e vs BeHere / 1942
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
e
Explore over 1,000 digitized medieval manuscripts with high-resolution images. Bookmark, download, and view historical documents offline, complete with scholarly descriptions.
- Browse over 1,000 digitized manuscripts
- View over 450,000 high-resolution pages
- Bookmark favorite manuscripts
- Download manuscripts for offline viewing
- Access scholarly manuscript descriptions
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The Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. Browse through over 3'000 fully digitized manuscripts on your iPhone and iPad. Over 1'000'000 pages in high resolution. Bookmark, download and view manuscripts offline. Includes scholarly manuscript descriptions from official catalogs. Explore medieval and early modern manuscripts from Swiss collections on iPhone and iPad. Browse illuminated codices, papyri, fragments, liturgical books, literary works, scientific texts, and even modern autographs such as Albert Einstein’s. The collection spans many centuries and languages, from Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Sanskrit, and Persian to French, English, Old High German and even Nahuatl.
BeHere / 1942
Explore a significant historical event through augmented reality. This app immerses you in the experience of Japanese Americans during their forced relocation in 1942, bringing history to life around you.
- Augmented reality historical immersion
- Experience 1942 Japanese American relocation
- Interactive historical engagement
- Educational exploration of a difficult past
- Location-based historical context
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"It is hereby ordered that from and after 12 o’clock noon, P.W.T., of Saturday, May 9, 1942, all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien, be excluded from that portion of Military Area No. 1 described as follows…" On Saturday May 9, 1942, the lives of Japanese Americans in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, were forever changed. This is the day they were sent off to America’s own concentration camps, like 120,000 others all along the coast. Using cutting-edge augmented reality technology, BeHere / 1942 invites you to engage with this terrible history in a new way. Take a look around you. It’s still here.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BeHere / 1942 at every 27 months against e's every 70 months. BeHere / 1942 also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%) and device support. On price, rating, ratings volume 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 — 5.0 for e against 5.0 for BeHere / 1942. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of e's written reviews are positive against 100% of BeHere / 1942's.
e ships an update every 70 months, BeHere / 1942 every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | e | BeHere / 1942 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 70 months | Every 27 months — better |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1.4 GB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | text & bytes LLC | University of California, Los Angeles |
Customer experience
e
BeHere / 1942
In-app purchases
e
No in-app purchases
BeHere / 1942
No in-app purchases
