The Pattern vs Laterz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Pattern
This app provides personalized insights into your personality, relationships, and life cycles. It uses a unique algorithm to offer a psychological blueprint and help you understand yourself and others on a deeper level. Explore compatibility, influential timing, and discover new content to enhance self-discovery.
- Personalized psychological blueprint
- Relationship compatibility analysis
- Influential life cycle insights
- Dating with depth feature
- In-depth conversation feature
- Audio episodes and guides
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Created to help you feel seen and understood. A homegrown labor of love, The Pattern was born out of our founder’s personal journey of self-discovery. While trying to make sense of a challenging time, she recognized what an incredibly empowering tool our birth charts can be and sought to develop an application that could offer this information in a way that was easily digestible for all. Offering a psychological blueprint of one’s self and insight into the unique things they may be experiencing during a period of time, The Pattern acts as a mirror, helping you to better understand yourself and others, enabling connections to be made on a much deeper level. As featured in Vanity Fair, Time, TechCrunch, Vogue, Bustle, Mashable, Harper’s Bazaar, among others. For answers to commonly asked questions, please visit: https://thepattern.zendesk.com/hc/ For additional customer support, please email us: contact@thepattern.com FEATURES - *NEW: Explore yourself and your bonds on an even deeper level with the In-Depth conversation feature, powered by Your Pattern and completely private and secure. Talk about any of your relationship types including family and coworkers. - Your Pattern: In-depth insight into your unique personality traits and human design. - Your Transits: An informative overview of influential timing cycles you may encounter throughout your life - past, present and future. - Bonds: Explore your unique compatibility with friends and romantic interests. Gain valuable information about your most important relationships - or those of your favorite Public Figures. - Romantic Patterns: Gain valuable insight into your romantic dynamics with another individual; explore your strongest connections, and identify potential challenges that may require more thoughtful communication. - Friendship Patterns: Take a deep dive into your friends’ patterns to better understand the ways in which you can support one another. - Discover Collections: A mix of insights and brand new audio episodes about various aspects, as well as New Moon Guides, immersive audio, and more. New Collections & audio episodes released throughout the month. - Cosmic Climate: Influential cycles that may be affecting all of us collectively. Some people will feel these energies more personally than others. - Custom Friends: Create a profile for anyone to learn about your similarities and the various cycles they may be experiencing at any point in time. - Connect: Dating with Depth. Utilizing The Pattern’s proprietary algorithm, Connect offers insight into your compatibility with potential matches, enabling you to make more meaningful connections from the start. Follow @ThePattern on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. Share your favorite insights from The Pattern using #ThePattern The Pattern offers in-app purchases that enhance the user experience. Auto-renewing “Go Deeper+” subscriptions may be purchased to unlock additional content starting at $14.99 USD per month. Subscriptions are entirely optional and may be canceled at any time. Details are available in the Terms of Service, available here: https://www.thepattern.com/terms.html
Laterz
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Quickly postpone stuff. As fast as possible. - Type something and postpone it to later - Schedule URLs or text you share from other apps for later consumption - Speak something and postpone it - Postpone postponements again - Remembers your favourite postponement times - Postpone with shorthand like "do something 2d" to postpone for two days
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The Pattern at Free against Laterz's $4.99. The Pattern also leads on chart position (#35 vs unranked). Laterz's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
The Pattern is free to download; Laterz costs $4.99 up front. The Pattern sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Laterz asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Pattern ships an update weekly, Laterz every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Pattern | Laterz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (16K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #35 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pattern Home, Inc. | Thomas Huulbaek Titanium |
Bugs and requests
The Pattern
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to change profile picture
- Inconsistent login and account issues
- Glitches with bonds and connections
Requested features
5 requests- Add family/friendship compatibility
- Provide astrological context for insights
- Improve personalization and customization
- Streamline navigation and reduce clutter
- Offer a more balanced tone (positive and negative)
Laterz
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
The Pattern
- Go Deeper+ Monthly$14.991 Month
- Connect+ Quarterly$24.993 Months
- Go Deeper Quarterly (no audio)$29.993 Months
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- Go Deeper+ Quarterly$29.993 Months
- Go Deeper Annual (no audio)$83.991 Year
- Go Deeper+ Annual$83.991 Year
- Super Connect - 3 pack$8.99
- 3 Custom Profile Slots$9.99
- 10 Custom Profile Slots$16.99
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- 20 Custom Profile Slots$19.99
Laterz
No in-app purchases









