Comparison

Squarify vs How It Went

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

Head to head
About

Squarify

Easily fit your entire photos onto social media without cropping. Add custom borders, including blurred backgrounds or solid colors, to preserve your original image format. Batch edit multiple photos at once for a streamlined workflow.

Highlights
  • No cropping for social media
  • Customizable borders
  • Blurred photo backgrounds
  • Batch photo editing
  • Supports various aspect ratios
Features
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Make your photos Instagram-ready with Squarify! Tired of your pictures getting cropped on Instagram? Squarify lets you add stylish borders so your full photo fits perfectly—whether it’s square (1:1), portrait (4:5), or landscape (1.91:1). Why Squarify? • Batch edit: Apply the same border to multiple photos at once—fast & easy! • Perfect framing: Keep your full image visible without awkward cropping. • Custom borders: Choose any color or use a blurred version of your photo. • Great for analog film photos: Preserve their original format without cutting details. Whether you're posting film scans, portraits, or creative shots, Squarify ensures your photos always look their best. Download now and share your photos without limits!

About

How It Went

Features
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You get home with some photos, a couple of clips and a GPS track nobody is ever going to scroll through. How It Went turns all three into a short film that follows your route: one ride, or a whole trip with the rest days still in it. The route is the film. Your track draws itself across a tilted map, your photos appear at the spot on the route where you took them, and your clips play where they were shot. Underneath, the day's numbers — distance, elevation gain, moving time — read as narration. That's the part a slideshow can't do. A slideshow fails on exactly the day you most want to keep: the long solitary one where you were too tired to take pictures. The track is the only thing recorded densely enough to carry a day on its own. The film also picks out what the map alone doesn't show: the longest climb with its average grade, the highest point, named passes with their elevation, and the spot where you crossed a border. WHAT YOU BRING - Rides picked straight from your Strava account - Or the files themselves: Garmin FIT, including the zip you get from Export File in Garmin Connect, and GPX - One ride, or a whole trip at once. Several activities merge into one film, day by day, and rest days stay in as rest days instead of getting dropped - Photos, placed along the track by the time they were taken - Action-cam and drone clips, with more than one moment pulled out of a single recording. A four-minute file usually holds two or three keepers, not one Send a ride straight to How It Went from another app's share sheet, or open it from Files. WHEN THE CAMERA CLOCK WAS WRONG An action cam that was never set to local time will drop your lunch stop in the wrong valley, and you can't tell by looking at the photo. Fix the clock once and everything shot on that camera moves together. For anything still out of place, play the film to where you took it and place it there. It stays put while you keep editing. The times in your film are the times you rode at, not the times where you're sitting now. Edit after you've flown home and a photo taken at 1:30 still says 1:30. NOT A TRAINING APP No leaderboards, no segments, no percentiles, nothing that ranks you against anybody else. The numbers are there to say what kind of day it was. WHAT COMES OUT An ordinary video file — 9:16 for Instagram and TikTok, or 16:9 for YouTube. It's put together on your phone, so you can post it the evening you get in. FREE, AND WHAT PREMIUM ADDS Everything above is free: your whole trip from your own files, every export size, the Daylight map and the default soundtrack. Premium adds five more map looks, Golden hour and Dark slate among them, and a photos-first layout with the map in the corner. With it you also pick the soundtrack's style and what the film opens on. Pay once or yearly, and try it free for a week first. A free account carries Premium to your other devices: iPhone, iPad and Mac. Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Squarify4 screens
How It Went4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: How It Went at 4 against Squarify's 2. How It Went also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Squarify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and How It Went sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Squarify ships an update weekly, How It Went every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Squarify versus How It Went: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquarifyHow It Went
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKawrantin Le GoffCodeUX.design

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Squarify

One-time1
  • Squarify Pro$3.99
4 purchases

How It Went

Subscriptions1
  • Premium yearly$34.991 Year
One-time3
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • 30-day TrialFree
  • Premium for life$99.99

Questions

Is Squarify free?
Squarify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is How It Went free?
How It Went is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Squarify or How It Went have ads?
Neither Squarify nor How It Went shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Squarify or How It Went?
Squarify ships an update weekly, and How It Went every 5 days. Most recently, Squarify was updated on October 30, 2026 and How It Went on October 25, 2026.

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