Comparison

LIFFT APP vs Exist

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

Head to head
About

LIFFT APP

This minimalist strength training app focuses on clarity and progress with a distraction-free interface. It allows users to easily log workouts, build custom routines, and track progress without unnecessary features.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free workout logging
  • Create and save workout templates
  • Track training progress
  • Chronological workout history
  • Share workout screenshots
  • Customizable themes
Features
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The Last Personal Training App. LIFFT helps trainers and lifters build workouts, log every set, and review their progress. Log reps, weight, and time. Organize routines into templates and folders. Track supersets and every stage of a drop set. Review your workout history and Exercise Statistics. Trainer Hub is free. Keep your client list together, send invitations, and open the Google Sheets clients choose to share with you. Train together with LIFFT LIVE. Free weekly allowances cover starting LIVE workouts and sending workouts, templates, and folders. Joining LIVE sessions and receiving shared workouts are free. LIFFT+ adds unlimited LIVE starts and sharing, plus automatic Google Sheets export after setup. Each person exporting workouts to their own Sheet needs active LIFFT+. Make LIFFT yours with free themes, including Minimal Light and Minimal Dark. Try LIFFT+ and choose one of four colors to keep. Explore separately sold individual themes, theme packs, and limited releases in the Color Marketplace. No LIFFT account is required. Eligible new subscribers can try LIFFT+ Monthly free for one month, then renew at the monthly price. Annual is billed yearly and has no introductory free trial. LIFFT+ renews automatically until canceled. Local prices, trial eligibility and purchase terms are shown before purchase. Manage or cancel your subscription in App Store settings. Terms of Use: https://lifft.app/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://lifft.app/privacy

About

Exist

This app helps you reduce smartphone usage by rewiring habit loops and providing escape hatches from endless scrolling. It blocks distracting apps during scheduled times and offers an 'Exist Mode' to temporarily disable smartphone functions.

Highlights
  • Blocks distracting apps
  • Rewires habit loops
  • Escape hatch from doomscrolling
  • Protects special time windows
  • Go analog with Exist Mode
  • Uses behavioral psychology
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The easy way to use your phone less. Exist blocks distracting apps when you want to focus, but it does more than that… It gradually removes your itch to use a smartphone, no willpower required. Based on behavioral psychology, Exist counteracts many of the psychological tricks that tech companies used to make their platforms so addictive in the first place. Specifically… EXIST WORKS BY: 1. Rewiring Habit Loops (AKA, no more compulsive app opening) Part of what makes certain apps and websites so irresistible is that they substitute for real human desires (excitement, belonging, love, etc.). The more you understand what's behind your cravings, the easier it becomes to resist them, and eventually, the less they appear at all. So, just before you open one of the apps that you'd like to use less, Exist will intercept you with a chance to think about why you're opening the app at all. Exist will then give you a chance to bail, plus an alternate idea for a healthier way to scratch your TRUE itch. (Outside your blocking schedules, you won't be hard-locked out of any app until you hit your self-imposed limit for the day.) 2. Providing an "Escape Hatch" from Doomscrolls (AKA, no more randomly losing two hours to the Feed) Ever opened your phone for just a second, then lost two hours to scrolling? This is possible thanks to "bottomless feeds." With Exist, when you open one of your chosen "problem apps," you'll choose a time allotment, and when it's up, you can abandon the doomscroll with one tap. Users have loved this feature so far. 3. Protecting Special Time Windows (AKA, get your nights and mornings back) If there's ONE hack for better health in today's world, it might be simply getting your phone away from your face right before bed and right after waking up. Inside of Exist, you can create schedules in which any combination of apps that you choose will automatically be blocked. Plenty of other apps do this, but Exist offers a feature designed specifically for the hours surrounding sleep. 4. Letting You Go Analog (AKA, pretending like it's 2010 again) Put your phone into "Exist Mode" to block all the phone functions that arrived with smartphones. EXIST IS ALWAYS EVOLVING: We are committed to helping people reclaim their brains from the internet. We are constantly working with our subscribers to make the product as useful as possible. We love talking to fans, and you can submit a request for any feature inside of Settings. MORE INFO: Exist uses Apple's Screen Time system to see and limit app use on your device. Subscriptions are 7 days free, then $59.99/year or $9.99/month. Cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://useexist.com/exist-terms

Screenshots

LIFFT APP4 screens
Exist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: LIFFT APP at free against Exist's freemium. Exist's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. LIFFT APP sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Exist sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Exist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LIFFT APP ships an update weekly, Exist every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LIFFT APP versus Exist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLIFFT APPExist
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings710 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB260 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLIFFT LLCJohn Stringfield

Customer experience

LIFFT APP

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Exist

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

LIFFT APP

Subscriptions2
  • LIFFT+ Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • LIFFT+ Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time8
  • Forest Color Theme$4.99
  • Ocean Color Theme$4.99
  • Lavender Color Theme$4.99
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  • Sunset Color Theme$4.99
  • Stone Color Theme$4.99
  • Sand Color Theme$4.99
  • Charcoal Color Theme$4.99
  • Floral Color Pack$9.99
2 purchases

Exist

Subscriptions2
  • Exist Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Exist Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is LIFFT APP free?
LIFFT APP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Exist free?
Exist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LIFFT APP or Exist?
Exist is rated higher. LIFFT APP averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Exist averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do LIFFT APP or Exist have ads?
Neither LIFFT APP nor Exist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LIFFT APP or Exist?
LIFFT APP ships an update weekly, and Exist every 2 weeks. Most recently, LIFFT APP was updated on October 30, 2026 and Exist on November 9, 2026.

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