Ham Square vs aLog365
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ham Square
This app provides radio amateurs with a quick and easy way to determine their Maidenhead Locator, a grid system used globally for location communication. It's a free tool for ham radio operators.
- Displays Maidenhead Locator
- Uses current location
- Convenient for radio amateurs
- Global grid system
- Free application
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Ham Square is a free application that displays the Maidenhead Locator, or "square", for your current location. This grid system is used by radio amateurs worldwide as a convenient and short way of representing and communicating a location. Details of more ham radio apps from KramStuff are at http://www.kramstuff.com
aLog365
This portable logbook helps amateur radio operators record their contacts. It offers callsign lookup, multiple export formats, and real-time upload capabilities. Plan your DX-peditions and stay connected with the DX cluster.
- Callsign lookup
- ADIF, EDI, CSV, Cabrillo export
- Real-time upload to HRDLOG.net / Ham365
- DX cluster integration
- DX-pedition planning
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aLog365 is a hamradio (amateur radio) logbook: - callsign lookup - export ADIF, EDI, CSV, Cabrillo - real-time upload to HRDLOG.net / Ham365 - DX cluster - Dx-peditions plan
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: aLog365 at every 7 months against Ham Square's every 84 months. Ham Square's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 14.2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Ham Square against 4.0 for aLog365. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ham Square has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ham Square ships an update every 84 months, aLog365 every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ham Square | aLog365 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (16 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 84 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 14.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kram | Claudio Cordeglio |
Customer experience
Ham Square
aLog365
In-app purchases
Ham Square
No in-app purchases
aLog365
No in-app purchases
