Owl vs Being
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Owl
This app connects users in real-time to help locate missing individuals, including children, teenagers, and those with memory loss. Users can create profiles for dependents, upload photos, and initiate alerts with current location details when someone is lost. Other users receive these alerts and can coordinate search efforts on a shared map.
- Real-time alerts for missing persons
- Dependent profile creation
- Photo uploads for dependents
- Location sharing for search coordination
- User map for identifying searchers
- Contact information sharing
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Owl is a World Wide, Real Time iPhone app to help its user's relocate missing, lost, runaway, abducted children, teenagers, mentally challenged and elderly who suffer memory loss or any such other ailments. User's create accounts and upload details of their dependents, upload current photos of those dependents and in the unwanted event a loved one is lost, open those saved details, update specific details; current location, date and time and initiate your alert to the user group. Other Owl users receive your alerts and are identified in a user map with contact information and people can begin to coordinate search efforts and recover those lost.
Being
Experience social media from another user's perspective, seeing who they follow and discovering new content. Connect with friends, celebrities, and influencers in a unique way by browsing their curated feeds. Explore popular topics and categories to find content you trust.
- View social media through another user's eyes
- See who friends and favorite accounts are following
- Discover new content from trusted sources
- Browse popular feeds by topic and category
- Access public social media feeds
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BEING - IS - BACK! Experience social media through someone ELSE'S eyes with Being®. From pop stars to your closest friends, Being lets you see what social media looks like from the perspective of any other user based on who they’re following. Discover new feeds and feel closer to your favorite friends, celebrities and influencers like never before. - See who your friends & favorite accounts are following - Discover new content from people you trust - Browse popular feeds by topic and category View any feeds you can access on social media (private users stay private). Let us know what you think on Twitter via @beingtheapp. If you love it and want to see more, leave a review! (▨ ‿ ▨)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Being at 5.0 against Owl's 4.5. Owl's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and ratings volume (24 vs 5). 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.
Being holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Owl's written reviews are positive against 67% of Being's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Owl | Being |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Conway | Pressto, Inc. |
Customer experience
Owl
Being
In-app purchases
Owl
No in-app purchases
Being
No in-app purchases
