dwellingLIVE vs IASv5
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
IASv5
Manage community access and visitor information effortlessly from your mobile device. This application allows for quick profile management, visitor addition/deletion, and instant updates to management and gate attendants.
- Visitor management
- Access control
- Resident profile management
- Instant updates to management
- Mobile accessibility
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IASv5 is the latest community management and access control software created to reinvent the way traditional software packages were created. The vision of IASv5 is to create a simple to use, customizable, application. Manage your IASv5 resident profile and visitors from your mobile device in a snap, quick and easy!! Add and delete Visitors to your profile, send those changes instantaneously to the management team and to the gate attendants.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: IASv5 at 73% against dwellingLIVE's 6%. IASv5 also leads on rating (3.6 vs 1.3) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). dwellingLIVE's advantage is ratings volume (641 vs 20). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
IASv5 holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: dwellingLIVE has 641 ratings behind it against 20, 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 73% of IASv5's.
dwellingLIVE ships an update every 3 months, IASv5 monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | dwellingLIVE | IASv5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (641 ratings) | 3.6 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 641 — better | 20 |
| 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 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frontsteps | InterAccess Systems Inc |
Customer experience
dwellingLIVE
IASv5
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
IASv5
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
dwellingLIVE
No in-app purchases
IASv5
No in-app purchases
