Comparison

HauntsIO vs Cinemoo

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

Cinemoo

This app helps you track all the movies you've seen, share your viewing history with friends, and analyze your moviegoing habits. It also allows you to manage cinema memberships and compare your tastes with others.

Highlights
  • Track movies seen with details
  • Share viewing history with friends
  • Compare movie tastes with friends
  • Group moviegoing leaderboards
  • Analyze moviegoing habits
  • Manage cinema memberships
  • Import tickets via email
Features
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Movie nights are better shared. Cinemoo keeps every film you see at the cinema, with posters, ratings, formats, theatres and dates. Now you can follow along with your friends' movie nights too. SEE WHAT YOUR FRIENDS ARE WATCHING Invite your movie people with a private link or QR code. Once you're friends, your feed shows the films they've seen and how they rated them. Open a friend's profile for their watch history and the year card they've published. FIND YOUR MOVIE MATCH Compare tastes with any friend: every film you've both seen, the ones you both loved, the ones you both disliked, and where your takes split. YOUR GROUP'S LEADERBOARD See who in your group has been to the movies most, this year or this month. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Friends is optional and invite-only. Friends see the films you've watched and your ratings. Your cinemas, seats, exact showtimes, notes and spending stay private. Remove or block someone at any time. KEEP EVERY MOVIE NIGHT Browse your history as a poster collection or a detailed list. Search titles and theatres, revisit your highest-rated films, and keep repeat visits in your record. Correct a detail or add a visit by hand whenever you need to. SEE YOUR MOVIEGOING HABITS Explore your activity over time, favourite genres, movie ratings, formats and cinema visits. See how much time you've spent at the movies and compare years of moviegoing. UNDERSTAND YOUR MEMBERSHIPS Track one movie membership or several, each with its own price and history. Compare estimated ticket value with membership fees and surcharges, and see monthly and lifetime savings and your effective cost per movie. If a month costs more than it saves, Cinemoo shows that too. Record AAA24 ticket redemptions and concession spending as well. History, ratings and Friends work without a membership. FORWARD TICKETS TO YOUR HISTORY Forward supported ticket confirmations, including AMC and Alamo Drafthouse, to your private Cinemoo address. Review import results and correct anything that needs attention. You can record visits from any cinema by hand. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD A native app with a dark interface, poster artwork and an adaptive iPad layout. Your account and history stay in sync with the Cinemoo website. Sign in with Apple, or continue with Google or email in a secure browser sheet. YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE Export your history as CSV or JSON, correct your records, and request account deletion from Settings. No ads or advertising tracking. An internet connection is required to sync and make changes. Import timing depends on your email provider and the confirmation. Ticket values are estimates of what seats would have cost without a pass, not price quotes or records of cash paid. Cinemoo is independent and is not affiliated with AMC, Alamo Drafthouse or other cinema chains.

Screenshots

HauntsIO4 screens
Cinemoo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cinemoo at daily against HauntsIO's weekly. HauntsIO's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

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 Cinemoo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HauntsIO ships an update weekly, Cinemoo daily. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HauntsIO versus Cinemoo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHauntsIOCinemoo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB15 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMDPSync, LLCRenato Untalan

Customer experience

HauntsIO

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

Cinemoo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HauntsIO

No in-app purchases

None

Cinemoo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HauntsIO free?
HauntsIO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cinemoo free?
Cinemoo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HauntsIO or Cinemoo?
HauntsIO and Cinemoo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do HauntsIO or Cinemoo have ads?
Neither HauntsIO nor Cinemoo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HauntsIO or Cinemoo?
HauntsIO ships an update weekly, and Cinemoo daily. Most recently, HauntsIO was updated on October 3, 2026 and Cinemoo on October 9, 2026.

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