dwellingLIVE vs TSE Home
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
TSE Home
Manage your smart locks remotely with this application. It allows for app-based unlocking, setting temporary keys, and managing electronic keys. Receive real-time status updates and various alarm notifications when connected to a gateway.
- App unlocking
- Temporary key setting
- Electronic key management
- Door lock time settings
- Door lock menu settings
- Multiple authorization methods
- Real-time lock status feedback
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TSE Home is a smart lock app. It provides you with all the convenient management operations based on smart locks, currently covering the management of gateway locks, Bluetooth locks and gateways. The main function： ・ APP unlocking; ・ Set temporary key; ・ Support adding/deleting/modifying electronic keys; ・ Set the door lock time; ・ Set the door lock menu; ・ Two-dimensional code, mobile phone number and other door lock authorization methods; ・ If the gateway is connected, the status of the door lock can be feedback at any time, including door opening reminder, unlocking error number over limit reminder, shackle alarm, hijacking alarm, unclosed alarm, arming reminder, disarming reminder, low battery alarm etc;
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TSE Home at 3.4 against dwellingLIVE's 1.3. TSE Home also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 6%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). dwellingLIVE's advantage is ratings volume (641 vs 10). 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.
TSE Home holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: dwellingLIVE has 641 ratings behind it against 10, 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 33% of TSE Home's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | dwellingLIVE | TSE Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (641 ratings) | 3.4 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 641 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frontsteps | Townsteel Inc. |
Customer experience
dwellingLIVE
TSE Home
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
TSE Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
dwellingLIVE
No in-app purchases
TSE Home
No in-app purchases
