerated loved ones by keeping communication lines open, making a difficult time just a little bit easier. Download today and stay connected.
Live HOAM
Connect with your neighbors and community association through a dedicated platform. Share announcements, manage household notices, and engage in local chat. Organize events, access important documents, and find trusted local vendors.
- Community announcements
- Direct household notices
- Neighbor chat channels
- Shared event calendar
- Document repository
- Trusted vendor list
- Admin tools for boards
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HOAM is the friendly home for your neighborhood. It brings everything a homeowners or condo association needs to stay connected into one simple app, so neighbors stay in the loop instead of chasing email threads and paper flyers. Built for townhome and condo communities, HOAM keeps everyone connected: ANNOUNCEMENTS Post and read community news, from parking reminders to meeting notices and seasonal maintenance. Important updates can be pinned to the top. HOUSEHOLD NOTICES Send a note to a single home instead of the whole neighborhood. Residents see it right away and mark it as seen, so nothing important gets lost in a group thread. NEIGHBOR CHAT Talk with neighbors in friendly channels: General for everyday updates, Marketplace to buy, sell, and give away, and Pets for lost-and-found and recommendations. EVENTS AND REMINDERS A shared community calendar for meetings, trash and recycling days, landscaping, and gatherings, with reminders so nothing slips by. Add any event to your own phone calendar in a tap. DOCUMENTS Keep governing documents, budgets, meeting minutes, and rules in one place, readable right in the app. COMMUNITY FAQ Answers to the questions new and current residents always ask, published by the people who run your community. TRUSTED VENDORS A shared list of plumbers, electricians, landscapers, and handymen your neighbors actually recommend. FOR BOARDS AND MANAGERS Community admins can post announcements, manage the calendar and documents, invite residents, and hand off officer roles when terms change. Whether your community is run by a volunteer board or a professional management company, the people who run it get the same tools. HOAM is a communication and community app. It does not handle dues payments, accounting, maintenance requests, or violations, and it does not replace the management system your community already uses. It sits alongside it and owns one job: the place residents actually open. Membership is by invitation from your community. If your community is not on HOAM yet, tell your board or property manager, or reach us at livehoam.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Live HOAM at 100% against JointAccounts's 0%. Live HOAM also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). JointAccounts's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Live HOAM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of JointAccounts's written reviews are positive against 100% of Live HOAM's.
JointAccounts ships an update every 5 months, Live HOAM every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JointAccounts | Live HOAM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JointAccounts, LLC | Wayne Radford |
Customer experience
JointAccounts
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In-app purchases
JointAccounts
No in-app purchases
Live HOAM
No in-app purchases









