Comparison

HookBook vs Patterns

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

Head to head
About

HookBook

This app helps you manage your sexual health and activity with a secure tracker and journal. Log encounters, set health reminders, and gain insights into your sexual wellness. It supports various relationship styles and is designed with privacy in mind.

Highlights
  • Secure sex activity logging
  • STI/STD screening reminders
  • PrEP and ART reminders
  • DoxyPEP logging
  • Partner management
  • Location-tagged encounters
  • Sexual health insights
Features
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HookBook is a private sex tracker, dating calendar, sexual health journal, and partner album built for adults who want a secure way to remember partners, protection, PrEP, DoxyPEP, STI screenings, photos, videos, and personal history. Whether you are single, queer, polyamorous, in an open relationship, dating casually, or simply taking better care of your sexual wellness, HookBook helps you keep your information organized without ads or social networking. HookBook is not a dating app. It is your private record, calendar, partner album, and little black book. Track Your Sex Life Privately Log the details that matter to you: - Date, time, notes, locations, and custom tags - Partners and anonymous encounters - Protection status - Activity history and frequency - Private partner albums for photos, screenshots, and videos - Location-tagged activities on your Insight Map Private Partner Albums Keep partner-related photos, screenshots, and videos organized inside HookBook instead of mixing them with your main photo library. Use private albums to remember people, moments, profiles, conversations, or anything else you want stored with your dating history. Sexual Health Tools Stay more organized with: - STI/STD and HIV screening reminders - PrEP tracking and history - TasP/ART medication reminders - DoxyPEP logging for post-exposure STI prevention - Calendar views that compare sex history, protection, PrEP, and DoxyPEP - Apple Health integration Insights and Calendar Understand your patterns over time: - Activity frequency - Partner history - Body count - Protection breakdowns - Top partners, tags, and locations - Monthly and yearly summaries - Map-based insights - Wrapped-style personal recaps HookBook Keyboard Save your go-to dating messages, replies, or phrases and quickly insert them anywhere with the HookBook Keyboard. It is useful for dating apps, texting, and any conversation where you reuse the same phrases often. Privacy First HookBook is designed for sensitive personal information: - Face ID / Touch ID protection - No ads - No personal data collected - Private by design - Lightweight and simple to use - Backup and restore support Built for Modern Dating HookBook is useful for people exploring casual dating, queer dating, poly dating, open relationships, swinging, threesomes, consensual non-monogamy, or simply tracking sexual wellness over time. For gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, and other sexually active adults, HookBook can help connect your personal history with your sexual health routine. Important: HookBook is a tracking and reminder tool, not medical advice. Talk with a healthcare professional before making decisions about PrEP, DoxyPEP, STI testing, HIV prevention, treatment, or medication use. Take control of your private sexual wellness record with HookBook. Contact: info@hookbook.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Patterns

Easily log daily symptoms, habits, and other factors with a few taps. Discover personalized insights into what triggers your migraines, pain, mood, and more. Visualize your health patterns over time and gain a better understanding of your well-being.

Highlights
  • Log symptoms with colored bubbles
  • Track anything: symptoms, food, meds, habits
  • Discover trigger correlations
  • Visualize patterns over months
  • Log from Home Screen widget
  • Add notes or photos to days
  • Export data as spreadsheet
Features
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Find what triggers your flares. Patterns is a simple symptom tracker that finds what affects your migraines, gut, pain, mood, sleep and energy. Tap what happened today. Patterns does the rest. LOG YOUR DAY IN A FEW TAPS • Every tracker is a colored bubble: tap the ones that happened, then save the day • Watch your day fill with color as the bubbles fly into the calendar • Track anything your way: symptoms, foods, meds, habits, or 1–5 ratings like pain or anxiety • Drag bubbles wherever you like • Log from the Home Screen widget without opening the app • Add a note or photo to any day DISCOVER YOUR TRIGGERS • "Bloating is more likely the day after dairy." • Patterns looks at all of your days at once: effects that show up days or weeks later, triggers that build up, and triggers that only matter together • It learns your cycle, too: what shows up before your period, and what makes it late • A heads-up when something that usually leads to a symptom just happened • Every insight shows the numbers and the exact days behind it SEE WHAT IT'S STILL CHECKING • Patterns tells you how sure it is about every insight • It notices links that are still forming, and says how many more days would confirm or rule them out SEE PATTERNS OVER MONTHS • Every logged day becomes a ring of colors • Switch between month and year to see your seasons at a glance • A recap at the end of each month PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in • Everything stays on your iPhone • No ads, no tracking • Export your data as a spreadsheet anytime Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://patternsios.netlify.app/support#privacy Patterns shows correlations in your own logs. It isn't a medical device and doesn't give medical advice.

Screenshots

HookBook4 screens
Patterns4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Patterns at none against HookBook's 5. Patterns also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). HookBook's advantage is ratings volume (325 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. HookBook sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Patterns asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Patterns holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HookBook has 325 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HookBook ships an update every 3 weeks, Patterns every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HookBook versus Patterns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHookBookPatterns
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (325 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings325 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB2 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperPrism32 LLCAnna Xu

Customer experience

HookBook

All ratings324 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral0.9%
Negative3.7%

Patterns

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

HookBook

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login/authentication issues after recent update
  • Trouble submitting support tickets

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to create entries for upcoming dates/hookups
  • Option to tag where partners were met (e.g., Grindr, Tinder)
  • Display testing dates on the activity map
  • Lifetime purchase option instead of subscription

Patterns

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

HookBook

Subscriptions5
  • HookBook Plus$6.991 Month
  • HookBook Plus$29.996 Months
  • HookBook Plus7 Days trial$38.991 Year
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  • HookBook Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • HookBook Plus7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Patterns

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HookBook free?
HookBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Patterns free?
Patterns is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HookBook or Patterns?
Patterns is rated higher. HookBook averages 4.8 out of 5 from 325 ratings, while Patterns averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do HookBook or Patterns have ads?
Neither HookBook nor Patterns shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HookBook or Patterns?
HookBook ships an update every 3 weeks, and Patterns every 4 days. Most recently, HookBook was updated on November 3, 2026 and Patterns on November 1, 2026.

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