Comparison

Positive Intelligence vs Patterns

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Positive Intelligence4 screens
Patterns4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Positive Intelligence sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Patterns asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Positive Intelligence ships an update fortnightly, Patterns every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Positive Intelligence versus Patterns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPositive IntelligencePatterns
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (176 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings176 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPositive IntelligenceAnna Xu

Customer experience

Positive Intelligence

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

Patterns

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 3 more
  • 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

1 purchases

Positive Intelligence

One-time1
  • Positive Intelligence Program$999.99
None

Patterns

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Positive Intelligence free?
Positive Intelligence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Patterns free?
Patterns is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Positive Intelligence or Patterns?
Patterns is rated higher. Positive Intelligence averages 4.7 out of 5 from 176 ratings, while Patterns averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Positive Intelligence or Patterns have ads?
Neither Positive Intelligence nor Patterns shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Positive Intelligence or Patterns?
Positive Intelligence ships an update fortnightly, and Patterns every 4 days. Most recently, Positive Intelligence was updated on November 3, 2026 and Patterns on November 1, 2026.

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