Comparison

How I Met vs hayrly

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

Head to head
About

How I Met

Features
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How I Met makes meeting people feel more human, more contextual, and less mechanical. Discover living profiles built around photos, moments, and details that actually make you want to reply. Instead of judging a profile in seconds, you explore a person through what they like, what they share, and what they are looking for. Choose your intention, dating or friendship, adjust your filters, browse profiles, and start a conversation from a specific moment. Messages keep the profile context so the exchange starts naturally. How I Met also includes Moments Call, a voice experience for exploring profiles, moving to the next one, or coming back to a detail without losing the thread. Main features: - visual profiles with moments and photos; - dating or friendship intentions; - simple filters for age, distance, and preferences; - conversations connected to profile context; - voice exploration with Moments Call. How I Met is designed for calmer, clearer, and more natural connections.

About

hayrly

A minimalist social app for tracking and sharing your mood with close friends and family. It allows you to monitor your emotional state over time and see how your loved ones are feeling. Integrates with HealthKit for automated sleep and activity tracking to correlate with mood.

Highlights
  • Mood tracking
  • Share mood with friends
  • Automated tracking via HealthKit
  • Correlate activity/sleep with mood
  • Minimalist interface
Features
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Do you know how your friends are rly doing? hayrly is a minimalist social and mood tracking app designed for staying connected with your closest friends and family. use hayrly to track your mood over time and effortlessly see how your loved ones are rly doing. Activate Automated Tracking to use Apple's HealthKit to automatically track your sleep and activity so that you can correlate your exercise and sleep patterns with your mood.

Screenshots

How I Met4 screens
hayrly4 screens

Verdict

The call

How I Met and hayrly are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How I Met ships an update every 6 days, hayrly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
How I Met versus hayrly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow I Methayrly
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsβ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationβ€”Ad-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS16.415.1 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size66 MB52 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJonathan AmsellemGeorge Punter

In-app purchases

None

How I Met

No in-app purchases

None

hayrly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is How I Met free?
How I Met is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is hayrly free?
hayrly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do How I Met or hayrly have ads?
Neither How I Met nor hayrly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, How I Met or hayrly?
How I Met ships an update every 6 days, and hayrly every 3 days. Most recently, How I Met was updated on November 7, 2026 and hayrly on November 3, 2026.

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