Hope Hand vs Phase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hope Hand
Instantly alert chosen contacts with your location and a custom message by tapping a single button. Configure personalized scenarios for various situations, sending notifications via SMS or other messaging apps.
- One-tap notification
- Customizable messages
- Location sharing
- Multiple sending options (SMS, messaging apps)
- Scenario creation
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Tap the button to instantly notify your selected contacts with your message and location. Create custom scenarios: edit the text, add links, and choose recipients. Messages can be sent via SMS or any messaging apps installed on your device. Perfect for travel updates, safety alerts, and keeping in touch with friends and family.
Phase
This app helps you track intermittent fasting and monitor your nutrition. It features an AI food scanner, calorie and macro tracking, and visual progress indicators for your fasting stages. Easily log meals, set custom fasting schedules, and view your body's estimated responses.
- Intermittent fasting timer
- AI food scanner
- Calorie and macro tracking
- Estimated fasting stages
- Custom fasting schedules
- Weight and water intake tracking
- Apple Health integration
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Start fasting. See what's happening during your fast. Scan your meals. Phase is an intermittent fasting tracker, fasting timer, calorie tracker, and AI food scanner built to make fasting simple. Instead of showing only a countdown, Phase helps you follow your fasting journey through estimated body stages while keeping your calories, macros, weight, and nutrition in one place. TRACK YOUR FASTING STAGES • Follow estimated stages as your fast progresses • See stages including Sugar Drop, Fat Burn, Ketosis, and Autophagy • Understand where you are in your fasting window • Track your fasting progress with a simple visual timer FAST YOUR WAY • Choose 16:8, 18:6, 14:10, 20:4, OMAD, or a custom schedule • Start and stop your fast in one tap • Explore different intermittent fasting protocols • Use Home Screen widgets for quick access • Build consistency with streak and calendar tracking SCAN FOOD WITH AI • Take a photo of your meal and let AI analyze it • Scan packaged foods by barcode • Search foods when you want to log manually • Get calories and macro information • Add meals directly to your food diary TRACK CALORIES & MACROS • Monitor daily calories • Track protein, carbs, fat, and fiber • Organize food by breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks • See your remaining daily calorie target at a glance TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Log your weight and follow your goal • Track daily water intake • Connect Apple Health to view your steps • Keep your fasting and nutrition progress together Phase combines an intermittent fasting tracker, calorie tracker, macro tracker, and AI food scanner in one simple app. No complicated routines. Just fasting, nutrition, and progress tracking in one place. Your body is already doing the work. Phase helps you follow the journey. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hope Hand at none against Phase's 4. Hope Hand also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Phase's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Phase sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Hope Hand asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hope Hand against 5.0 for Phase. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Hope Hand ships an update every 6 weeks, Phase every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hope Hand | Phase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C-MES Solutions Ltd. | Ivan Hubar |
Customer experience
Hope Hand
Phase
In-app purchases
Hope Hand
No in-app purchases
Phase
- Unlimited (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- Unlimited (Yearly) Sale$14.991 Year
- Unlimited (3 Months)$24.993 Months
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- Unlimited (Yearly)7 Days trial$34.991 Year
