Comparison

Ductts vs How Often

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

Head to head
About

Ductts

This app allows you to easily track the frequency, intensity, and triggers of your crying. Gain insights into your emotional patterns and well-being with private, on-device data logging and export options.

Highlights
  • Fast, frictionless logging
  • Track frequency, intensity, and triggers
  • View emotional patterns and trends
  • Filter logs by intensity or timeframe
  • Private, on-device data storage
  • Export and import data
Features
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Ever wonder how often you cry? Ductts is your pocket-sized cry tracker built for convenience, speed, and total privacy. Log each cry with a single tap. Whether it's a quick tear at a movie or an emotional milestone or a hormonal change, Ductts helps you track the frequency, intensity, and triggers of your crying. No guesswork, just honest tracking so you can get real about your emotions. - Fast, frictionless logging: Open the app and log a cry in seconds. Be as detailed (or not) as you'd like. - See your emotional patterns: Dive into your stats to spot trends and gain insights into your well-being. - Filter your feed: Sort by intensity, type of cry, or timeframe. - Private by design: Your crying data stays on your device. No cloud storage, no accounts, no leaks. - Export & import: Own your data. Export to a spreadsheet for deeper analysis, sharing with a therapist (or friend), or transfer between devices. - Ductts is made for anyone who wants to get in touch with their feelings, track their emotional health, or just get curious about their crying habits.

About

How Often

Log events and discover hidden patterns in your life, family, or pets. Automatically identifies correlations and trends, presenting them in clear language and visual charts. Export data for sharing with professionals or personal records.

Highlights
  • Automatic pattern discovery
  • Cross-profile correlations
  • Frequency charts with overlays
  • Day/time heatmaps
  • Milestone and streak tracking
  • CSV data export
  • PDF summary reports
Features
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How Often helps you track how frequently things happen — to you, your family, your friends, and even your pets. Whether it's headaches, coughing, exercise, mood swings, or anything else, just log it and let the app find the patterns you can't see on your own. DISCOVER PATTERNS AUTOMATICALLY The insights engine analyzes your data and tells you what it finds — in plain language: "Your headaches tend to follow nights of poor sleep. Over the last 3 weeks, this happened 6 times." "There's a clear pattern — migraine happens most often on Mondays." "Your nausea has dropped from severity 3.8 to 2.1 over the past two weeks." FIND CONNECTIONS ACROSS PEOPLE Track events across family members and discover cross-profile correlations. The app can detect patterns like a cold spreading through the household and tell you about it. SEE YOUR DATA CLEARLY Frequency charts with duration and severity overlays Day-of-week × time-of-day heatmaps Sparklines on the main list for quick trend checks Milestone tracking and streak detection EXPORT AND SHARE Export your data as CSV for analysis or generate a professional PDF summary report with insights, patterns, and correlations — perfect for sharing with a doctor or keeping records. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No accounts. No cloud storage. No data transmitted anywhere. Speech recognition runs entirely on-device. Your data belongs to you.

Screenshots

Ductts4 screens
How Often4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: How Often at Free against Ductts's $0.99. Ductts's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

How Often is free to download; Ductts costs $0.99 up front. How Often sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Ductts asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ductts against 5.0 for How Often. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ductts versus How Often: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDucttsHow Often
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCassidy WilliamsSquare Remix Inc

Customer experience

Ductts

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

How Often

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Ductts

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

How Often

One-time3
  • Add 1 Profile$1.99
  • Add 2 Profiles$2.99
  • Add Unlimited Profiles$6.99

Questions

Is Ductts free?
Ductts costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is How Often free?
How Often is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ductts or How Often?
Ductts and How Often are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Ductts or How Often have ads?
Neither Ductts nor How Often shows ads.

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