Comparison

Principles In Action vs Rheo Code Journey

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Rheo Code Journey

Features
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There is no shortage of apps that teach you to write code. But reading someone else's code and working out what it actually does? That is most of the job, and almost nobody practises it on purpose. Rheo drills exactly that. Every question puts a small piece of code in front of you and asks what it prints. You learn to trace it line by line, to spot the bug by eye, and to answer "what is happening here?" without guessing. HOW IT WORKS • Read the code, predict the output — the real output runs after you answer • Bug hunt: find the line that breaks it • Fill the missing piece, put scrambled lines back in order • When you get it wrong, an explanation that says why 10 CHAPTERS, 40+ LESSONS A path from variables to graph algorithms: conditionals, loops, functions, data structures, recursion, dynamic programming. Each chapter builds on the last. THREE LANGUAGES Python, JavaScript and Java, tracked separately so you can see where you stand in each. BUILT FOR THE HABIT • A daily streak, and a shield that protects it • XP, levels, badges and a daily goal • Leagues and timed duels • Daily quests and reward chests NO INTERNET NEEDED Everything ships inside the app. It works on the train, on a plane, off grid. NO ACCOUNT No signup, no login, no email. Open it and start. Your progress stays on your device. Reading code matters as much as writing it.

Screenshots

Principles In Action4 screens
Rheo Code Journey4 screens

Verdict

The call

Principles In Action and Rheo Code Journey are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Principles In Action versus Rheo Code Journey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrinciples In ActionRheo Code Journey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (6.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size180 MB30 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPRIOS, LLCMahmut Emre Karaman

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

Rheo Code Journey

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Principles In Action

No in-app purchases

None

Rheo Code Journey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Principles In Action free?
Principles In Action is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rheo Code Journey free?
Rheo Code Journey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Principles In Action or Rheo Code Journey have ads?
Neither Principles In Action nor Rheo Code Journey shows ads.

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