Light Here vs DuoCorder+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Light Here
This app displays clocks for different locations, color-coded to indicate the best time to contact people. It helps you find optimal times to call, message, or connect with family and friends across time zones, offering various display options and offline functionality.
- Color-coded time zones for optimal contact
- Find the best time for everyone to connect
- Direct calling and messaging integration
- Always-on display with Night Look
- Multiple clock designs and widgets
- Works completely offline
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Light Here shows the places where your people live as clocks, colored by whether it's a good time to reach them. • Gold: a good time to call • Coral: early or late, maybe send a message • Blue: they're probably asleep KNOW WHEN TO CALL • Up to four places, each with its own reachable hours • "+1 day" shows when they're already into tomorrow • Time differences between every place, at a tap FIND THE RIGHT TIME • Slide ahead to see everyone's time at once • "Find a time for everyone" jumps to the next time every place is awake • Share the time with each place's local time spelled out REACH FAMILY, FRIENDS, CO-WORKERS FROM THE APP • Add people from Contacts, no Contacts permission needed • Tap their face to call, message, FaceTime, WhatsApp or Telegram • A gentle check before you call someone who's likely asleep DISPLAY IT ANYWHERE • Made to stay on: on your nightstand, desk or an unused iPad • Stays awake while charging, and Night Look dims the faces after dark • Slow drift helps protect the screen THREE DIFFERENT DESIGNS AND WIDGETS • Airport analog clocks, LED, or a flip board • 12- or 24-hour time • Home screen, StandBy and lock screen widgets PRIVATE • Works completely offline, with over 159,000 cities and towns built in • No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Nothing leaves your device. Town names from GeoNames.org (CC BY 4.0).
DuoCorder+
Transform your iPhone into a handheld sensor scanner. Explore environmental data like sound, air pressure, and magnetic fields with a retro-futuristic interface. Set custom alerts and track 24-hour trends for your sensor readings.
- Live sensor scanning
- Retro-futuristic display
- Customizable alerts
- 24-hour trend charts
- Metal detector mode
- Data export (CSV)
- Privacy-focused design
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DuoCorder turns your iPhone into a handheld sensor scanner. See what your phone can sense about the world around you, live, on one retro-futuristic display. ONE-TAP FULL SCAN Press SCAN and DuoCorder samples every sensor for ten seconds, then explains what it found in plain language: "No magnetic anomalies", "Air pressure falling", "Conversation-level sound". Save the report or share it. MORE THAN A DOZEN LIVE INSTRUMENTS • Motion: acceleration, rotation, tilt and a bubble level • Compass: true and magnetic heading, 3-axis magnetic field strength • Air pressure: barometer, sea-level pressure, altitude change, pressure trend (iPhones with a barometer) • Light: ambient light level estimated from the camera's exposure • Sound: level in decibels, a live spectrum, and a scrolling spectrogram • Pitch: names the strongest note you hear, with how sharp or flat it is • Position: coordinates, speed, course, accuracy and the nearest place name • Activity: steps, distance, floors climbed, cadence and pace • Bluetooth radar: nearby devices, signal strength and a rough range estimate • Your phone: battery, CPU, memory, storage, temperature and network METAL DETECTOR MODE Sweep the phone slowly and listen. The tone rises in pitch and the haptic ticks speed up as the magnetic field changes near metal. YOUR OWN ALERTS Create rules such as "pressure falling faster than 2 hPa/hour", "magnetic field above 70 µT" or "battery below 20%". DuoCorder chirps, buzzes and flashes the screen when one triggers, and keeps a history of recent alerts. Alerts work while the app is open. 24-HOUR TRENDS DuoCorder records your readings while it is open and keeps the last 24 hours. Chart any sensor over 5 minutes to a full day, drag to inspect values, and see your alert thresholds on the chart. SNAPSHOTS AND SHARING Save a snapshot of any page, with your location, then browse your log or export everything as a CSV file. Share a full readable report in one tap. EASY TO LEARN Tap any reading to see what it means, view its trend or set an alert. A quick guide explains the controls, and every button is clearly labelled. BUILT FOR BIG AND FOLDABLE SCREENS The layout fills iPhone, iPad and wide two-panel displays, with the display on top and the keys below. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. The microphone, camera and Bluetooth run only while the page or scan that needs them is open. Sound is analysed live and never recorded. The camera is used only for its light reading, and no photos or video are saved. GOOD TO KNOW Readings come from your phone's built-in sensors and are approximate. Which sensors you see depends on your device; for example, the barometer is not in every iPhone. DuoCorder is for curiosity and learning, not for medical, safety, navigation or professional use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DuoCorder+ at $2.99 against Light Here's $4.99. On rating, ratings volume, 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
Light Here costs $4.99 and DuoCorder+ $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Light Here against 5.0 for DuoCorder+. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Light Here | DuoCorder+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Ukestad | James Roche |
Customer experience
Light Here
DuoCorder+
In-app purchases
Light Here
No in-app purchases
DuoCorder+
No in-app purchases





