Comparison

Timity vs How Long

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

Head to head
About

Timity

Calculate the time elapsed between past or future events and the current moment. You can also find the duration between two specific dates or add/subtract time intervals from any given date. It also provides sunrise and sunset times for your location.

Highlights
  • Calculate elapsed time to current time
  • Calculate time between two events
  • Add/subtract time intervals
  • Determine sunrise and sunset
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With "Timity" you have a great utility to calculate the elapsed time between an event in the past/future and your current time. Moreover, you can choose multiple dates and investigate the elapsed​ time between them. In addition, "Timity" allows you to add or subtract time intervals to/from any given date. For instance, consider the following scenario: You would like to go to the movies and you're still wondering about when to order a taxi to bring you back home. In this scenario you can simply open the "Time Calculator", select the exact date and time when the show is starting, and put in the length of the movie you are going to see, e.g., 167 minutes. Timity will then calculate the exact time when the event, i.e., your cinema visit, is over. Features: • Compute the elapsed time between an event in the past/future and the current time • Compute the elapsed time between two given events • Add or subtract time intervals (years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes) to/from any given event • Determine sunrise and sunset for your current location

About

How Long

Automatically track time spent at important locations like the gym or office using geofencing and Wi-Fi. Set weekly goals, view detailed statistics, and receive smart suggestions for new places. Enjoy battery-friendly background tracking.

Highlights
  • Automatic location time tracking
  • Geofencing and Wi-Fi detection
  • Weekly goal setting and progress tracking
  • Detailed visit statistics
  • Smart place suggestions
  • Battery-friendly background operation
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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How Long answers one question: how much time do you actually spend at the places that matter? Save your gym, office, coffee shop, or a friend's house, and How Long quietly notices when you arrive and leave. No check-ins, no timers. FOR FAMILIES, WITHOUT THE TRACKING Know when your kid gets to school, when Grandma is home again, when your partner has left the office. Share just the places that matter with the people who matter, and they'll see arrivals and departures there and nothing else. No live map, no history of everywhere someone went. One Pro purchase covers your whole family through Family Sharing. BUILT TO BE TRUSTED • Detects arrivals and departures with geofencing, Wi-Fi, and Apple's visit monitoring, then double-checks before recording anything • Always watches the places closest to you and keeps that up to date as you move • Battery friendly: no constant GPS polling SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES • Total hours, visit counts, average session, and streaks for every place • Charts by day, week, month, or year, switchable between places and categories • A heatmap of which hours and days you tend to be there • Year in Review and Trip Recap cards you can share GOALS AND REMINDERS • Weekly goals: specific days or a number of visits per week, with streaks • Reminders when you've been somewhere longer than you meant to • Nudges when it's been too long since your last visit ORGANIZE • Categories for anything: Home Town, Paris 2024, Clients • Notes, ratings, and photos on every place • Smart suggestions for places you visit often but haven't saved • Share places or whole categories with a link FRIENDS (optional) • Share a place with a friend and see when they arrive and leave • A widget showing where a friend is right now • Everything goes through your own iCloud account; we never see it WIDGETS • Streak and weekly progress widgets for any place • Friend status widget HOW LONG PRO (one-time purchase, Family Sharing included) • Unlimited places (3 are free) • Travel Mode: automatically saves restaurants, trails, and sights you spend time at on a trip, with a photo you took there • Hiking detection for places you wander through without stopping • Place photos, and browse your photo library by place • Smart cadence reminders • iCloud backup and CSV export • Automations: send arrivals and departures to Zapier, IFTTT, or Home Assistant PRIVACY Your places and visits are stored on your device. Backup and friend sharing are optional and use your own iCloud account. We do not collect personal information, run analytics, or sell data. How Long needs "Always" location access to detect visits while it is in the background.

Screenshots

Timity4 screens
How Long4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timity at none against How Long's 4. Timity also leads on ratings volume (26 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). How Long's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). 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. How Long sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Timity asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

How Long holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timity has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timity ships an update every 6 weeks, How Long fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Timity versus How Long: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimityHow Long
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (26 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB9 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAndreas LinkGDW Entertainment, LLC

Customer experience

Timity

All ratings26 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral3.8%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%

How Long

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Timity

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

How Long

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • How Long Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Timity free?
Timity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is How Long free?
How Long is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timity or How Long?
How Long is rated higher. Timity averages 4.8 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while How Long averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Timity or How Long have ads?
Neither Timity nor How Long shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timity or How Long?
Timity ships an update every 6 weeks, and How Long fortnightly. Most recently, Timity was updated on October 14, 2026 and How Long on October 7, 2026.

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