Comparison

JustServe vs What Lingers

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

Head to head
About

JustServe

Discover and sign up for local volunteer opportunities directly from your phone. This app integrates with your device's location, calendar, and maps to streamline community service.

Highlights
  • Find volunteer opportunities
  • Search by location
  • Sign up for opportunities
  • Add to calendar
  • Integrates with maps
Features
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JustServe app gives you the main features of JustServe.org to help you find volunteer opportunities while on the go. It can link into your phone’s location services, calendar, and map apps to make volunteering in the community easier than ever. • Search for opportunities based on your account location, your current location, or by an inputted location • Volunteer for opportunities • Easily add opportunities and locations to your mobile device’s calendar and maps apps

About

What Lingers

Capture your life's moments with a beautiful, privacy-focused journal. Log thoughts, photos, videos, and voice notes in a flowing timeline. Features include speech-to-text, GPS tracking, and Apple Watch integration.

Highlights
  • Flowing Time River timeline
  • Voice note transcription
  • GPS location logging
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Privacy-focused design
  • Multi-dimensional search
Features
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WHAT LINGERS - PERSONAL TIME RIVER DIARY What Lingers is a beautiful, privacy-first journal app designed to capture the true warmth of your days. We believe logging memories should be effortless and rich. By breaking away from rigid grids, we built a flowing Time River timeline where your thoughts, photos, videos, voice notes, and GPS footprints fuse seamlessly with Apple Watch integration and private cloud sync. TODAY - RECORD INSTANT MOMENTS The Today tab minimizes the effort required to record your life. Capture text, high-resolution photos, videos, and voice memos instantly. Speak naturally and the real-time speech recognition engine will transcribe your voice into text. The app also captures GPS coordinates and resolves them into readable locations. Discover past memories with the Surprise Review daily widget, which displays historical entries like On This Day Last Year. All your daily entries are stored in the Today's Fragments section at the bottom. RIVER - A FLOWING TIMELINE In the River tab, your memories flow down an elegant linear time axis. Ditch the rigid list views and browse your photos, audio waveforms, video previews, and text blended together in a stream. Filter your time river by the past 30 days or specific months. The AI Memory Letters feature (Plus) summarizes your weekly and monthly memories into warm digests. The Annual Record Heatmap tracks your logging consistency using a grid, complete with data anchors for total entries and active days. ECHO - MAPS, PHOTOS, AND VOICES The Echo tab brings sensory dimensions to your history. Map your memories using standard, satellite, hybrid, or terrain layers to trace your travel routes. Track your recording counts on the Data Anchors dashboard. The Photo Wall lets you shuffle images randomly to rediscover forgotten details. Audio Barrage floats your voice notes as bubbles that can be played individually or continuously via the Memory Radio. A Monthly Active Calendar shows your daily check-in patterns. LIBRARY - MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SEARCH Instantly retrieve any record with cross-filtering by media type, custom tags, and date ranges. The smart query engine searches titles, text, locations, and dates. You can also star important memories or archive daily notes to keep your main timeline clean. APPLE WATCH SYNC Record voice memos directly on your Apple Watch when you are away from your phone. Audio files sync silently to your phone in the background, accompanied by a status notification. PRIVACY & SECURITY Your private diary remains private. The app runs a dual-engine storage system, saving data locally via SwiftData and mirroring it to an SQLite database sandbox on your device. We have no access to your files. Secure your notes with Face ID biometric locks. You can back up your database using private WebDAV cloud sync, which transfers data directly to your personal cloud without intermediate servers. Export your entire journal and media assets at any time in a ZIP format. THEMES & LOCALIZATION Express yourself with 5 tailored themes designed for both light and dark modes: Warm Paper, Mist, Sage, Dusk, and Pure White. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

JustServe4 screens
What Lingers4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JustServe at none against What Lingers's 2. JustServe also leads on ratings volume (237 vs 1). What Lingers's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. What Lingers sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. JustServe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

What Lingers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: JustServe has 237 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
JustServe versus What Lingers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJustServeWhat Lingers
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (237 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings237 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB33 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints亚东 候

Customer experience

JustServe

All ratings237 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral3.8%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive73.0%
Neutral9.5%
Negative17.5%

What Lingers

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

JustServe

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • No authentication/login issues
  • Cannot save events due to login problems
  • App crashes during registration
  • Registration is broken
  • Problem registering, try again later
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  • No response for setting up events
  • Login via Facebook broken
  • Unable to login with Facebook
  • Facebook login failed
  • App Support link leads to 'Page not found'
  • Only allows preview, no sign up
  • App only works in portrait view on iPad
  • Does not rotate to landscape view on iPad
  • No allowance for sign up on app
  • Cannot type letters for postal code in Canada

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add a share button
  • Include a map with service opportunities
  • Add a 'Serve Today' button
  • Ability to mark/star opportunities as 'favorite'
  • Ability to save or favorite volunteer activities
Show 7 more
  • Search/filter for volunteer opportunities vs. donations only
  • Make the app more like the website
  • View results on a calendar
  • View results on a map
  • Push notifications
  • Fix sharing feature for projects
  • Add landscape view on iPad

What Lingers

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

JustServe

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

What Lingers

Subscriptions2
  • PLUS Monthly$0.991 Month
  • PLUS$9.991 Year

Questions

Is JustServe free?
JustServe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What Lingers free?
What Lingers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, JustServe or What Lingers?
What Lingers is rated higher. JustServe averages 4.6 out of 5 from 237 ratings, while What Lingers averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do JustServe or What Lingers have ads?
Neither JustServe nor What Lingers shows ads.

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