Comparison

Vora vs Rack

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

Head to head
About

Vora

This AI-powered coach analyzes your sleep, nutrition, and recovery to create personalized daily plans. It offers detailed tracking for calories, workouts, and muscle strain, with features designed for long-term health and longevity.

Highlights
  • AI-driven daily health planning
  • Calorie and macro tracking with Vora Score
  • Personalized AI workout coach
  • Muscle-level strain and recovery analysis
  • Readiness score based on multiple metrics
  • Cycle tracking and phase-specific recommendations
  • Water quality analysis
Features
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WHAT’S NEW IN 4.0.0 Vora now marks what stands out in your health charts and saves those notes to your Journal. Open Vitals to see how last night’s readings compare with your usual range, or open Sleep to see when you moved through each of the four sleep stages and how much sleep debt you’ve built up. Vora Energy also has its own Home tile and widget. If you use Garmin, you’ll see your Body Battery there. Bring your friends into Vora. Start an invite-only community, share a link, and you’ve got a place to chat, post workouts, and compete in weekly step and protein leagues. Your AI longevity coach for calorie tracking, workouts, and recovery. Vora reads your sleep, HRV, strain, and nutrition, then plans your day around your real body. FOUR HEALTH PILLARS Sleep, Recovery, Strain, Nutrition. One score for each, updated daily from your real data. Tap any pillar to see why it moved and what to do next. CALORIE & MACRO TRACKING Log food by photo, barcode, voice, or restaurant search. USDA-backed nutrition database with 90 tracked nutrients per food (14 vitamins, 13 minerals, fatty acids, supplements). Every food gets a Vora Score with per-ingredient analysis. Switching from MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, or Lose It? Vora picks up where they stopped: AI coaching, recovery, and workouts in the same app. AI WORKOUT COACH Vora builds your week from your goals, equipment, and what your muscles have recovered from. Supersets, circuits, drop sets. Hot-swap mid-workout. Per-exercise history, PR detection, video tutorials. Chat or talk to your coach hands-free during training. MUSCLE-LEVEL STRAIN & RECOVERY Interactive body map across 20+ muscle groups. See which are recovered, which need rest. Log sauna, cold plunge, foam rolling, cryotherapy. READINESS SCORE HRV + resting heart rate + sleep + training load + cycle phase, in one number. Know when to push, when to back off. BUILT FOR LONGEVITY Every recommendation is tuned for long-term health markers, not crash-diet outcomes. The right calorie, workout, and recovery rhythm today is what your healthspan looks like in a decade. CYCLE TRACKING Phase detection, fertile window, and phase-specific workout and nutrition recommendations fed into your readiness score. WATER INTELLIGENCE Scan bottled water. Check tap water by ZIP. Vora Scores, contaminants, and cleaner alternatives. LIFE TIMELINE Your whole day on one screen: sleep stages, heart rate, HRV, workouts, meals, calendar. Adapts to your moment: pre-workout, post-meal, evening wind-down. APPLE WATCH Workout tracking, rest timer on Dynamic Island, voice logging, complications. MINDFULNESS 7 meditation types with 35 guided sessions rooted in real traditions (Wim Hof, Navy SEALs box breathing, Dr. Weil 4-7-8, Trataka). Breathing animations and ambient sounds. CONNECT EVERYTHING Apple Health, Garmin, WHOOP, Oura, Fitbit, Strava, Peloton, Eight Sleep, Dexcom, and hundreds more through Apple Health and Health Connect. FREE TO USE Full Vora free: AI planning, nutrition tracking, scores, daily plans. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited voice coaching and advanced AI. Your data stays yours. Vora is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat conditions. Terms: https://askvora.com/terms Privacy: https://askvora.com/privacy

About

Rack

Log your weightlifting sets and reps directly from your wrist, even offline. Plan workouts on your phone and execute them with your paired smartwatch. Track runs and cardio sessions, and visualize your progress with detailed charts and recovery insights.

