Comparison

Where vs OpenHTML

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

Head to head
About

Where

This app offers real-time location sharing with a strong emphasis on privacy. It utilizes end-to-end encryption and a unique direct sharing method, ensuring only intended recipients can view your location. No personal accounts or data are required.

Highlights
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Direct friend sharing
  • No account required
  • Open source
  • Real-time location updates
Features
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Where is a realtime location sharing app designed for privacy. Unlike other location apps, Where uses end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to ensure that only you and your friends can see where you are. Most location apps send your GPS coordinates directly to a central server. This means the company running the app knows exactly where you are, where you’ve been, and who you’re with. Where is different. • Direct Sharing: You add friends by scanning a QR code or sharing a private link. This establishes a “handshake” directly between your devices. • Encryption First: Before your location ever leaves your phone, it is scrambled into a mathematical code that only your friend’s phone can unscramble. • The “Blind” Server: Our server acts like a digital post office that can’t read the mail. It sees that someone sent a package to someone else, but it doesn’t know who they are or what’s inside. • No Identity Required: There are no accounts, no email addresses, and no phone numbers. Your “identity” is just a random key stored on your device. Where uses a double ratchet inspired by the Signal Protocol to ensure forward secrecy, and header encryption to mask your social relationships (whom you share with) from the server or anyone snooping on your traffic. Where is open source: https://where.af0.net.

About

OpenHTML

A private, on-device viewer for HTML, Markdown, ZIP web projects, and source files on iOS. Inspect files offline, diagnose rendering issues, and export clean copies. Designed for developers, students, and anyone needing to safely view web content.

Highlights
  • View HTML, Markdown, ZIP archives
  • Offline preview with network access off
  • Diagnose rendering and JavaScript issues
  • Code-friendly reader for JSON, XML, source files
  • Export pages to PDF or long images (Pro)
  • iCloud Drive integration for multi-device access (Pro)
Features
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OpenHTML is a private, on-device viewer for HTML, Markdown, ZIP web projects and source files on iPhone and iPad. Open files from Files, Mail, chat apps, AI tools or Safari. Preview pages offline, inspect what went wrong when a file does not render, and export finished pages when you need a clean copy. What you can do: - Open .html, .htm, .xhtml and Markdown files - Import ZIP archives and multi-file web projects - Render LaTeX math in Markdown offline, with no scripts - Preview local pages with network access off by default - Diagnose missing files, blocked resources and JavaScript issues - View JSON, XML and source files with a code-friendly reader - Export full pages to PDF or long images with OpenHTML Pro - Keep selected files in your OpenHTML folder in iCloud Drive and open them on your other devices with OpenHTML Pro Private by default: OpenHTML has no accounts, no analytics and no ads. Files are copied into the app's private storage and stay on your device unless you add them to your own OpenHTML folder in iCloud Drive. Remote resources stay blocked unless you choose to allow them for a trusted document. OpenHTML is designed for developers, students, researchers, writers and anyone who receives HTML reports, AI-generated pages, saved webpages or packaged web projects and wants to inspect them safely on iOS.

Screenshots

Where4 screens
OpenHTML4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Where at none against OpenHTML's 1. OpenHTML's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. OpenHTML sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Where 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 Where against 5.0 for OpenHTML. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Where versus OpenHTML: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhereOpenHTML
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel Margolis吉帅 仇

Customer experience

Where

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

OpenHTML

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

Where

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

OpenHTML

One-time1
  • OpenHTML Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Where free?
Where is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenHTML free?
OpenHTML is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Where or OpenHTML?
Where and OpenHTML are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Where or OpenHTML have ads?
Neither Where nor OpenHTML shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Where or OpenHTML?
Where ships an update every 5 days, and OpenHTML every 5 days. Most recently, Where was updated on November 5, 2026 and OpenHTML on November 5, 2026.

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