Latent vs Your Friends App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Latent
Relive your past photos with this app that displays images from the same day in previous years. It prioritizes your privacy with no accounts, ads, or tracking, and works directly with your device's photo library.
- View photos from this day in past years
- Works with Apple Photos library
- No accounts, ads, or tracking
- Swipe through memories
- Share favorite photos
- Delete unwanted photos
- Complete privacy and control
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Latent shows you photos from this day in past years — entirely on your device. - No accounts, no ads, no tracking - Works with your Apple Photos library - Best of: ten near-identical shots become one card, so a day reads as moments - A warm daily reveal: photos from this day, across all your years - Pick your companion — Foldy, Luna, or Mochi - Unlock hats for them just by showing up — no purchases, time is the only currency - Once a day, your companion hides in one of your photos. Happy hunting. - Swipe through memories, share favorites, or delete unwanted photos - Complete privacy and control Your photos stay yours
Your Friends App
This app helps you create a digital scrapbook of your most important relationships. Save notes, add songs, and build personal timelines to cherish meaningful moments with close friends and family.
- Create memory cards
- Save notes and add songs
- Remember birthdays and important dates
- Build personal friendship timelines
- Capture Live Memory Cards
- Personalize profile cards
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YourFriends is a memory app for the people who matter most. Create memory cards, save notes, add songs, remember birthdays and important dates, and build personal friendship timelines with close friends. Capture still memories or Live Memory Cards, personalize profile cards, add private notes, and keep meaningful moments organized in one warm, simple place. 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: Latent at none against Your Friends App's 3. Latent also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 2). Your Friends App's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Your Friends App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Latent asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Latent against 5.0 for Your Friends App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Latent has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Latent ships an update every 3 days, Your Friends App every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Latent | Your Friends App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Curran | KAI JAMESON SWAIN |
Customer experience
Latent
Your Friends App
In-app purchases
Latent
No in-app purchases
Your Friends App
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium 6 Months$19.996 Months
- Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
