Principles In Action vs Values Discovery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Principles In Action
Explore life and work principles from a renowned investor through interactive case studies, video footage, and assessments. Discover personalized guidance and compare insights with friends to achieve your goals.
- Interactive case studies
- Behind-the-scenes video footage
- PrinciplesYou Assessment
- Personality test
- Daily principle from Ray
- Digital 'Coach' for principle guidance
- Personal principle development section
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Principles In Action is a free app that brings to life Ray Dalio’s best-selling book Principles: Life & Work. It combines the complete text of the book with behind-the-scenes video footage and interactive case studies of the principles in action during his time leading Bridgewater Associates Ray is one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, and he’s sharing the unconventional principles that helped him create unique results in life and business because he believes they can help any person or organization better achieve their goals. In addition to the book and supporting cases, the app also includes: • Take the PrinciplesYou Assessment in app to view results and add friends to compare. • Compare your assessment with your friends and see their results. • Read Ray's latest articles and reflections on the economy and markets. • Daily principle from Ray to help you get more out work and life. • Highlighted case-of-the-week and related principles. • Search function across all content in the app, including the full set of principles. • Converse with Digital Ray, Ray's AI twin which has been trained on tens of thousands of items from Ray's content library. • Dedicated section in the app for you to highlight, favorite, develop and record your own and others’ principles. • Additional content from Ray including studies on economics along with regular long form articles published on social media. Principles: Life & Work has been recommended by Bill Gates, Arianna Huffington, Marc Benioff, Mark Cuban, Mike Bloomberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Systrom, Jamie Dimon, and others.
Values Discovery
This app guides you through an exercise to identify your core values. Understanding these values can lead to better financial planning and improved relationships with financial advisors.
- Core value identification exercise
- Aligns financial plans with values
- Improves advisor relationships
- Provides clarity on personal priorities
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What are core values? Your core values are important needs or requirements that have helped you to be successful, and help you recognize what's important to you. This exercise will help you clearly identify the core values by which you live your life. It is the first step in providing clarity and ensuring you have a financial plan that aligns with your values. It will also aid in developing a cleaner, tighter and smoother relationship with your financial advisor.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Principles In Action at 4.9 against Values Discovery's 3.0. Principles In Action also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and ratings volume (6.1K vs 3). Values Discovery's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Principles In Action holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Principles In Action has 6.1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Principles In Action's written reviews are positive against 50% of Values Discovery's.
Principles In Action ships an update every 2 months, Values Discovery every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Principles In Action | Values Discovery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (6.1K ratings) — better | 3.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.1K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 177 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PRIOS, LLC | Morningstar, Inc. |
Customer experience
Principles In Action
Values Discovery
Bugs and requests
Principles In Action
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes
- Inability to open book or case studies
- Lost progress and saved data
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to export user-added principles
- Improved sync across devices
- Better integration with book content
Values Discovery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Principles In Action
No in-app purchases
Values Discovery
No in-app purchases
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