Comparison

Snark vs Span

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

Head to head
About

Snark

Easily inject sarcasm and emojis into your messages. This utility allows you to overlay text on images and use an AR scanner to capture text from your surroundings.

Highlights
  • Add sarcasm to text
  • Include emojis
  • Overlay text on images
  • AR Scanner for real-world text
  • Use within Messages app
Features
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Snark is the fastest app for adding sarcasm and emoji to your text Let the sarcasm flow Use Snark in the Messages app, overlay images, and use the AR Scanner to get text from the world around you

About

Span

Track upcoming events with live countdowns or elapsed time since past moments. Log daily habits, discover patterns, and explore historical events with rich media. Organize and share your time-related data seamlessly.

Highlights
  • Live second-by-second countdowns
  • Elapsed time tracking
  • Habit and routine logging
  • Historical 'On This Day' events
  • Customizable widgets
  • Shareable event cards
  • iCloud backup and sync
Features
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Your relationship with time, all in one place. Count down to birthdays, trips, and deadlines, or see how long it’s been since a milestone. Log recurring events with Trackers and explore history with On This Day. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. SPANS - Live Countdowns — See years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until or since a date. Date-only spans count calendar days. - Apple Calendar — Choose events to import, review their details, and keep selected events updated or make one-time copies. Span never adds new Calendar events automatically or writes changes back to Calendar. - Smart Emoji Suggestions — Get up to three matching emoji as you type, using on-device Apple Intelligence when available. - Yearly Recurrence — Repeat birthdays and anniversaries, with smart holiday dates that adjust each year. - Holiday Templates — Start with 22 US holidays and cultural events, including Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Chinese New Year. - Weather — Add a US ZIP code for historical weather or a forecast within the next 16 days. - Tags — Give spans and trackers custom tags with optional colors. Read tag names on cards and filter by one or several tags. - Organize — Filter by upcoming, elapsed, or archived; sort by date, name, or custom order. Choose Reorganize to drag rows into place. - Share — Send a styled countdown image or a link that opens in Span. TRACKERS - Log Anything — Tap once to record an event and see the time since your last entry. - Patterns — Frequency statistics show how often you typically do something. - Full History — Add dated entries, edit timestamps, or delete mistakes. - 14 Templates — Workout, Run, Coffee, Meditation, Shower, and more. ON THIS DAY Browse notable historical events for any date, powered by Wikipedia. Open an event to read its description and a related Wikipedia article. Images appear when available. Optional daily notifications bring you a historical event to explore. WIDGETS - Span Widget — Small, medium, or large. Auto mode follows your Spans tab’s filters, tags, and sort order, or you can choose spans manually. - On This Day Widget — Daily history on your Home Screen. Tap to open the matching event. NOTIFICATIONS Get notified at a span’s event time or choose an advance reminder in minutes, hours, or days. Enable daily history alerts separately. BACKUP Manually back up and restore your spans and trackers with iCloud Drive. Your backup stays in your own iCloud account. FREE & PRO Track up to 2 spans and 1 tracker for free. Unlock unlimited spans and trackers with a one-time Span Pro purchase. PRIVACY No account, advertising, or analytics. Your spans and trackers stay on your device, with optional backup to your own iCloud Drive.

Screenshots

Snark1 screens
Span4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Span at free against Snark's free with in-app purchases. Snark's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Snark sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Span sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Snark against 5.0 for Span. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snark ships an update every 3 days, Span fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Snark versus Span: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnarkSpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings46 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSecond Party Software LLCShamir Wehbe

Customer experience

Snark

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Span

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Snark

One-time1
  • AR Scanner$1.99
1 purchases

Span

One-time1
  • Span Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Snark free?
Snark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Span free?
Span is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Snark or Span?
Snark and Span are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Snark or Span have ads?
Neither Snark nor Span shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Snark or Span?
Snark ships an update every 3 days, and Span fortnightly. Most recently, Snark was updated on September 12, 2026 and Span on September 10, 2026.

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