How Insights is organized
BuddyLog's Insights tab splits into three views: People, Events, and Other. Most stats in the People and Events tabs share the same period picker, Week, Month, 6 Months, or Year, so the same stat can look very different depending on the window you choose. Opening a single person's profile adds a fourteenth stat that only exists there. Insights is a BuddyLog Premium feature; adding people and logging events stays free with no limit.
The quick list
Here's every stat at a glance, cropped straight from the app, before the full breakdown of how each one is calculated.
1. Total Buddies
All-time count added, plus this year and your peak month.
2. Most Seen
Person with the most logged events this period.
3. Social Reach
Share of total buddies you've seen this period.
4. Long Time No See
Buddies you haven't seen in the longest time.
5. New People Met
First encounters logged this period.
6. Events Logged
All-time count, plus your average logging frequency.
7. Top Activity
Most common event type this period.
8. Top Day
Day of week with the most logged events.
9. Group Size
Most common number of people per event.
10. Peak Time
Time of day events happen most.
11. Meeting Frequency
12-month calendar heatmap of meetup days.
12. Time Together
Hours spent with one person this year.
13. Gender Split
Contacts by recorded gender.
14. Age Groups
Contacts by age range.
1. Total Buddies
Total Buddies is the all-time count of people you've added to BuddyLog, shown as a big number at the top of the People tab. It comes with two extras: how many buddies you added this year, and your single best month for adding people (for example, "Highest in May, 25 new"). It's less a vanity number than a quick read on whether your circle is actually growing or has been flat for a while.
2. Most Seen
Most Seen names the one person you logged the most events with in the selected period, along with the count. Switch the period from Month to Year and the name can change entirely, since it's recalculated fresh for whichever window you pick, not carried over from an all-time total.
3. Social Reach
Social Reach answers a different question than Most Seen: not who you saw the most, but how much of your whole network you saw at all. It's shown as a fraction, something like "17 of 25 buddies," meaning 17 of your 25 total buddies were seen at least once that month. Each person only counts once per period no matter how many times you met up, so it measures the breadth of your contact rather than its volume.
4. Long Time No See
Long Time No See flips the tab's usual direction: instead of celebrating activity, it surfaces the people you haven't logged an event with in the longest time, sorted oldest gap first, in days. If you're genuinely caught up with everyone, BuddyLog just says so instead of showing an empty list.
5. New People Met
New People Met counts buddies you met for the first time in the selected window, grouped by week or month depending on the period. It only counts people with a First Encounter date actually recorded on their profile, so it's a measure of how deliberately you're logging new relationships, not just how many names you've added.
6. Events Logged
Events Logged is the Events tab's version of Total Buddies: an all-time count of every event you've logged, plus how many you added this month and your average logging frequency, phrased as "one every X days on average." That average is worth watching on its own, since a slowing frequency is usually the first sign a logging habit is slipping, before you'd notice it any other way.
7. Top Activity
Top Activity is a pie chart of your most common event type for the period, whatever shows up most often when you log things like dinner, coffee, sport, or a birthday. It's a fast way to notice if your logged social life is mostly one kind of activity versus genuinely varied.
8. Top Day
Top Day is a bar chart across Monday through Sunday, highlighting whichever day carries the most logged events. It's a byproduct of your actual calendar rather than anything you set on purpose, which is what makes it a useful check on assumptions like "we always hang out on weekends."
9. Group Size
Group Size buckets your events by how many people were involved, from 1 up to 6+, and highlights the most common size. It's a quick answer to whether your social life leans one-on-one or toward bigger group gatherings.
10. Peak Time
Peak Time is a line chart of what hour of day your events tend to happen, excluding all-day events like trips or visits so a week away doesn't flatten the curve. A peak sitting around 6pm, for instance, tracks with dinners and after-work plans being your default.
11. Meeting Frequency
Meeting Frequency is the one stat presented as a calendar instead of a chart: a 12-month heatmap with a filled square on every day you logged at least one meetup. It's the stat that makes gaps visually obvious in a way a single number can't. A quiet March next to a packed December stands out immediately.
All six of the Events stats above, Events Logged through Meeting Frequency, recalculate the same way when you open a single person's profile instead of the whole Events tab, just scoped to that one relationship (so you get Events Together, Top Activity, Top Day, Group Size, Peak Time, and a Meeting Frequency calendar for just the two of you). That per-person view adds one more stat that doesn't exist anywhere else in the app.
12. Time Together
Time Together only shows up on an individual's profile, and it's the most deliberately calculated stat in the app. Timed events, like dinner or coffee, count their actual duration. All-day events, like a vacation or a visit, count as a full 24 hours per day. And if a timed event happens on the same day as an all-day event, only the all-day event counts, so a dinner during a 3-day trip doesn't get double-counted on top of it.
Example: a 3-day vacation with a friend counts as 3 × 24h = 72 hours. Dinner on day 2 of that same vacation isn't counted separately. Coffee with them on an unrelated day (1.5h) is counted on top.
13. Gender Split
Gender Split is a donut chart breaking your contacts down by recorded gender. Anyone without a gender set on their profile appears as its own slice rather than being guessed at or left out.
14. Age Groups
Age Groups buckets your contacts into ranges, from under 18 up through 51+, counting only people with a known birth year. Anyone without one falls into its own group instead of skewing the chart.
Rounding out the Other tab is Achievements, a set of badges for logging milestones rather than a numeric stat, plus a standing feedback box asking what data you'd want to see next. Both are a reminder that Insights is still growing rather than a fixed list.
Quick answer: BuddyLog's Insights tab calculates 14 stats about your logged friendships: 5 about people (Total Buddies, Most Seen, Social Reach, Long Time No See, New People Met), 6 about events (Events Logged, Top Activity, Top Day, Group Size, Peak Time, Meeting Frequency), 1 exclusive to a single relationship (Time Together), and 2 about your contacts overall (Gender Split, Age Groups). It's a Premium feature; logging people and events stays free.
FAQ
What stats does BuddyLog track about my friendships?
14 stats total, split across People (Total Buddies, Most Seen, Social Reach, Long Time No See, New People Met), Events (Events Logged, Top Activity, Top Day, Group Size, Peak Time, Meeting Frequency), and Other (Gender Split, Age Groups). A single person's profile adds one more: Time Together.
Is Social Reach the same as Most Seen?
No. Most Seen names the single person you saw most in a period. Social Reach is broader: how many of your total buddies you saw at least once, shown as a fraction like 17 of 25.
Do I need BuddyLog Premium to see these stats?
Yes, the full Insights tab is part of Premium. Free users see a demo version with sample data. Adding people and logging events stays free with no limit either way.
How is Time Together calculated?
Timed events count their actual duration; all-day events count as 24 hours per day. If a timed event falls on the same day as an all-day event, only the all-day event counts, so nothing gets double-counted.
Where BuddyLog fits
None of these numbers exist without the logging habit underneath them. If you're weighing whether that kind of manual habit is worth building in the first place, the full guide to keeping a friendship journal is the place to start. And if Long Time No See is the stat that caught your eye, here's the story of why I built it in the first place, sorting friends by who's overdue to see rather than just logging them.
