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r/LifeProTips vs r/lifehacks

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Life Pro Tips format vs uncommon life-hack solutions

r/LifeProTips describes tips that improve your life, with post titles expected to begin with LPT or LPT Request. r/lifehacks describes uncommon solutions to common problems—and its collected rule titles explicitly ban “Life Pro-Tips,” self-improvement tips, food tips and software tips.

In our directory, LifeProTips is larger (about 23.1M members, rank #27) than lifehacks (about 14.6M, rank #59). Activity samples show LifeProTips posting more often (~16 vs ~5 posts/day); LifeProTips samples were text-only, while lifehacks mixed text with some images, video and galleries.

That rule split is the useful distinction: bring general actionable tips in LPT format to LifeProTips; bring uncommon how-to hacks that are not framed as LPTs to lifehacks, staying inside its topic bans.

  • Choose r/LifeProTips for LPT / LPT Request tips that are not mere common sense.
  • Choose r/lifehacks for uncommon solutions—its short rules bar LPTs, food tips and software tips.
  • Lower volume in our lifehacks sample is a posting-rate signal, not a quality score.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/LifeProTips

Life Pro Tips

Tips that improve your life in one way or another.

Members
23.1M
7-day growth
+3.4K
Posts/day
15.8
Directory rank
#27
Created
Oct 25, 2010
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No rude, offensive, racist, homophobic, sexist, aggressive, or hateful posts/comments.
  • Posts must begin with "LPT" or "LPT Request” and be flaired. Titles should be descriptive.
  • Do not post tips that could be considered common sense, common courtesy, unethical, or illegal.
  • Do not post tips that are based on spurious, unsubstantiated, or anecdotal claims.
  • Posts concerning the following are not allowed:
  • Do not post tips in reaction to other posts. Reposts may be removed.
  • Do not post tips that are advertisements or recommendations of products or services.
  • Content that trolls and/or doesn't substantially contribute to the discussion may be removed.

Open r/LifeProTips on SubMouse

About this community: r/LifeProTips (#27, about 23.1 million) shares tips that improve life, with titles beginning LPT or LPT Request and proper flair. Bans common-sense/courtesy tips, unethical/illegal tips, anecdotal claims, product ads, and reaction tips. Text (~15.8 ppd).

r/lifehacks

Lifehacks

Lifehacks: Uncommon solutions to common problems.

Members
14.6M
7-day growth
+1.9K
Posts/day
5
Directory rank
#59
Created
Jun 21, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 56%, images 21%, galleries 15%

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No requests for, or offers of, medical advice
  • No self-improvement tips
  • No food tips
  • No software tips
  • No commercial products with a specific purpose
  • No Polls/Surveys
  • No Life Pro-Tips
  • No memes, image macros, plain-text image posts
  • No tips for problems which affect only 1 in a million people
  • No Amazon links

Open r/lifehacks on SubMouse

About this community: r/lifehacks ranks #59 on SubMouse’s SFW Top list (about 14.6 million subscribers in the directory). Catalogue framing: Lifehacks: Uncommon solutions to common problems. Moderation themes that shape the room include: No requests for, or offers of, medical advice; No self-improvement tips; No food tips; No software tips.

Supported differences

Aspectr/LifeProTipsr/lifehacks
Public focus (from each community’s public description) Tips that improve your life in one way or another. Lifehacks: Uncommon solutions to common problems.
Size
r/LifeProTips is larger in our directory (about 1.6×).
 23.1M members 14.6M members
Posting activity (our sample) 15.8/day 5/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 100% text posts 56%, images 21%, galleries 15%
Allowed submission type (meta) Text posts Text or links
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) No rude, offensive, racist, homophobic, sexist, aggressive, or hateful posts/comments.; Posts must begin with "LPT" or "LPT Request” and be flaired. Titles should be descriptive.; Do not post tips that could be considered common sense, common courtesy, unethical, or illegal.; Do not post tips that are based on spurious, unsubstantiated, or anecdotal claims.; Posts concerning the following are not allowed: No requests for, or offers of, medical advice; No self-improvement tips; No food tips; No software tips; No commercial products with a specific purpose

Rules we can verify

For r/LifeProTips we collected short rule titles on civility; LPT / LPT Request title and flair format; NSFW tagging; bans on common-sense, unethical or illegal tips; bans on unsubstantiated claims; topic restrictions; no reactive tip posts; no product ads; and removal of trolling.

For r/lifehacks: no medical advice; no self-improvement tips; no food tips; no software tips; no single-purpose commercial products; no polls; no Life Pro-Tips; no memes/image macros/plain-text image posts; no ultra-rare one-in-a-million problems; no Amazon links.

Where this comparison comes from

Public titles, descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s SFW directory (see page date). Short rule titles and posting-activity samples for both. Rule lines are short titles only.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: