Comparison

Active Giving vs VERA

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

Head to head
About

Active Giving

This fitness app transforms your runs, walks, and workouts into tangible environmental action. Log your activities to plant trees, restore kelp forests, and remove ocean plastic, making a positive impact on the planet with every step.

Highlights
  • Log activities for environmental impact
  • GPS tracking
  • Strava sync
  • Apple Health integration
  • Team challenges
  • Impact leaderboards
  • Impact history tracking
Features
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Turn every run, walk, and workout into real-world impact. Active Giving is a fitness app that lets your movement plant trees,restore kelp forests, and remove plastic from our oceans. Get your daily exercise in while doing something meaningful for the planet. How it works Download the app, log your first activity (with built-in GPS tracking, or import your last workout), and see the environmental impact you've unlocked. Share your accomplishments with your friends and inspire them to move for a cause too. Create an Active Giving account to unlock the full set of features: • Strava sync: connect your Strava account to Active Giving to automatically sync activities across both platforms. • Apple Health integration: pull your workouts from Apple Watch, iPhone, and other trackers directly into your Active Giving impact. • Team challenges: exclusive challenges built for virtual events, company wellness programs, and community-led initiatives. • Impact leaderboards: see how you and your team stack up, and celebrate wins together. • Impact history: track every tree planted, every kilogram of plastic removed, every kelp forest supported. Press "Active Giving is a movement that gives people the opportunity to achieve something huge, while simply getting their daily exercise hit." Fashion Week Magazine Why our Active Givers love the idea Lauren: "With Active Giving, my workouts evolve from activity that's good for me to activity that's good for the world. I've been given a renewed sense of purpose that fuels my workouts as a driving force for positive change." Rene: "I'm an Active Giver because running is my passion. It connects people no matter their gender, religion, or origin. We run together." Ricarda: "Doing yourself a favor by moving your body AND doing good for this planet. Everybody should join. It's so easy to do good. What else are we waiting for?" Every step counts. Every ride matters. Every activity you log becomes real-world impact. #beactivedogood #activegiver Connect with us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/active.giving/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/activegiving/ Email: info@activegiving.de

About

VERA

This AI-powered coach creates personalized running plans tailored to your race goals and available training time. It dynamically adjusts your schedule based on life's interruptions and provides detailed explanations for workouts.

Highlights
  • Personalized race-based training plans
  • Dynamic plan adaptation for missed sessions
  • Interactive coach dialogue and explanations
  • Multiple coaching styles (Ascent, Forge, Atlas)
  • Automatic session import from Polar/Suunto
  • Training load and recovery monitoring
Features
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VERA is an endurance coach that happens to live on your phone. Not another app that records what you already did. VERA decides what you should do next, and adapts your plan when life gets in the way. BUILT AROUND YOUR RACE Tell VERA what you're training for and how much you can realistically train. It builds a full plan from today to race day: phases, weekly volume, key sessions, and a taper that actually arrives on time. VERA ADAPTS WHEN LIFE DOES Got sick. Slept badly. Missed Tuesday. Tell VERA in plain language and the plan changes properly - the week eases, the key sessions move, the race stays where it is. No guilt, no starting over. A COACH YOU CAN ARGUE WITH Ask why a session exists. Say a workout felt awful. Ask for something easier. VERA answers like a coach who knows your history, because it has it. CHOOSE HOW YOU'RE COACHED Ascent is patient and encouraging. Forge is direct and doesn't accept excuses. Atlas explains the physiology behind everything. Switch whenever you like. YOUR TRAINING, IN ONE PLACE Connect Polar or Suunto and your sessions arrive automatically, with heart rate, ascent and training load. Or log them by hand in two taps. SEES THE THINGS YOU MISS VERA reads training load against recovery and tells you what it's seeing: when volume is climbing while sleep is falling, when a fortnight has quietly gone soft, when the long run is doing all the work. VERA is a training tool, not a medical device. Nothing it says is medical advice. SUBSCRIPTION VERA Coaching is free for your first month, then €14.99 a month or €149 a year. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. The community challenges stay free. Terms of Use: https://veralabs.netlify.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://veralabs.netlify.app/privacy

Screenshots

Active Giving4 screens
VERA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: VERA at 5.0 against Active Giving's 4.3. VERA also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). Active Giving's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model 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. VERA sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Active Giving asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

VERA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Active Giving's written reviews are positive against 100% of VERA's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Active Giving ships an update every 2 weeks, VERA every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Active Giving versus VERA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActive GivingVERA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperActive Giving GmbHVERA Labs OU

Customer experience

Active Giving

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive57.7%
Neutral11.5%
Negative30.8%

VERA

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Active Giving

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

VERA

Subscriptions4
  • VERA Coaching Monthly1 Month trial$12.991 Month
  • VERA Coaching Monthly14 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • VERA Coaching Yearly1 Month trial$129.001 Year
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  • VERA Coaching Yearly14 Days trial$129.001 Year

Questions

Is Active Giving free?
Active Giving is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is VERA free?
VERA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Active Giving or VERA?
VERA is rated higher. Active Giving averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while VERA averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Active Giving or VERA have ads?
Neither Active Giving nor VERA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Active Giving or VERA?
Active Giving ships an update every 2 weeks, and VERA every 2 days. Most recently, Active Giving was updated on November 7, 2026 and VERA on November 7, 2026.

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