Comparison

Positive Intelligence vs Othership

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

Head to head
About

Positive Intelligence

This app is for participants of a mental fitness program designed to improve your positive intelligence quotient (PQ). It helps you identify and overcome sabotaging thoughts, activating a more effective and stress-free performance mode through science-based techniques.

Highlights
  • Raise PQ levels
  • Intercept sabotaging thoughts
  • Activate stress-free performance mode
  • Build new mental muscles
  • Improve mindset and resilience
  • Enhance emotional mastery
Features
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This app is for exclusive use of participants in the Positive Intelligence Program, which is based on the New York Times bestselling book of Stanford lecturer Shirzad Chamine. The Positive Intelligence program raises your PQ (positive intelligence quotient) levels significantly in as little as 6 weeks. Its foundation lies in recognizing and intercepting mental thoughts and habits that sabotage us and activating the part of the brain that is connected to a far more effective and stress-free performance mode. Using simple, actionable techniques that are science-based and field-tested with CEOs, the Positive Intelligence Program enables you to build new mental muscles quickly and profoundly. The Positive Intelligence Program is a powerful blended learning experience consisting of seven live video sessions with Shirzad Chamine combined with daily practice and personalized coaching delivered via the Positive Intelligence smartphone app and the support of an online peer community. This ensures that learning is reinforced and cemented. Participants in the Positive Intelligence Program can expect to experience immediate and sustained improvements in their performance and happiness, including: • A more positive and adaptive mindset • Increased resilience • Greater emotional mastery • Reduced stress responses • Enhanced creativity • Greater empathy • Increased skilfulness in leadership and coaching others • Improved professional and personal relationships

About

Othership

This app uses music-driven guided breathwork sessions to help you regulate your nervous system and shift your state. Explore various breathing styles and guided meditations for energy, focus, relaxation, or emotional release.

Highlights
  • Music-driven guided breathwork sessions
  • Daily UP and DOWN sessions
  • Curated weekly transformative journeys
  • Five daily breathing styles (UP, DOWN, ALL AROUND, BODY, BRAIN)
  • Variety of breathwork techniques
  • Guided meditations, affirmations, and visualizations
  • Sound healing and hypnosis
Features
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Othership is a music-driven breathwork app designed to help you shift your state one breath at a time. Cultivate big lung energy and harness the power of your breath to regulate your nervous system through your energetic, mental and emotional bodies in as little as 60 seconds for up to 60 minutes. Consider this your new daily ritual to energize and start your day, improve focus + performance, decompress after work, wind down for a deep sleep, or release negative emotions with short + effective exercises when you need them most. Our active sessions are set to music with guidance from world-renowned breathwork facilitators to shift your body + brain quickly. Rooted in ancient tradition, informed by modern science, and inspired by magic, Othership’s meticulously curated guided breathwork practices are simultaneously playful and effective. Explore the ins + outs of your breath with guidance from psychotherapists, wellness practitioners, hypnotherapists, artists, DJ’s, spiritual teachers, and life coaches featuring breathwork, guided meditations, affirmations + visualizations, sound healing, hypnosis, somatic release therapy, vocal toning, self-massage, mindful walking + working, movement + dance, and more trippy stuff. EXPLORE THE APP Our app features daily UP and DOWN sessions to keep your practice feeling fresh. Spend less time deciding and more time breathing. Our curated weekly practice offers a longer haul, transformative journey designed to give you a complete release + reset from the stressors of modern living. Othership offers five types of daily breathing styles with unique benefits: UP Harness the power of your breath to energize and kickstart your day. Cultivate focus and productivity. Fight fatigue and tap vitality. Explore elevating practices to get lifted and stay lifted. DOWN Build a routine for deep rest and better sleep. Unwind with practices to de-stress and linger in stillness. Soothe anxiety and find centre. ALL AROUND Practice self-care with deeply transformative journeys designed to create the space + presence needed to gather meaningful insights. Reach altered states, regulate your emotions, and cultivate mind-body connection. BODY Combine conscious breathing with mindful movement and embodiment practices including self-massage, gentle stretching, dancing, and somatic therapy. BRAIN Learn the science behind how + why we do breathwork. Try a benchmark breathing test to track your progress from A to B to infinity. CULTIVATE BIG LUNG ENERGY Shift your state through a medley of breathing styles including: box breath, diaphragmatic breathing, Wim Hof Method, ocean breath, alternate nostril, 4-7-8 breathing, Buteyko Method, coherent breathing, breath of fire, triangle breath, dynamic breathing, kundalini pranayam, up-regulated breathing and lots more. MEMBER[SHIP] Come for the journey. Stay for the shift. - Access to 500+ on-demand breathwork sessions - Inspiring soundscapes from sound healing musicians, artists and DJs - Streak and progress tracking - Custom challenges and pathways to meet your mindfulness goals - World-renowned breathwork facilitators - Curated daily notifications to amplify your practice and ignite your personal growth - Stay inspired with new sessions released weekly - Integrated with Apple Health's Mindful Minutes - A global community of daily breathers Transformation in your hands. T’s + C’s If you’d like to learn more about our Terms + Conditions, visit: [www.othership.us/terms]

