Comparison

BFF.fm vs HauntsIO

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

Head to head
About

BFF.fm

Stream live community radio and explore a diverse range of music genres from garage to hip-hop. Access a library of podcasts, read blog posts, and even send voice messages to get on the air.

Highlights
  • Live radio streaming
  • Podcast library access
  • Pause and rewind live stream
  • Blog post updates
  • In-app voice mail submission
Features
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Best Frequencies Forever is a community radio station, broadcasting from the heart of San Francisco. BFF.fm brings you diverse, authentic voices and sounds — everything from garage to hip-hop, electronic to soft rock, experimental and beyond. We'll connect you to new underground artists in the magical way only live radio can. Tune in and discover something new! App Features: • Listen to BFF.fm radio live and browse our archives wherever you are • Pause and rewind the live stream • Access all of your favorite podcasts from the BFF.fm Podcast Network • Read the latest posts from the BFF.fm blog • Send us a voice mail from the app and get on the air! The BFF.fm app is brought to you by BFF.fm and Public Media Apps: https://bff.fm/ http://www.publicmediaapps.com

About

HauntsIO

Record your visits to places with photos and notes to build a visual history of your life. Automatically detect flights and group visits into trips. Share your experiences with friends or keep them private.

Highlights
  • Log check-ins with photos and notes
  • Automatic flight detection
  • Organize visits into trips and lists
  • Friend sharing and privacy controls
  • Year in Review narrative
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Check-ins are the breadcrumbs that become stories on Haunts.IO Haunts is a check-in app for the places that matter to you. Open it when you arrive somewhere, tap the venue you're standing in, drop a photo and a quick note, and you've added a row to a map of your real life that grows quietly in the background. Every check-in is a breadcrumb. The pins cluster as you zoom out, and over time a year of weekends becomes a route you can scroll through. Pull up any venue and see when you were last there, who you tagged, what photo you took, and the nearby places you might want to revisit. The Stats tab shows the same data the other way around: top venues, busiest months, countries crossed, and a heatmap of where your life happens. Year in Review reads the trail and writes a short narrative of your year from the venue names, photos, and trips you logged. Trips and lists are where the breadcrumbs turn into stories. A trip groups every venue you visited on one weekend or one country crossing, and trips nest, so a multi-week Europe sweep can hold the smaller Paris and Rome legs inside it. Lists are reusable: a Saturday brunch list, a downtown best-of, a wineries-near-home list you build over months. Bucket list venues are the inverse, places you haven't been yet but plan to, surfaced on the map and in nearby search whenever you're close enough to stop in. Flights are detected automatically. Two airport check-ins within sixteen hours pair into a flight with a great-circle arc on the map and on the full-screen 3D Globe, and the AI suggests airline and route if you don't remember. Logging just the airport you started from is enough, and Haunts asks about the destination later. Friends run through all of it. Public profiles let anyone with your handle browse the venues you've made public. Friend requests, mutual following, and contacts match (emails and phone numbers hashed on your device before they leave it) make it easy to find the people you share visits with. Tag friends on a check-in and the visit shows up on their feed too. Every check-in has three visibility states, public, friends, or private, so the weekend bar crawl stays out of your work network. Stickers and achievements add a light game layer for the people who like that, and stay invisible if you don't. A monthly leaderboard tracks XP from check-ins, photos, and streaks, and once-a-year visits like a hometown anniversary or a recurring conference count toward it too. The Apple Watch companion checks you in from your wrist, with the same nearby venue coverage as the phone. Home screen widgets jump straight to the Nearby list, so checking in takes about three seconds when you're walking through a door. Search covers your full history and forgives how memory works: possessive names like Lowe's, or remembering "winery" when the venue is a "vineyard." A discovery tier on top pulls in venues you haven't been to yet, biased to where you're standing. Free to use, no ads, no selling your data. Sign in with Google or Apple.

Screenshots

BFF.fm4 screens
HauntsIO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HauntsIO at weekly against BFF.fm's every 2 months. HauntsIO also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). BFF.fm's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 4). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for BFF.fm against 5.0 for HauntsIO. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BFF.fm has 53 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of BFF.fm's written reviews are positive against 100% of HauntsIO's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BFF.fm ships an update every 2 months, HauntsIO weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BFF.fm versus HauntsIO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBFF.fmHauntsIO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (53 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings53 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB127 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperBest Frequencies, Inc.MDPSync, LLC

Customer experience

BFF.fm

All ratings53 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

HauntsIO

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BFF.fm

No in-app purchases

None

HauntsIO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BFF.fm free?
BFF.fm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HauntsIO free?
HauntsIO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BFF.fm or HauntsIO?
HauntsIO is rated higher. BFF.fm averages 4.9 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while HauntsIO averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do BFF.fm or HauntsIO have ads?
Neither BFF.fm nor HauntsIO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BFF.fm or HauntsIO?
BFF.fm ships an update every 2 months, and HauntsIO weekly. Most recently, BFF.fm was updated on September 28, 2026 and HauntsIO on October 3, 2026.

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