dwellingLIVE vs Community Base
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
Community Base
This app facilitates communication between community managers and residents. It offers features for both groups, including bill payments, maintenance requests, event updates, and push notifications for important information.
- Push notifications for important information
- Pay bills and HOA dues
- Submit maintenance requests
- Access community documents and events
- Photo gallery for managers
- In-app analytics reports
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The Community Base app increases effective communication between community management and residents by providing one-touch access to all community resources and push notification capability. This app is available for authorized property managers and the residents of the communities they manage. Features for Managers/Admins -Photo Gallery – allows property manager to upload photo to gallery for viewing by other managers and admins. -Access instructional videos and other content. -Easily communicate with the Innovia co-op headquarters. -Send important information to residents using push notifications. -Access in-app analytics reports Features for Residents -Pay bills and HOA Dues -Submit maintenance requests -Access community documents -Keep up with community events -Access resident benefits -Contact the community property manager -Receive “need to know” community information -Access your community website Who We Are Community Base from Innovia co-op, is a national community management cooperative that adds increasing value to management companies and their clients. Co-op members gain collective knowledge on emerging trends shaping the management and housing industry while leveraging significant buying power of hundreds of thousands of members from independently-owned companies across the country. Co-ops are similar to community associations in that they are run by the members for the benefit of the members.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Community Base at 2.4 against dwellingLIVE's 1.3. Community Base also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26.0). dwellingLIVE's advantage is ratings volume (639 vs 25). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Community Base holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: dwellingLIVE has 639 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 6% of dwellingLIVE's written reviews are positive against 0% of Community Base's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
dwellingLIVE ships an update every 3 months, Community Base monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | dwellingLIVE | Community Base |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (639 ratings) | 2.4 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 639 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Frontsteps | CMC Cooperative |
Customer experience
dwellingLIVE
Community Base
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
Community Base
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
dwellingLIVE
No in-app purchases
Community Base
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is dwellingLIVE free?
Is Community Base free?
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Do dwellingLIVE or Community Base have ads?
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