Positive Intelligence vs Patterns
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
Patterns
Easily log daily symptoms, habits, and other factors with a few taps. Discover personalized insights into what triggers your migraines, pain, mood, and more. Visualize your health patterns over time and gain a better understanding of your well-being.
- Log symptoms with colored bubbles
- Track anything: symptoms, food, meds, habits
- Discover trigger correlations
- Visualize patterns over months
- Log from Home Screen widget
- Add notes or photos to days
- Export data as spreadsheet
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Find what triggers your flares. Patterns is a simple symptom tracker that finds what affects your migraines, gut, pain, mood, sleep and energy. Tap what happened today. Patterns does the rest. LOG YOUR DAY IN A FEW TAPS • Every tracker is a colored bubble: tap the ones that happened, then save the day • Watch your day fill with color as the bubbles fly into the calendar • Track anything your way: symptoms, foods, meds, habits, or 1–5 ratings like pain or anxiety • Drag bubbles wherever you like • Log from the Home Screen widget without opening the app • Add a note or photo to any day DISCOVER YOUR TRIGGERS • "Bloating is more likely the day after dairy." • Patterns looks at all of your days at once: effects that show up days or weeks later, triggers that build up, and triggers that only matter together • It learns your cycle, too: what shows up before your period, and what makes it late • A heads-up when something that usually leads to a symptom just happened • Every insight shows the numbers and the exact days behind it SEE WHAT IT'S STILL CHECKING • Patterns tells you how sure it is about every insight • It notices links that are still forming, and says how many more days would confirm or rule them out SEE PATTERNS OVER MONTHS • Every logged day becomes a ring of colors • Switch between month and year to see your seasons at a glance • A recap at the end of each month PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in • Everything stays on your iPhone • No ads, no tracking • Export your data as a spreadsheet anytime Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://patternsios.netlify.app/support#privacy Patterns shows correlations in your own logs. It isn't a medical device and doesn't give medical advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Patterns at none against Positive Intelligence's 1. Patterns also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Positive Intelligence's advantage is ratings volume (176 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Patterns asks for nothing beyond the download.
Patterns holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Positive Intelligence has 176 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Positive Intelligence ships an update fortnightly, Patterns every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Positive Intelligence | Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (176 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 176 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Positive Intelligence | Anna Xu |
Customer experience
Positive Intelligence
Patterns
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
Patterns
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Positive Intelligence
- Positive Intelligence Program$999.99
Patterns
No in-app purchases
Questions
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