Comparison

ShakeMyHand vs At Dusk

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

Head to head
About

ShakeMyHand

This app helps verify the authenticity of digital communications, ensuring you're interacting with the intended person. It's useful for confirming urgent requests, financial transactions, and sensitive data sharing with friends, family, and colleagues.

Highlights
  • Verify sender authenticity
  • Secure financial transaction confirmation
  • Confirm family member requests
  • Team data security
  • Secure role and permission granting
  • Confirm remote team member identity
Features
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Ever wondered if that 'urgent' message from your boss is legit, or if your friend's quirky text was actually sent by them? In this era of digital trickery, ShakeMyHand is here to help. It's a nifty app that cuts through the noise, ensuring that the person texting you for your weekend plans or the team member pinging you for a last-minute meeting is the real deal. No more second-guessing texts or emails. With ShakeMyHand, peace of mind is just a quick verification away, keeping your digital conversations authentic and worry-free. Safeguard financial transactions with colleagues, friends, and family: Before sending bank transfers or sending money through apps like Venmo or PayPal based on an e-mail, text request, or phone call, use ShakeMyHand to confirm it's truly your colleague or friend asking. Verify messages from family members: When you receive unusual requests or messages from family members, especially in urgent situations, ShakeMyHand can confirm their authenticity. Team data security: Need to swap login details or API keys in your team? With ShakeMyHand's easy passphrases, team members can make sure they're sharing sensitive info with the right people, keeping everything tight and secure, especially in remote setups. Grant roles and permissions securely: When a team member needs new roles or privileges in a tool or system, ShakeMyHand steps in. Just swap a quick passphrase to confirm it's them asking, and you're all set to update access safely. Confirm the identity of remote team members: Before sharing sensitive project details in a virtual team meeting, use ShakeMyHand to ensure you're communicating with the actual team. How does it work? 1. Install the app: First, both you and your contact (be it a friend, colleague, relative, or anyone else) need to download ShakeMyHand on your phones. 2. Scan the QR code: Next time you meet in person, open ShakeMyHand and scan each other's QR code. This is a quick and secure way to exchange digital identifiers, much like modern, secure business card exchange. 3. Synced for life: After scanning, your apps are now paired. From this point on, both phones will generate the same secret three-word passphrase. This passphrase acts as a unique, lifelong password that remains in perfect sync everytime it re-generates. 4. Verification anytime: Now, whenever you need to confirm each other's identity - through text, email, phone calls, or video chats - use your shared passphrase. A matching phrase means you're communicating with the right person, ensuring authenticity in your digital interactions.

About

At Dusk

This app provides photographers with real-time light quality, precise sunrise/sunset times, and the sun's path. It integrates live weather data to help users determine the best times for shooting and avoid missing magic hours.

Highlights
  • Live light quality score and color temperature
  • Precise golden hour, sunrise, and sunset times
  • Usable light remaining countdown
  • Live sun and moon path visualization
  • Detailed sky phases and twilight information
  • Integrated live weather data
  • Home-screen widgets for at-a-glance info
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At Dusk: Your Natural Light Companion For photographers who live and die by the light. At Dusk tells you how good the light is right now, how long it will last, and exactly when the magic hours arrive, so you're never guessing and never caught out. A precise light engine blends solar and lunar geometry with live weather, elevation, and air quality, turning "is it worth heading out?" into a single glance. WHAT YOU GET • Live light quality. A clear read on the light right now, from Poor to Excellent, with the exact score and color temperature. • Golden hour, sunrise, sunset. Precise times and countdowns, with compass bearings so you know where the sun will rise and set. • Usable light remaining. How much shooting light you actually have left before the window closes. • The sun's path. A live arc across your sky showing the sun's real position, altitude, and direction, moment to moment. • The moon, in full. Phase and illumination, moonrise and moonset with bearings, and dark-sky windows for astro and night work. • Sky Detail. A dedicated sun and moon compass with every light phase, from golden and blue hour to civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight. • Live weather. Cloud, humidity, wind, and UV, folded straight into the light picture. • Home-screen widgets. Your usable light, live sun arc, and light quality at a glance, all day. • Built for iPad. A full dashboard that puts everything on one screen at once. • Make it yours. Customizable themes and a clean, glare-free design tuned for the field. Premium and ad-free. No accounts, no clutter, just the light. Made for landscape, portrait, wedding, and travel photographers, and anyone chasing dawn, dusk, and every good hour in between.

Screenshots

ShakeMyHand2 screens
At Dusk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ShakeMyHand at 4.0 against At Dusk's 1.0. ShakeMyHand also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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. At Dusk sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. ShakeMyHand asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShakeMyHand holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
ShakeMyHand versus At Dusk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShakeMyHandAt Dusk
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHUMEN Information Services B.V.Dat Pham

Customer experience

ShakeMyHand

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

At Dusk

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

ShakeMyHand

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

At Dusk

One-time3
  • At Dusk Small Tip$0.99
  • At Dusk Medium Tip$2.99
  • At Dusk Large Tip$4.99

Questions

Is ShakeMyHand free?
ShakeMyHand is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is At Dusk free?
At Dusk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ShakeMyHand or At Dusk?
ShakeMyHand is rated higher. ShakeMyHand averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while At Dusk averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ShakeMyHand or At Dusk have ads?
Neither ShakeMyHand nor At Dusk shows ads.

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