Comparison

Tell HoCo vs Facets

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

Head to head
About

Tell HoCo

Report non-emergency issues in Howard County, Maryland, with ease. Pinpoint problems using GPS, attach photos, and track their resolution status. This app simplifies the process of identifying and reporting concerns like potholes, graffiti, and park maintenance.

Highlights
  • Report non-emergency issues
  • GPS location identification
  • Attach photos to reports
  • Track issue resolution
  • Report potholes and graffiti
  • Report park and street maintenance
Features
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Tell HoCo is an easy way for anyone to report non-emergency issues to Howard County, Maryland while on-the-go, such as potholes, damaged street signs, graffiti, street maintenance, street light issues, damaged trees, park maintenance and more. Using your phone’s GPS, you can help identify the exact location of the problem, and with the use of its camera, you can attach a picture, as well. You’ll be able to track your issue from the time it is reported until it is resolved. Tell HoCo makes it easier than ever to report a problem.

About

Facets

Create multiple digital contact cards for different aspects of your life. Easily share specific information and files via QR code, image, or contact file. Organize and manage cards received from others.

Highlights
  • Multiple customizable contact cards
  • Attach files directly from cloud storage
  • Share via QR code, image, or contact file
  • Organize received cards
  • Private cards with PIN protection
  • Offline sharing via local radio
Features
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You are not the same person to everyone. Facets keeps each version of you on its own card, ready to hand to someone in about two seconds. Day job. Side gig. The band. The freelance thing. Each card gets its own look, its own details, and its own files. No more digging through Contacts. No more hunting for that QR code in your camera roll. No more "let me find my LinkedIn." MAKE A CARD FOR EACH THING YOU DO Start from scratch or pull from an existing contact. Add only what that card needs. A DJ card can be a name, a photo, and an Instagram handle. Your work card can carry the full set. Nothing is required except a name, and Facets never nags you to fill in a phone number you did not want to give out. Six starting looks that share nothing visually, so your accounting card and your club flyer never look like they came from the same app. Premium adds a designer for colour, fonts, and saved themes, plus a pattern designer. ATTACH YOUR ACTUAL WORK Link files straight from the Files app. Your EPK. A portfolio PDF. A rate sheet. Work samples. The files stay where they are, in Files, in your iCloud Drive, wherever you keep them. Facets just remembers where, and sends them along with the card. This is the part that matters at 1am when someone asks for your press kit and you are scrolling past four thousand photos. HOLD OTHER PEOPLE'S CARDS TOO Cards you receive land in an inbox. Keep them, group them, hand them on. If you manage artists, you can carry your roster. If you are at a conference and someone needs the right person, you have their card ready instead of "let me find their email and get back to you." Groups let you build a roster of cards and press kits and share from it. SHARE IT HOWEVER SUITS THE MOMENT QR code, big and bright, for someone across a loud room. An image, so it works in any messaging app and can go straight to a Story. A contact file, so it lands in their Contacts properly. AirDrop, Messages, WhatsApp, email, whatever they use. And Facets to Facets, phone to phone, over local radios. No internet involved. That one is always free, for both of you, forever. KEEP THE SIDES APART Some of what you do is nobody else's business. Private cards sit behind a PIN. Cards you keep out front stay out front. You decide which is which. WHAT WE DO NOT DO No account. No login. No server. No analytics. Facets cannot read your cards because it never receives them. They live on this phone. Turn on backup and your cards are copied to your own iCloud, which we have no access to either. We do not track who scans your card. Other apps sell that as a feature. We think an app that watches you on your own behalf is still an app that watches you. PRICING One card free, with one file link. Everything on that card works. One purchase unlocks unlimited cards, the private PIN vault, unlimited file links, groups, the theme and pattern designers, saving received cards to Contacts, starting a card from Contacts, opening on a card you choose, and backup to your iCloud. One purchase. Not a subscription. Not a trial. You buy it once and it is yours.

Screenshots

Tell HoCo4 screens
Facets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Facets at 100% against Tell HoCo's 50%. Facets also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Tell HoCo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (101 vs 2). On price, ads, 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

Both are free to download. Facets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tell HoCo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Facets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tell HoCo has 101 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Tell HoCo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Facets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tell HoCo ships an update every 4 months, Facets weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tell HoCo versus Facets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTell HoCoFacets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (101 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings101 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHoward County MarylandManish Sehgal

Customer experience

Tell HoCo

All ratings98 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral1.0%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Facets

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tell HoCo

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Facets

One-time1
  • Facets Premium$0.99

Questions

Is Tell HoCo free?
Tell HoCo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Facets free?
Facets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tell HoCo or Facets?
Facets is rated higher. Tell HoCo averages 4.7 out of 5 from 101 ratings, while Facets averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tell HoCo or Facets have ads?
Neither Tell HoCo nor Facets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tell HoCo or Facets?
Tell HoCo ships an update every 4 months, and Facets weekly. Most recently, Tell HoCo was updated on October 26, 2026 and Facets on October 10, 2026.

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