Comparison

LifaPhone vs Sheaf

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

LifaPhone

Create custom smartphone interfaces and scripts for your desired reality. Design virtual phones, utilize scripting templates, and control your reality with a dedicated app. Offers tools for immersive reality shifting experiences.

Highlights
  • Custom smartphone design for desired realities
  • Scripting templates for reality design
  • Reality control app integration
  • Immersive reality shifting tools
  • Virtual phone creation
Features
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Design phones for your DRs LifaPhone has three main tools: 1) a smartphone you can use in your DR 2) scripting templates for designing your DRs 3) lifaApp for controlling your DR Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Sheaf

This app helps plural systems track members, manage switches, and keep journals. It offers cross-platform support and prioritizes user privacy with an open-source, self-hostable option.

Highlights
  • Track system members and front changes
  • Write member and system journals
  • Manage member groups
  • Send front change notifications
  • Cross-platform support (mobile, web, wearable)
  • Open-source and self-hostable
Features
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Sheaf is a plurality tracker for plural systems. Create member profiles, track switches, keep journals, send notifications of front changes to others, and more. Built by plural systems, for plural systems. Inclusive of all plural experiences regardless of origin or framing - no required diagnosis, no gatekeeping, no assumptions about how your system "should" work. Designed to be privacy-first and keep the user in control. Sheaf also includes Apple Watch support with a flexible set of complications and widgets that allows you to see your front status at a glance, register switches, and view history all without ever pulling out your phone. Sheaf exists because Simply Plural is shutting down, and the plural community needs somewhere that won't quietly disappear. Sheaf is open source under AGPL: the code is public, the project can be forked, and you can self-host your own instance if you'd rather keep your data on your own infrastructure. Sheaf can import your existing system data from Simply Plural, with support for more tools coming soon. What you can do: - Track system members and front changes - Write member- and system-wide journals - Manage member groups - Send notifications of front changes - Use the hosted service or run your own - Cross-platform: Mobile, wearable, and web clients We're rolling out in stages. Sensitive community data deserves slow-and-correct over fast-and-sorry, so the hosted service is moving carefully through preview before a full public launch.

Screenshots

LifaPhone4 screens
Sheaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sheaf at none against LifaPhone's 3. Sheaf also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). LifaPhone's advantage is ratings volume (97 vs 3) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LifaPhone sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Sheaf asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sheaf holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LifaPhone has 97 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of LifaPhone's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sheaf's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LifaPhone ships an update every 6 days, Sheaf fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
LifaPhone versus Sheaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLifaPhoneSheaf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (97 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings97 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.517.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB24 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperWorldBuilders, IncorporatedLupine Systems

Customer experience

LifaPhone

All ratings95 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral3.2%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral11.1%
Negative13.9%

Sheaf

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

LifaPhone

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Shifting Tools - Weekly Sub7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Pro Shifting Tools - Monthly Sub7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Pro Shifting Tools - Yearly Sub7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Sheaf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LifaPhone free?
LifaPhone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sheaf free?
Sheaf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LifaPhone or Sheaf?
Sheaf is rated higher. LifaPhone averages 4.5 out of 5 from 97 ratings, while Sheaf averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do LifaPhone or Sheaf have ads?
LifaPhone shows ads; Sheaf does not.
Which is updated more often, LifaPhone or Sheaf?
LifaPhone ships an update every 6 days, and Sheaf fortnightly. Most recently, LifaPhone was updated on November 13, 2026 and Sheaf on November 9, 2026.

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