Extra vs HeirLight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Extra
This app transforms your email inbox into a proactive personal assistant. It intelligently surfaces important daily information, helps you act on it, and organizes your life's communications.
- Daily brief of important items
- Proactive alerts for deadlines and events
- Actionable insights from messages
- Organized communication grouping
- Draft replies and schedule events
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Meet Extra - your life’s inbox. Your life already runs through your inbox: plans, travel, packages, bills, events, and conversations. Extra turns that overwhelming stream into a personal, proactive inbox for your life. It shows you what matters today and helps you take the next step. • Know what's important today. Extra gives you a calm daily brief with the things worth your attention. • Never miss what matters. Catch deadlines, travel changes, plans, packages, and important moments before they slip. • Turn details into action. Draft replies, schedule events, and handle the next step without digging through messages. • Keep life organized, quietly. Extra groups the noise so the important stuff is easy to find.
HeirLight
Create legal documents like wills, healthcare directives, and powers of attorney through a guided conversation. The app transforms your answers into state-formatted documents, ready for signing, eliminating the need for complex legal forms.
- Guided will creation
- Healthcare directive generation
- Power of attorney documents
- State-formatted legal documents
- User-friendly conversational interface
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HeirLight helps you put your wishes into words - a will, healthcare directive, and power of attorney, built through a guided conversation instead of a stack of legal forms. Answer thoughtful questions about who you want to protect and what matters most, and we'll turn your answers into documents formatted for your state, ready to sign. Terms of Service: https://heirlight.com/en/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://heirlight.com/en/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Extra at 85% against HeirLight's 50%. Extra also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (399 vs 7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Extra holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Extra has 399 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Extra's written reviews are positive against 50% of HeirLight's.
Extra ships an update weekly, HeirLight every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Extra | HeirLight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (399 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 399 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BuildForever, Inc. | Heirlight Inc. |
Customer experience
Extra
HeirLight
In-app purchases
Extra
No in-app purchases
HeirLight
No in-app purchases
