Comparison

High vs Soundiary

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

Head to head
About

High

This app provides practical references for everyday decisions, covering topics like spending, home, and health. It also offers illustrated guides for first-time experiences and a way to track life achievements.

Highlights
  • 670 recommendations across 34 topics
  • 50 illustrated first-time guides with steps
  • 115 illustrated life experiences to track
  • Bookmark and organize recommendations
  • Adjust text size and appearance
  • Multi-language support
Features
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High-Value Life Guide offers clear, practical references for everyday decisions. LIFE GUIDE Browse 670 recommendations across 34 topics and 9 long-form articles about spending, home, health, travel, safety, and daily life. Search titles and full text, then filter by topic, evidence level, or cost. Each recommendation explains when it applies and includes cautions, costs, benefits, and sources. FIRST-TIME GUIDES Explore 50 illustrated guides with 162 steps for situations such as taking a flight or train and checking into a hotel. Follow preparation lists and practical steps, find ways to ask for help when needed, and keep track of your progress. LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS Explore 115 illustrated experiences. Search and browse by category, record what you have experienced, hope to try, or would rather skip, and share your collection. READ AT YOUR OWN PACE Bookmark recommendations and organize them into your own groups. Mark items as read, pick up where you left off, and adjust text size and appearance. Choose English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or your system language in Settings. Some recommendations discuss laws, public services, or living conditions in China and may not apply elsewhere. Check each item’s conditions, cautions, and sources. Some conclusions have not been independently verified one by one.

About

Soundiary

This app transforms your daily sounds and body signals into a private journal entry. It analyzes ambient noise, voice, and physiological data to create a summary of your day, focusing on meaning rather than raw audio storage.

Highlights
  • Voice and sound journaling
  • Body signal analysis
  • On-device processing
  • Speaker identification
  • Optional audio saving
  • Voice sensitivity levels
  • Power-saving mode
Features
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Your day deserves to be remembered properly. Soundiary turns a day of sound, heartbeat and body signals into a journal entry written in the quiet of the evening — nothing invented, nothing sentimental. What matters more: unless you ask for it, your voice is never stored. By default, Apple Watch samples the sounds around you, turns them into text, speaker labels and emotional features right on the device, then discards the raw audio. No recording files. No playback. Only meaning is kept. Want to keep some of it? Turn on Save audio and each captured segment is also saved to your iPhone — ready to play, export or delete. The switch ships off, and it stays in your hands. Through the day it listens quietly: sampled sensing, with silence and noise skipped automatically. It hears you from across the room, too — five levels of voice sensitivity, tuned to wherever you are. Worried about battery? Power-saving mode samples just 6 seconds every 10 minutes, while body signals keep coming every 5. A whole night won't disturb your sleep. In the morning, a story that's yours: what you did, who you met, how you felt, and what's still unfinished. Who was speaking is your call: voices are grouped automatically, and you confirm or correct. Everything stays on your device: no account, no cloud sync, no third-party SDK. Not even crash logs. Paid download, complete on arrival: no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no auto-renewal. Requires iOS 18+ and Apple Watch Series 6 or later (including SE 2nd gen and Ultra).

Screenshots

High4 screens
Soundiary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: High at Free against Soundiary's $0.99. Soundiary's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment, update cadence, device support 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

High is free to download; Soundiary costs $0.99 up front. High sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Soundiary asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

High ships an update every 2 days, Soundiary every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
High versus Soundiary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHighSoundiary
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPengPeng Li磊 辛

Customer experience

High

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Soundiary

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

High

One-time1
  • Remove Ads Forever$0.99
None

Soundiary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is High free?
High is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Soundiary free?
Soundiary costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do High or Soundiary have ads?
High shows ads; Soundiary does not.
Which is updated more often, High or Soundiary?
High ships an update every 2 days, and Soundiary every 3 days. Most recently, High was updated on October 31, 2026 and Soundiary on October 31, 2026.

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