The Pattern vs Tend Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- In-depth personality insights
- Life cycle overview
- Relationship compatibility
- Cosmic climate analysis
- Private in-depth conversations
- Dating with depth insights
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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
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
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Verdict
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
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.
| Parameter | The Pattern | Tend Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (15K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #32 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pattern 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
The Pattern
- 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
- 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
Tend Notes
- Tend Notes Pro$4.991 Month







