Comparison

Counter vs Hark Pro

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

Head to head
About

Counter

This app helps you track up to six important activities with customizable options for yes/no, daily counts, or free text notes. It offers a minimalist, private experience with no feeds, notifications, or ads, keeping all your data locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Track up to six activities
  • Customizable tracking types (yes/no, daily counts, free text)
  • Minimalist design
  • No feeds or notifications
  • Private and local data storage
  • No ads
Features
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Counter is a simple tool to help you count what matters. What it does: -Track up to six activities -Full control over what you track: -Yes / no activities (e.g. meditation) -Daily counts (e.g. hours slept) -Free text (e.g. a brief reflection or note) -Minimal by design: no feeds, no notifications, no ads -Private and local: no accounts; data stays on your device

About

Hark Pro

This app acts as a personal operating system, proactively managing tasks across the web and your life. It can handle reservations, orders, scheduling, and project management by integrating with various services and websites.

Highlights
  • Proactive task management
  • Web service integration
  • Automated reservations and orders
  • Schedule and calendar management
  • Project tracking
  • Customizable mini-apps (Panels)
  • Secure login management
Features
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Hark Pro is an operating system for your life, built to think ahead, and help you with real, practical things. By combining advanced memory and the ability to use a computer in the cloud, Hark understands the context of your life and can take care of things across the web. No agents or subscriptions required. Hark can log in to OpenTable and make a reservation for you. But it’s also smart enough to reference your calendar for an open time, recall your favorite spots for openings, note your friend’s food allergies in the reservation, and even create a button to reserve an Uber to get there that night. Use Hark to order groceries. Return products. Manage your schedule. Build mini apps. And track complicated projects, integrating Google Docs and Slack messages, mindlessly. Hark is a simple chat app with powerful capabilities - freeing your time to spend away from screens. Proactive thinking Hark looks ahead. Book a movie on Hark, and Hark won’t just buy the ticket and add it to your calendar. It’ll scope the parking situation ahead of time, and offer to reserve you a spot before they fill up. Hark thinks creatively to remove friction across your life. Use the web with Handoff Just type “deliver me pizza” to hand off the task to Hark. It will hunt for the best local pizzarias, go on their websites, read their menus, and order you one for delivery via DoorDash (with your consent and favorite toppings, of course). Hark securely manages your logins to hundreds of sites including Target, Amazon, and LinkedIn so it can handle tasks from start to finish. Hark can also fill out web forms for you, writing multiple services to get quotes on a move or renovation. It can dig through webpages to find dentists who actually take your insurance - and email them for you to ask if it's unclear. It can plan your new wardrobe, then present it on a custom website built just for you. Manage your personal and professional life With Email and Slack integration, Hark can keep track of your most important messages, build your daily schedule, balance your calendar, and summarize dozens of discussions across your workplace into just the things that you need to know. Follow long term tasks with Projects Hark can manage your life in one, long-running chat. But sometimes you want to start with a blank slate. Projects are dedicated threads for longer term work. They focus a single topic, and related files, in one place that you can visit again and again over time. Build your own Panels Never learn to code. Hark can generate tiny bits of software called Panels - ranging from exercise trackers to media players - that live right inside the Hark app. All you do is prompt. You can even ask your Panels questions to dig deeper into their data, unlocking even more from services you already use like Strava, Spotify, and Venmo. Solve it with a button press Notifications give you work. Hark’s Action Buttons provide solutions. Hark’s one-line summaries highlight the most important things you need to do next. Just press a button to “pay” a bill, “RSVP” to an event, or “review” an insurance claim. Do everything else you expect an assistant to do Researching questions. Analyzing PDFs. Yes, even telling you the weather. Hark offers all of the same baseline services offered by other leading AI labs, too. Security and privacy Your data is your own. Hark will never sell your data or serve you ads. We also never see your most private information, like stored passwords or credit card numbers, which are always encrypted in storage and in transit. Hark does real work • Order dinner and groceries • Book cheap flights and hotels • Spot subscriptions before they renew • Schedule automatic tasks • Build websites, spreadsheets, and slide decks Terms of Service: https://www.hark.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.hark.com/privacy-policy © 2026 Hark

Screenshots

Counter3 screens
Hark Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hark Pro at Free against Counter's $2.99. Hark Pro also leads on ratings volume (163 vs 1) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). Counter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Hark Pro is free to download; Counter costs $2.99 up front. Hark Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $20.00 per month. Counter 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 Counter against 4.9 for Hark Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hark Pro has 163 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Counter versus Hark Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCounterHark Pro
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (163 ratings)
Positive reviews—95.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1163 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#3 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.217.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB99 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDaniel McHughHark Labs Inc.

Customer experience

Counter

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hark Pro

All ratings163 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.6%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.5%

In-app purchases

None

Counter

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Hark Pro

Subscriptions3
  • Hark Pro²$20.001 Month
  • Hark Pro³$100.001 Month
  • Hark Pro⁴$200.001 Month

Questions

Is Counter free?
Counter costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hark Pro free?
Hark Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Counter or Hark Pro?
Counter is rated higher. Counter averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Hark Pro averages 4.9 from 163 ratings.
Do Counter or Hark Pro have ads?
Neither Counter nor Hark Pro shows ads.

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