Comparison

Vesper vs Cohestry

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

Head to head
About

Vesper

Features
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How did today feel? That's the only question Vesper ever asks. No streaks to protect. No scores to chase. No guilt for the days you miss. Vesper doesn’t gamify your feelings or compete for your attention, it asks once each evening, then gets out of your way. What’s left, over time, is an honest, quiet record of your life worth actually looking back on. WHAT VESPER DOES Every evening, Vesper asks how today felt: Good, Meh or Hard. Add a line if you want to remember why. Your answer becomes one colored dot on a simple monthly grid. Miss a day and nothing happens, no penalty, no broken chain to mourn. Vesper never judges your day. It just holds it. Tap any past day to see what you wrote. Once you’ve kept it up for six months, your memory trail unlocks: every note you’ve ever written, in one place, in your own words. VESPER PLUS For anyone who wants to see the bigger picture, Vesper Plus reveals patterns that only show up over time: • Side by Side, comparing recent months at a glance • Shape of Your Weeks, seeing which days tend to feel harder • Quietest & Fullest, the months that stood apart • Yearly Portrait, one full year, at a glance • On This Day, a quiet echo of what today looked like a month or a year ago Plus also includes: • iCloud sync, so your record follows you across every device • An Apple Watch app, for checking in from your wrist • A home screen widget, a glance at your month without opening the app • Curated themes: Chalk, Marigold, and Ink • Anytime check-in, if evenings aren't when your day actually ends Vesper Plus is available as a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS With Vesper Plus, your record syncs privately through your own iCloud account. Nothing is shared, sold, or used to train anything. Some days are good. Some are hard. Most are somewhere in between. Vesper is a quiet place to keep track of all of them. For details on subscriptions and purchases, see Apple's Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Cohestry

This app helps you organize notes and discover connections between them. It visualizes your thoughts in a 3D brain and resurfaces older ideas to prevent them from being forgotten. Create rich notes with various formatting options and import existing notes from Apple Notes.

Highlights
  • Visualize note connections in a 3D brain
  • Rediscover older notes with 'Worth Revisiting'
  • Daily insights based on existing notes
  • Rich note creation with formatting, images, and tables
  • Import Apple Notes on Mac
  • Native iPhone and Mac app
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Cohestry is a second brain for people who want their notes to become more useful over time. Capture ideas, thoughts, references, and unfinished threads in one place, then let Cohestry help you see how they connect. Instead of leaving notes buried in folders, Cohestry turns your knowledge into something you can explore, revisit, and build on. EXPLORE YOUR THINKING Cohestry visualizes connections between your notes as an interactive 3D brain, making it easier to spot related ideas and understand how your thinking is developing. REDISCOVER WHAT MATTERS Worth Revisiting brings older notes back into view so useful ideas do not disappear into an archive. Today’s Insight surfaces a connection from your existing notes, giving you a reason to return to ideas you may have forgotten. WRITE WITHOUT FRICTION Create and edit rich notes with support for formatting, lists, tables, images, and more. Cohestry is designed to work as a complete notes app, not just a layer on top of one. BRING YOUR APPLE NOTES WITH YOU On Mac, import your existing Apple Notes and start building from the knowledge you already have. BUILT FOR APPLE Cohestry is a native iPhone and Mac app designed around a simple idea: your notes should become more valuable the longer you keep them. Core note-taking features are free, including unlimited notes and Apple Notes imports. Advanced connection features are available with Cohestry Pro. End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Vesper4 screens
Cohestry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cohestry at weekly against Vesper's every 6 weeks. Vesper's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Vesper sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Cohestry sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vesper ships an update every 6 weeks, Cohestry weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Vesper versus Cohestry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVesperCohestry
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCalvin NgUgochukwu Nwune

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Vesper

Subscriptions2
  • Vesper Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Vesper Plus Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Vesper Plus Lifetime$49.99
3 purchases

Cohestry

Subscriptions2
  • Cohestry Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Cohestry Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cohestry Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Vesper free?
Vesper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cohestry free?
Cohestry is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vesper or Cohestry have ads?
Neither Vesper nor Cohestry shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vesper or Cohestry?
Vesper ships an update every 6 weeks, and Cohestry weekly. Most recently, Vesper was updated on October 31, 2026 and Cohestry on October 31, 2026.

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