Touchbase+ vs Skyglass Camera

Moved away from home? Living on your own? Touchbase is the simplest way to let someone know you're OK, without sharing where you are. HOW IT WORKS Choose a daily check-in time. Add someone you trust: a parent, friend or neighbour. Tap once a day. That's it. Your contact doesn't need the app. They just get a text. If you miss your check-in, Touchbase sends you a reminder every hour. If you still haven't tapped after three hours, it texts your contact so they know to get in touch. One check-in per day. Change the time whenever you like. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No location sharing. No map. No one checking where you are or who you're with. Your contact only hears from Touchbase if you miss a check-in. WHO IT'S FOR Students who want to stop the "are you alive?" messages from home. People who live alone. Lone workers. Anyone who wants a quiet safety net without being tracked. Free, with no subscription.

Skyglass reads the colour of the sky and gives it a name. Point your phone upward and the wheel turns to meet the sky: a pale Frost Blue on a cold morning, Smalt after rain, Gull Wing on a day the clouds never lift. Press the shutter and that sky is kept, with the time and the place you saw it. Inspired by the cyanometer, the ring of 52 painted blues Horace-Bénédict de Saussure carried up Mont Blanc in 1789 to measure the sky. Skyglass keeps his 52 steps and adds five more wheels for all the kinds of sky we see. SIX WHEELS • Pure, the classic cyanometer blues • Green-blue, for lagoon light and hazy afternoons • Violet-blue, for the last light before dark • Amber and Gold, for dusk and dawn • Storm grey, for weather Each wheel has 52 named shades, 312 in all. Skyglass picks the wheel and the shade for you, live, as you look up. IT KNOWS WHAT IS SKY An on-device algorithm checks that you are actually pointing at the sky, so a wall, a screen or a coat never gets a name. The algorithm and the colour reading both run on your phone. YOUR BLUES Every capture lands in your timeline, day by day. Switch to Colours and they gather into piles, one for each shade you have found, so you can see which skies you keep meeting. THE MAP Your captures get pinned where you saw them. So you can collect skies all over the world. SHARE A SKY Each capture makes a card: the sky, its name, the time and place, and a little line of poetry. Send it to the person you thought of.