Handback vs AlwaysOn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Handback
This app helps neighbors privately return misdelivered packages without sharing personal details. It facilitates secure handoffs and notifications for missing parcels, fostering community trust.
- Private package return
- Anonymous neighbor matching
- Secure drop-off/pickup coordination
- Package claim verification
- Account for missing parcels
- Device security controls
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Couriers deliver to the wrong door more often than anyone admits. Handback helps neighbors return those packages privately, without either person exposing personal details. FOUND A PACKAGE THAT ISN'T YOURS? Photograph the shipping label and package. Handback reads the delivery details and privately matches the parcel to a verified neighbor. You never learn who they are, and they never learn who you are. No account is needed to help return a package. MISSING ONE OF YOUR OWN? Create an account, add your home address, and verify it. If a neighbor reports a package addressed to you, it appears in Updates and Handback can notify you. You can also check a tracking number or your delivery address to see whether a package has already been reported. HAND IT OVER SAFELY The finder proposes a public drop spot or porch pickup and a time window. The recipient receives a private pickup code, and both people confirm when the return is complete. SHARE HANDBACK Share Handback from Home or Account through Messages, WhatsApp, Facebook, or another installed app. A finder can also share a private package link. The link opens the package in Handback when installed and otherwise directs the neighbor to the correct app store. TRUST & SECURITY • Nobody can look up a name, and an address search never shows who lives there. • Only a verified recipient can claim a matched package. • The recipient proves ownership using details from their own order. • Package photos stay private until a claim is approved. • Review signed-in devices and end sessions you no longer recognize. • Use a passkey when supported. • Either person can report or block the other. • USPS mail is refused and directed back to USPS. ACCOUNT Account includes your home address and names, profile photo, badges, notification and appearance settings, Trust Center, passkeys, signed-in devices, Help & Support, Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, sign out, and account deletion. LANGUAGES English, Español, हिन्दी, 简体中文, Filipino, Tiếng Việt. Handback follows your device's language, including notifications and emails. OPTIONAL SUPPORT After a completed return, you may leave an optional one-time tip through the App Store. Tips do not unlock features, create a subscription, or pay the person returning a package. Handback has no ads and does not sell personal information. Names, addresses, package images, device information, and purchase records are handled as described in our privacy policy.
AlwaysOn
Transform a plugged-in iPhone into a convenient desk display. View the time, date, calendar, and weather at a glance. Features a sleep mode for nighttime use and custom display hours.
- Large digital clock display
- Current date and calendar
- Upcoming calendar events
- Local weather forecast
- Customizable display hours
- Low-brightness sleep mode
- Burn-in protection
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a beautiful desk and nightstand clock. Free, with no ads and no subscriptions. AlwaysOn shows the time, your calendar, weather and more on a screen you leave docked or propped up, and on your Home Screen and Lock Screen too. START WITH A FINISHED DESIGN • Ready-made layouts, each with its own background • Swipe between layouts, and the background moves with your widgets • Change any of them, or make your own WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN • Clock, with seven faces including Eclipse: the time inside a glowing ring • Time Together, Daylight, Word Clock, Card Clock, Tube Clock, Countdown, Green Room, Moon Phase and Horizon • Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy • Tap ▶ to watch a whole day go by in seconds CLOCKS AND BACKGROUNDS • Digital clocks in eleven styles, including big iPhone-style digits • Clock backgrounds: Lens, Card (split-flap), Tube, Prism, Stone, Shadow and Green Room • Space backgrounds: Tonight's Sky shows the real stars over your city, plus Earthrise, Saturn and Jupiter • Animated and still backgrounds: Earth, Horizon, Moon Phase, Catnap, Soft Flow, Tide and more • Seasonal backgrounds for holidays and festivals MADE FOR NIGHT • Darker nights with a soft amber clock • Day Mode hours, Smart Dimming and burn-in protection • A sunrise alarm that wakes you with light YOUR LAYOUT • Arrange the clock with Calendar, Up Next, Weather, World Clock, Countdown, a Focus timer, Photos and Battery • Separate layouts for portrait and landscape, made for both iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no tracking, no data collected • Available in English, Spanish and Simplified Chinese AlwaysOn turns a screen you're not using into something calm and useful.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AlwaysOn at none against Handback's 5. AlwaysOn also leads on ratings volume (22 vs 5). Handback's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Handback sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. AlwaysOn asks for nothing beyond the download.
Handback holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 22 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Handback ships an update weekly, AlwaysOn every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Handback | AlwaysOn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.8 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rad Soft, Inc. | Weijin Wang |
Customer experience
Handback
AlwaysOn
In-app purchases
Handback
- Handback $5 Tip$5.00
- Handback $10 Tip$10.00
- Handback $25 Tip$25.00
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- Handback $50 Tip$49.99
- Handback $100 Tip$99.99
AlwaysOn
No in-app purchases









