Today vs Whereabout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Today
This app helps you organize your day by tracking health metrics and appointments. It provides real-time data on steps, heart rate, sleep, and water intake, alongside your schedule. Features like reminders and intuitive tools aim to boost productivity and promote a healthier lifestyle.
- Health monitoring (steps, heart rate, sleep, water intake)
- Appointment and schedule organizer
- Personalized goal tracking
- Weather updates
- Helpful reminders
- Intuitive interface
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Make every day count with Today! Easily monitor your health and appointments, stay on top of the weather, and track your progress towards personalized goals. With a simple and intuitive interface, it's never been easier to optimize your day. Get real-time data on your steps, heart rate, sleep, water intake, and today's schedule all in one place. Plus, with helpful reminders and easy-to-use tools, you'll be on your way to a healthier and more productive lifestyle in no time. This app uses HealthKit data to display it in the app. This data consists of your latest measured heartbeat, the amount of steps today, the time you've slept last night and how much water you've consumed today. Note that some of these features require an Apple Watch, but those features can be hidden.
Whereabout
This app automatically logs your daily movements, including places visited, duration, and travel routes. It operates privately on your device without accounts or cloud storage, offering a detailed history of your whereabouts.
- Automatic place detection
- Travel route tracing
- Reverse geocoding for place names
- Daily history browsing
- Distance and time tracking
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Whereabout is a private, automatic journal of your day — recording where you went, how long you stayed, and how you got there. Simply open the app and browse through your days. Whereabout runs quietly in the background, tracking your route and detecting the places you visit. No accounts. No cloud. No third parties. Everything stays on your device. What Whereabout does - Automatically detects when you arrive and leave places - Traces your travel routes on a map - Reverse geocodes visits so you see real place names and addresses - Lets you scroll back through months of daily history - Tracks distance traveled and time spent at each location
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Today at every 4 days against Whereabout's fortnightly. Today also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
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 Today against 5.0 for Whereabout. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Today ships an update every 4 days, Whereabout fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Today | Whereabout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robin Beekman | Charlie Liu |
Customer experience
Today
Whereabout
In-app purchases
Today
No in-app purchases
Whereabout
No in-app purchases
