Comparison

HauntsIO vs TabStory

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

Head to head
About

HauntsIO

Record your visits to places with photos and notes to build a visual history of your life. Automatically detect flights and group visits into trips. Share your experiences with friends or keep them private.

Highlights
  • Log check-ins with photos and notes
  • Automatic flight detection
  • Organize visits into trips and lists
  • Friend sharing and privacy controls
  • Year in Review narrative
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Check-ins are the breadcrumbs that become stories on Haunts.IO Haunts is a check-in app for the places that matter to you. Open it when you arrive somewhere, tap the venue you're standing in, drop a photo and a quick note, and you've added a row to a map of your real life that grows quietly in the background. Every check-in is a breadcrumb. The pins cluster as you zoom out, and over time a year of weekends becomes a route you can scroll through. Pull up any venue and see when you were last there, who you tagged, what photo you took, and the nearby places you might want to revisit. The Stats tab shows the same data the other way around: top venues, busiest months, countries crossed, and a heatmap of where your life happens. Year in Review reads the trail and writes a short narrative of your year from the venue names, photos, and trips you logged. Trips and lists are where the breadcrumbs turn into stories. A trip groups every venue you visited on one weekend or one country crossing, and trips nest, so a multi-week Europe sweep can hold the smaller Paris and Rome legs inside it. Lists are reusable: a Saturday brunch list, a downtown best-of, a wineries-near-home list you build over months. Bucket list venues are the inverse, places you haven't been yet but plan to, surfaced on the map and in nearby search whenever you're close enough to stop in. Flights are detected automatically. Two airport check-ins within sixteen hours pair into a flight with a great-circle arc on the map and on the full-screen 3D Globe, and the AI suggests airline and route if you don't remember. Logging just the airport you started from is enough, and Haunts asks about the destination later. Friends run through all of it. Public profiles let anyone with your handle browse the venues you've made public. Friend requests, mutual following, and contacts match (emails and phone numbers hashed on your device before they leave it) make it easy to find the people you share visits with. Tag friends on a check-in and the visit shows up on their feed too. Every check-in has three visibility states, public, friends, or private, so the weekend bar crawl stays out of your work network. Stickers and achievements add a light game layer for the people who like that, and stay invisible if you don't. A monthly leaderboard tracks XP from check-ins, photos, and streaks, and once-a-year visits like a hometown anniversary or a recurring conference count toward it too. The Apple Watch companion checks you in from your wrist, with the same nearby venue coverage as the phone. Home screen widgets jump straight to the Nearby list, so checking in takes about three seconds when you're walking through a door. Search covers your full history and forgives how memory works: possessive names like Lowe's, or remembering "winery" when the venue is a "vineyard." A discovery tier on top pulls in venues you haven't been to yet, biased to where you're standing. Free to use, no ads, no selling your data. Sign in with Google or Apple.

About

TabStory

Transform your written stories into multi-panel comics with AI. Choose from various art styles and maintain character consistency. Perfect for writers, artists, and anyone with a story to tell.

Highlights
  • Text-to-comic generation
  • Multiple art styles (manga, anime, webtoon)
  • Character consistency
  • Smart dialogue placement
  • Fast mobile generation
  • Multi-language support
Features
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TabStory: Turn Text Into Comics Have an original story in your head but can't draw? TabStory changes everything. Our AI‑powered comic generator transforms your original text into stunning, panel‑by‑panel comics in seconds. No drawing skills required — just your imagination. --- Create Comics Effortlessly - Text‑to‑Comic Generation: Type or paste your original story, script, or creative idea — TabStory instantly generates multi‑panel comics with art, dialogue, and visual storytelling. - Multiple Art Styles: Manga, anime, webtoon, comic book, storybook, and more. Switch styles anytime. - Character Consistency: Keep faces, outfits, and expressions consistent across all panels. - Smart Dialogue: Speech bubbles and dialogue are naturally placed for professional‑looking results. - Fast & Mobile‑Friendly: Generate, edit, and share comics directly from your phone in seconds. --- Perfect for Story Lovers & Creators - Writers & Storytellers: Turn original stories, novels, scripts, or scene ideas into visual comics and manga panels. - Movie, Anime & Fiction Fans: Reimagine original creative scenes and cinematic moments as AI‑generated comics. - Original Character Creators: Bring your own original characters and original story concepts to life visually — even without drawing skills. - Roleplay & World‑building Creators: Visualize character interactions, emotional scenes, and world‑building ideas with consistent comic storytelling. - Content Creators & Social Media Artists: Create highly shareable manga‑style posts, short original comic stories, and visual content for TikTok, Instagram, X, and more. - Manga, Webtoon & Comic Enthusiasts: Turn the kinds of stories and comics you love reading into original stories you can create yourself. - Anyone With an Imagination: If you've ever imagined a scene in your head and wished you could see it as a comic, TabStory is for you. Why TabStory Stands Out Unlike typical AI image generators, TabStory creates sequential stories, not single images. Our AI handles panel layout, character continuity, and dialogue placement — all designed to bring your original story to life. Every feature serves one purpose: helping you tell better visual stories effortlessly. --- How It Works 1. Write Your Original Story: Describe characters, settings, and actions. 2. Pick Your Style: Manga, webtoon, anime, or storybook. 3. Generate & Share: Hit generate, edit if needed, and export high‑quality comics. --- Worldwide & Multi‑Language TabStory supports stories in English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Indonesian and more — generate comics in your favorite style, anywhere. --- Free to Start, Built to Create Try TabStory free with basic generation. Unlock premium features for more styles, faster generation, advanced character tools, and priority processing.

Screenshots

HauntsIO4 screens
TabStory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HauntsIO at none against TabStory's 4. HauntsIO also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. TabStory sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. HauntsIO 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 HauntsIO against 5.0 for TabStory. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HauntsIO ships an update weekly, TabStory fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HauntsIO versus TabStory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHauntsIOTabStory
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB49 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMDPSync, LLCRIVON TECH PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

HauntsIO

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TabStory

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HauntsIO

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

TabStory

One-time4
  • Value Pack$9.99
  • Professional Pack$24.99
  • Ultimate Pack$49.99
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  • Premium Pack$99.99

Questions

Is HauntsIO free?
HauntsIO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TabStory free?
TabStory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HauntsIO or TabStory?
HauntsIO and TabStory are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do HauntsIO or TabStory have ads?
TabStory shows ads; HauntsIO does not.
Which is updated more often, HauntsIO or TabStory?
HauntsIO ships an update weekly, and TabStory fortnightly. Most recently, HauntsIO was updated on October 20, 2026 and TabStory on October 9, 2026.

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