Comparison

Nest vs Hours Given

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

Head to head
About

Nest

Control your smart home devices, including thermostats, security systems, cameras, and smoke detectors, all from a single app. Receive alerts, manage schedules, and automate actions based on your presence.

Highlights
  • Remote thermostat control
  • Arm/disarm security system
  • Live camera feeds
  • Smoke/CO alerts
  • Automated actions
  • Visitor notifications
Currently charting
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At Google Nest, we make products that are beautiful, helpful and easy to use. The Nest app is no exception. Control your Nest thermostat, arm and disarm your Nest Secure alarm system, see your home with Nest Cam, and get an alert if Nest Protect goes off – all in one place. And receive notifications on your iPhone or iPad. Nest uses sensors, algorithms and the location of your phone to do the right thing automatically, turning off the heat and turning on the camera when you leave. Forget to set the alarm? It will notice, and send you a Remind Me alert. Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E Thermostats that program themselves to help you save energy. - Change the temperature from the subway or the sofa using your phone. - See how much energy you used, and why. - View and edit your schedule. - Get extreme temperature alerts before your home gets too cold. Nest Secure alarm system - Arm and disarm your home remotely from the app. - Receive a Remind Me alert if you leave home and forget to set the alarm. - Receive a security alert on your phone telling you what triggered the alarm – a door or window opening, or someone entering a room. Nest Protect The smoke and carbon monoxide alarm that thinks, speaks, and alerts your phone. - Get an alert if Nest Protect senses smoke or carbon monoxide. (Requires Wi-Fi and a working internet connection.) - Silence an alarm from your phone with App Silence. (Nest Protect 2nd gen only.) - See the status of your batteries, sensors, and Wi-Fi connection. - Run a Safety Checkup to test all your alarms at once. (Nest Protect 2nd gen only.) - See your Safety History so you know when alerts happened and why. Nest Cam IQ Indoor and Outdoor, Nest Cam Indoor, Nest Cam Outdoor, and Dropcam The security cameras that let you see your home on your phone, inside and out. - Get alerts when there’s activity, and talk back to get someone’s attention. - See what you missed with snapshots of the last three hours. - Check in 24/7 with crisp 1080p HD video (Nest Cam and Dropcam Pro only). - Get person alerts (or familiar face alerts with Nest Cam IQ) and up to 30 days of video history when you subscribe to Nest Aware. (Subscription service sold separately.) Nest Hello Know who’s knocking. - 24/7 video streaming means you’ll never miss a moment. - Designed to show you everything at your doorstep – people head to toe, or packages on the ground. - Knows the difference between a person and a thing. - Notifies you about visitors, even if they don’t ring the bell. - HD Talk and Listen lets you have a seamless conversation with someone at your door. - When you can’t answer the door, quick responses let you reply to visitors with prerecorded audio messages. Nest x Yale Lock The lock for a more secure connected home. - Instead of sharing keys, assign passcodes to people you trust in the Nest app. - Get an alert when someone locks or unlocks the door. - With Home/Away Assist and Auto-Lock, your door can lock itself when you leave. Some features require a working internet connection, Wi-Fi, and/or Bluetooth.

About

Hours Given

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Hours Given is a private time tracker and daily reflection journal for understanding where your hours actually went—without grading the day or pretending every minute is known. Start with Today. Track an activity in the moment, add past time, or reconstruct a day by typing or with on-device speech when available. Review one complete day at your pace, correct suggestions, and leave anything unresolved as Unknown. What Today Became shows an honest composition of the day. Then choose Tomorrow’s Anchor: one realistic part of tomorrow you want to protect. As reviewed days accumulate, Hours Given can show: • The Week You Made, with reviewed and open time kept distinct • Month and Year Life Fragments • Pattern Evidence and What Changed across aligned periods • Person-authored Life Chapters and evidence-grounded reflections you can accept, edit, reject, or defer • Archive search, raw export, and a human-readable report PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your primary archive stays on your device. Hours Given has no in-app account, ads, third-party tracking, remote analytics, or external AI service. Optional Calendar and Motion context is requested only after you choose it and never enters your record until you review and save it. Typed reconstruction and on-device speech reconstruction are separate paths. YOUR RECORD STAYS YOURS Correct entries, export raw data, delete saved reflections, restore purchases, or delete local data and any reachable private iCloud copy from inside the app. Local data remains primary, and backup conflicts require your choice. FREE AND PREMIUM Free includes the complete daily loop, your first seven days and current Week, the first evidence-grounded reflection, Tomorrow’s Anchor, personal activities, raw export, complete deletion, and purchase restoration. Premium adds repeated evidence-grounded reflections and cross-window synthesis, earlier Weeks, Month and Year views, Pattern Evidence, What Changed, new Life Chapters, extended history and search, and human-readable reports. Each newly reviewed day can expand the eligible evidence for future longitudinal reflections, comparisons, searchable history, and reports. Optional private iCloud backup is available without Premium when the signed container and the person's iCloud account are available and the archive has not used Apple Health or Motion evidence. It is a free data-protection control. Subscriptions renew unless canceled in your Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases and Manage Subscription are available in the app. Hours Given measures allocation and intention—not productivity. Rest does not need to be justified. Unknown time can stay unknown. PRIVACY POLICY https://hoursgiven.com/privacy TERMS OF USE https://hoursgiven.com/terms SUPPORT https://hoursgiven.com/support

Screenshots

Nest4 screens
Hours Given4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nest at none against Hours Given's 2. Nest also leads on chart position (#90 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Hours Given sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Nest asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Nest versus Hours Given: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNestHours Given
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.6M ratings) — better—
Positive reviews24.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.6M — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#90 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNest LabsMohamed Sow

Bugs and requests

Nest

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inconsistent home/away detection
  • Thermostat schedule resets unexpectedly
  • Smoke detector false alarms
  • Camera feed freezes or fails to load

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved scheduling and automation options
  • Better integration with other smart home devices
  • More customization options for alerts and notifications
  • Offline viewing and recording capabilities

Hours Given

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Nest

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Hours Given

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Nest free?
Nest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hours Given free?
Hours Given is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nest or Hours Given have ads?
Neither Nest nor Hours Given shows ads.

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