Where Now? vs HIBIZO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
HIBIZO
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HIBIZO is a quiet, private place to keep thoughts, memories, and feelings — built for people who want their journal to stay theirs. Every entry, photo, and tag is encrypted on your device with AES-256 before it ever reaches storage. If you turn on iCloud sync, your other devices receive the same encrypted bytes — Apple's servers never see your words. · A 12-word recovery passphrase unlocks your vault on a new device. HIBIZO never sees it, never stores it in plain text, and cannot recover it for you. · Face ID or Touch ID guards the vault on every open. · Photos, mood, location, and calendar context are all optional. Pick what fits, skip what doesn't. · The Sanctuary Garden quietly grows alongside you — 31 watercolor badges, butterflies and fireflies that drift past on the right days, a tree that flourishes as the journal does. · Three onboarding paths: brand-new vault, recover from iCloud, or import an encrypted archive file. Whatever your starting point, your data stays encrypted under your control. · Free across the lifetime of the app: every text feature, photo capture, location and calendar integration, the full Sanctuary Garden, encrypted iCloud sync, encrypted archive export, four languages (English, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文). · HIBIZO Pro is a one-time, lifetime unlock. It adds: unlimited entries (free tier supports up to 250), ambient garden creatures (butterflies by day, fireflies and will-o-wisps by night), an alternate pro app icon, the Flourishing tree stage, and watercolor moods inside PDF exports. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. There is nothing in HIBIZO that calls home about you, because we built it to be private from the inside out. Now with a custom value tag per journal, and [PRO] Spreadsheet export.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Where Now? at none against HIBIZO's 1. Where Now? also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). HIBIZO's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. HIBIZO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Where Now? asks for nothing beyond the download.
Where Now? ships an update every 2 weeks, HIBIZO weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Where Now? | HIBIZO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Boms | Matthew Mark |
In-app purchases
Where Now?
No in-app purchases
HIBIZO
- HIBIZO Pro$4.99
