Comparison

ShakeMyHand vs CheckSync

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

CheckSync

This app analyzes your past check-ins to reveal personal insights about your habits and travel history. It helps you rediscover places you've been, track your activity trends, and plan future visits with relevant suggestions.

Highlights
  • Analyze check-in history
  • Rediscover past locations
  • Track activity trends
  • Plan future visits
  • Reconstruct travel history
  • Track unique milestones
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Your Foursquare check-in history, turned into something worth looking at. CheckSync connects to your Swarm account and transforms years of check-ins into personal insights — where you've been, how often you go back, and what your habits say about you. Rediscover your history On This Day surfaces check-ins from the same date in past years. Return Visits shows places you used to frequent but haven't been back to in months. It's a running archive of everywhere you've ever been. Track your pace See your check-in counts by week, month, and year. Compare your current month against where you were at this point last month. Spot trends across a rolling 12 months. Plan your next visit Due for a Visit surfaces spots that match your usual cadence — filtered to your current city, so the suggestions are actually relevant. Relive your travels Trips reconstructs your travel history into journals, grouping check-ins into the trips you actually took. Browse by city, year, or destination. Milestones & leaderboards Track unique states, countries, categories, and chains. Opt into leaderboards to see how you rank against other explorers. On your home screen Two widgets — Snapshot and Month Progress — keep your stats visible without opening the app. CheckSync is a read-only companion to Foursquare. It never posts, never checks in, and never touches your Swarm account.

Screenshots

ShakeMyHand2 screens
CheckSync4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CheckSync at 5.0 against ShakeMyHand's 4.0. ShakeMyHand's advantage is iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.6). On price, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CheckSync holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
ShakeMyHand versus CheckSync: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShakeMyHandCheckSync
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHUMEN Information Services B.V.Jake Burns

Customer experience

ShakeMyHand

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

CheckSync

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

In-app purchases

None

ShakeMyHand

No in-app purchases

None

CheckSync

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShakeMyHand free?
ShakeMyHand is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CheckSync free?
CheckSync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShakeMyHand or CheckSync?
CheckSync is rated higher. ShakeMyHand averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while CheckSync averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ShakeMyHand or CheckSync have ads?
Neither ShakeMyHand nor CheckSync shows ads.

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