Comparison

Exist vs Our Orbit

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

Our Orbit

Features
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Our Orbit is a private journal for two people. There is no feed, no followers, no likes. Just you, your partner, and a quiet place to put the days down as they happen. TOGETHER IN SECONDS One person makes a circle, the other joins with a six character code. That's the whole setup. From then on, you're writing in the same place. WRITE YOUR DAY Keep a real journal. A few lines, a mood, a photo, wherever you are. Choose what your partner can see, and keep the rest in the "Just for me" section that only ever opens for you. REMEMBER IT TOGETHER Shared memories hold two perspectives on the same moment. You write yours, they write theirs, and neither of you sees the other until you've both finished. The same evening, remembered twice. ONE QUESTION AT A TIME Ask your partner something real. Both of you answer privately, then it reveals side by side. Hundreds of prompts across memories, dreams, gratitude and the things people don't get around to asking. A SHARED TIMELINE Your entries and theirs, on one lifeline. Tap any day to see how you both were. Plan dates, mark the anniversaries that matter, and let the date roulette decide whose turn it is to organise something. MOOD, SIDE BY SIDE A number a day from each of you, drawn together over time. It's a small thing that turns out to say a lot. INSIGHTS INTO YOUR STORY Our Orbit reads what you write and finds the themes running under it. What lifts you. What drains you. What keeps coming back. Free orbits get a monthly theme. Premium unlocks weekly insights across everything you both write, smart tags on every entry, and a gentle summary of how your partner's week has been. FREE AND PREMIUM Everything you do together is free: journaling, shared memories, questions, events, date plans, mood, pairing. Premium adds the insights layer, smart tags, the partner summary and up to five photos per entry. One subscription covers both of you. Made for couples who want somewhere to be honest. Note that for premium subscribers, payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://theweecompany.com.au/ourorbit/legal#privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://theweecompany.com.au/ourorbit/legal#terms

Screenshots

Exist4 screens
Our Orbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Exist at 18.0 against Our Orbit's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Exist sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.49 per month and Our Orbit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exist ships an update every 3 weeks, Our Orbit every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Exist versus Our Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExistOur Orbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (46 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHello Code Pty LtdKhairul Amirul Wee

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Exist

Subscriptions1
  • Exist monthly subscription$8.491 Month
2 purchases

Our Orbit

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual14 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Exist free?
Exist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Our Orbit free?
Our Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Exist or Our Orbit have ads?
Neither Exist nor Our Orbit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exist or Our Orbit?
Exist ships an update every 3 weeks, and Our Orbit every 2 weeks. Most recently, Exist was updated on October 17, 2026 and Our Orbit on October 12, 2026.

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