Comparison

Keka vs Vital Widgets

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

Head to head
About

Keka

This app allows you to compress and encrypt files for secure storage and sharing. It also supports browsing and extracting a wide variety of compressed file formats, including encrypted and encoded archives.

Highlights
  • Compress files in multiple formats
  • Encrypt files for secure sharing
  • Extract various archive formats
  • Support for 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, and more
  • Handle encrypted and encoded archives
Features
Currently charting
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Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be. With Keka you can compress as many files as you want in a bunch of formats. You can also encrypt them to store and share securely and with privacy. Keka can also browse and extract lots of compressed files, from ZIP and 7Z to RAR archives. Whether they are encrypted or encoded in with old charsets this is not a problem for Keka. Compression formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, TAR, ZSTD, GZIP, BZIP2 and AppleArchive (AAR) Extraction formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, AAR, XZ, ZSTD, ISO, LZMA, EXE, CAB, MSI, PAX, JAR, APK, APPX, XPI, IPA, CPGZ, CPIO, XIP, CPT and many more Terms of Use: https://www.keka.io/termsofuse

About

Vital Widgets

Features
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Every tracker. One widget. Vital turns your Apple Health data into beautiful, fully customizable Home Screen widgets - no matter which device you wear. If your tracker syncs to Apple Health, Vital works with it. DESIGN YOUR OWN WIDGETS Build a widget in seconds: pick a metric, choose how it looks, drop it on your Home Screen. • 24 health metrics - steps, sleep, heart rate, HRV, active energy, distance, VO₂ max, workouts and more • 9 chart styles - number, area, bars, ring, gauge, sparkline, stacked, dual and streak • 3 sizes - Small, Medium and Large • Today, 7-day or 30-day views • Optional accent colours and custom goals WORKS WITH ANY TRACKER Garmin, Whoop, Oura, Fitbit, Polar, Coros, Apple Watch - if it writes to Apple Health, Vital reads it. One consistent look across every brand you've ever owned. A SLEEP SCORE FOR EVERYONE Vital computes a clean 0–100 sleep score from Apple Health's sleep stages - so you get a recovery-style number even if your device doesn't provide one. BUILT FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN • Save as many designs as you like and mix and match • Widgets refresh automatically in the background • Full-colour mode that survives iOS's tinted Home Screen theme • A clean, monochrome design language that's readable at a glance YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Vital reads Apple Health on your device and never sends your health data anywhere. No account. No cloud. No tracking. VITAL PRO Vital is free to use. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited widgets, every size, all 24 metrics, all 9 chart styles, weekly and monthly trends, accent colours and custom goals — as a yearly plan with a free trial, monthly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Make your health data actually yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vitalwidgets.com/privacy

Screenshots

Keka4 screens
Vital Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Vital Widgets at Free against Keka's $3.99. Vital Widgets also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Keka's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#58 vs unranked). On ads 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

Vital Widgets is free to download; Keka costs $3.99 up front. Vital Widgets sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Keka asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Keka ships an update every 2 months, Vital Widgets weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Keka versus Vital Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKekaVital Widgets
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (163 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings163 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#58 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJorge Garcia ArmeroJarren Worrell

Bugs and requests

Keka

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Occasional decryption failures
  • Compression fails when using the share button
  • Background tasks fail when resuming
  • Permission to access files reappears after being revoked
  • Cannot decompress .part files
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  • Cannot decompress .tar.gz files
  • Cannot decompress LZ4 files
  • Windows compatibility issues with character encoding
  • Removal of .7z AES256 encryption support
  • Inability to decompress external split archives
  • Extraction failed errors reported by some users
  • Compression fails for large numbers of files
  • Permission bug: permission reappears after revoking

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add support for .tar.gz decompression
  • Add support for .part files
  • Add option to name archives before compression
  • Add ability to compress multiple folders at once
  • Add ability to add files to existing compressed files
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  • Add option to delete compressed file after compression
  • Add option to view documents without creating a copy
  • Add password confirmation fields
  • Add testing of archives for integrity
  • Add support for LZ4 file decompression
  • Add support for splitting archives on iOS (like macOS)
  • Add Chinese language support
  • Improve German translation quality
  • Clarify location of 'keka folder'

Vital Widgets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Keka

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Vital Widgets

Subscriptions2
  • Vital Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • Vital Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Vital Widgets Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Keka free?
Keka costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vital Widgets free?
Vital Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Keka or Vital Widgets have ads?
Neither Keka nor Vital Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Keka or Vital Widgets?
Keka ships an update every 2 months, and Vital Widgets weekly. Most recently, Keka was updated on October 21, 2026 and Vital Widgets on October 14, 2026.

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