Comparison

SilentLog vs How are you?

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

Head to head
About

SilentLog

Automatically log your daily movements and add photos to create a visual diary of your life. Track steps, distance, and routes, and revisit memories like a photo album. Perfect for personal journaling, travel logs, or tracking family milestones.

Highlights
  • Automatic step and distance tracking
  • Add photos to log entries
  • Create a visual diary of memories
  • Pedometer functionality
  • Route and time measurement
  • Apple Watch support
  • 3D Touch integration
Features
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Simply install this app and you’ll be ready to automatically record your steps and distance walked. You can also freely add beautiful pictures of the places you went and things you saw. ▼▼▼What’s Silent Log?▼▼▼ ●Silent Log is a new app that lets you automatically log your daily movements and photos just by walking around! ●Look back on your memories like a photo album! ●Use it as a pedometer to record steps walked! ●Enjoy lovely wallpapers and photos! ▼▼▼How to enjoy Silent Log▼▼▼ ●As a diary Silent Log is, first and foremost, an automatic diary. Not only can you use it to look back on you everyday life, but it’s perfect as a travel log! ●As a pedometer The walker’s best friend! Not only does it record steps and distance walked, but it measures your route and time spent, letting you check your travel in detail! ●Record memories of your child Your child may be growing fast, but Silent Log is automatically storing your memories. Enjoy parenthood to the fullest! ●As a food log Snap pics of your meals to turn Silent Log into a journal of when you ate and what you ate. Also great if you’re rethinking your diet! Apple Watch Support - Check your timeline and steps walked with a flick of the wrist. If you’re wondering how much you’ve walked, just pop open the app and check your watch. Also supports Glance and Complications features, letting you quickly check data from the Watch app. 3D Touch support - Supports 3D Touch for available devices can do it to see a record of the day and a record of the day before in 3D Touch. In the application, today's summary is possible in 3D Touch. Device support SilentLog is available with devices installed iOS 8 or later We had been tested for operation are the following devices. - iPhone5s - iPhone6 - iPhone6 plus - iPhone6s - iPhone6s plus - iPhone7 - iPhone7 Plus - iPhone8 - iPhone8 Plus - iPhoneX - iPhoneXS - iPhoneXS Max - iPhoneXR Location Accuracy - Location Accuracy improve when device WiFi is On. Please Always On WiFi. Battery: - Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. - Silentlogs will use GPS continuously in the background to record your mobile. GPS usage is you may want to use a lot of battery, but it is recommended because it suppresses the battery consumption by using the "Battery Priority Mode". Furthermore, added, " Stay Saving Option" that I stopped GPS when silent log judged a stay! When I stay for a certain period of time, stop the acquisition of the positional information and reduce consumption of the battery. - Even if it was terminated silent log to record continue using the mobile judgment of the base station. But the recording time difference occurs that before, when the wide spacing of the base station from the fact that a large error occurs, as much as possible,

About

How are you?

Stay connected with loved ones by sharing daily moods, step counts, and locations. Facilitate easy communication and health management, with an added layer of emergency contact features for peace of mind.

Highlights
  • Share daily mood and step count
  • Location sharing with time limits
  • In-app messaging with expressive icons
  • Daily mood and step history
  • Emergency contact registration
Features
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Do you ever worry about your family or friends who live far away? With this app, you can share your daily mood and step count with your loved ones. Let's watch over each other with easy communication! You can also use this app to watch over in your local community. ◆ 5 features of "How are you?" app (1) Sharing mood and steps You can easily share today's mood with everyone just by choosing from the options. This allows you to quickly notice if someone is not feeling well. The number of steps is automatically measured just by walking with your iPhone. (*1) (2) Sharing locations You can share each other's locations when getting together or when you want to know where your family is. You can set a sharing time limit, so even people who are reluctant to share their location on a daily basis can use it with peace of mind. (3) Communication Enjoy your communication by sending messages. You can change the expression of your icon to convey your feelings. (4) Health management You can look back on your mood and steps recorded every day. Check yourself and your family's health. (5) Emergency contact You can register emergency contacts in case of emergency. ◆This app is perfect for the followings! ・I'm worried about my family and friends who live far away, but I hesitate to call them every day because it will be annoying. ・I'm not comfortable with installing sensors such as cameras to watch over my family, and I would like to protect our privacy. ・I want to feel the joy of interactive communication, rather than one-way monitoring. ◆This app does not burden on your households' budgets This app is free to use. Ads are displayed within the app, but they are limited to categories that you can safely watch. *1 This app integrates with the Health app in order to display your daily step counts. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SilentLog4 screens
How are you?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: How are you? at 100% against SilentLog's 41%. How are you? also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). SilentLog's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (37 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. SilentLog sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and How are you? sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.69 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

How are you? holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SilentLog has 37 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of SilentLog's written reviews are positive against 100% of How are you?'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SilentLog ships an update every 5 weeks, How are you? monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SilentLog versus How are you?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilentLogHow are you?
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (37 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings37 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.614 — better
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB135 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRei-Frontier Inc.Hikaru Hanada

Customer experience

SilentLog

All ratings37 ratings
Positive78.4%
Neutral13.5%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive40.9%
Neutral15.9%
Negative43.2%

How are you?

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SilentLog

One-time3
  • 30days$2.99
  • 90days$4.99
  • 1 year$22.99
2 purchases

How are you?

Subscriptions1
  • Ad-free plan$0.697 Days
One-time1
  • 1-Year Plan (No auto-renewal)$9.99

Questions

Is SilentLog free?
SilentLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is How are you? free?
How are you? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SilentLog or How are you??
How are you? is rated higher. SilentLog averages 4.2 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while How are you? averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do SilentLog or How are you? have ads?
How are you? shows ads; SilentLog does not.
Which is updated more often, SilentLog or How are you??
SilentLog ships an update every 5 weeks, and How are you? monthly. Most recently, SilentLog was updated on October 24, 2026 and How are you? on October 17, 2026.

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