Positive Intelligence vs 108 Moments
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
108 Moments
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Small practices that make ordinary days better. 108 Moments is a simple, practical mindfulness practice that fits into a busy day. It gives you one practice a day: one specific thing to catch in your own life. Each one builds a small, useful habit of attention, like seeing what's working, going easier on yourself, or being kinder to the people around you. Every time you catch it, it counts, and over time you start catching it without trying. It takes about a minute a day, and the practice itself happens in the middle of whatever you're already doing. HOW A DAY WORKS Each morning, read today's practice: one plain sentence, with a short note on why it works if you want it. Then go about your day and watch for it. Each time you catch it, count it. The next morning, log yesterday's count and read the new practice. There's no target to hit: you count what you catch. WHAT A PRACTICE IS A practice names one thing to catch: something going right, a person to wish well, the moment you'd normally be hard on yourself, the urge to fill a silence. Specific enough that you know it when you see it. Common enough that you'll catch it more than once. There are 108 practices. You only ever have one at a time, and the app picks the order. IT GOES DEEPER, NOT LONGER Each practice has six levels, and each day works one of them. One moment caught completes that day's level. The practice then comes back later at a deeper level: the same territory, asking more of you. Complete all six levels and that practice is yours. The sessions never get longer. The practice gets sharper. THE NECKLACE (OPTIONAL) Many people keep count on the 108 Moments necklace: two strands of nine beads, eighteen in all. Move a bead with your thumb each time you catch the practice, then enter the number in the app. No necklace? Tap + in the app as you go. Nothing is locked without one. WHAT'S IN IT • 108 practices, each six levels deep, served one at a time • A one-sentence practice each day, in plain English — no jargon, nothing mystical • An order tuned to you: what you tell it at the start decides which practices come first, and each check-in tunes it again • Short reads on why these practices work, grounded in research on gratitude, self-compassion, savoring and kindness • A running count for today, and a day-by-day record of every practice you have worked and the moments you logged • Your practices: every practice you have worked, its six levels marked, and how close each one is to mastered • A streak that understands real life — miss a day and it holds, once • A monthly check-in (the WHO-5, a widely used five-question well-being measure) so you can watch your own line over time, flat parts and all PRIVACY Everything works with no account at all. Your check-in answers and scores never leave your device for analytics. Make an account and it syncs your own progress — that is all it does. Usage analytics can be turned off in Settings. Built for people who are busy, a little skeptical, and would rather do one small thing well than one more thing badly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 108 Moments at none against Positive Intelligence's 1. 108 Moments also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Positive Intelligence's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads 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. Positive Intelligence sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 108 Moments asks for nothing beyond the download.
Positive Intelligence ships an update fortnightly, 108 Moments every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Positive Intelligence | 108 Moments |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (176 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 176 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Positive Intelligence | 8750.TECH, LLC |
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
108 Moments
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Positive Intelligence
- Positive Intelligence Program$999.99
108 Moments
No in-app purchases
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