dwellingLIVE vs MyREC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
dwellingLIVE
Manage your community's guest list and personal account information directly from your mobile device. This app allows residents to easily add, edit, and delete guests, view guest history, and update their profile details.
- Manage guest list
- Add, edit, and delete guests
- View guest history
- Edit user profile
- Manage notification settings
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dwellingLIVE is the #1 access control solution for residential community associations. This is the official dwellingLIVE Guest List app for residents in communities subscribing to dwellingLIVE. Easily manage your guest list and account information on your mobile device. Current Features Include: • View guest list • Add, edit, and delete guests • View guest history • Edit user profile (name, email, password, phone numbers, etc.) • Manage email & text message notification settings
MyREC
Manage your electricity account with ease. View usage and billing details, make payments, and report service issues. Access facility maps and receive important messages from your provider.
- View account balance and due date
- Manage recurring payments
- View bill history (PDFs)
- Analyze energy usage graphs
- Report account/service issues
- Locate facility and dropbox sites
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MyREC provides Rappahannock Electric Cooperative customers account management at their fingertips. Customers can view their usage and billing, manage payments, notify customer service of account and service issues and receive special messaging from REC. Additional Features: Bill & Pay - Quickly view your current account balance and due date, manage recurring payments and modify payment methods. You can also view bill history including PDF versions of paper bills directly on your mobile device. My Usage - View energy usage graphs to identify high usage trends. Navigate graphs quickly using an intuitive gesture based interface. Contact Us - Easily contact REC by email or phone. You can also submit one of the many predefined messages, with the ability to include pictures and GPS coordinates. Maps - Displays facility and payment dropbox locations on a map interface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MyREC at 2.8 against dwellingLIVE's 1.3. MyREC also leads on review sentiment (14% vs 6%) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). dwellingLIVE's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (641 vs 59). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
MyREC holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: dwellingLIVE has 641 ratings behind it against 59, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of dwellingLIVE's written reviews are positive against 14% of MyREC's.
dwellingLIVE ships an update every 3 months, MyREC every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | dwellingLIVE | MyREC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (641 ratings) | 2.8 (59 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | 14.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 641 — better | 59 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Frontsteps | Rappahannock Electric Cooperative |
Customer experience
dwellingLIVE
MyREC
Bugs and requests
dwellingLIVE
Reported bugs
4 issues- App not loading or showing blank screens
- Unable to access contacts
- Inability to save guest information
- Inconsistent behavior after updates
Requested features
7 requests- Siri integration
- Quick add for temporary guests
- Ability to update guest information
- Notification to multiple contacts
- Ability to save contact information
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- Search function for guest list
- Ability to extend multiple guest passes at once
MyREC
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
dwellingLIVE
No in-app purchases
MyREC
No in-app purchases
