Ahead Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience70.5% of reviews
Neutral4.7% of reviews
Negative experience24.8% of reviews

~ Based on 1,799 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Ahead

Is Ahead Safe?

Ahead: Emotional Intelligence appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Ahead is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 22,494 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 22,494 App Store ratings for Ahead.

Is Ahead Legit?

Ahead: Emotional Intelligence appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ahead is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Anxiety Inducing

For an app that is meant to help with anxiety it somehow manages to worsen it. It has a tonne of notifications, then ‘tracks’ your ‘progress’ by advising you that you’ve ‘failed’ your streak! I don’t know about you but notifications, tracking, keeping up a streak and telling me I’ve failed is by no means helpful for anxiety. They’re also very sneaky charging you months after the trial period for a full year subscription with surprisingly no notification that they’re going to charge your card to allow you to cancel. Any app that has no transparency for when they will charge your card, that’s a hard NO from me. Don’t bother. Use your breath for your anxiety, it’s free and available to you always.
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Great app

Wish it was cheaper. Just do the free activities once a day.

Not a fan

I tried to cancel subscription and never got any emails from the company. The only email I ever got was them saying it was about to end.They keep trying to take money from my account even though the payment aren’t going through. I RECOMMEND ANYONE TO US THIS APP!😡🤬😡🤬

Don’t Do Free Trial

The free trial ends up expiring and charges you $80 for an app that can be done with any free AI software. Tried to cancel on Apple and couldn’t. Tried to cancel from website and my cancellation didn’t go through. Was charged full amount when trial expired. Contacted support but was told they don’t give refunds due to being a digital product…actually it’s a subscription service and you didn’t give me a way to cancel it through Apple. Avoid this app at all costs. Rip off.
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Money grabbers

Makes you create an account then forces you to pay

Disappointing

The app itself is rather good. However, i only originally paid for what I thought would be a weeks worth and it then somehow automatically did a year subscription. When I tried to cancel after realising, Apple would not honour it and there was no where for me to contact Aheads admin to look at getting a refund. So just be careful as they are quick to take your money but not interested in returning it
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bad bad bad trash

I cancelled the subscription on the same day, but I was still charged. I contacted Apple Support to request a refund. The subscription and billing experience was frustrating and unclear.

Don’t.

Too much for nothing

Just Do it

Had me evaluating my self in ways I hadn’t thought of before. Showing me tips and tricks to get myself motivated.

Fraudulent billing practices

This app provides no straightforward way to cancel a trial subscription, which ultimately turns into an annual charge. I deleted the app after just two days of use and attempted to cancel my subscription. Over two years ago, I even followed the online instructions to submit a cancellation request via email, yet the charges continued.

Today, I’m having to change my credit card number just to prevent further charges for a service I haven’t used in over two years. This is the textbook definition of fraudulent billing practices.

How this app ever received an Editor’s Choice recommendation is beyond me.
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Beware subscription costs

They said they would send an email before my 7 day paid trial was over. Never got one and was then charged 79.99! My subscription does not show up in my Apple Store and I can’t find anywhere to cancel it in the app. Using my email on the website doesn’t pull up my subscription either, still waiting to hear back from support to cancel. That is a hefty charge for an app I don’t want after the 7 day trial. It’s not the easiest app to navigate.
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Great

Great

Will still take payment despite cancelling

Still took £59.99 payment despite me cancelling my trial and having no active subscription with them.

Don’t use !!

I used this app to try to manage my anxiety before a big move across the world. I brought a few months and planned to cancel. Upon checking my subscriptions in settings this app did not come up. They failed to notify me of any money coming out my account. The second I saw money pending I attempted to cancel this subscription - there was no easy way to do this through the app it was a very difficult process. I emailed and explained requesting a refund - this is a very tight time financially and £60 for an app I don’t use and have attempted to cancel, that did not notify me of re-renewal and dod not come up in subscriptions despite checking. When I emailed asking for support I did not feel at all listened too or that my situation was considered.
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Not opening

App is not opening in iPhone 17

It wouldn’t let me in

After I answered all the questions it wouldn’t let me go any further!!! So bummed out really needed it!!☹️

Predatory scam

Don’t give them your billing info.

Preauthorized Payments

I have a slew of issues and thought I’d give this app a whirl. The lessons/activities are pretty useless. AI slop images on everything. Lots of typos and bugs throughout the app. The AI chatbot built in is really buggy. At one point it started speaking Chinese to me. A lot of the recommended lessons and techniques were totally irrelevant to myself.

But to top it off it’s 80 bucks a year with a 7 day free trial. There’s a lot of people who are saying that even after they canceled they still get charged.

I will update on Sep 21 to see if they charge me but I think I may have found the issue.

To cancel the subscription you have to go to this separate 3rd party website and fill out their little form and make sure you avoid all the predatory “don’t cancel” buttons.

Then go to:
Apple Wallet > Recurring Payments and you will see a preauthorization for automatic payments from Ahead Solutions GmbH. Select “Revoke Payment Authorization”.

Overall, a pretty predatory and junky app. Lots of annoying little popups and “awards”. Oh you finish one lesson; now you get to do a puzzle as a reward or you can skip it and just get your actual reward which will be some poorly written AI “quote”. Feels a lot like Temu with all the constant mini games and AI slop.

For 80 bucks a year this can be yours too.
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1000% recommend

Amazing App. Has really helped me & really well set up, extremely interactive and has made it fun.

They give you no way to cancel.

In order to cancel, they say you have to log onto a portal. When you go to that portal and enter your email, they say they’re gonna send you a code to your email and never do.