Closer vs Placelore

Your relationship, live on your Home Screen. Closer shows the real-time distance between you and your partner - on a widget, your Lock Screen, and in your Dynamic Island. Watch the miles shrink as they head your way. Then stay close all day: TOGETHER - LIVE DISTANCE Real-time distance widget for Home Screen and Lock Screen, plus a Live Activity that counts down the miles when your person is on the way. Made for long-distance couples and over thinkers alike. HEARTBEAT Press and hold at the same time - feel synced animations and haptics, wherever you both are. LEVEL UP & STREAKS Build your streaks and level up your relationship on the app. Gamified experience that keeps you coming back. 4,500+ DAILY QUESTIONS Themed question packs that start conversations you'd never think to have. A new one every day. ROLL THE DICE Shuffle to get ideas on different features to use on the app, you never know what you might discover. GAMES FOR TWO 10 games, solo and 2-player including Guess My Answer, the "does my partner actually listen to me" test. GROW YOUR WORLD Streaks, Care Score, and achievements level you up through 20 islands. Grow as you do. MICRO THERAPY 100 bite-sized, therapist-informed lessons. Five minutes, real skills. YOUR STORY, KEPT Shared photo memories, a together counter, Time Capsules that unlock in the future, and a couple profile that's just yours. CYCLE SUPPORT Cycle tracking with support tips, so you can show up for each other better. QUIZZES Various quizzes designed and built to enhance your journey. Free to download. Private by design, your relationship stays between the two of you. Visit: https://closerlabs.app Privacy: https://closerlabs.app/privacy · Terms: https://closerlabs.app/terms EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ TikTok: @joincloser Instagram: @join.closer Enjoy :)

Placelore is a private place journal for your real life. It runs quietly in the background, notices when you've actually settled somewhere, and turns each stay into a place you can name, revisit, and write about. No check-ins. No feed. No friends list. Just your own log of where you've been. WHAT IT DOES • Detects places automatically from how long you stay, not from what's nearby. • Lets you rename, recategorize, or merge places so the log matches how you actually think about them. • Attaches journal entries and photos to each place — a quick note from a coffee shop, a longer entry from a trip. • Counts visits and tracked time so you can see your real-world patterns over a week, a month, or longer. • Shows your day on a map: the places you stopped, the path between them, and how long each stay lasted. • Sends gentle milestone notifications when a place reaches 5, 10, 25, 50, or 100 visits. • Categorizes places by type — Restaurant, Cafe, Gym, Park, and more — using Apple Maps, with custom categories you can add yourself. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most location apps want to broadcast where you are. Placelore is the opposite: it's a logbook you keep for yourself. The dwell-based detection means you only get places you actually spent time at, not every storefront you walked past. The journal and photo attachments turn raw location history into something worth looking back on. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT • All data is stored on your device. There is no Placelore server. • No accounts, no sign-in, no analytics SDKs, no advertising identifiers. • Your places, visits, photos, and journal entries never leave your iPhone unless you explicitly export them. • Background location is used only to detect dwell time. You can pause tracking for 1, 4, or 24 hours from inside the app. • You can delete every place, visit, photo, and journal entry from Settings at any time. CONTROL • Set the minimum stay duration that counts as a real visit (default: 30 minutes). • Pause and resume tracking whenever you want. • Export your raw location samples as CSV for your own analysis. • Delete individual places or wipe everything from Settings. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone running iOS 17 or later. • "Always" location permission for passive background detection. • Camera and Photos permissions only if you choose to attach pictures. Placelore is for people who want to remember their own life, quietly. If that's you, give it a try.