Comparison

hyp vs HauntsIO

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

Head to head
About

hyp

Experience a new way to relax with mesmerizing visuals and responsive music. Interact with dynamic animations, control visual complexity and speed, and save your favorite moments. Designed for unwinding and de-stressing.

Highlights
  • Soothing animation
  • Dynamic interaction
  • Responsive soundtracks
  • Control speed and complexity
  • Save snapshots
Features
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Hyp for hypnotize! A new relaxing app! Interact with hypnotic visuals, soothing animation and responsive music. ::::: INSTRUCTIONS ::::: - Touch and 'Long-press' to interact - 'Double-tap' for settings - Press the 'randomize' button to change animation and music ::::: FEATURES ::::: - Soothing animation - Dynamic interaction - Responsive soundtracks - Control speed and visual complexity - Save snapshots ::::: PREVIEW ::::: Preview the application here: https://youtu.be/ztLDWMfygos ::::: NOTES ::::: - The performance of the app varies, depending on the device. Older devices have less impressive visuals. - This app is meant to relax you. That is the reason why the hundreds of parameters behind these visual and musical results, are inaccessible. - This is not a drawing app. You can interact, but you do not have 100% control of what is happening. - You can interact only by touching. The app does not respond to the microphone, or the sound of other apps. ::::: SUPPORT ::::: For any problems please email us at: info@artof01.com

About

HauntsIO

Record your visits to places with photos and notes to build a visual history of your life. Automatically detect flights and group visits into trips. Share your experiences with friends or keep them private.

Highlights
  • Log check-ins with photos and notes
  • Automatic flight detection
  • Organize visits into trips and lists
  • Friend sharing and privacy controls
  • Year in Review narrative
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Check-ins are the breadcrumbs that become stories on Haunts.IO Haunts is a check-in app for the places that matter to you. Open it when you arrive somewhere, tap the venue you're standing in, drop a photo and a quick note, and you've added a row to a map of your real life that grows quietly in the background. Every check-in is a breadcrumb. The pins cluster as you zoom out, and over time a year of weekends becomes a route you can scroll through. Pull up any venue and see when you were last there, who you tagged, what photo you took, and the nearby places you might want to revisit. The Stats tab shows the same data the other way around: top venues, busiest months, countries crossed, and a heatmap of where your life happens. Year in Review reads the trail and writes a short narrative of your year from the venue names, photos, and trips you logged. Trips and lists are where the breadcrumbs turn into stories. A trip groups every venue you visited on one weekend or one country crossing, and trips nest, so a multi-week Europe sweep can hold the smaller Paris and Rome legs inside it. Lists are reusable: a Saturday brunch list, a downtown best-of, a wineries-near-home list you build over months. Bucket list venues are the inverse, places you haven't been yet but plan to, surfaced on the map and in nearby search whenever you're close enough to stop in. Flights are detected automatically. Two airport check-ins within sixteen hours pair into a flight with a great-circle arc on the map and on the full-screen 3D Globe, and the AI suggests airline and route if you don't remember. Logging just the airport you started from is enough, and Haunts asks about the destination later. Friends run through all of it. Public profiles let anyone with your handle browse the venues you've made public. Friend requests, mutual following, and contacts match (emails and phone numbers hashed on your device before they leave it) make it easy to find the people you share visits with. Tag friends on a check-in and the visit shows up on their feed too. Every check-in has three visibility states, public, friends, or private, so the weekend bar crawl stays out of your work network. Stickers and achievements add a light game layer for the people who like that, and stay invisible if you don't. A monthly leaderboard tracks XP from check-ins, photos, and streaks, and once-a-year visits like a hometown anniversary or a recurring conference count toward it too. The Apple Watch companion checks you in from your wrist, with the same nearby venue coverage as the phone. Home screen widgets jump straight to the Nearby list, so checking in takes about three seconds when you're walking through a door. Search covers your full history and forgives how memory works: possessive names like Lowe's, or remembering "winery" when the venue is a "vineyard." A discovery tier on top pulls in venues you haven't been to yet, biased to where you're standing. Free to use, no ads, no selling your data. Sign in with Google or Apple.

Screenshots

hyp4 screens
HauntsIO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HauntsIO at Free against hyp's $0.99. HauntsIO also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 70 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

HauntsIO is free to download; hyp costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HauntsIO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of hyp's written reviews are positive against 100% of HauntsIO's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

hyp ships an update every 70 months, HauntsIO weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
hyp versus HauntsIO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterhypHauntsIO
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (7 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 70 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB127 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developerartof01MDPSync, LLC

Customer experience

hyp

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive88.5%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.7%

HauntsIO

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

hyp

No in-app purchases

None

HauntsIO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is hyp free?
hyp costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is HauntsIO free?
HauntsIO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, hyp or HauntsIO?
HauntsIO is rated higher. hyp averages 4.3 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while HauntsIO averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do hyp or HauntsIO have ads?
Neither hyp nor HauntsIO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, hyp or HauntsIO?
hyp ships an update every 70 months, and HauntsIO weekly. Most recently, hyp was updated on October 12, 2026 and HauntsIO on October 3, 2026.

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