dwellingLIVE vs Sage Systems
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
Sage Systems
This app simplifies residential access control for residents and guests. Residents can manage guest access with recurring, day, or one-time keys, and receive video calls from the gate. Guests and service providers benefit from a single registration for swift entry into SAGE-enabled communities.
- Curate guest access
- Create recurring entries
- Grant day passes
- Issue one-time keys
- Receive video calls from gate
- Single registration for guests
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Discover SAGE - Unveiling a new realm where simplicity and security converge in residential access control. Residents, effortlessly curate guest access: create recurring entries for friends, grant day passes, or one-time keys for deliveries, all while having the power to receive video calls directly from your gate, ensuring you’re always connected, and always secure. Guests and service providers, your single SAGE registration transforms every visit into a swift, secure, and simple entry through any SAGE-enabled community.SAGE isn’t just access—it’s a portal to interconnected secure environments, beautifully simple and secure. Your key to seamless, secure experiences awaits.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sage Systems at 3.8 against dwellingLIVE's 1.3. Sage Systems also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (15% vs 6%). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Sage Systems holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 641 and 761 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of dwellingLIVE's written reviews are positive against 15% of Sage Systems's.
dwellingLIVE ships an update every 3 months, Sage Systems every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | dwellingLIVE | Sage Systems |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (641 ratings) | 3.8 (761 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | 14.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 641 | 761 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frontsteps | Ramco Protective |
Customer experience
dwellingLIVE
Sage Systems
User reviews
dwellingLIVE
From 641 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 User-friendly app
- 🚀 Quick and efficient
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches
- 🔍 Inconsistent performance
- 🔍 Unreliable notifications
- 👎 Poor user interface
- 🔍 Lack of innovation
Sage Systems
From 761 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Support team resolved issues
- 🚀 Pretty seamless onboarding
- 👍 Works well for granting access
- 👍 Freedom to control guest list
- 👍 Responsive and timely support
Room to improve
- 👎 Not user friendly
- 👎 Complicated personal information required
- 👎 Requires guests to download app
- 👎 Difficult to add/modify guest access
- 👎 Cannot change existing guest dates/times
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
Sage Systems
Reported bugs
23 issues- App stuck in update loop
- Guest data lost on update
- Cannot send codes to foreign country numbers
- Not all days visible for selection in add guest screen
- ID photo capture issues
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- Update process is frustrating
- Login issues from China
- App crashes after signing in
- Cannot scroll up to press enter
- Cannot signup due to photo issue
- Signing up is almost impossible due to quirks
- ID photo upload issues
- App freezes when granting access
- QR code for gate doesn't work
- App doesn't work on smaller iPhones
- Buttons cut off on smaller iPhones
- Loading screen of death
- App doesn't allow signing up
- Cannot add vendors to guest list
- Gate arms do not work properly
- Not receiving email to load vehicles
- App jams up phone
- App doesn't work, doesn't let me scroll
Requested features
8 requests- Provide instructions, FAQ, or tutorials
- Remove expired guests automatically
- Allow sending access codes instead of app downloads
- Make time entry optional for one-time visitors
- Allow uploading existing ID photos
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- Generate codes from homeowner app for guests
- Support for gatherings and parties
- More features to make app more usable for residents
In-app purchases
dwellingLIVE
No in-app purchases
Sage Systems
No in-app purchases
Questions
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