Comparison

dwellingLIVE vs Community Base

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Manage guest list
  • Add, edit, and delete guests
  • View guest history
  • Edit user profile
  • Manage notification settings
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

dwellingLIVE3 screens
Community Base1 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dwellingLIVE ships an update every 3 months, Community Base monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
dwellingLIVE versus Community Base: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdwellingLIVECommunity Base
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (639 ratings)2.4 (25 ratings) — better
Positive reviews6.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings639 — better25
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB58 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFrontstepsCMC Cooperative

Customer experience

dwellingLIVE

All ratings639 ratings
Positive6.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative90.5%
Written reviews134 reviews
Positive6.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative85.8%

Community Base

All ratings25 ratings
Positive32.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative64.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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
Show 2 more
  • 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

None

dwellingLIVE

No in-app purchases

None

Community Base

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is dwellingLIVE free?
dwellingLIVE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Community Base free?
Community Base is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, dwellingLIVE or Community Base?
Community Base is rated higher. dwellingLIVE averages 1.3 out of 5 from 639 ratings, while Community Base averages 2.4 from 25 ratings.
Do dwellingLIVE or Community Base have ads?
Neither dwellingLIVE nor Community Base shows ads.
Which is updated more often, dwellingLIVE or Community Base?
dwellingLIVE ships an update every 3 months, and Community Base monthly. Most recently, dwellingLIVE was updated on October 6, 2026 and Community Base on October 1, 2026.

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