Comet vs Where Now?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Comet
This AI-powered browser acts as a personal assistant, streamlining workflows and boosting focus. It offers unified AI search, instant context, and automation across websites for tasks like summarizing, shopping, and research. The assistant learns your habits to keep you organized and prevent lost tabs or inspiration.
- Unified AI search
- Instant context and automation
- Summarize, shop, schedule, research
- Personalized AI assistant
- Tab and inspiration organization
- Workflow streamlining
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Comet is an AI-powered browser that acts as a personal assistant and thinking partner. Boost your focus, streamline your workflow, and turn curiosity into momentum. · Unified AI search, instant context, and automation across every site. Summarize, shop, schedule, and research—directly in the browser. · Enjoy the web and let the AI assistant handle your chores · Do everything on your to-do list faster with Comet · Comet adapts to how you think and work, learning your habits to keep you organized. Never lose track of tabs or inspiration. Terms of Service: https://www.perplexity.ai/tos Privacy Policy: https://www.perplexity.ai/privacy
Where Now?
This app helps you track your past locations, either manually or automatically. It offers fine-grained controls for background activity and keeps all location data on your device. You can optionally integrate it with a self-hosted remote endpoint.
- Manual location tracking
- Automatic location tracking
- Background activity controls
- On-device data storage
- Optional self-hosted endpoint integration
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Where Now? is an application for keeping track of where you've been either manually or automatically using background activity with fine-grained controls. All location data is captured entirely on device, and can optionally be integrated with a (free) open-source self-hosted remote endpoint.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Where Now? at none against Comet's 3. Where Now? also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Comet's advantage is ratings volume (7.8K vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Comet sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $20.00 per month. Where Now? asks for nothing beyond the download.
Where Now? holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Comet has 7.8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Comet's written reviews are positive against 100% of Where Now?'s.
Comet ships an update weekly, Where Now? every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Comet | Where Now? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7.8K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.8K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 285 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Perplexity AI, Inc. | Scott Boms |
Customer experience
Comet
Where Now?
In-app purchases
Comet
- Perplexity Pro$20.001 Month
- Perplexity Pro$200.001 Year
- Perplexity Max$200.001 Month
Where Now?
No in-app purchases
