Hemvo vs Timbre
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hemvo
Manage your entire household with this comprehensive app. Plan meals, track budgets, schedule events, and log home maintenance tasks. Collaborate with family or housemates in real time to keep everyone organized.
- Weekly meal planning
- Automatic grocery list generation
- Expense tracking and budgeting
- Family event scheduling
- Home maintenance logging
- Shared household collaboration
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Your household, finally in sync. Hemvo is the shared home management app for families, couples, and housemates. One subscription, everyone in your household gets access — no extra accounts, no extra cost. MEAL PLANNING Plan your meals for the week and Hemvo automatically builds your grocery list. No more "what's for dinner?" every night, and no more buying things you already have. SHARED GROCERY LIST Everyone sees the same list in real time. Check items off at the store and your partner knows what's done. Add things from anywhere — the list is always up to date. HOUSEHOLD BUDGET Track bills, subscriptions, groceries, and shared expenses together. See where your money actually goes as a household, with categories that make sense for home life. HOME MAINTENANCE Stop letting maintenance tasks slip. Track everything from filter changes to appliance services, with reminders so nothing gets forgotten until it's an emergency. HOUSEHOLD CALENDAR One calendar everyone shares. Schedule events, set reminders, and stop double-booking. Works across your whole household without duplicating into everyone's phone calendar. HOUSEHOLD SHARING Invite your partner, family members, or housemates. The owner pays one subscription — everyone else joins for free. Role-based access means you control what each member can see and do. PRIVACY FIRST Your household data stays yours. No ads, no selling your data. Start with a 7-day free trial. No charge until your trial ends. Questions or feedback? Reach us at hemvo.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hemvo.app/privacy.html
Timbre
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We keep ten thousand photos and almost never keep a voice. A voice is the fastest trace of a person to disappear from memory, and the quickest to bring them back. timbre keeps the sound of the people and places you love. Press and hold, and it records a short spoken moment together with the room around it. The recording becomes a small living stone, colored by what it heard and sized by how long you listened, that settles into a timeline. Over months, the timeline becomes a warm field of colored stones: a map of a life in sound. Years later you can still hear exactly how someone said your name. WHAT IT DOES • Press and hold. A living form blooms with your voice while you record. • Words appear as you speak, transcribed on your phone, kept with the sound. • Stones take their color from the world: speech glows amber, rain pulls teal. • Tap a sentence in the transcript and playback jumps there. • Feel a recording through your fingertips. The heartbeat traces its shape, strong enough to know a moment without hearing it. • Gather stones by person and place: forty-one minutes of Mom. • On This Day brings a kept moment back to your home screen, quietly. Tap it to hear the sound again. WHAT IT DOESN'T No account. No feed. No streaks. No ads. Nothing leaves your phone: transcription and sound understanding happen on-device, recordings stay yours, and there is no server to send them to. There is no us. Free for your first 50 recordings. After that a single payment keeps it unlimited — one payment, never a subscription. Everything you have already kept stays yours either way. BUILT FOR EVERYONE Every stone carries a silhouette as well as a color, so meaning never rests on color alone. VoiceOver speaks the capture as it grows, and Reduce Motion is respected throughout. Everything works in airplane mode, from the first press.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Hemvo at 18.6 against Timbre's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Hemvo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Timbre sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hemvo ships an update every 9 days, Timbre fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hemvo | Timbre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Issam Merhej | William Alston |
In-app purchases
Hemvo
- Hemvo Monthly$4.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$49.991 Year
Timbre
- Timbre Plus$4.99









