Comparison

Exist vs Vertical Life

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

Head to head
About

Exist

This app helps you understand and optimize your behavior by combining manual tracking with automatic syncing from various services. Track health, productivity, and more, uncover relationships between habits, and run experiments on your behavior. Gain daily insights and weekly summaries to improve your life.

Highlights
  • Track any data point manually
  • Automatic syncing from health and productivity services
  • Daily insights and weekly summaries
  • Discover correlations between habits
  • Run behavioral experiments
  • Integrates with Apple Health and other services
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THIS APP REQUIRES A PAID ACCOUNT. Signing up for a new account will start a 30-day free trial. After your trial, you can choose to purchase a subscription using in-app purchase if you wish to continue using Exist. By combining manual tracking with automatic syncing from other services, we can help you understand and optimise your behaviour. Track whatever you like. Bring your activity from your phone or fitness tracker, add other services like your calendar for greater context on what you're up to, and manually enter anything else you care about. Track everything in one place See numbers about things like your health, activity, productivity, social media, and local weather all together. Data syncs automatically from connected services, so your step count and time asleep are right next to manual data points, like your energy level and how many coffees you drank. But it's not just about raw numbers. We deliver extra context like daily insights on how you're going, track long-term trends and averages, uncover relationships, and send it all in a weekly summary email too. Which habits go together? Correlations are the most powerful part of Exist. By finding relationships in your data, we can help you answer questions like: “What makes me happiest?” “What can I do to be more active?” “When am I most productive?” Track anything you can think of Some things in life can’t be counted by your watch or fitness tracker. With Exist, you can create your own data points to track anything else you want. Use it as a habit tracker, keep a record of medications and symptoms, or track subjective measures like energy and stress levels. Run experiments on your behaviour, and Exist will confirm or rule out your hunches.You can enter data as a quantity, time period, scale from 1–9, percentage, or time of day. Or just add a tag to a day as a quick way to say "this happened". We support the following Apple Health data from your iPhone: * Steps, active minutes, floors, cycling distance, stand hours, active energy burned * Sleep * Food and water (energy intake, fat, protein, etc.) * Workouts * Heartrate (max., resting, average, HRV) * Weight, body fat percentage, lean mass * Mindfulness sessions * Alcoholic drinks * Sexual activity * Menstrual flow Other data you can sync from your iPhone: * Location (Exist will use this to track weather data for you) * Events from your calendar Exist works best when connected to other services — add even more data by connecting any of these: * Fitbit * Oura * Garmin * Withings * Strava * RescueTime * Todoist * Toggl * Instapaper * GitHub * iCal Calendars (Google, iCloud) * Swarm by Foursquare * last.fm * Weather from Apple Weather Take Exist with you on your iOS device and see all your metrics, wherever you are. If you choose to continue using Exist after your free trial, you will need to purchase a monthly auto-renewing subscription. The current price for an Exist monthly subscription is 7.99 USD. Price will depend on your local currency. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your Subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://exist.io/privacy/ Terms of use: https://exist.io/page/terms/ This app uses software licensed under the MIT License. Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Vertical Life

Features
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Vertical Life is a climbing magazine in Australasia, available in both digital and print options. Here at Vertical Life we love climbing, be it beanied bouldering, clip-up sportclimbing, old-school daddy-tradding, big-wall suffering, alpine extremism, spandex-clad competition climbing, desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures buildering, the lot – if it involves monkey business we will cover it. By downloading Vertical Life, you can either purchase single issues OR subscribe to the below offer(s): • Single issue: AU$7.99 • 1 year subscription (4 issues per year): AU$29.99, automatically renewed until cancelled When purchasing through iTunes your account will be charged at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will auto-renew unless you turn this off 24 hours before the subscription runs out. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings. You can manage your subscription through your account settings after purchase on your device. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Privacy Policy: https://www.adventureentertainment.com/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://www.adventureentertainment.com/privacy

Screenshots

Exist4 screens
Vertical Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Exist at every 3 weeks against Vertical Life's every 7 months. Vertical Life's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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. Exist sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.49 per month and Vertical Life sells 20 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exist ships an update every 3 weeks, Vertical Life every 7 months. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Exist versus Vertical Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExistVertical Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (46 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB99 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHello Code Pty LtdAdventure Entertainment

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Exist

Subscriptions1
  • Exist monthly subscription$8.491 Month
20 purchases

Vertical Life

One-time20
  • December 2021-January 2022$4.99
  • May-July 2022$4.99
  • August-October 2022$4.99
Show 17 more
  • November-January 2022$4.99
  • November 2022 /January 2023$4.99
  • March 2023- May 2023$4.99
  • Summer 2023$4.99
  • Winter 2023$4.99
  • Spring 2023$4.99
  • Winter 2025$4.99
  • Spring 2025$4.99
  • Summer 2025$4.99
  • Autumn 2024$4.99
  • Winter 2024$4.99
  • Summer 2024$4.99
  • Autumn 2026$4.99
  • Summer 2026$4.99
  • Winter 2026$4.99
  • Spring 2026$4.99
  • February - April 2022$5.99

Questions

Is Exist free?
Exist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vertical Life free?
Vertical Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Exist or Vertical Life have ads?
Neither Exist nor Vertical Life shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exist or Vertical Life?
Exist ships an update every 3 weeks, and Vertical Life every 7 months. Most recently, Exist was updated on October 8, 2026 and Vertical Life on October 8, 2026.

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