Comparison

Follow Things vs Orbits

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

Head to head
About

Follow Things

Features
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FollowThings: The ultimate logbook for your passions. Want to track your progress at the gym, the evolution of your garden, the restoration of a project, your meditation sessions, or simply keep a multimedia journal of your hobbies? FollowThings is the ultimate tool for documenting the evolution of any activity. Forget scattered notes. Centralize everything that matters to you in an interface designed for clarity, focus, and motivation. KEY FEATURES: Full Apple Watch and Health integration: Leave your iPhone in your pocket. Start your workouts from your wrist, track your heart rate and active calories, and automatically sync your effort with the Apple Fitness app under the "Mind & Body" category. Live tracking and Dynamic Island: Use the built-in stopwatch to record the duration of your activities. Keep an eye on the current time directly from Dynamic Island or your iPhone's Lock Screen while using other apps. Trophies and Weekly Summary: Dedication deserves to be celebrated. Unlock achievements in your personal showcase as you maintain your streaks and receive a smart report every Monday to compare your performance to the previous week. Advanced Investment Tracking: Wondering how much you're investing in your hobbies? Turn on this feature and FollowThings will automatically add up the amounts you enter in your notes, giving you a total balance of your investment. Powerful Analytics and Statistics: Understand your patterns. Visualize your all-time best streak, total time spent, interactive activity graphs, and new biometric cards. Motivation comes from seeing your own progress. Flexible Media Log: Don't limit yourself to text. Add photos to document your visual progress, record voice notes to capture ideas on the fly, and rate your sessions. Before-and-After Comparison: A picture is worth a thousand words. Use our comparison tool to overlay photos and see exactly how things have changed over time. Dynamic Organization: Keep your life organized by color categories. Filter your list by recent use, status, or tags as needed. Download FollowThings and start documenting your evolution.

About

Orbits

This family assistant helps manage household tasks, from calendars and lists to meal planning and home upkeep. It syncs with your existing apps and learns your routines to proactively handle chores, reducing the mental load on your family.

Highlights
  • Family task management
  • Calendar and list syncing
  • Proactive routine learning
  • Group chat integration
  • Automated meal planning
  • Home maintenance reminders
  • AI-powered suggestions
Features
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Stop being the only one who remembers what needs doing. Orbits is the family assistant that runs your household, both in-app, or from your family group chat — calendars, lists, reminders, meal planning, scheduling and more — so nothing falls through the cracks. • Works with the apps you already use — Two-way sync with your favorite apps like Gmail, Outlook, Apple Calendar and more. • Proactive, not reactive — Orbits notices patterns on its own. It learns your grocery list, your meal prep cadence, your weekly routines, and starts suggesting or doing things before you ask. • The family group chat, wrangled — Bit joins you and your family where you communicate best, and actions things that need doing without you even asking. • Built for the whole family — Real shared context, conflict management, and more; Orbits shows everyone what's next; no one needs to be nagged (and if they do, Bit will take care of it!) • Meal planning, without the headaches — Just ask Bit for a list of meals for the week and consider it done. Bit even accounts for leftovers! • Home upkeep on autopilot — Air filters, smoke alarm batteries, oil changes. Orbits remembers the boring stuff so you don't have to (and even calls the technician for you!) • Gets smarter the more you use it — The longer Orbits runs your household, the less you have to think about it. The features described above require an Orbits subscription, available as an in-app purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Follow Things4 screens
Orbits4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Follow Things at none against Orbits's 3. Orbits's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Orbits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Follow Things asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Follow Things ships an update every 9 days, Orbits weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Follow Things versus Orbits: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFollow ThingsOrbits
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (39 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—39 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacobo Diego Pita HernandezNemusAI, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Follow Things

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Orbits

Subscriptions3
  • Orbits Membership$3.997 Days
  • Orbits Membership3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Orbits Membership7 Days trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Follow Things free?
Follow Things is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbits free?
Orbits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Follow Things or Orbits have ads?
Neither Follow Things nor Orbits shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Follow Things or Orbits?
Follow Things ships an update every 9 days, and Orbits weekly. Most recently, Follow Things was updated on November 3, 2026 and Orbits on November 5, 2026.

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