Comparison

1000 Hours Outside vs Altær

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

Head to head
About

1000 Hours Outside

Track your time spent outdoors with an easy-to-use timer that runs in the background. Enhance your experience by journaling adventures, adding photos, and creating profiles for family members. Unlock badges, connect with friends, and visualize your progress.

Highlights
  • Background time tracking
  • Journaling and photo uploads
  • Multiple family profiles
  • Milestone badges
  • Friend connections
  • Color-coded time chart
  • Community map feature
Features
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Effortlessly keep a digital record of your hours spent outside with the Official 1000 Hours Outside app. Easy timer functionality - just open the app and click play to start the timer, then put the phone down and enjoy the outdoors! The app will track your time in the background so you don't have to think about it. Additionally, you can become a member so you can: • Keep a journal of your adventures by jotting down notes • Upload photos for memory keepsakes for any day • Add up to nine additional profiles to track individual hours for members of your family • Unlock hours, place and streak milestone badges to share with friends • Add friends who also use the app to see what they've been up to • Color your own time tracking chart • Use our map feature to see where other 1KHO members have gone on adventures or left reviews - or leave some of your own! Think of this app as your outdoors companion, but one that isn't designed for endless scrolling - just simple, fun utility to help you unlock all the wonderful cognitive, physical, emotional and mental health benefits of prioritizing time outside! EULA agreement can be found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Altær

Features
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Altær is a Bible you can actually sit with. Every verse in it has been studied. Not a commentary bolted on, but a note written for the verse in front of you: what it plainly says, what it meant to the people who first heard it, where the original language carries something English cannot, and what it has been taken to mean since. 31,102 verses. No gaps. THE TEXT A careful revision of Young's Literal Translation, read in a page designed for reading — no clutter, no numbers shouting over the words. Highlight a verse, mark it, note it, hear it read aloud, or share it as an image worth looking at. EVERY VERSE, STUDIED Tap any verse for its study: the plain sense, the context, the language, the theology, and an honest word about what to do with it. Hard passages are treated as hard. Where serious readers disagree, you are told who disagrees and why, and left to think. DEVOTIONS 350 of them, written rather than assembled. A new one each day, plus 33 five-day series — walking with David, Hannah, Esther, Job, Mary and Paul, or sitting with a question: who God is, who Jesus is, who the Holy Spirit is. Any devotion can be read aloud. WORSHIP 91 songs, each paired with the verse underneath it, playing where they are named, with a way through to Apple Music. Sermons from preachers worth an hour of your attention. REST Paced breathing when your chest is tight, and fifteen guided sessions for when it is worse than that — anxiety, sleeplessness, fear, the end of a hard day. Scripture-shaped stillness, not mindfulness with a verse attached. JOURNAL Somewhere to answer what you have read, kept private on your phone. QUIET BY DESIGN No ads. No streaks shaming you. No feed. Everything works offline, and an account is optional — make one only if you want your highlights on more than one device. Altær is a rebuilt Altar: the same name, a new app underneath it.

Screenshots

1000 Hours Outside4 screens
Altær4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Altær at none against 1000 Hours Outside's 9. Altær also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). 1000 Hours Outside's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price and device support 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. 1000 Hours Outside sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Altær asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

1000 Hours Outside ships an update every 3 weeks, Altær every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
1000 Hours Outside versus Altær: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter1000 Hours OutsideAltær
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (7.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB226 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTeam Yurich LLCMichael Entrekin

Bugs and requests

1000 Hours Outside

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Timer stops working when app is in background
  • Issues with logging and syncing data across profiles
  • Inconsistencies in time tracking and reporting

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to view and edit individual timer entries
  • Implement weekly/monthly summary views
  • Introduce a widget for quick access on the home screen
  • Allow syncing of data across multiple devices
  • Add more customization options and data visualizations

Altær

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

1000 Hours Outside

Subscriptions6
  • Adventure Map (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Premium Subscription Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Membership Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
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  • Adventure Map (Yearly)$19.991 Year
  • Premium Subscription Yearly$24.991 Year
  • Membership Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Badge Set 2$0.99
  • Badge Set 3$0.99
  • PDF Journal Export$1.99
None

Altær

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 1000 Hours Outside free?
1000 Hours Outside is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Altær free?
Altær is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 1000 Hours Outside or Altær have ads?
1000 Hours Outside shows ads; Altær does not.
Which is updated more often, 1000 Hours Outside or Altær?
1000 Hours Outside ships an update every 3 weeks, and Altær every 4 days. Most recently, 1000 Hours Outside was updated on November 11, 2026 and Altær on October 31, 2026.

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