Comparison

avec. vs Sekonda Smart Ring

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

Head to head
About

avec.

This app allows couples, friends, and families to create a private shared diary. Document your journey together with entries, photos, and location mapping. Relive memories and plan future adventures.

Highlights
  • Private shared diary for couples
  • Collaborative entries with photos
  • Location mapping of memories
  • On This Day memory recall
  • Shared wishlists (Somedays)
  • Exportable diary and photobooks
Features
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Some moments are too good to keep to yourself, but you don't want to share them with the world, either. avec. is a private diary for couples, close friends, and families. Write entries together, relive memories on the day they happened, and build a living record of your relationship — one day at a time. A diary that belongs to both of you — Every diary is private and shared only between its members. Write about your day, add photos, react to each other's memories, and watch your story grow entry by entry. avec. feels like a journal and works like a conversation. Everywhere you've been, together — Tap the globe icon to see a map of every place you've visited as a dot on the map. Tap any pin to relive the memory — photos, notes, and all. The longer you use avec., the richer your map becomes. On This Day — Every morning, avec. surfaces what happened on this date in previous years. Tap to see the full entry, photos included. A quiet, beautiful way to remember how far you've come. Trips, beautifully captured — Planning a trip or just got back? Add it to your diary and let avec. do the rest. Import your photos and avec. automatically organizes them by day and place using GPS — so every stop is mapped, every moment is where it belongs. Somedays — a wishlist you share — Keep a running list of things you want to do together. Restaurants to try, places to visit, experiences to have. Filter by category or travel, and convert a someday into a trip when you're ready to make it happen. Export your story — on screen and in print — Turn your diary into a beautiful keepsake — or hold it in your hands. Export any entries or a full trip as a print-ready PDF, or order a real photobook delivered to your door. Choose your entries, pick a cover photo, and avec. does the rest: your photos, your words, your story — bound and shipped. Bulk photo import — Select photos from your library and avec. automatically groups them into entries by date. A year of memories, organized in seconds. Built for the way you actually live - Long press any entry to react with an emoji and leave a note for your partner - Location tagging with place search and automatic photo GPS detection - Dark and light mode, because moods change - Push notifications so you never miss a new entry - Fast search across everything you've written - Private by design — your diary is for you and who you share it with avec. For the moments worth keeping Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.

About

Sekonda Smart Ring

This wearable accessory discreetly monitors a wide range of health and wellness metrics, including sleep, heart rate, and stress levels. It syncs with Apple Health and offers activity tracking without a monthly subscription.

Highlights
  • Sleep tracking
  • Heart rate monitoring
  • Stress and mood tracking
  • Activity tracking
  • Workout recording
  • Women's health tracking
  • Notification alerts
Features
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The Sekonda Smart Ring offers a discreet and stylish way to track health and wellness, all day and all night. The ring monitors a comprehensive range of health metrics, including sleep tracking, heart rate and resting heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), blood oxygen and respiratory rate. Stress monitoring, fatigue levels and mood tracking give a fuller picture of daily wellbeing.  There's no monthly subscription required, and the ring syncs with Apple Health, making it simple to bring wellness data into one place. The Sekonda Smart Ring is intended for general wellness and fitness purposes only. It is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent any disease or medical condition. Features · Activity Tracking – Track your daily steps, distance, calories burned. · Sleep Tracking – Track your quality of sleep. · Heart Rate Tracking – Track your heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and respiratory rate. · Workout Tracking – Record exercise workouts, with optional syncing to Health Connect. · Notifications – Get alerted to notifications with optional vibration alerts. · Women's Health – Record menstrual cycle information and track changes over time. · Optional Goal Setting – Create personalised goals for daily steps and sleep duration · Optional Weight Records – Set goals, log your weight and monitor long-term trends.

Screenshots

avec.4 screens
Sekonda Smart Ring4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sekonda Smart Ring at none against avec.'s 6. Sekonda Smart Ring also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). avec.'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. avec. sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Sekonda Smart Ring 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 avec. against 5.0 for Sekonda Smart Ring. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: avec. has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

avec. ships an update every 3 days, Sekonda Smart Ring fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
avec. versus Sekonda Smart Ring: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameteravec.Sekonda Smart Ring
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB231 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAvec Labs LLCTime Products Ltd

Customer experience

avec.

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sekonda Smart Ring

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

avec.

Subscriptions6
  • Personal$4.991 Month
  • Group$9.991 Month
  • Organization$14.991 Month
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  • Personal$29.991 Year
  • Group$59.991 Year
  • Organization$99.991 Year
None

Sekonda Smart Ring

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is avec. free?
avec. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sekonda Smart Ring free?
Sekonda Smart Ring is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, avec. or Sekonda Smart Ring?
avec. and Sekonda Smart Ring are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do avec. or Sekonda Smart Ring have ads?
Neither avec. nor Sekonda Smart Ring shows ads.
Which is updated more often, avec. or Sekonda Smart Ring?
avec. ships an update every 3 days, and Sekonda Smart Ring fortnightly. Most recently, avec. was updated on October 7, 2026 and Sekonda Smart Ring on October 23, 2026.

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