Comparison

Arbaro vs Curious Life

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

Head to head
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Arbaro

Features
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Master one move at a time. Arbaro turns each exercise into a progression tree — start where you are, graduate each step, and branch into harder variations as you get stronger. No account. No sign-up. No ads. Your training stays private — stored on your device and synced between your iPhone and Apple Watch through your personal iCloud. PROGRESSION TREES • Branching skill paths for push-ups, pull-ups, squats, dips, and more • Clear graduation goals for every step • See exactly what to work on next • Watch a skill unlock the moment you're ready WORKOUTS THAT LOG THEMSELVES • Start a full routine or a single exercise • Log reps, weight, duration, and distance • Built-in rest timer between sets — with a Live Activity on your Lock Screen • Supersets and circuits, handled cleanly APPLE WATCH • Run your whole workout from your wrist • Log sets, adjust reps and weight, time your rest • Live heart rate and calories during the session • History, exercise instructions, and a finish summary on the watch APPLE HEALTH • Every workout saved to Apple Health • Calories, heart rate, and workout type included • Close your rings with your strength training READY-MADE ROUTINES • Proven bodyweight templates to start today • Build and save your own routines • Reorder, superset, and fine-tune every set TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Every workout saved to your history • Personal records surfaced automatically • Per-exercise progress over time A FULL EXERCISE LIBRARY • Bodyweight and weighted movements • Filter by muscle group and equipment • Add your own custom exercises MAKE IT YOURS • 12 botanical accent themes and custom fonts • Dark mode, metric or imperial units • Clean, modern interface with no ads Whether you're doing your first push-up or your first one-arm variation, Arbaro shows you the next step — and every step after. ---------------------------- Terms of Use: https://tersacore.com/arbaro/terms Privacy Policy: https://tersacore.com/arbaro/privacy

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Curious Life

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Curious Life turns a live measurement into music, light and games you can practise with. On your phone runs a scientific instrument: a stream of random events drawn from the tiny timing jitter of the device itself, in the lineage of the Princeton PEAR laboratory. Everything in the app is made from it, live. Whether attention can lean on that stream is a century-old question. Here it becomes something you can hear, play, and keep a record of. NOTES FROM THE FIELD Music written live by the field. Five soundscapes: an open-air sound garden, Memory's slow water and soft light, a choir in a stone room, plucked strings, and Mosaic, where the instrument's own bits ring a marimba. Every note comes from the measurement; nothing is recorded or looped. STAR TRIP AND THE EXERCISES Fly a star across deep space at the altitude of the live reading and catch the golden rings. The Oscillator, Chaos vs Coherence, Synchrony, the Moon, the Orchestra and more: living exercises, all driven by the same measurement. THE PULSE Link a Polar chest strap, a watch, or a Muse headband, and your heart and brain join the field: heart rhythm and coherence, the brain's bands, and music played by your own readings. Heart, brain and the random source record together on one clock, through a locked screen. Export everything as open files whenever you like. THE AMBIENT TAB Let it play while you live. The Pulse, Notes from the field and Ambient's sixteen night voices, with a dawn alarm that wakes you with your own field. The music keeps playing with the screen locked, and stays honest: it rides the real measurement, or it stays silent. FREQUENCY TUNING AND THE SUN MEDITATION A frequency generator with carriers and pulses for grounding, focus and rest, now including the Schumann resonance, the Earth's own 7.83 Hz hum, raised five octaves so you can hear it. And the sun meditation: five minutes at noon, turning to the sun. YOUR RECORD Every session builds your personal record, placed against the whole field of practitioners. No account is needed; sign in with your email to carry your record across devices. NOTHING WATCHES YOU No microphone, no motion sensors. The camera and photo library are asked for only when you open a picture in Synaesthesia; Bluetooth and Health only when you choose to connect a device. Heart, brain and picture data never leave your phone. It is an instrument and an open experiment: whatever the data shows, it shows. Curious Life is an experiment and a practice, not a medical device. It makes no health claims, and a sound cannot carry the Earth's field or lock you to it.

Screenshots

Arbaro4 screens
Curious Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Curious Life at 15.0 against Arbaro's 26.2. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arbaro ships an update every 4 days, Curious Life every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Arbaro versus Curious Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArbaroCurious Life
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPawel WiszenkoMartins Balodis

In-app purchases

None

Arbaro

No in-app purchases

None

Curious Life

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arbaro free?
Arbaro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Curious Life free?
Curious Life is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Arbaro or Curious Life have ads?
Neither Arbaro nor Curious Life shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Arbaro or Curious Life?
Arbaro ships an update every 4 days, and Curious Life every 3 days. Most recently, Arbaro was updated on November 7, 2026 and Curious Life on October 31, 2026.

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