Comparison

The Pattern vs Tend Notes

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

Tend Notes

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Tend Notes is a private relationship care notebook for partners, friends, and family relationships. Use it to record small relationship check-ins, review emotional patterns, and generate repair-oriented prompts after conflict. The app is not a social network, dating app, or chat app. It is a local-first notebook for reflection, emotional sync, and practical relationship maintenance. Free features: - Relationship check-ins - Private journal history - Basic 7-day pattern insight - Conflict repair prompts - Limited message rewriting - Personalized share posters with optional local display name and avatar - iCloud continuity backup - Local data backup export and restore Tend Notes Pro: - Deeper relationship pattern notes - Expanded repair prompts - Unlimited message rewriting Regional product strategy: - Chinese system language: free early access, no visible subscription entry. - English system language: subscription entry is visible from launch. - Recommended launch price for English markets: USD $4.99/month for tendnotes.pro.monthly. Tend Notes is not medical, legal, emergency, or professional counseling advice. Privacy Policy: https://tendnotes.pages.dev/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://tendnotes.pages.dev/support

Screenshots

The Pattern4 screens
Tend Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: The Pattern at #32 against Tend Notes's unranked. 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. The Pattern sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Tend Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 10 level
The Pattern versus Tend Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe PatternTend Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (15K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#32 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPattern Home, Inc.Beidiji (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.

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)

Tend Notes

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
Show 5 more
  • 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
Show 2 more
  • 10 Custom Profile Slots$16.99
  • 20 Custom Profile Slots$19.99
1 purchases

Tend Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Tend Notes Pro$4.991 Month

Questions

Is The Pattern free?
The Pattern is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tend Notes free?
Tend Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Pattern or Tend Notes have ads?
Neither The Pattern nor Tend Notes shows ads.

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