Obelisk Verse vs CommitWeave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Obelisk Verse
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Step past the obelisk and Ancient Egypt opens like a pocket museum. Read illustrated lessons on the Nile, the pyramid builders, myth, daily life, writing and the afterlife, each split into short unfolding sections you study at your own pace. Test what sticks with more than two hundred questions across eight subjects and three ranks, from Apprentice to High Priest, plus a fresh daily challenge. Wander an encyclopedia of pharaohs, monuments and gods, follow a tappable timeline from unification to rediscovery, and flip through fact cards you keep as favourites. In the Hieroglyph Workshop you turn your own name into a cartouche and decipher real words sign by sign. Master each subject and painted fragments of a lost tomb are restored, piece by piece. Detailed progress, streaks, achievements and two switchable dark themes round it out, all entirely offline.
CommitWeave
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The merge is still a sentence you borrow. On the real project you wait for someone else to run it. Here the history sits under your thumb. A commit lands as a knot. A branch is a thread you can tug. Drag two lines together and the join appears while the command still glows on the glass. Nine lessons walk you from the first snapshot to a rebase you can see. Tap a knot. Read what it saved. Then make one. Staging. Branching. A conflict you settle on purpose, because the reflog will hand the work back. The sandbox is the cheap room. Break the trunk. Orphan a commit. Bring it home. Name a repo. Keep another. Copy the log to the pasteboard when you want the trail on paper. When you want a tighter hour, eight puzzles ask you to fix a weave with a move budget. Four quiz decks wait when you would rather choose than drag. Saturday in a loft where the landlord router never woke. Nobody asks for an account. The graph lives only on this phone. Come wreck a history that cannot fire you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CommitWeave at every 2 days against Obelisk Verse's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Obelisk Verse ships an update weekly, CommitWeave every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Obelisk Verse | CommitWeave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shelley Palmer | ANIEKE MATSELAR |
In-app purchases
Obelisk Verse
No in-app purchases
CommitWeave
No in-app purchases







