Comparison

ACS FUNdraising vs DashLX

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

Head to head
About

ACS FUNdraising

This app helps participants of American Cancer Society events easily register and collect donations on the go. It supports various payment methods and allows users to track fundraising progress and share their campaigns on social media.

Highlights
  • Event registration
  • Credit card and check donation acceptance
  • Facebook fundraiser creation
  • Social media sharing
  • Donation receipt sending
  • Fundraising progress tracking
  • Personal fundraising page creation
Features
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Join the American Cancer Society’s fight against cancer! At the American Cancer Society, we're on a mission to free the world from cancer. Until we do, we'll be funding and conducting research, sharing expert information, supporting patients, and spreading the word about prevention. All so you can live longer — and better. The FUNdraising App The American Cancer Society FUNdraising app puts the FUN in fundraising! It enables Relay For Life© and Making Strides Against Breast Cancer participants to easily register for events and accept donations on-the-go. Use the FUNdraising app to: Register for your local Relay For Life or Making Strides Against Breast Cancer events Accept in-person credit card and check donations with state-of-the-art scanning technologies and bank-grade security features Create a Facebook Fundraiser Share your fundraiser directly to your social and professional contacts and networks Solicit donations via PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo Send donation receipts and thank you notes Create and update your personal event fundraising page Track your personal, team, and event fundraising progress Monitor your fundraising progress to goal View your earned personal and team badges Fundraise for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Note that you must be a registered participant of one of our events to use this app. Register for Relay For Life and Making Strides Against Breast Cancer directly from the app. Verified participants of ResearcHERS, Real Men Wear Pink, and DetermiNation events can also accept donations using the app. Relay For Life For more than 35 years, communities across the world have come together to honor and remember loved ones and take action for lifesaving change. Relayers fundraise for a future free from cancer. We’re asking you to join the movement and sign up to save lives. Visit RelayForLife.org for more information. Making Strides Against Cancer From large-scale traditional walks to unique local experiences and celebrations, the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer has united communities, companies, and individuals across the country in the fight to end breast cancer for more than two decades – and we have no intention of ever slowing down. Visit MakingStridesWalk.org for more information.

About

DashLX

This app transforms your physical activities into digital data, enriching it with contextual information like weather and terrain. You can then choose to share this data with brands and organizations to improve products and services, potentially earning rewards.

Highlights
  • Syncs with fitness trackers
  • Enriches data with context
  • User controls data sharing
  • Share data with brands
  • Integrates with Apple Health
Features
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Lived Experience (LX) data translates your physical experiences into your digital world. Collect and enrich your LX data, then share it with the brands & organizations who will use it for good... and make it worth your while! Bring data about your efforts and experiences into DashLX by syncing devices such as Garmin, Apple Watch (by integrating with the Apple Health app), Polar, Coros, Fitbit and more! Context matters: DashLX enriches that data, going beyond simply "what you did" to also explore "in what conditions" you did something (by using weather, topographical, and other data). Put your data to work: You always control who to share data with (if anyone) and what data to share. Team up with leading brands and empower them to deliver you better products, experiences, services, and outcomes.

Screenshots

ACS FUNdraising4 screens
DashLX2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ACS FUNdraising at 4.4 against DashLX's 3.0. ACS FUNdraising also leads on review sentiment (53% vs 22%) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 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

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

ACS FUNdraising holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ACS FUNdraising has 391 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of ACS FUNdraising's written reviews are positive against 22% of DashLX's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ACS FUNdraising ships an update every 5 weeks, DashLX every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ACS FUNdraising versus DashLX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterACS FUNdraisingDashLX
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (391 ratings) — better3.0 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews52.5% of reviews — better22.2% of reviews
Number of ratings391 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAmerican Cancer Society IncPWR Lab

Customer experience

ACS FUNdraising

All ratings391 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive52.5%
Neutral11.9%
Negative35.6%

DashLX

All ratings16 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative77.8%

Bugs and requests

ACS FUNdraising

Reported bugs

30 issues
  • App forces closes itself
  • App crashes when selecting 'my profile' tab
  • App crashes on latest update
  • Donation date posted incorrectly (2023 instead of 2024)
  • App crashes with any action after update
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  • App won't load or says email isn't valid
  • App won't open after update
  • App crashes on launch after forced update
  • App crashes when changing profile picture
  • Cannot scan credit cards
  • App gets stuck when sending emails, requires re-login
  • App kicks user out and won't allow re-login
  • Emails cannot be sent via new update
  • Endless update loop at App Store
  • Cannot join a team on the app, requires desktop
  • App crashes when depositing checks
  • App crashes when selecting a team
  • App not visible after download
  • App doesn't keep user logged in
  • App is slow to update counts
  • App keeps kicking user off and shutting down
  • Cannot get to dashboard or see credit card donations
  • Cannot get into account after update
  • App needs update to support iOS11
  • Crashing with iOS 11 update
  • Cannot share progress on Facebook
  • Issues logging in after logging out
  • Camera functionality to scan checks not working
  • App cannot connect to ACS server
  • App stuck on logo page

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to donate to individual team members
  • Option to record cash donations
  • Ability to label or add notes to check donations
  • Allow sharing own pictures from events
  • Make it easier to join as a team member on the app
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  • Improve user interface to match website
  • Fix the 'Keep me logged in' functionality

DashLX

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ACS FUNdraising

No in-app purchases

None

DashLX

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ACS FUNdraising free?
ACS FUNdraising is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DashLX free?
DashLX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ACS FUNdraising or DashLX?
ACS FUNdraising is rated higher. ACS FUNdraising averages 4.4 out of 5 from 391 ratings, while DashLX averages 3.0 from 16 ratings.
Do ACS FUNdraising or DashLX have ads?
Neither ACS FUNdraising nor DashLX shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ACS FUNdraising or DashLX?
ACS FUNdraising ships an update every 5 weeks, and DashLX every 4 months. Most recently, ACS FUNdraising was updated on November 9, 2026 and DashLX on November 11, 2026.

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