Comparison

How Long vs TimeLog

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

TimeLog

Features
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"What did I do at 2 PM today?" Your memory fades, but your iPhone never forgets. 'My TimeLog' is an innovative digital blackbox app that automatically archives your 24-hour daily routine into an hourly timeline—without you ever having to type a single word. Key Features • Automatic Hourly Timeline: Perfectly maps your day by matching the exact time and location of your photos with your hourly step counts. • Apple Native Integration: Automatically syncs the exact moments you checked off your native iOS Reminders into your timeline. • 100% On-Device Privacy: Your precious daily logs and location data are NEVER sent to external servers. Everything is stored 100% safely on your device. • Intuitive 24-Hour Scroll: Review your entire day's movement and routine with one simple vertical scroll from morning to night. Perfect For People Who: Want to keep a daily journal but always forget or find it too tedious. Need to track precise hourly work logs for business, freelancing, or productivity. Want to review their day based on raw, unfiltered facts and data. Download 'My TimeLog' today and start archiving your life effortlessly!

Screenshots

How Long4 screens
TimeLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimeLog at none against How Long's 4. TimeLog also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). How Long's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. How Long sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. TimeLog asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How Long ships an update fortnightly, TimeLog every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
How Long versus TimeLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow LongTimeLog
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB33 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGDW Entertainment, LLCChangHyun Nam

In-app purchases

4 purchases

How Long

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • How Long Pro$5.99
None

TimeLog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is How Long free?
How Long is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TimeLog free?
TimeLog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do How Long or TimeLog have ads?
TimeLog shows ads; How Long does not.
Which is updated more often, How Long or TimeLog?
How Long ships an update fortnightly, and TimeLog every 4 days. Most recently, How Long was updated on October 24, 2026 and TimeLog on October 28, 2026.

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