Roost Home vs DumbLevel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roost Home
This app helps manage household tasks, meal planning, and habit tracking. It offers a centralized hub for organizing chores, scheduling meals, and monitoring daily routines. View all your home activities in a unified calendar for better planning.
- Chore assignment and tracking
- Daily meal planning
- Habit tracking and streak maintenance
- Event and appointment scheduling
- Unified calendar view
- Private, local data storage
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Home isn't just a place, it's something you build together every day. Roost Home is a private household hub Life tracking. Everything in one place, just for you. --- WHAT'S INSIDE --- Chores & Grocery Lists Never wonder who's doing what. Assign chores, set them to repeat, and check things off as you go. Meals Plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner for any day. No more "what are we eating tonight?", just open the app and it's already decided. Habits Build routines that stick. Track daily habits, log your progress, and keep your streak alive. Whether it's working out, reading, or drinking more water… small things compound. Events & Appointments Never double-book again. Add events with start and end times, set a location, and get reminded ahead of time. Dentist, date night, car service, it all lives here. Calendar View See your entire week or month at a glance. Chores, meals, habits, and events all show up together so you can spot what's coming and plan around it. --- PRIVATE BY DESIGN --- Your home life is yours. Roost Home is not a social network. There are no feeds, no followers, and no ads. Just a clean, focused space. All your data is stored locally, never in the cloud Download Roost Home and start building better days. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
DumbLevel
This utility app provides a precise bubble level for accurate picture and shelf hanging. It also includes a planner to help you lay out multiple items, calculate spacing, and mark positions on your wall.
- Precise bubble level with tenth-degree readings
- Plumb and two-axis bubble modes
- Audible level indicators
- Hanging planner for pictures, shelves, and hooks
- Calculates spacing and provides wall marks
- Stores past projects for reference
- User-calibratable sensors
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It's just a level. DumbLevel is a bubble level for hanging shelves and pictures straight, plus a "What are we doing?" screen that does the layout math and hands you the marks. It's free. That's the whole deal. WHAT YOU ARE NOT GETTING • No subscription. Ever. • No account. No sign-in. • No ads. • No timer. It does not stop working after twenty seconds and ask for money. • No analytics. Nothing leaves your phone. THE LEVEL • Picks the mode by itself. Set the phone on its long edge for a level line, stand it upright for plumb, lay it flat for a two-axis bubble. • Reads to a tenth of a degree, in numbers big enough to read from a ladder. • Green, amber, red. Within two tenths of a degree is green. • Says which end is high, in words: RIGHT END HIGH. TOP LEANS LEFT. LEVEL. • Hold freezes the reading so you can lift the phone off the shelf and read it. • Sonar pings that speed up as you get close, and a coin chime when you hit level, so you can watch the shelf instead of the phone. Pings and chime, chime only, or muted. • Calibration that cancels the phone's own sensor bias. Capture, turn the phone end-for-end on the same spot, capture again. The true tilt cancels out and what is left is the phone's error, which is then subtracted from every reading. It is the same two-capture reversal that precision digital levels use, and it fixes the "my case has a bump on the back" problem. • The readout turns itself so up on screen is up in the room, whichever way you hold the phone. • Compared with the level built into the phone: tenths of a degree instead of whole degrees, plus hold, calibration and the hanging planner. WHAT ARE WE DOING? Pick the job: • One picture (or a mirror, a clock, a sign) • A row of frames • A grid of frames (a gallery wall) • Shelves, one or a stack of them • Hooks • Curtain rod Then a few plain questions, with the usual rule already filled in: pictures centered at 57 inches, eye level; 6 to 10 inches above a couch or a dresser; 2 to 3 inches between frames; a curtain rod 4 to 6 inches above the window and 4 to 6 inches past it on each side; coat hooks at 60 inches. Change any number you like. It does the math and hands you the marks: every one in inches from the end of the wall or the edge of the window, so you can read them straight off a tape. A to-scale drawing shows what you are about to hang. A walkthrough shows one mark at a time in giant numbers so you can make the marks with the phone in one hand and a pencil in the other. Print the sheet or share it as a PDF, tape it to the wall, then tap Level it and the level checks each one. Every job you measure is filed under Past projects, under the six tiles. Open the hallway you did last spring, see the same numbers, and hang the next frame to match. FINE PRINT DumbLevel reads to a tenth of a degree. Like every phone level it is only as good as the sensor inside the phone, so calibrate it before you trust it, and check anything that matters with a real level. It is a phone. iPhone only. Portrait only. Works with the screen off? No. It's a level, not a miracle.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Roost Home at free against DumbLevel's paid. Roost Home also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). DumbLevel's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Roost Home against 5.0 for DumbLevel. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Roost Home ships an update fortnightly, DumbLevel every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roost Home | DumbLevel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jaspreet Singh | kert shuster |
Customer experience
Roost Home
DumbLevel
In-app purchases
Roost Home
No in-app purchases
DumbLevel
No in-app purchases







