Gate Sentry vs dwellingLIVE Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gate Sentry
Streamline visitor access for guarded properties using mobile software. Manage guest lists remotely, receive arrival notifications, and enable security personnel to grant access in seconds.
- Eliminates costly hardware
- Mobile and tablet software integration
- Remote guest list management
- Real-time security guard updates
- Arrival notifications
- Visitor history access
- Fast visitor lookup
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Gate Sentry is revolutionizing visitor access management for guarded properties by eliminating traditional and costly hardware, such as scanners and computers, which significantly slow down the visitor entry process. Our approach utilizes mobile and tablet software to establish a direct link between users and security personnel, ensuring the most accurate visitor lists. The app enables users to manage their guest lists from anywhere, at any time, on any device, providing real-time updates to the security guard software for a seamless and efficient access control process. Users receive arrival notifications and can access a visitor history entry list. Furthermore, our security tablet software consolidates all activities into a single, streamlined tool with advanced search capabilities, allowing security staff to quickly locate visitors based on various criteria and dramatically reducing visitor access time to 5 seconds or less.
dwellingLIVE Builder
Access your homeowner maintenance manual, product information, and monthly checklists. View important community documents, local info, and builder announcements. Submit warranty service requests quickly and easily.
- Homeowner maintenance manual
- Product information access
- Monthly maintenance checklists
- View community documents
- Submit warranty requests
- Builder announcements
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dwellingLIVE is a leading provider of online Home and Community Portals that embrace today's technology solutions. As a homeowner, you will have access to your homeowner maintenance manual, information for the products installed in your home, and a monthly maintenance checklist. Additionally, you’ll be able to view important home and community documents, local information, and announcements sent by your builder. Should you need to submit a warranty service request to your builder, you can do so in a matter of seconds. Everything you need to know for your home, when you need to know it. dwellingLIVE has been used by over 470 Home Builder divisions, and more than 300,000 Home Owners nationwide.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gate Sentry at 4.8 against dwellingLIVE Builder's 4.0. Gate Sentry also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). 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.
Gate Sentry holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gate Sentry has 11K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Gate Sentry ships an update every 3 weeks, dwellingLIVE Builder every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gate Sentry | dwellingLIVE Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gate Sentry | Frontsteps |
Customer experience
Gate Sentry
dwellingLIVE Builder
Bugs and requests
Gate Sentry
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not opening after recent update
- Login not working on new iPhones
- Notifications not displaying guest details
Requested features
4 requests- Allow special characters and spaces in names
- Implement calendar-based date selection
- Add support for company/vendor names
- Enable recurring visitor scheduling
dwellingLIVE Builder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gate Sentry
No in-app purchases
dwellingLIVE Builder
No in-app purchases
Questions
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