Medium vs Integral Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Medium
Access a vast collection of articles, stories, and advice on diverse topics from experts and fresh voices. Engage with content through reading, writing, and community interaction. Offers unlimited access to millions of stories for members.
- Distraction-free reading
- Curated content on various topics
- Personalized library with highlights and bookmarks
- Community engagement with comments and claps
- Publish your own stories
- Audio versions of stories (Member feature)
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Welcome to Medium, your home for human stories, useful advice, and inspiring insights. Immerse yourself in a world of wisdom with writing from renowned figures, passionate experts, and fresh voices. Make reading and writing a daily ritual by following your fascinations, discovering new rabbit holes, and reaching readers of your own. Medium is simple social publishing for everyone. + Find your focus with distraction-free reading about everything from taking better pictures to what it’s like to scale a startup. + Stay current with stories about emerging technology, culture, and firsthand accounts of front-page news. + Become a member for unlimited access to millions of stories from our global community of the curious. + Assemble your own personal library by highlighting passages, bookmarking stories, and following writers who share your passions. + Join a community of readers, writers, and thinkers who clap for what they love, respond with insightful comments on thought-provoking stories, and collaborate to create popular publications. + Reach a wider audience by publishing your stories on a platform that serves more than 100M idea-loving people. + Establish a professional presence on a trusted platform, alongside academics, leaders, and experts. + Join the Medium Partner Program to earn money from your writing. + Enjoy a continuous reading experience across your iPhone, iPad, and desktop. + Listen to audio versions of any story on Medium (Member feature). __ Medium Terms of Service: https://policy.medium.com/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e0f Privacy Policy: https://policy.medium.com/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9 Support: https://help.medium.com
Integral Life
Explore integral philosophy and gain new perspectives on life. This app offers exclusive content, live events, and training courses to foster personal growth and integral consciousness. Connect with a community dedicated to understanding the world and thriving in its evolution.
- Members-only content
- Live coaching events
- Integral Life Practice events
- Access to training courses
- Notifications for new content
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Integral Life is the home of integral philosophy, helping you make sense of everything with the world’s most comprehensive philosophy. This is the members-only app for IntegralLife.com, a member-driven community offering perspectives, practices, and analysis to help you grow into the full capacities of integral consciousness and thrive in a rapidly-evolving world. This app includes: — Members-only content, including the Ken Wilber Show, Witt & Wisdom, The Art of Practice, Inhabit and others — A full calendar of our daily, live coaching and Integral Life Practice events — Access to any training course members have subscribed to — Notifications of new content releases
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Integral Life at none against Medium's 6. Integral Life also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Medium's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (158K vs 207). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Medium sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Integral Life asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Medium against 4.9 for Integral Life. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Medium has 158K ratings behind it against 207, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Medium's written reviews are positive against 50% of Integral Life's.
Medium ships an update weekly, Integral Life every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Medium | Integral Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (158K ratings) | 4.9 (207 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 158K — better | 207 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #19 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | A Medium Corporation | Integral Life, Inc. |
Customer experience
Medium
Integral Life
Bugs and requests
Medium
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Login and authentication issues
- Syncing and data loss problems
- Compatibility problems with newer OS versions
- Unreliable push notifications
Requested features
5 requests- Offline reading mode
- Better organization and navigation of content
- Improved personalization and recommendation system
- Integration with other platforms and services
- Enhanced writing and publishing tools
Integral Life
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Medium
- Medium Membership2 variants$4.991 Month
- Friend Membership$14.991 Month
- Medium Membership$49.991 Year
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- Medium Membership1 Year trial$49.991 Year
- Friend Membership1 Year trial$149.991 Year
Integral Life
No in-app purchases
