Tap When vs Happened
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tap When
This app helps you organize by tracking important events. It's useful for timing activities like workouts or counting occurrences such as daily habits. The intuitive design makes logging and managing events simple.
- Log duration-based events
- Count event occurrences
- Customizable event names
- Intuitive logging interface
- Event management
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Our app is designed to help you stay organized by tracking the events that matter most to you. Whether timing activities or keeping count, our app is your perfect companion. Key Features: • Versatile Tracking: Log events where duration matters, like workouts, study sessions, or contractions, and events where only the count matters, like baby kicks or daily habits. • Customizable Events: Tailor your event tracking to fit your unique needs. Create and name your events to reflect your daily life, from work tasks to commuting. • Easy-to-Use Interface: Our intuitive design ensures you can effortlessly log, view, and manage your events anytime, anywhere.
Happened
Easily log life events with customizable tags and analyze them using various metrics. Track symptoms, hobbies, or any personal occurrence with a simple tap and visualize your data over time. The app prioritizes your privacy, storing data locally or in your iCloud.
- One-tap event logging
- Four tag types: Valueless, Quantified, Balance, Binary
- Timeline divided into five parts of the day
- Drag and drop tag management
- 10 types of visual metrics
- Customizable time ranges for analytics
- CloudKit data storage for privacy
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This app was made for personal use, but it turned out too good to hide from the App Store. Log events happening in your life with one simple tap. Whether it’s symptoms, birdwatching, superstitions, you name it. Collect data and analyze it with metrics. Taxonomy The app supports four types of tags: - Valueless: Just to log events that happened. - Quantified: Each event has a numeric value. Users can also add a measurement unit. - Balance: Events have a visual gauge in the range of –1 to 1. Suitable for cases such as “better or worse than the baseline”. - Binary: Events have a true or false value, representing the outcome of an event. Timeline To speed up the creation and management of events, the day is divided into five parts. Tapping on a tag creates an event in the current part of today. Drag & drop tags to add events to any part of any day. Management Tags are categorized into groups, each with its own color. Add, edit and move your tags without losing associated events. Analytics The app offers 10 types of metrics to visually represent data, including counters, min/avg/max calculators, pie charts, linear graphs, and more. Each tag type has a specific set of metrics. Each metric can be limited by a time range: last week or the last one, three, six, or twelve months. Convenience - Gestures: swipe left and right on the timeline to navigate between days. Double-tap on the timeline returns to today’s view. - Swiping right on the Tag Groups stripe reveals a sandwich glyph (three horizontal lines). Dragging it vertically changes the height of the area with tags. - Change the order of Tag Groups and Metrics by holding and dragging them in the corresponding sections. - The plus glyph in the tag area on the home screen allows you to quickly add a new tag to the selected group. Privacy All your data is stored using the CloudKit framework provided by Apple. This means it’s either stored locally on the device or in your iCloud account. For encryption, opt into Advanced Data Protection in your iCloud settings (availability may vary by region). In any case, the developer DOES NOT have access to user data. The app DOES NOT use any analytics tools, so feel free to log your sensitive data. It stays only with you and no one else.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tap When at 100% against Happened's 0%. Tap When also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Happened's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Happened is free to download; Tap When costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tap When holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Tap When's written reviews are positive against 0% of Happened's.
Tap When ships an update every 2 days, Happened monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tap When | Happened |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 骏飞 潘 | Pavel Shlyapnikov |
Customer experience
Tap When
Happened
In-app purchases
Tap When
No in-app purchases
Happened
No in-app purchases









