Comparison

Exist vs outernet

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

outernet

This app encourages users to explore the real world by saving and organizing places and events. It helps you plan outings, from casual coffee shop visits to elaborate date nights or family vacations, turning online interests into offline adventures.

Highlights
  • Save and organize places/events
  • Research and summarize event details
  • Create collections of locations
  • Plan date nights and family days
  • Build vacation itineraries
  • Collect stamps for completed adventures
Features
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Outernet is creating a new type of internet use, in which our phones serve as a map of IRL exploration that gets us outside, instead of keeping us stuck scrolling indoors. Outernet helps you save and organize the places/events you want to check out, so it’s easy to actually go! You can share any place/event to Outernet (via social media links, website URLs, screenshots, or pictures), and we’ll do the research, summarize what you need to know, and organize your plans so it’s easy to actually go. And as you complete your saved adventures, you collect stamps! When you’re on the Outernet, you can: - Actually remember to check out that cool pop-up, arts festival, woodworking class, etc. - Create a collection of trinket box locations or top coffee shops in your city, then check each off as you explore it - Plan date nights that’ll blow your partner’s socks clean off - Organize family days that both the kiddos and adults enjoy - Easily create itineraries for your vacations (both in the books and aspirational) - And most of all, spend more time outside doing things, instead of just being online watching them! This is only the beginning of Outernet reshaping how we use the internet, and we’d love to have you join us on our adventure. We’ll cya outside! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Exist4 screens
outernet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: outernet at 4.9 against Exist's 4.1. outernet also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription) and review sentiment (96% vs 68%). 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 outernet sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

outernet holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 46 and 221 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Exist's written reviews are positive against 96% of outernet's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exist ships an update every 3 weeks, outernet every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Exist versus outernet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExistouternet
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (46 ratings)4.9 (221 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews96.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings46221 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB131 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperHello Code Pty LtdOuternet Explorer Inc.

Customer experience

Exist

All ratings46 ratings
Positive76.1%
Neutral8.7%
Negative15.2%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral5.3%
Negative26.3%

outernet

All ratings221 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.5%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.9%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Exist

Subscriptions1
  • Exist monthly subscription$8.491 Month
4 purchases

outernet

Subscriptions4
  • Outernet Explorer's Club | Month$4.991 Month
  • Outernet Explorer's Club | Month$6.991 Month
  • Outernet Explorer's Club | Year$29.991 Year
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  • Outernet Explorer's Club | Year$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Exist free?
Exist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is outernet free?
outernet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Exist or outernet?
outernet is rated higher. Exist averages 4.1 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while outernet averages 4.9 from 221 ratings.
Do Exist or outernet have ads?
Neither Exist nor outernet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exist or outernet?
Exist ships an update every 3 weeks, and outernet every 10 days. Most recently, Exist was updated on October 8, 2026 and outernet on October 12, 2026.

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