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 rule titles explicitly ban “Life Pro-Tips,” self-improvement tips, food tips and software tips.

LifeProTips is larger (about 23.1M members, rank #27) than lifehacks (about 14.6M, rank #59). Recent activity shows 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: +2.9K
Posts/day: 15.2
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.

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r/lifehacks

Lifehacks

Lifehacks: Uncommon solutions to common problems.

Members: 14.6M
7-day growth: +1.2K
Posts/day: 5
Directory rank: #59
Created: Jun 21, 2008
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 77%, images 13%, videos 7%

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

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Supported differences

Aspect	r/LifeProTips	r/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)	15.2/day	5/day
Common post types in our sample	text posts 100%	text posts 77%, images 13%, videos 7%
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 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-recent posts for both. Rule lines are short titles only.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-09 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-11-02. Posts/day and post types are shown where recent activity is available. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order.