Comparison

How Long vs My Tasks

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

My Tasks

Features
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My Tasks is a fast, clean to-do list that runs completely offline on your iPhone and iPad – no account, no cloud, no ads, and no tracking. No sign-up, no registration, no data collection. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU The app works entirely offline. No data is collected, no analytics tools are embedded, and nothing is sent to any server. You don't need an account or an email address. Everything stays on your device. TRANSFER WITHOUT THE CLOUD Export lists as a ZIP file or move them straight to another device with a QR code – scan once, done. No internet, no account, and your tasks never touch anyone's server. Great for backups or for moving to a new device. FEATURES • Multiple lists for different areas of your life • Due dates, priorities, and recurring tasks (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) • Reminders with notifications – even after a device restart • Attach photos and voice notes directly to tasks • Calendar view for everything coming up • Search, filters (All / Open / Done), and free drag & drop sorting • A color or your own photo as the header of every list • Export and import as a ZIP file or QR code • Home screen widget for a quick overview • Light and dark theme, follows your system automatically 12 LANGUAGES – MORE ON REQUEST German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, and Korean. The app follows your system language automatically; you can set it per app under Settings > Apps > My Tasks > Language. Missing your language? Let us know – more languages can be added at any time. FREE TO USE The app is completely free: every feature and unlimited lists, no strings attached. No ads. No subscription trap. No data collection.

Screenshots

How Long4 screens
My Tasks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Tasks at none against How Long's 4. My Tasks also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. My Tasks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How Long ships an update fortnightly, My Tasks weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
How Long versus My Tasks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow LongMy Tasks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGDW Entertainment, LLCMarius Zakel

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

My Tasks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is How Long free?
How Long is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Tasks free?
My Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do How Long or My Tasks have ads?
Neither How Long nor My Tasks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, How Long or My Tasks?
How Long ships an update fortnightly, and My Tasks weekly. Most recently, How Long was updated on October 31, 2026 and My Tasks on October 31, 2026.

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