Hey Mom vs After Incarceration
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hey Mom
This app helps you remember to call your mother. Set reminders and track your call frequency and duration. A "heart meter" visually represents your connection, encouraging regular communication.
- Call reminders
- Direct calling
- Call tracking
- Heart meter for connection
- Set call goals
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Hey Mom! is a simple app with a single purpose - remind you to call your mother! Set a goal and receive notifications when you forget to call Mom. Call directly from the app to track how often and how long you talk. Hey Mom! features a heart meter that gets low when you don't call. Call Mom regularly to keep your heart full!
After Incarceration
This app provides a supportive community for individuals impacted by the criminal legal system. It offers peer support, a resource library, and affinity groups to help users navigate transitions and connect with others who have similar experiences.
- Peer support guide
- Resource library
- Affinity groups
- Community connection
- Legal rights information
- Employment resources
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Community-funded. Independently free. After Incarceration is built by and for people impacted by incarceration — those inside, those coming home, and the families, friends, and advocates who stand with them. WHAT YOU CAN DO HERE • SCAN A DOCUMENT. Point your camera at parole conditions, a court order, or any legal paperwork. It's read privately on your phone — the image never leaves your device — and The Jailhouse Lawyer explains what it says in plain language. • TURN PAPER INTO A RESUME. Upload a photo of a program certificate or a prison work assignment. The Resume Builder translates it into real experience, in language employers recognize. • FIND WHAT YOU NEED. The Eddie Ellis Memorial Library holds vetted resources for the road home — housing, work, health, education, your rights — checked and kept current by people who have made this journey. • ASK ANYTHING. Guides answer your questions in plain language, day or night, and search the web when the answer isn't on the shelf. • REQUEST RESEARCH FOR SOMEONE INSIDE. Families and friends can ask us to look something up. We print the answer and mail it in. • CREATIVITY CANNOT BE CONTAINED. A growing collection of albums, films, books, and art made by currently and formerly incarcerated people — starting with The Musicambia Songbook, 18 original compositions written inside. PRIVATE BY DESIGN The most sensitive paperwork a person owns stays in their hands. Document scanning happens on your device. No ads, no data sold, ever. Delete your account and your data goes with it. A MILLION BELIEVERS Everything above is free. No paywall stands between a person coming home and the information they need. The app is funded by members — believers — at $2.97 per quarter, priced for someone leaving prison with gate money. You can also give a membership to someone else. When a million people believe this community deserves its own institutions, we will have built them together. After Incarceration is run by formerly incarcerated people from a storefront Creative Communication Center in New York. This app is one room of a bigger house. Come in. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.afterincarceration.org/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hey Mom at none against After Incarceration's 2. Hey Mom also leads on iOS requirement (11.3 vs 15.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. After Incarceration sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Hey Mom asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Hey Mom against 5.0 for After Incarceration. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively.
Hey Mom ships an update every 9 days, After Incarceration every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hey Mom | After Incarceration |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.3 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Line Break, LLC | Movement Strategy Center |
Customer experience
Hey Mom
After Incarceration
In-app purchases
Hey Mom
No in-app purchases
After Incarceration
- The Kitty$2.993 Months
- The Kitty — Annual$11.991 Year









