Exist vs Everlog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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 sync 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: * Oura * Garmin * Withings * Strava * Health Connect * 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.
Everlog
This app provides a minimalist platform for daily journaling, helping users reflect, track thoughts, and build mindfulness habits. It supports rich media, offers journaling prompts, and ensures privacy with passcode locking and iCloud syncing.
- Minimalist interface
- Journaling suggestions
- Photo and video attachments
- Passcode lock
- iCloud sync
- Markdown editing
- Search and tags
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Everlog is a calm, private journal for everything worth remembering: your thoughts, photos, places, moods and workouts, together in one place on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Open it and start writing. Everlog stays out of your way while you write, then helps you look back. Write Without Friction • A fast, distraction-free editor with Markdown formatting, checklists and highlights • Templates with fill-in fields for routines like gratitude lists or morning pages • Writing prompts, plus personal prompt ideas based on your recent entries • Tags, bookmarks, comments and full search keep everything easy to find Capture the Whole Day • Photos, Live Photos and GIFs, inline with your words or in a panel beside them • Location and weather for every entry • Songs, podcasts, workouts with their routes, places and moods from Journaling Suggestions • Voice recordings with automatic transcription, videos, PDFs and sketches Look Back • On This Day shows what you wrote on this date in past years • Recaps sum up every month and year with your photos, stats and a summary written by Apple Intelligence • Widgets for streaks, writing stats and On This Day help you keep the habit Private by Design • Lock Everlog with a passcode, Face ID or Touch ID • Your entries live on your devices and in your own iCloud, never on our servers • Encrypt your backups with a key only your devices hold • Back up to iCloud Drive or a folder of your choice, and export to JSON, PDF, text or CSV at any time At Home on Every Device • A full Mac app with multiple windows, menus and keyboard shortcuts • Designed for iPad, and for iPhone Duo both folded and unfolded • Shortcuts actions, Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls and Spotlight search Bring Your Journal With You Import from nine other journaling apps, or from Markdown and text files. Your entries keep their dates, and photos and tags come along wherever the other app exports them. Everlog Premium Everlog is free to use, with no limit on entries. Premium adds iCloud sync across all your devices, unlimited journals, automatic backups, video, audio, PDFs, sketches, weather, extra fonts and alternate app icons. Privacy Policy: https://everlog.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://everlog.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Everlog at 4.6 against Exist's 4.0. Everlog also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Exist sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.49 per month and Everlog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Everlog holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Everlog has 308 ratings behind it against 47, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Exist's written reviews are positive against 79% of Everlog's.
Exist ships an update every 3 weeks, Everlog every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Exist | Everlog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (47 ratings) | 4.6 (308 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.4% of reviews | 79.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 | 308 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 216 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hello Code Pty Ltd | Wessley Roche |
Customer experience
Exist
Everlog
Bugs and requests
Exist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Everlog
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when using Apple Intelligence
- Invisible text when entry exceeds limit
- Syncing issues leading to data loss
Requested features
5 requests- Voice recording/dictation
- More advanced formatting options
- Calendar/timeline view
- Shared/collaborative journals
- Habit/mood tracking
In-app purchases
Exist
- Exist monthly subscription$8.491 Month
Everlog
- Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Everlog Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$49.99









