How Long vs SnapCount
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
How Long
Automatically track time spent at important locations like the gym or office using geofencing and Wi-Fi. Set weekly goals, view detailed statistics, and receive smart suggestions for new places. Enjoy battery-friendly background tracking.
- Automatic location time tracking
- Geofencing and Wi-Fi detection
- Weekly goal setting and progress tracking
- Detailed visit statistics
- Smart place suggestions
- Battery-friendly background operation
- Home screen widgets
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How Long answers one question: how much time do you actually spend at the places that matter? Save your gym, office, coffee shop, or a friend's house, and How Long quietly notices when you arrive and leave. No check-ins, no timers. FOR FAMILIES, WITHOUT THE TRACKING Know when your kid gets to school, when Grandma is home again, when your partner has left the office. Share just the places that matter with the people who matter, and they'll see arrivals and departures there and nothing else. No live map, no history of everywhere someone went. One Pro purchase covers your whole family through Family Sharing. BUILT TO BE TRUSTED • Detects arrivals and departures with geofencing, Wi-Fi, and Apple's visit monitoring, then double-checks before recording anything • Always watches the places closest to you and keeps that up to date as you move • Battery friendly: no constant GPS polling SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES • Total hours, visit counts, average session, and streaks for every place • Charts by day, week, month, or year, switchable between places and categories • A heatmap of which hours and days you tend to be there • Year in Review and Trip Recap cards you can share GOALS AND REMINDERS • Weekly goals: specific days or a number of visits per week, with streaks • Reminders when you've been somewhere longer than you meant to • Nudges when it's been too long since your last visit ORGANIZE • Categories for anything: Home Town, Paris 2024, Clients • Notes, ratings, and photos on every place • Smart suggestions for places you visit often but haven't saved • Share places or whole categories with a link FRIENDS (optional) • Share a place with a friend and see when they arrive and leave • A widget showing where a friend is right now • Everything goes through your own iCloud account; we never see it WIDGETS • Streak and weekly progress widgets for any place • Friend status widget HOW LONG PRO (one-time purchase, Family Sharing included) • Unlimited places (3 are free) • Travel Mode: automatically saves restaurants, trails, and sights you spend time at on a trip, with a photo you took there • Hiking detection for places you wander through without stopping • Place photos, and browse your photo library by place • Smart cadence reminders • iCloud backup and CSV export • Automations: send arrivals and departures to Zapier, IFTTT, or Home Assistant PRIVACY Your places and visits are stored on your device. Backup and friend sharing are optional and use your own iCloud account. We do not collect personal information, run analytics, or sell data. How Long needs "Always" location access to detect visits while it is in the background.
SnapCount
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Two people counting the same thing can finish with two different numbers. SnapCount keeps everyone on one shared count: one phone at each door, one total for the whole room. Start free. A guest session needs no account: share its code or QR code and up to 10 phones count into the same total, live. With Pro or Enterprise, your team opens the same saved counters on every phone, and changes appear on every screen in real time. Built for where counting happens: event capacity, church attendance, retail foot traffic, fun runs, stocktakes, pitch counts and more. COUNT FAST - Large plus and minus keys, steps for counting by the case or pack, goals with a progress bar, and haptics. - Count with the volume buttons, with the phone in a pocket (turn it on in Settings). - The screen stays on while you count. - Reset by mistake? Undo it for 10 seconds. - No signal? The app opens with your saved counters, and taps wait on your phone with their time and sync when you are back online, never counted twice. COUNT WITHOUT OPENING THE APP - Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy. Choose a counter for each widget and tap plus, or minus on the medium widget (iOS 17 or later). On iOS 26, widgets update as your team counts. - A control for Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button (iOS 18 or later). - Siri and Shortcuts: "Add one to Main door in SnapCount". - Keep the live total on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island (iOS 17 or later). COUNT TOGETHER - Guest sessions: no accounts, up to 10 phones, a QR code to join, and each phone names its door. - Let others count: share a link or QR code for any saved counter or group, and anyone who opens it counts into your workspace without an account. Stop it any time. - Totals by item: counters with the same name in different groups add up on one Totals tab, ready for a TV. - Templates for church attendance, event capacity, inventory, pitch counts, laps and more. Each shows the board it makes before you use it. - Public views: a read-only live total to share as a link or QR code, for a lobby screen or a team. - Groups with sum or net totals, capacity alerts (as notifications on Enterprise), scheduled email reports, busiest times, archive and restore, and a headcount summary when a Live Run closes. PLANS Every new organization starts with a free 7-day Pro trial that does not charge automatically. For 7 days after the trial, free limits apply (1 counter and a maximum count of 20), then counting pauses until you choose a plan. Your counters stay saved, and guest sessions are always free. - Pro: one organization, up to 10 seats, unlimited shared counters, real-time sync, CSV or JSON export, scheduled reports and counter stats. - Enterprise adds unlimited seats, activity history, timestamped exports, automatic resets, counter access, locking and capacity alerts. API keys and webhooks are set up on the SnapCount web dashboard. Pro and Enterprise are auto-renewable subscriptions through Apple, and each covers one organization. The Event Pass gives one organization 72 hours of Pro and does not renew. Lifetime plans, when offered, are a one-time purchase. StoreKit shows the price before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Earlier lifetime purchases keep their access. ACCESSIBILITY VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency, and light and dark appearance. PRIVACY No advertising, and no tracking across other companies' apps or websites. We use account-linked product analytics, crash reports and session replay (which may include on-screen content and non-password input) to improve the app and provide support. Privacy policy: https://snapcount.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SnapCount at every 5 days against How Long's fortnightly. SnapCount also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. How Long sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and SnapCount sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $15.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
How Long ships an update fortnightly, SnapCount every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | How Long | SnapCount |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GDW Entertainment, LLC | Lead Catalyst Tech LLP |
In-app purchases
How Long
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
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- How Long Pro$5.99
SnapCount
- Pro$15.001 Month
- Enterprise$39.001 Month
- Team — Yearly$59.991 Year
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- Pro$129.001 Year
- Enterprise$349.001 Year
- Event Pass$9.00
- Event Pass$12.99
- Event Pass, 7 days$39.00
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- Team (Lifetime)$199.00
- Enterprise Lifetime$399.00









