Comparison

HERE vs Stu Home

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

Head to head
About

HERE

This app anchors your digital presence to physical locations, creating a permanent record of human activity. It emphasizes privacy and requires users to be physically present at designated Nodes to leave a mark.

Highlights
  • Decentralized identity (Signet)
  • Permanent data etching
  • Physical presence required
  • Leave Marks with Artifacts
  • Minimalist calling cards
  • High-fidelity photo uploads
  • Environmental audio recording
Features
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HERE. is not a social network. It is a decentralized, permanent census of human presence. We are moving the "social graph" off the internet and anchoring it to physical coordinates. This is a utility designed for those who refuse to vanish into the digital storm. I WAS HERE. ZERO FRICTION. TOTAL PRIVACY. HERE. does not use accounts, passwords, or emails. Upon first launch, the app generates a Signet—a unique cryptographic identity stored in your device’s Secure Enclave. You are not a user profile; you are a signature. Your data is not mined, sold, or tracked. You exist only where you stand. This app cannot be used from your couch. It demands physical presence. To interact, you must locate a Node—a physical anchor (NFC or QR) integrated into the architecture of the real world. You do not "post" on HERE. You leave a Mark. Each Mark contains an Artifact, etched permanently into the location’s Index. The Signature: Your Signet and a single word. A minimalist calling card. The Statement: A 140-character plaque. Museum-grade typography. No filters. The Vision: A high-fidelity photo. Constraint: No gallery uploads. Each Vision is watermarked with exact coordinates and timestamps. The Frequency: 15 seconds of raw environmental audio. The Query: A binary poll for future visitors to decide the consensus of a place. The digital world is designed to distract you. HERE. is designed to remind you. If you leave a Mark, you may receive a notification months or years later: "Someone is standing where you once stood." The internet is a machine designed to forget. The physical world is absolute. Etch your name in the glass. Make it last.

About

Stu Home

This app creates a personalized home maintenance schedule based on your house's details and climate. It reminds you of upcoming tasks, helps you track completed work, and stores an inventory of your home's systems and components.

Highlights
  • Customized maintenance plans
  • Climate-timed seasonal tasks
  • Clear next step reminders
  • Task history and cost tracking
  • Home system inventory
  • Custom task creation
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The user manual for your home. Tell Stu about your house, and it builds a plan for what to do and when, reminds you when you need to act, and keeps a lasting record of everything you've done. A CUSTOM PLAN Answer a few questions about your house: where it is, how it's built, and what's inside. Stu creates a maintenance plan with the tasks that matter for your home and skips the ones that don't. Furnace tune-ups, gutter cleaning, smoke detector checks, water heater flushes, and dozens more, each on a sensible schedule. TIMED TO YOUR CLIMATE Seasonal tasks follow the weather where you live. Fall prep lands when fall work actually happens in your area, and each season's tasks are spread over a few weeks so nothing piles up on one day. ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP The Today screen shows what needs attention now and what's coming up. Complete it, snooze it, or skip to next time. A weekly reminder tells you what's due, without the noise. A HISTORY OF YOUR HOME Log every completed task with the date, cost, time spent, and notes. Answer a contractor's question in seconds, settle "did we already do that?", and keep a record that grows more valuable every year. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Keep an inventory of your home's systems and components, with model numbers and install years. Save your paint colors by room. Add your own tasks, recurring or one-time. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Your data lives on your iPhone and is backed up to your account, so a new phone picks up where you left off. Export everything anytime. Stu has no ads and doesn't sell your data. Built for homeowners who want to care for what they own without making it a second job. SUBSCRIPTION Stu is available through a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.stu.tools/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.stu.tools/privacy

Screenshots

HERE4 screens
Stu Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HERE at none against Stu Home's 2. Stu Home's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Stu Home sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. HERE 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 HERE against 5.0 for Stu Home. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stu Home has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HERE versus Stu Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHEREStu Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan SamuelQuickhatch LLC

Customer experience

HERE

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

Stu Home

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HERE

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Stu Home

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is HERE free?
HERE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stu Home free?
Stu Home is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HERE or Stu Home?
HERE and Stu Home are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do HERE or Stu Home have ads?
Neither HERE nor Stu Home shows ads.

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