Positive Intelligence vs Othership
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Raise PQ levels
- Intercept sabotaging thoughts
- Activate stress-free performance mode
- Build new mental muscles
- Improve mindset and resilience
- Enhance emotional mastery
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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
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.
- 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
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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]
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Positive Intelligence ships an update fortnightly, Othership every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.
| Parameter | Positive Intelligence | Othership |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (176 ratings) | 4.9 (2.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews | 88.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 176 | 2.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Positive Intelligence | Breathwork Plus Inc |
Customer experience
Positive Intelligence
Othership
User reviews
Positive Intelligence
From 176 App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
Positive Intelligence
- Positive Intelligence Program$999.99
Othership
- 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
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