HackerTracker vs Well Ping
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HackerTracker
Organize your attendance at information security conferences. Save and view your preferred talks and events from multiple conferences, including DEF CON and BSides, with an on-device schedule that updates automatically.
- On-device schedule management
- Save preferred talks and events
- Supports multiple conferences
- Automatic schedule updates
- View talks, contests, and events
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Plan your visit to any number of information security conferences. HackerTracker features an on-device schedule for viewing and saving your preferred talks and events from different events, including DEF CON, local BSides events, OWASP global conferences, and others. The schedule for talks, contests, and events are included and HackerTracker updates automatically for other conferences as data becomes available.
Well Ping
This app sends periodic notifications to prompt users to complete short experience sampling surveys. Access is restricted to invited participants with a provided login code.
- Experience sampling surveys
- Periodic notifications
- Study participation
- Login code required
- Brief survey completion
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This survey app sends you a notification once a while to ask you to complete some brief experience sampling surveys, or “pings.” Only participants who have been invited to join a study, and have been provided a login code, can use this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HackerTracker at 4.2 against Well Ping's 3.9. HackerTracker also leads on ratings volume (47 vs 15). Well Ping's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
HackerTracker holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 15 respectively.
HackerTracker ships an update fortnightly, Well Ping every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HackerTracker | Well Ping |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (47 ratings) — better | 3.9 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seth Law | Jamil Zaki |
Customer experience
HackerTracker
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In-app purchases
HackerTracker
No in-app purchases
Well Ping
No in-app purchases
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