Screenshots

Positive Intelligence4 screens
Othership4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Positive Intelligence at fortnightly against Othership's every 6 weeks. Othership's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 176). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Positive Intelligence sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Othership sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Othership holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Othership has 2.3K ratings behind it against 176, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Positive Intelligence's written reviews are positive against 89% of Othership's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Positive Intelligence ships an update fortnightly, Othership every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Positive Intelligence versus Othership: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPositive IntelligenceOthership
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (176 ratings)4.9 (2.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews88.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1762.3K — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB134 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPositive IntelligenceBreathwork Plus Inc

Customer experience

Positive Intelligence

All ratings176 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral1.7%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative15.0%

Othership

All ratings2,260 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews347 reviews
Positive88.8%
Neutral4.9%
Negative6.3%

User reviews

Positive Intelligence

From 176 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Well-organized and informational content
  • ✨ Byte-sized modules for wellbeing
  • 🧠 Meticulously curated content for mental fitness
  • 💡 Game-changer for self-awareness
  • 🚀 Research-backed program for deep change

Room to improve

  • 😩 Repetitive narrator voice
  • 😠 Authoritarian app design (forced exercises)
  • 🚫 No subtitle options for videos
  • 🔄 Frequent terms & conditions acceptance
  • 📉 App crashes and audio glitches

Othership

From 2.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Transformative
  • 🚀 Life-changing
  • 👍 Calming and nurturing
  • 👍 Incredible quality
  • 👍 Excellent app

Room to improve

  • 💰 Too expensive
  • 🐛 No offline listening
  • 🐛 Interface won't load

Bugs and requests

Positive Intelligence

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Videos do not have subtitles
  • Subtitles not working even when enabled
  • App crashes on latest iOS versions
  • Audio glitches
  • Unable to submit progress
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  • App crashes when completing coach challenges
  • App glitches requiring deletion and reinstallation
  • App does not load daily information/challenges consistently
  • App becomes unresponsive with poor cellular/WiFi connection

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add more narrator voices
  • Add subtitles to all videos
  • Fix terms & conditions prompt frequency
  • Implement offline functionality
  • Improve video playback controls
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  • Add Chromecast functionality
  • Improve dashboard visuals (muscle and battery indicators)
  • Allow access to settings before completing exercises

Othership

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Achievements tracking not updating
  • Occasional crashes

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to add personal notes to sessions
  • Apple M1 support

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Positive Intelligence

One-time1
  • Positive Intelligence Program$999.99
4 purchases

Othership

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Monthly7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Yearly14 Days trial$99.991 Year
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  • Yearly14 Days trial$129.991 Year

Questions

Is Positive Intelligence free?
Positive Intelligence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Othership free?
Othership is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Positive Intelligence or Othership?
Othership is rated higher. Positive Intelligence averages 4.7 out of 5 from 176 ratings, while Othership averages 4.9 from 2.3K ratings.
Do Positive Intelligence or Othership have ads?
Neither Positive Intelligence nor Othership shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Positive Intelligence or Othership?
Positive Intelligence ships an update fortnightly, and Othership every 6 weeks. Most recently, Positive Intelligence was updated on October 27, 2026 and Othership on October 27, 2026.

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