Comparison

The Pattern vs Frontyard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

The Pattern

Discover your psychological blueprint and understand your relationships on a deeper level. This app offers insights into your personality, life cycles, and compatibility with others, helping you foster more meaningful connections.

Highlights
  • In-depth personality insights
  • Life cycle overview
  • Relationship compatibility
  • Cosmic climate analysis
  • Private in-depth conversations
  • Dating with depth insights
Features
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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

About

Frontyard

Discover nearby outdoor locations like parks, trails, and family-friendly spots tailored to your preferences. This AI-powered guide helps everyone, regardless of experience level, connect with nature in a way that suits them.

Highlights
  • Personalized AI recommendations
  • Curated outdoor spot lists
  • Save and share bucket lists
  • Community tips and check-ins
  • Location-based search with filters
  • Accessibility and stroller-friendliness filters
Features
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We believe more time in nature means more happiness, wellbeing, and connection. Frontyard exists to help you spend more time outside — not by nagging you to log it, but by quietly tracking it for you. Some of the best moments happen outdoors, and you shouldn't have to stop and log them to know they counted. Just walk out the door, and Frontyard notices — building a gentle picture of how much sun, air, and open sky you're actually getting each day. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT Fully passive tracking — Frontyard works out when you're outside and logs it for you. No buttons, no timers, no checking in. Known places — tell Frontyard about the indoor spots where you spend your time: home, work, the gym, your favourite coffee shop. It learns to leave those out, so the time it credits you is time you really spent outside. Accuracy improves the more you help. Editable session history — every outdoor stretch of your day, from a quick porch coffee to a long afternoon hike. Something logged wrong? Dismiss it, or drag it to where it really started and ended. Every fix teaches the detector to do better next time. A daily goal, and your week at a glance — pick a target in minutes a day, starting from the research-backed 17 minutes where the benefits begin. Watch the week fill in and your streak grow. UV exposure — see how much sun you actually caught while you were out there, measured alongside the minutes. Share your day — turn your outdoor time into a sticker for Instagram or Facebook stories, made entirely on your phone. BUILT TO BE QUIET ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE Working out whether you're outside happens on your device. Your sessions are never tagged with where they happened — the only places Frontyard stores are the ones you save yourself. Frontyard isn't about optimizing your life — it's about noticing it. A little nudge outdoors, and a quiet record of how often you find your sunshine. Find your sunshine. Frontyard keeps the score, so you don't have to. By using this app, you agree to Apple’s End User License Agreement (EULA), available here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

The Pattern4 screens
Frontyard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Frontyard at 100% against The Pattern's 42%. Frontyard also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). The Pattern's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 3) and chart position (#32 vs unranked). 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. The Pattern sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Frontyard sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Frontyard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Pattern has 15K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of The Pattern's written reviews are positive against 100% of Frontyard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
The Pattern versus Frontyard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe PatternFrontyard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (15K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15K — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#32 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB88 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPattern Home, Inc.Frontyard App LLC

Customer experience

The Pattern

All ratings15,413 ratings
Positive72.8%
Neutral6.2%
Negative21.0%
Written reviews1,770 reviews
Positive42.4%
Neutral14.8%
Negative42.8%

Frontyard

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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)

Frontyard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

The Pattern

Subscriptions8
  • Go Deeper+ Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Connect+ Dating Quarterly$24.993 Months
  • Connect+ Quarterly$24.993 Months
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  • Go Deeper Quarterly (no audio)$29.993 Months
  • Go Deeper+ Quarterly$29.993 Months
  • Go Deeper Bi-annual$34.996 Months
  • Go Deeper Annual (no audio)$83.991 Year
  • Go Deeper+ Annual$83.991 Year
One-time5
  • Reveal - 1$0.99
  • Super Connect - 3 pack$8.99
  • 3 Custom Profile Slots$9.99
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  • 10 Custom Profile Slots$16.99
  • 20 Custom Profile Slots$19.99
7 purchases

Frontyard

Subscriptions7
  • Frontyard+$0.991 Month
  • Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Frontyard+$4.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • Frontyard+$9.991 Month
  • Frontyard+$14.991 Month
  • Frontyard+$19.991 Month
  • Yearly14 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is The Pattern free?
The Pattern is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Frontyard free?
Frontyard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Pattern or Frontyard?
Frontyard is rated higher. The Pattern averages 4.0 out of 5 from 15K ratings, while Frontyard averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do The Pattern or Frontyard have ads?
Neither The Pattern nor Frontyard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Pattern or Frontyard?
The Pattern ships an update weekly, and Frontyard weekly. Most recently, The Pattern was updated on October 20, 2026 and Frontyard on October 3, 2026.

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