Highlights
  • Log sets and reps from your wrist
  • Plan workouts on phone, execute on watch
  • Offline workout tracking
  • Track runs and cardio with GPS
  • Automatic personal record detection
  • Muscle recovery and readiness scores
  • Import/export workout history
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Your lifts and your runs in one training log. Link Garmin Connect and your Rack workouts can upload there automatically. Log every set's weight and reps from your wrist. No rep counter to fix afterwards. Plan per-set weights and supersets on your phone, then lift from your watch, even offline. Rack is a hybrid training app for iPhone and Garmin watches. Use it on your phone alone, or pair a supported Garmin watch and run the workout from your wrist. ON YOUR WATCH - See the current exercise, its target reps and weight, and your notes - Adjust weight or reps, then confirm the set - Rest timer with +/- adjust and the next set's target - Live heart rate, from the watch or a paired chest strap - Undo a set or reorder exercises from the wrist - No phone? Send a routine to the watch first, train offline, and the sets sync back when you reconnect - A distinct vibration when you finish a workout with a new personal record ON YOUR PHONE - Build routines with per-set reps, weight and rest, supersets, RPE or RIR targets, tempo and warm-up sets - Start from preset routines and ready-made programs, or build your own weekly or custom-length program - Rest timer, hold timer for planks and carries, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen - Swap or reorder exercises mid-workout RUNS AND CARDIO - Track a run, ride or other cardio session on your phone, with GPS distance and pace - Build interval workouts from warm-up, work, recovery and cool-down steps with repeats - Review splits, heart-rate zones and a heart-rate chart after each session - Import runs and rides from Apple Health so they sit next to your lifts PROGRESS AND RECOVERY - Personal records detected automatically: weight, volume and estimated 1RM - Per-exercise charts, a PR timeline and muscle-group volume over time - A muscle recovery map that updates from your strength and cardio training - A readiness score that can include Body Battery and stress from a paired Garmin watch - Plateau and muscle-imbalance flags BRING YOUR HISTORY - Import from Hevy, Strong or Fitbod (CSV export) - Export your history as CSV or XLSX - Completed workouts save to Apple Health OPTIONAL AI FEATURES Training Intelligence stays off until you turn it on. With it on, Rack can look into a stalled lift and propose program changes, which you approve or skip one by one. SUPPORTED WATCHES Garmin fenix, Forerunner, Instinct, Venu, epix, Enduro, Descent, tactix, MARQ, D2, Approach and quatix families (60+ models). Install the Rack watch app from the Connect IQ Store. RACK PRO Rack is free to download. The free plan keeps a 90-day history window and up to 3 routines. Pro adds full history, no routine limit, ranked exercise swap suggestions, automatic progression rules and a monthly Training Audit. Pro is $8.99/month or $54.99/year, each with a 2-week free trial, or a one-time Lifetime purchase ($119.99 while Charter seats last). US prices; prices in other countries may differ. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rackstrength.com/privacy Garmin, Garmin Connect and the Garmin device names above are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries. Rack is not affiliated with or endorsed by Garmin.

Screenshots

Vora4 screens
Rack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Vora at 4.6 against Rack's 4.0. Vora also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (128 vs 12). Rack's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (86% vs 74%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Vora sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Rack sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vora holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vora has 128 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Vora's written reviews are positive against 86% of Rack's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vora ships an update every 3 days, Rack every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Vora versus Rack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoraRack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (128 ratings) — better4.0 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews74.5% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings128 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size495 MB43 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperVora AI IncAviv Noah

Customer experience

Vora

All ratings128 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral4.7%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive74.5%
Neutral10.6%
Negative14.9%

Rack

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Vora

Subscriptions2
  • Vora Pro Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Vora Pro Yearly7 Days trial$89.991 Year
7 purchases

Rack

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro14 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Annual Pro14 Days trial$54.991 Year
One-time5
  • Training Audit$1.49
  • Training Audit 3-Pack$3.99
  • Lifetime Pro$89.99
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  • Rack Charter Lifetime$119.99
  • Lifetime Pro$149.99

Questions

Is Vora free?
Vora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rack free?
Rack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Vora or Rack?
Vora is rated higher. Vora averages 4.6 out of 5 from 128 ratings, while Rack averages 4.0 from 12 ratings.
Do Vora or Rack have ads?
Vora shows ads; Rack does not.
Which is updated more often, Vora or Rack?
Vora ships an update every 3 days, and Rack every 10 days. Most recently, Vora was updated on November 5, 2026 and Rack on November 5, 2026.

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