How Long Here vs Where Was I
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
How Long Here
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Ever wonder how long you've been somewhere? How Long Here automatically detects when you arrive at a place and starts a live timer. No manual tracking required. A home screen widget lets you see your current visit at a glance. When you leave, the visit is saved so you can look back at where you spent your time. HOW IT WORKS How Long Here offers two location modes so you can choose the right balance of speed and battery life. Standard mode (default): - Uses Apple's Visit Monitoring API to detect when you stop at a location. This is the same efficient system your phone already uses. It's not GPS tracking, so battery impact is minimal. - No blue arrow in the status bar - Arrivals and departures may be detected with a 1โ5 minute delay Real-Time mode (optional, enable in Settings): - Uses continuous location monitoring, including GPS, for faster, more precise detection - Shows the blue location arrow in the status bar - Modest additional battery usage FEATURES - Automatic visit detection. Just carry your phone - Live timer widget for your home and lock screen - Visit history grouped by day - Reverse geocoding shows place names and addresses - Save and name your frequent places - 30-day visit history PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your visits and location history stay on your device. There are no accounts and no tracking. If the app crashes, it sends an anonymous crash report so the bug can be fixed. Your location history is yours alone. For the best experience, enable "Always" location access so visits can be detected in the background.
Where Was I
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You fall asleep listening and you wake up two hours past the last thing you remember. The bookmark in your audiobook app is wherever the audio happened to be, not where you stopped taking any of it in, so the morning starts with scrubbing backwards and guessing. Where Was I holds the spot instead. It is a sleep timer that checks in with you rather than counting down, and it pauses the moment you stop answering. HOW A NIGHT GOES 1. Choose how often it should check in: 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes, or type your own. 2. Start your audiobook, podcast or music, then tap Start Tonight and leave Where Was I on screen. 3. Every so often you get a soft chime and a quiet voice asking "Still there?" 4. Tap, move the phone, or say you are still here. Any of the three counts as an answer. 5. Miss one and your audio pauses right there, at the minute you actually went under. NO EARBUDS NEEDED Some fall-asleep pause features only work if you are wearing earbuds. This one runs off the phone you already have. The audiobook on the nightstand speaker, the podcast playing in the background, the music you send to the bedroom, all of it pauses the same way. IT WORKS WITH THE APP YOU ALREADY USE It needs no setup and no account. Where Was I never reads, stores or computes another app's playback position. It pauses playback the way a phone call does, and your own app keeps its own bookmark exactly as it always has. YOU DECIDE HOW IT ASKS Voice and chime, voice only, or chime only. Two lines to pick from and two voices. Set the response window anywhere from 10 to 45 seconds. Turn the spoken answer off and a tap or a bit of movement still counts, which is why a first-run user is never asked for the microphone. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE Spoken answers are recognized on the device. Nothing you say is recorded and nothing is sent anywhere. Movement is read in the moment and never stored. It never asks you to sign in, because it has nowhere to send anything. WHAT YOU GET IN THE MORNING A receipt for the night: the minute it paused, when you started, how long it took you to drift off, and how many soft check-ins you answered along the way. Open your player, press play, and the place is right. Where Was I Plus is an auto-renewing subscription: $2.99 per week, or $19.99 per year. Eligible new subscribers get the first 7 days of the annual plan free. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://iamkelly.ai/apps/where-was-i/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://iamkelly.ai/apps/where-was-i/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Where Was I at Free against How Long Here's $2.99. How Long Here's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Where Was I is free to download; How Long Here costs $2.99 up front. Where Was I sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. How Long Here asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | How Long Here | Where Was I |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free โ better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Parent Systems LLC | Austen Allred |
In-app purchases
How Long Here
No in-app purchases
Where Was I
- Where Was I Weekly$2.997 Days
- Where Was I Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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